California Conservative

Why don’t liberal activists, feminists, and Hollywood elites fly over there and set things right? y’know, like they always do.

AP reports: “Pakistan’s ruling party has given in to the demands of religious conservatives opposed to the amendment of Islamic laws that would have taken rape out of the sphere of religious law.”

A bill to amend the Islamic laws, including the one that requires rape victims to produce four male witnesses or risk an adultery charge, has been fiercely opposed by the conservatives.

Women’s rights activists had welcomed the proposed amendments, that would have put the crime of rape in the penal code, although some said the changes did not go far enough and the Islamic laws should be repealed altogether.
. . .

“If there are four witnesses it will be tried under (Islamic law), if there are not, it will be tried under the penal code,” said Law Minister Mohammad Wasi Zafar.
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Musharraf left on Monday for visits to Europe and the United States where he is bound to face questions about human rights, in particular the plight of women, in his overwhelmingly Muslim country.

Who would dare criticize? George Bush is President and “concerned parties” don’t want to give him any credibility in regards to fighting a cultural war; a battle for civilization.

After all, we’re talking about the religion of peace.

Rape? Plight of women? Who’s kidding? As we saw in Australia, Muslims consider a cultural entitlement.

UPDATE:
Rosie O’Donnell isn’t worried, for obvious reasons.
(except about “radical Christians”)

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