Pakistan Votes to Amend Rape Laws
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6148590.stm
Pakistan's religious parties called the [new non-religious] legislation "a harbinger of lewdness and indecency in the country", and against the strictures of the Koran and Sharia law.
Addressing parliament on Wednesday, the leader of the six-party MMA Islamic alliance, Maulana Fazlur Rahman, said the bill would "turn Pakistan into a free-sex zone".
Under the current law in Pakistan, rape trials are handled by religious courts, and a raped woman who can't come up with four male witnesses to her rape faces prosecution for adultery.
Leave it to religion to be so outrageously backwards, retarded, and sexist as to punish a raped woman for being raped.
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