
A Muslim cleric in Britain has come under fire for claiming rape isn't rape when it occurs within a marriage. Sheikh Maulana Abu Sayeed, president of the Islamic Sharia Council in Britain, made the controversial statement in an interview with the blog The
I think that when you get married you have consented to sex. That's what marriage is all about, I don't know if maybe these girls missed sex ed. That doesn't mean the husband can beat you up, we have plenty of laws against assault and battery. If there is any violence or mistreatment that can be dealt with by criminal prosecution, by divorce or in various ways. When it gets down to calling it rape though, it isn't rape, it's a he said-she said where it's just too easy to lie about it.
Was the way in which your statement was portrayed correct?
Yes. Feminists, if they get tired of a husband or if they want to fight over child custody, they can make an accusation of marital rape and they want that to be there, available to them.
So you see this as more of a tool used by people to get out of marriages than as legitimate-
Yes, I certainly do.
For the unaware, Schafly isn't some TeaBircher noobie stepping her foot into it. She's a long-time social 'conservative' who's been a big force in the Republican dating as far back as the early Reagan years.
This sort of patriarchal primitivism is not unique to Islam. It infects all monotheistic religion and has a very nasty tendency to pop it's head out of the swamp with astonishing regularity.
Seriously, shared assets? Like that makes any sense when women work?
Not to defend the Muslims or anything, but this viewpoint isn't exactly uncommmon among certain alleged either:
I think that when you get married you have consented to sex. That's what marriage is all about, I don't know if maybe these girls missed sex ed. That doesn't mean the husband can beat you up, we have plenty of laws against assault and battery. If there is any violence or mistreatment that can be dealt with by criminal prosecution, by divorce or in various ways. When it gets down to calling it rape though, it isn't rape, it's a he said-she said where it's just too easy to lie about it.
Was the way in which your statement was portrayed correct?
Yes. Feminists, if they get tired of a husband or if they want to fight over child custody, they can make an accusation of marital rape and they want that to be there, available to them.
So you see this as more of a tool used by people to get out of marriages than as legitimate-
Yes, I certainly do.
For the unaware, Schafly isn't some TeaBircher noobie stepping her foot into it. She's a long-time social 'conservative' who's been a big force in the Republican dating as far back as the early Reagan years.
This sort of patriarchal primitivism is not unique to Islam. It infects all monotheistic religion and has a very nasty tendency to pop it's head out of the swamp with astonishing regularity.
The people who think like that are in the minority and are usually ridiculed by the majority for having such antiquated thinking. As time goes by, one expects society to progress, not regress, as is the case with those cultures espousing sharia. It has no place in our society, and should be banned from Western nations. Our laws trump their cultural practices, and in our nations women are not chattel. Striking your wife is assault, forcing her to have sex is rape...marriage is a partnership of equals.
I don't buy into this different but equal cultural relativism BS. Some societies just are superior to others, and one that condones the abuse and rape of the female spouse is comparable to boot scraping after a walk in the barn.
Certainly, accusations of such can/have been levelled for the wrong reasons, but Rape is Rape, marriage or no!
Heck considering how rape would result in childbirth.....well I'll leave you to see the consequences of Jesus words seeing as how he didn't condemn rape anywhere in the bible.
You know if one were to make 10 commandments wouldn't you think to put that in there? Even murderers and thieves hate rapists.
I love it how apologists always say, 'Well we did it too....in the past'. Exactly, in the past and we've learned to outgrow these backward ideas. The converse can't be said about other groups. Religion plays but a small part in our society, while in the case of the group being discussed, it is the foundation of their entire society. it governs every aspect of their lives.
Integrate into my new country ? FUCK NOOOOOOO !! THE INFIDEL DOGS MUST BOW DOWN TO ME !!
This asshole should:
A.. Resign as Chief Idiot
B.. Be charged with incitement
C.. GTFO out of Britain, permanently
Integrate into my new country ? FUCK NOOOOOOO !! THE INFIDEL DOGS MUST BOW DOWN TO ME !!
This asshole should:
A.. Resign as Chief Idiot
B.. Be charged with incitement
C.. GTFO out of Britain, permanently
In impotent Britain, where the idiots have been in charge of mandated political correctness for 20 years, this guy will probably get a Knighthood.
I mean, seriously??? (got nothing to do with the story, just the "Photo of the day"...)