Dear fellow muslims, do you agree/approve Pakistan's amendment of their rape laws?

Question

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6148590.stm

Answer 1

100% yes

That law had nothing to do with the shariah in the first place.

A great injustice has been undone Alhamdulillah.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I don't see how this is a matter of religion. Rather, it's a matter of what's right a fair. Obviously something needed to be changed since the statistics on rape in Pakistan is disgusting. And obviously when you're raped, you won't conveniently have 4 men around witnessing it and willing to testify to it. The old law was ridiculous, midieval, and just plain wrong.

Answer 4

Absolutely YES

Answer 5

Of course. You would have to be a fanatic or a monster to disagree.
It is a shame on us all that it took this long for the amendment to be made. The application of Sharia laws to rape and adultery are an embarassment to Pakistan.

Answer 6

i agree. They twisted a verse in the Quran to fit their agenda to be able to rape women and then put the women to death if they ratted. Now, it goes by physical evidence. THe verse they used says to bring four witnesses. They conveniently left out the fact that this is for ADULTERY, and NOT RAPE. THere is a hadith about it. If a woman is raped, the man is tried and then stoned to death. The woman, the innocent victim, goes free. The fact that the law now relies on physical evidence is even greater, and is completely islamic. Even better than before, becuase Islam says to find truth in everything as much as possible. Here is the verse and the hadith.

Narrated Wa'il ibn Hujr:

"When a woman went out in the time of the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) for prayer, a man attacked her and overpowered (raped) her. She shouted and he went off, and when a man came by, she said: That (man) did such and such to me. And when a company of the Emigrants came by, she said: That man did such and such to me. They went and seized the man whom they thought had had intercourse with her and brought him to her.

She said: Yes, this is he. Then they brought him to the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him). When he (the Prophet) was about to pass sentence, the man who (actually) had assaulted her stood up and said: Apostle of Allah, I am the man who did it to her.

He (the Prophet) said to the woman: Go away, for Allah has forgiven you. And about the man who had intercourse with her, he said: Stone him to death.

He also said: He has repented to such an extent that if the people of Medina had repented similarly, it would have been accepted from them. (Sunan Abu Dawud, Book 38, Number 4366)"

[024:004] Flog those who accuse any of the chaste women (of committing adultery), but fail to backup (their charges) with four eyewitnesses. Flog them with eighty lashes, and thereafter do not accept their testimony ever again. Surely, they are the wicked ones.

[024:006] And, if someone accuses his wife (of adultery) and has no witnesses other than himself, then let his testimony be treated as that of four witnesses. (Let him testify four times, saying each time that) he swears by Allah that he speaks the truth.

Answer 7

Rape law bring it on coz i am 100% wiv it...Let justice be served

Answer 8

Yes. They aren't done; rape needs to be dealt with in criminal, not civil, courts.

Answer 9

yes definitely!
the old Law was not fair and not Islamic.

Answer 10

I'd have to say that I do because now we have science, etc. to help give extra evidence.