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Showing Original Post only (View all)Egyptian Islamist parliment to enact law permitting husbands to have sex with dead wives as well as [View all]
law permitting marriage with 14 yr old girls and ridding of women's rights of getting education and employment.
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Egyptian husbands will soon be legally allowed to have sex with their dead wives - for up to six hours after their death.
The controversial new law is part of a raft of measures being introduced by the Islamist-dominated parliament.
It will also see the minimum age of marriage lowered to 14 and the ridding of women's rights of getting education and employment.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2135434/Outrage-Egypt-plans-farewell-intercourse-law-husbands-sex-dead-wives-hours-AFTER-death.html#ixzz1tA4NShYH
For those who take issue with DM the same is reported elsewhere such as alarabiya.net
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Many members of the newly-elected, and majority Islamist parliament, have been accused of launching attacks against womens rights in the country.
They wish to cancel many, if not most, of the laws that promote womens rights, most notably a law that allows a wife to obtain a divorce without obstructions from her partner. The implementation of the Islamic right to divorce law, also known as the Khula, ended years of hardship and legal battles women would have to endure when trying to obtain a divorce.
Egyptian law grants men the right to terminate a marriage, but grants women the opportunity to end an unhappy or abusive marriages without the obstruction of their partner. Prior to the implementation of the Khula over a decade ago, it could take 10 to 15 years for a woman to be granted a divorce by the courts.
Islamist members of Egyptian parliament, however, accuse these laws of aiming to destroy families and have said it was passed to please the former first lady of the fallen regime, Suzanne Mubarak, who devoted much of her attention to the issues of granting the women all her rights.
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/04/25/210198.html