21/8/2009, Friday...
Afghanistan has recently passed a law which is being termed as the "Shia Personal Status Law". This so called 'law' legalizes 'marital-rape' of a woman by her husband. This law gives a Shia husband the right to deny his wife/wives, food and sustenance, if they refuse to obey their husbands' sexual demands. The new final draft of the legislation also grants guardianship of children exclusively to their fathers and grandfathers and requires women to get permission from their husbands to work.
What a 'law'.. ! And as if that wasn't enough, according to the U.S. charity Human Rights Watch, "It also effectively allows a rapist to avoid prosecution by paying ‘blood money’ to a girl who was injured when he raped her."
It seems to me as if the Afghan governing body is keen on carving out a few more Genghis Khan's out of those who can 'afford to rape'. A man rapes a girl.. pays her the 'blood money'.. and evades the law.. and now, he's not a criminal.. as simple as that.. What the f*** ?
And ironically, Afganistan, just had elections to 'democratically' elect the new President of The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Democracy at its best. And till now, no one in the country has dared to impugn this barbaric law.The new government in office can at best be described as consisting of the henchmen of the Afghani warlords, if not of the Talibs, and, in no way are they less oppressive than the Talibs. And the charlatan 'theologists' (Ayatollah Asif Mohseni, the chief hardline Afghan cleric behind the law, according to whom - a woman does have a right to say no, but then the man has a right not to feed her.) on whose recommendations this law has been passed, are nothing more than a bunch of bloody deified satyromaniac impostors.
I don't know what 've i written and why 've i done that. I don't know if anyone can ever interconnect my sporadic thoughts.I don't know if someone will ever try to. But do i care ?? ... i never did... and i still don't...
