In Sudan a pregnant doctor has been sentenced to hang for apostasy for marrying a Christian man. Meriam Yahya Ibrahim, 27, was raised a Christian by her mother; however, her father was a Muslim. The Court in Khartoum also sentenced her to 100 lashes for having illicit sexual relations, her 2011 marriage having been deemed invalid. The sentence has been deferred until after the baby’s birth, and she can also appeal.
Notice that the man has not been sentenced for seducing a Moslem woman. The Epicurean Court of Justice has just sentenced the members of the Court to twenty years, without sexual relations of any kind whatsoever, for misogyny, sexism, crude violence and misinterpretation of the Koran.
It seems the most extraordinary disconnect: we can discover planets in the solar system that have water on them; we can cure previously incurable diseases – and yet we cannot seem to work out a way of treating women as equals to men in some parts of the world, or allow people to live their private lives without some control freak bullying them and even killing them because of some antiquated religious belief!
I agree with every word of that post. I think , unless I am mistaken, that due to the public outcry this lady has been released.
There needs, meanwhile, to be a public out cry over the number of women raped and murdered in India; about the girls in Africa who go to fetch water and are raped by men who lie waiting for them; about the female castration going on under our noses in this country (UK).
The amount of injustice in this world is heartbreaking.
Is it just me who thinks that rapists are mentally ill? What sort of human being rapes a woman? I have no knowledge of animals doing anything similar. The whole joy of of the hunt is in the wooing and the subtle persuasion.
Actually Ducks are raped by drakes, and apparently they, the ducks ,have an interesting evolutionary way of dealing with this. They close the aperture which leads to the fertilisation of the egg. I have put that in lay(wo)man’s words. Its worth seeing what Wiki says.