EPTBlaming the victim or cases like this are a cultural result. In the case of Afghanistan, what's happening now is 10x less harsh than what was going on 10 years ago under Taliban. Yes, it's horrible, but you can't expect a people who lived for so long under the Taliban to be that socially developed. Sadly, this is technically progress for them.
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LittleAtari
Jordan1090 Posts
Blaming the victim or cases like this are a cultural result. In the case of Afghanistan, what's happening now is 10x less harsh than what was going on 10 years ago under Taliban. Yes, it's horrible, but you can't expect a people who lived for so long under the Taliban to be that socially developed. Sadly, this is technically progress for them. | ||
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s4life
Peru1519 Posts
On November 26 2011 06:40 LittleAtari wrote: The only way to be convicted of adultery or fornication in the original sharia law is if four proven people witnessed the act of penetration or if the person came forth his/herself and confessed. So at Prophet Muhammad's time, you'd only get convicted if you came out and said so directly to a court (because people weren't having sex in front of an audience). Basically, it was your own business. If a child came from it, you still didn't have evidence that the sex was consensual. Rape was punished with no blame on the victim. Blaming the victim or cases like this are a cultural result. In the case of Afghanistan, what's happening now is 10x less harsh than what was going on 10 years ago under Taliban. Yes, it's horrible, but you can't expect a people who lived for so long under the Taliban to be that socially developed. Sadly, this is technically progress for them. Well, the Taliban follows a 'strict' interpretations of the Coran and sharia law. You can't just come and pretend that what happened to that poor girl has no connection to religious fundamentalism and shamelessly attribute it to cultural differences. | ||
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NekoFlandre
United States497 Posts
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/01/hamid-karzai-afghanistan_n_1123656.html?icid=maing-grid10|htmlws-sb-bb|dl7|sec1_lnk2|117100 Seems that she was released from jail, under one condition. Still reading the article. -Edit: She agreed to marry him... | ||
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-JokeR
Canada9 Posts
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dUTtrOACh
Canada2339 Posts
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pindleskin
New Zealand199 Posts
On December 02 2011 13:05 dUTtrOACh wrote: Wack country with no regard for human rights. Why do we "help" over there? This is the government we've backed? Huh? help ?? What has Cadana and America done to actually help over there haha. | ||
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NekoFlandre
United States497 Posts
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SilverLeagueElite
United States626 Posts
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Dr. Strange
Slovakia25 Posts
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Maxtor
United Kingdom273 Posts
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/01/afghan-woman-freed-marry-rapist?INTCMP=SRCH | ||
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mads
Canada90 Posts
On December 01 2011 06:32 s4life wrote: Well, the Taliban follows a 'strict' interpretations of the Coran and sharia law. You can't just come and pretend that what happened to that poor girl has no connection to religious fundamentalism and shamelessly attribute it to cultural differences. Why not exactly? It's not like he's denying the religious connection. What he's saying is that the interpretation has been skewed by the 'cultural differences'. | ||
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dAPhREAk
Nauru12397 Posts
Afghanistan has pardoned a woman who was raped by a family member but then jailed for adultery, a statement from the presidential palace has said, in a case that highlights deep concerns about women's rights in the country. It remained unclear whether the 21-year-old-woman, known as Gulnaz, would still have to marry the man who attacked her, her cousin's husband, after an earlier release offer which stipulated they must marry. ... Gulnaz had eventually agreed to the condition she marry her attacker under the earlier release offer but her lawyer said the release granted this week did not depend on her going through with the marriage. http://news.yahoo.com/afghan-woman-jailed-being-raped-wins-pardon-060512716.html | ||
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