Free sex and rape in Pakistan

BBC:

Pakistan's parliament has voted to amend the country's strict Sharia laws on rape and adultery.

Until now rape victims had to have four male witnesses to the crime - if not they faced prosecution for adultery.

The new bill allows prosecutions under secular rather than religious law. Religous parties boycotted the vote saying the bill encouraged "free sex".

The reforms are being seen as a crucial test of President Musharraf's stated commitment to a moderate form of Islam.

It is still not clear if a rape victim or a judge will decide whether her case is tried by a civil or Sharia court.

A woman is raped every two hours and gang-raped every eight hours in Pakistan, according to the country's independent Human Rights Commission.

Correspondents say these figures are probably an under-estimation as many rapes are not reported.

Campaigners say Pakistan's laws have made it virtually impossible to prosecute rape.

Attempts to pass a new bill failed in September in face of angry opposition.

The version of the Women's Protection Bill put before legislators then caused such an outcry that parliament was prorogued.

It would have allowed alleged rapists to be tried under civil as well as Islamic law.

Human rights activists said this would have created confusion, allowing powerful religious lobbies to manipulate what is seen as a weak judicial system.

Pakistan's religious parties called the legislation "a harbinger of lewdness and indecency in the country", and against the strictures of the Koran and Sharia law.

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Pakistan may be the only country with a strong rapist lobby. This is just more evidence of why Shari'a law should be banned worldwide. What is really illogical about the arguments of the opponents of the new rape law, is that the current law makes rape a free sex opportunity as well as gang rapes. What kind of culture promotes rape in the name of religion and prosecutes the victims for adultery? It has to be a pretty sick one, but don't expect the multi cultis to protest. Who are they to judge? Personally, I have no problem saying the Shari'a approach to rape appears to have been written by rapist.

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