Afghanistan woman pardoned

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   wildernessposted 13 years ago

   Afghan President Hamid Karzai has pardoned an Afghan woman serving a 12 year prison sentence for sex outside marriage.  For being the victim of rape.
   
   Her sentence was forgiven after she agreed to marry her rapist.  It seems that she was offered the same deal earlier; the sentence was a result of her refusal to marry the rapist. 
   
   Her case was highlighted in a documentary in Europe, but comment has died away and she felt her best bet for "freedom" was marriage.
   
   A semi-human sperm receptacle - is that all that women are in hard core Islamic countries?  National law or not, God's will or not, other country or not, can we sit by and do nothing when such things are common?
   
   http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asi … story.html

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   SomewayOuttaHereposted 13 years ago

   Greek One had a thread on this...she had a choice if released - marry the rapist and if not her family would probably kill her if she went home....with that in mind, the EU supported her being released....released to what?  i don't get what the heck the EU was supporting and putting pressure on the Prez in the first place....maybe the EU will help her flee?....otherwise i don't really understand if the EU understands what they actually supported....better than jail? (i don't honestly think so)  the EU needs to get their act together and do better than this.......my 2 cents tonite....

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      wildernessposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I am generally all for national autonomy - we have no business controlling another countries laws - but maybe a jailbreak by special forces and bring her to America?
      
      There just has to be something we can do.

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         SomewayOuttaHereposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         i agree...since the EU got involved...they should have a plan rather than supporting something that doesn't make much sense to me....i'm looking from the outside in.....doesn't matter what country...at least a country that will give her some freedom for her own life and the life of her child....
         
         i think I read in GO's thread that the EU strategy for the pressure on the Prez is to possibly have many, many women released from jail..women that have been jailed for similar reasons...but released to what?

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            PaulaHenry1posted 13 years agoin reply to this

            It is so very sad isnt it? From what I understand, if she claims rape she has to have 3 males in the community as witnesses, which never happens, so she is either killed or imprisoned. Maybe her new "husband" will just happen to have a little accident himself? Wishful thinking...

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   SomewayOuttaHereposted 13 years ago

   yes Paula.....an accident seems inevitable.....good for you!...i'm right beside ya on that one...

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      wildernessposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      That would probably be my response.  The new hubby would grow a butcher knife from his chest in the wee hours one night.  I would probably be stoned to death, but preferable to being raped every night by the one that started the whole thing and with full government and Godly support.

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   AshtonFireflyposted 13 years ago

   So a woman has to spend time in jail because she was raped?
   That's messed up. More than messed up. What the hell?

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      wildernessposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      And to get out of jail had to marry the rapist.  It's incredible, and beyond my comprehension.

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         AshtonFireflyposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         If I had to marry the guy who raped me, I'd kill myself.

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   Paul Wingertposted 13 years ago

   All this BS is taken out of the Bible and Quran. So that's extreme conservatism for ya. These f**ked up Islamic countries need to stop living 2000 years ago and get with the times!

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