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Oh but I think it is. She was not supposed to be cruising around with some guy that was not her husband. It is illegal. That is what she is being punished for. It is not a human right for married women to roll around with random guys. In fact, it is uncool here too. We just don't issue lashes for it.
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OH, ya.....it is uncool to let your wife, girlfriend, daughter, to go out with some friends that are boys. Ok then, not sure what part of Calgary you are living in but I dont want to live there.
This is a human rights issue. These countries treat women like property. By not giving women the right to freedom of movement it is a human right. Just because it is the law doesn't mean it is right. We could make slavery legal, doesnt mean its right. You know damn well.
- Article 13 of the UDHR provides that:
1. Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
2. Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
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If your problem is with the lashes, fine. But don't make it sound like she's being punished for getting raped.
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She is being punished for being raped. In many of these countries if a man rapes a women it is the womens fault for suducing the man.
article 340 of the Jordanian Penal Code. This article stipulates: "He who discovers his wife or one of his female relatives committing adultery (with a man) and kills, wounds or injures one or both of them, is exempt from any penalty." Another clause states: "He who discovers his wife or one of his female relatives with another in an adulterous situation, and kills, wounds or injures one or both of them benefits from a reduction in penalty."
Saudi Arabia is to gender what apartheid South Africa was to race. In public life a woman is almost entirely segregated from men: excluded from the workplace, penned in special "family sections" in restaurants, taught in separate schools and colleges, and forbidden to drive
Under the country's fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, her husband may marry up to four times but an adulterous woman faces death by stoning. Outside the home she must wear the abaya, a black gown which enshrouds her completely, except for a slit for the eyes.
Women are forbidden to drive, to show their head and to speak in public, and to shake a man’s hand. On television, preachers incite husbands to beat their wives “for their own good”