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Sometimes it seems like they're are so many stories about injustice against women in the Middle East that it would be impossible to pay attention to them all and still get out of bed every morning, but we couldn't ignore the latest shocking story out of Afghanistan. A new bill was recently signed into law by President Hamid Karzai that actually allows husbands to starve their wives for refusing to have sex.
Under the new bill, women need permission from their husband to work, and fathers or grandfathers get exclusive custody of the children. Even more repulsive is the fact that the original bill signed into law earlier this year was even stricter, requiring Shia women to have sex with their husbands at least every four days and removing the need for consent to sex within marriage.
Not surprisingly, that law was met with outrage by Western leaders and Afghan women's groups, so an amended version was quietly passed just before this week's Afghan presidential election.
We, at least, are still outraged.
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Tuesday 18 August
By striderhamtaro
Ridiculous...
At least, however, women in Afghanistan can now complain, and someone actually takes notice, instead of "disciplining" them. I didn't know the women even had the option of refusing sex.
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Tuesday 18 August
By Nick
Turn that place into a parkinglot and start over.
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Thursday 20 August
By Asad
I am a Muslim and I find this outrageous. Islam abhors domestic violence. Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said that the worst of men were the ones who beat their wives. The most authentic sources of Islamic law are the Quran and the teachings of Prophet Muhammad. Prophet Muhammad was an excellent husband who was kind and generous to women.
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Friday 21 August
By T
If you need a law passed to have sex with your wife; buddy, you don't deserve a wife! Be a man and romance the pants (or in your case, the veil) off that lady and kick game like a man with pride. You don't hunt, you don't eat!
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Saturday 22 August
By Lune
I actually cried at this. I can't believe how badly these women are treated, it is an outrage indeed.
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Sunday 23 August
By Cassie
This is absolutly horrible! im trying to decied whats worse, the fact that something like this was passed, or the fact that this doesnt actually suprise me anymore.
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Wednesday 26 August
By sandeep
Sex can't be forced by law.Having sex or not is a personal decision of a couple.
Afgan men would have one more legal reason to kill their wife , if they feel so , legally.
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Monday 24 August
By vikram
this is simply disgusting and least expected by that government where women are treated as animals i pitty on them
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