you people should really know the facts before you decide to blabber nonsense. first off, im a malaysian girl (woman girl woman girl...ugh). a muslim and a malaysian. the thing is, after having read all your posts, i can see that for those of you who are quite ignorant of the difference between the religion and the culture you guys seem to be poking around Islam. clearly shows your utter stupidity and ignorance. why on earth would you go around sayin nasty things about Islam when clearly Christianity is not that much better. i wouldnt go into that.
when you, JB, talk about making sure muslim women are covered in black sheet otherwise theyll be stoned, youve completely mixed up religion and culture. for instance in arab countries its their CULTURE that they wear what they wear. in Islam, it is adequate that the women cover up everything but their face and hands, wearing things that arent too tight and not too revealing. no point being covered in black but having it all too tight eyh? think again before m,aking those stupid sarcasm of yours.
second, the point to which i was drawn here in the first place is rape as a crime in islam. what has been reported are rape not being crimes or being backhanded as crimes in MUSLIM COUNTRIES, and not in ISLAM. mind you, while the OIC boast the membership of MUSLIM countries, very few follow strict Islamic Shariah Laws. the way its been debated here is pretty darn pathetic really. humans have the tendency to pick out whats cool for themselves while leaving the nasty ones behind. same goes for the ruling governments of said countries.
while the husband has complete "ownership" of the wife as your mind would understand it, the wife too has her own absolute right in marriage to deny her husband sex, should the reasons for her doing so be justifiable; that being the husband is an abuser, and that he has been a complete and utter jackass as seen by the shariah law. that includes not giving the wife her needs to an extent. to do so she must seek the Fasakh, or in english it would mean "termination" (mind you, arabic aint my first language, nor do i really speak it, but as translated into malay, and from malay translated to english, this is the meaning it reopresents). in this sense, the wife can therefore be separated from the husband, and only then will the bond of Akad (the marital bond) be broken, and only then will the husband be taken away his right on his wife. the wife can seek the Fasakh if she has been "raped" by the husband, if to which point she is emotionally and physically scarred, that will be her right.
most of those women are not well informed about their own religion and their right as women. as in the case of those highlighted by the bbc, i will have to point out that those were countries, although bearing the emblem of muslim countries, pick out from the Quran what they wish, and most of the time duefully interpret the Shariah law as they will.
