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ਰਾਗੁ ਸਿਰੀਰਾਗੁ | Raag Siree-Raag
Gurbani (14-53)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਝ | Raag Maajh
Gurbani (94-109)
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Ashtpadi (129-130)
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Bara Maha (133-136)
Din Raen (136-137)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਗਉੜੀ | Raag Gauree
Gurbani (151-185)
Quartets/Couplets (185-220)
Ashtpadiyan (220-234)
Karhalei (234-235)
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Thintteen (343-344)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਆਸਾ | Raag Aasaa
Gurbani (347-348)
Chaupaday (348-364)
Panchpadde (364-365)
Kaafee (365-409)
Aasaavaree (409-411)
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Chhant (435-462)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਗੂਜਰੀ | Raag Goojaree
Gurbani (489-503)
Ashtpadiyan (503-508)
Vaar Gujari (508-517)
Vaar Gujari (517-526)
ਰਾਗੁ ਦੇਵਗੰਧਾਰੀ | Raag Dayv-Gandhaaree
Gurbani (527-536)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਹਾਗੜਾ | Raag Bihaagraa
Gurbani (537-556)
Chhant (538-548)
Vaar Bihaagraa (548-556)
ਰਾਗੁ ਵਡਹੰਸ | Raag Wadhans
Gurbani (557-564)
Ashtpadiyan (564-565)
Chhant (565-575)
Ghoriaan (575-578)
Alaahaniiaa (578-582)
Vaar Wadhans (582-594)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੋਰਠਿ | Raag Sorath
Gurbani (595-634)
Asatpadhiya (634-642)
Vaar Sorath (642-659)
ਰਾਗੁ ਧਨਾਸਰੀ | Raag Dhanasaree
Gurbani (660-685)
Astpadhiya (685-687)
Chhant (687-691)
Bhagat Bani (691-695)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਤਸਰੀ | Raag Jaitsree
Gurbani (696-703)
Chhant (703-705)
Vaar Jaitsaree (705-710)
Bhagat Bani (710)
ਰਾਗੁ ਟੋਡੀ | Raag Todee
ਰਾਗੁ ਬੈਰਾੜੀ | Raag Bairaaree
ਰਾਗੁ ਤਿਲੰਗ | Raag Tilang
Gurbani (721-727)
Bhagat Bani (727)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸੂਹੀ | Raag Suhi
Gurbani (728-750)
Ashtpadiyan (750-761)
Kaafee (761-762)
Suchajee (762)
Gunvantee (763)
Chhant (763-785)
Vaar Soohee (785-792)
Bhagat Bani (792-794)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਲਾਵਲੁ | Raag Bilaaval
Gurbani (795-831)
Ashtpadiyan (831-838)
Thitteen (838-840)
Vaar Sat (841-843)
Chhant (843-848)
Vaar Bilaaval (849-855)
Bhagat Bani (855-858)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੋਂਡ | Raag Gond
Gurbani (859-869)
Ashtpadiyan (869)
Bhagat Bani (870-875)
ਰਾਗੁ ਰਾਮਕਲੀ | Raag Ramkalee
Ashtpadiyan (902-916)
Gurbani (876-902)
Anand (917-922)
Sadd (923-924)
Chhant (924-929)
Dakhnee (929-938)
Sidh Gosat (938-946)
Vaar Ramkalee (947-968)
ਰਾਗੁ ਨਟ ਨਾਰਾਇਨ | Raag Nat Narayan
Gurbani (975-980)
Ashtpadiyan (980-983)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਲੀ ਗਉੜਾ | Raag Maalee Gauraa
Gurbani (984-988)
Bhagat Bani (988)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਰੂ | Raag Maaroo
Gurbani (889-1008)
Ashtpadiyan (1008-1014)
Kaafee (1014-1016)
Ashtpadiyan (1016-1019)
Anjulian (1019-1020)
Solhe (1020-1033)
Dakhni (1033-1043)
ਰਾਗੁ ਤੁਖਾਰੀ | Raag Tukhaari
Bara Maha (1107-1110)
Chhant (1110-1117)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕੇਦਾਰਾ | Raag Kedara
Gurbani (1118-1123)
Bhagat Bani (1123-1124)
ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
Gurbani (1125-1152)
Partaal (1153)
Ashtpadiyan (1153-1167)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਸੰਤੁ | Raag Basant
Gurbani (1168-1187)
Ashtpadiyan (1187-1193)
Vaar Basant (1193-1196)
ਰਾਗੁ ਸਾਰਗ | Raag Saarag
Gurbani (1197-1200)
Partaal (1200-1231)
Ashtpadiyan (1232-1236)
Chhant (1236-1237)
Vaar Saarang (1237-1253)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਲਾਰ | Raag Malaar
Gurbani (1254-1293)
Partaal (1265-1273)
Ashtpadiyan (1273-1278)
Chhant (1278)
Vaar Malaar (1278-91)
Bhagat Bani (1292-93)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਾਨੜਾ | Raag Kaanraa
Gurbani (1294-96)
Partaal (1296-1318)
Ashtpadiyan (1308-1312)
Chhant (1312)
Vaar Kaanraa
Bhagat Bani (1318)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕਲਿਆਨ | Raag Kalyaan
Gurbani (1319-23)
Ashtpadiyan (1323-26)
ਰਾਗੁ ਪ੍ਰਭਾਤੀ | Raag Prabhaatee
Gurbani (1327-1341)
Ashtpadiyan (1342-51)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਜਾਵੰਤੀ | Raag Jaijaiwanti
Gurbani (1352-53)
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Sehskritee Mahala 1
Sehskritee Mahala 5
Gaathaa Mahala 5
Phunhay Mahala 5
Chaubolae Mahala 5
Shaloks Bhagat Kabir
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Swaiyyae Mahala 5
Swaiyyae in Praise of Gurus
Shaloks in Addition To Vaars
Shalok Ninth Mehl
Mundavanee Mehl 5
ਰਾਗ ਮਾਲਾ, Raag Maalaa
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<blockquote data-quote="drkhalsa" data-source="post: 5740" data-attributes="member: 384"><p>Dear Muslim </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>I dont want to argue about what Islam teaches but what i am giving is facts </p><p></p><p>your assertion that rotten apple spoils pthers does not seems to work here all these are Islamic countries and all are showing signs of rotten stuff and the rest that live in western world do do such things because western law (which is based on rationaity) is saving muslims and there women </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: #336699"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Jordan:</span></span></strong> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">On May 31, 1994, Kifaya Husayn, a 16-year-old Jordanian girl, was lashed to a chair by her 32-year-old brother. He gave her a drink of water and told her to recite an Islamic prayer. Then he slashed her throat. Immediately afterward, he ran out into the street, waving the bloody knife and crying, 'I have killed my sister to cleanse my honor.' Kifaya's crime? She was raped by another brother, a 21-year-old man. Her judge and jury? Her own uncles, who convinced her eldest brother that Kifaya was too much of a disgrace to the family’s honor to be allowed to live." The murderer was sentenced to fifteen years, but the sentence was subsequently reduced to seven and a half years, an extremely severe penalty by Jordanian standards. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> Chicago Tribune, May 3, 1998</span></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: #336699"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Lahore, Pakistan:</span></span></strong> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">6 April 1999, 29-year-old Samia Sarwar, the mother of two young boys, was shot dead in the office of her lawyer. Samia was seeking a divorce after suffering years of domestic abuse from her violent husband. Her family felt that in seeking divorce, she had tarnished their honor, and for this she was brutally killed.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> Amnesty International, 1999</span></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: #336699"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Palestine:</span></span></strong> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">A 25-year-old Palestinian who hanged his sister with a rope: "I did not kill her, but rather helped her to commit suicide and to carry out the death penalty she sentenced herself to. I did it to wash with her blood the family honor that was violated because of her and in response to the will of society that would not have had any mercy on me if I didn't . . . Society taught us from childhood that blood is the only solution to wash the honor."</span> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> Al-Ayyam, June 1, 2000</span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px">In the last few weeks, the Swedish society has been touched by the brutal and calculated murder of Fadima Sahindal; a young courageous woman who chose to live according to her will and paid the price by her life. In the last two months, two other young women in Denmark and Britain were killed by their fathers because of the honor of the family. Honor of men and the family took their lives. Honor killing is a tribal and Islamic practice prevalent in Islam- ridden countries and Muslim inhabited communities in the West. Being killed deliberately and brutally is, in fact, a price that victims pay to practice their minimal human rights such as how to dress, talk to men other than their male family members, live, work and study independently, and marry at will, or have voluntary sexual relations.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Hundreds of women get shot, burned, strangled, stoned, poisoned, beheaded or stabbed every year in Islam ridden countries because their male relatives believe their actions have soiled the family name. They die, so family honor may survive. According to this tribal and religious practice, woman is a man's possession and a reflection of his honor. It is the man's honor that gets tarnished if a woman is 'loose'. The murderers and their defenders refer to this verse of the Koran that allows husbands to beat their wives: "As to those women on whose part ye fear disloyalty and ill - conduct, admonish them, refuse to share their beds, beat them", the Koran, chapter 4, verse 34. Honor killing is a tribal practice that has been incorporated in the religion of Islam, because of its anti - women nature and misogynist philosophy. And the law is usually on the man's side, not only in the Middle Eastern and the Central Asian countries, but shamefully, in the Western countries too. They often letting murderers go unpunished or with a light sentence.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px">According to this Islamic concept and tradition, from the early childhood, girls are taught about "eib", which means shame, and "sharaf", which means honor. And everywhere girls go are reminders that their most important mission in life is to remain virgin until they marry. Boys are also taught to have "ghayrat", meaning to be ardent. All these concepts are Islamic concepts, and that is why the killers always defend their acts of murder by these Islamic concepts. According to the UN statistics, the majority of these murders occur in the Islam - ridden countries and Muslin inhabited communities in the West.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Though, honor killing may seem not much surprising in societies such as Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, its occurrence is indeed shocking and shameful in the heart of Europe in the 21st Century. And that is where the reactionary idea of Cultural Relativism is put into practice to justify women's victimization by excusing Islam and backward traditions. Unfortunately, until recently which some measures were implemented by the Swedish government, this government not only neglected to protect the lives and the rights of these women, but also justified their murders under the name of respecting 'other' people's religion and culture. While the murderers have repeatedly and openly defend their act by referring to Islam and the Koran, the majority of feminists, the mainstream media and intellectuals try to explain these murders as the prevalent patterns of domestic violence against women in the Western societies. While the murderers, whether in the Middle Eastern countries or in the Muslim inhabited communities in the West, openly state that their act of murder are "crimes of honor", and that they are merely following the directions set down in their religious beliefs, both in the Koran and in the Bible, the apologetic Western intellectuals repeatedly assure us that it is not Islam and the backward traditions, it is the common pattern of violence that is happening to the Western women too.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Swedish intellectuals should show the honesty that is required and expected from intellectuals, by telling the truth, by siding with those innocent young women who were victimized and continue to be brutally victimized because of the Islamic and backward tradition. It is not acceptable to apologize for Islam and backwardness.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"><span style="font-size: 12px">And as far as the Swedish government is concerned, there shouldn't be a different basis for people's right in the one and same society; in the Swedish society. All should be considered as Swedish citizens and equal before the law. The Swedish society is duty bound to safe guard and protect the rights of women and girls from Muslim origins. This could be done only by abolishing all the respective discriminatory laws against these girls and women. This could be done only when there is no respect, excuse and legal interpretation for the misogynist Islamic and traditional beliefs and practices.</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"><strong><span style="color: aqua">As with many Holy Books the Quran is open to interpretation. Many of its teachings are paradoxical, contradictory and not relevant to the present period. To give just one example, the Quran has entire sections on how to treat a slave because in the 7th century slavery was seen as quite normal. Here are some of the teachings the Quran has with regards to women.</span></strong> </span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"><strong><span style="color: yellow">Negative things the Quran says about women:</span></strong><strong><span style="color: aqua"> "Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other and because men spend their wealth to maintain women. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those women from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them. They if they obey you take no further action against them. Allah is high, supreme." </span></strong><strong><span style="color: lime">Holy Quran. Sura 4:34</span></strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"><span style="color: lime">And for those of you who speak Arabic:</span> "Al-rijal qawwamun ‘ala al-nisa’ bi ma faddala Allahu ba‘duhum ‘ala ba‘din wa bi ma anfaqu min amwalihim. Fa al-salihat qanitat, hafizat li’l-ghayb bi ma hafiza Allah. Wa allati tukhafuna nushuzahunna, fa ‘izuhunna wa ahjuruhunna fi’l-madaji‘ wa adribuhunna, fa in ata‘nakum, fa la tabghu ‘alayhinna sabilan. Inna Allah kana ‘Aliyyan, Kabir."</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="color: aqua"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">In the teachings of the Quran adulterous women should be flogged while women found guilty of fornication should be put under house arrest until death or until "Allah ordains for them another way."</span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="color: aqua"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Also according to the Quran, a daughter can only receive half the inheritance of a son. A woman's testimony in court is worth half that of a man's. The compensation for the murder of a woman is half that as for a man.</span></span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"><strong><span style="color: yellow">Positive things the Quran says about women:</span></strong><strong><span style="color: aqua"> The education of girls is a sacred duty. Women are allowed to own and inherit property. And, according to the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, sexual satisfaction is a woman's entitlement.</span></strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><em><span style="color: lime"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Women in Taliban Afghanistan</span></span></em> </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Though the Taliban have been driven out of power in Afghanistan much of the laws and traditions they enforced still remain in place. Mercifully the situation is changing but slowly. . . </span></strong></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <ul style="text-align: center"> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Since theTaliban took power in 1996 women have had to wear a tentlike garment called a burqua. They have been beaten and stoned in public for not having the proper attire, even if this means simply not having the mesh covering in front of their eyes. One woman was beaten to death by an angry mob of fundamentalists for accidentally exposing her arm while she was driving which she was also forbidden to do. Another was stoned to death for trying to leave the country with a man that was not a relative.</span> </span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Women were not allowed to work or even go out in public without a male relative; professional women such as professors, translators, doctors, lawyers, artists and writers were forced from their jobs and restricted to their homes.</span> </span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Homes where a woman is present must have their windows painted so that she can never be seen by outsiders. They must wear silent shoes so that they are never heard.</span> </span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Women live in fear of their lives for the slightest misbehavior. Because they cannot work, those without male relatives or husbands are either starving to death or begging in the street, even if they hold Ph.D.'s.</span> </span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Depression is becoming so widespread that it has reached emergency levels. There is no way in such an extreme Islamic society to know the suicide rate with certainty, but relief workers are estimating that the suicide rate among women must be extraordinarily high: those who cannot find proper medication and treatment for severe depression and would rather take their lives than live in such conditions.</span> </span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">At one of the rare hospitals for women, a reporter found still, nearly lifeless bodies lying motionless on top of beds, wrapped in their burqua, unwilling to speak, eat, or do anything, but slowly wasting away.</span> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Others have gone mad and were seen crouched in corners, perpetually rocking or crying, most of them in fear. It is at the point where the term "human rights violations" has become an understatement.</span> </span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Husbands have the power of life and death over their women relatives, especially their wives, but <br /> an angry mob has just as much right to stone or beat a woman, often to death, for exposing an inch of flesh or offending them in the slightest way.</span></span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><em><span style="color: lime"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Women in Bahrain</span></span></em> </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <ul style="text-align: center"> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a woman's genitals but is prohibited from looking directly at them during the examination. He may only see their reflection in a mirror. </span></span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><em><span style="color: lime"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Women in Bangladesh</span></span></em> </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <ul style="text-align: center"> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Over 2000 women a year are victims of fatal or disfiguring acid attacks for alleged improper behaviour. (<em>The World and I</em>, May 2003) </span></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">A rapist can sometimes marry the woman he has assaulted and avoid prosecution. This saves the family's "honor" and the woman's life. The result is that the assailant is now effectively allowed to rape his victim repeatedly, with the blessing of the court system.</span></span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><em><span style="color: lime"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Women in Egypt</span></span></em> </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <ul style="text-align: center"> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">A woman cannot leave the country without her husband's permission.</span> </span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">FGM (Female Circumcision or Female Genital Mutilation) is widespread in Egypt</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px">. </span></span></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">"Honor Killing" is still practiced in rural areas and even in the main city of Cairo..</span> </span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Wife beating is so prevalent that most housewives see it as a normal part of marriage. Social workers spend much of their time just trying to convince victims that their husband's violent acts are unnacceptable.</span></span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><em><span style="color: lime"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Women in the Islamic Republic of Iran</span></span></em> </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <ul style="text-align: center"> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The legal age for marriage of a girl is 9 years old</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px">. </span></span></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Iran's penal code specifies, "The stoning of an adulterer or adulteress shall be carried out while each is placed in a hole and covered with soil, he up to his waist and she up to a line above her breasts". Court appointed officials or ordinary citizens then pelt the accused with stones large enough to cause pain but not large enough to kill immediately. In the Islamic penal code called Sharia the burden to prove guilt in a man is much more than with a woman. Thus women are punished more by their "transgressions" than men. Two women were stoned to death in Iran in 2001, one for adultery and the other for appearing in a pornographic movie. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Cited in TIME Europe; Sept 2, 2002, p. 26-7</span></span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><em><span style="color: lime"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Women in Jordan</span></span></em> </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <ul style="text-align: center"> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Article 340 of the Jordanian Penal Code states, "He who discovers his wife or one of his female relatives has commited adultery and kills, wounds, or injures one or both of them, is exempted from any penalty." In December 2001 Articles 97 and 98 allow for a reduced sentence for crimes committed in a "fit of fury" related to the perceived loss of honor. Approximately 75% of such "honor" killings are committed by the brother of the victim. The average sentence for the murder is about 6 months. Attempts by International Human Rights groups to cancel or modify this law are charactarised as attempts to erode Arab morals and destroy families. 62% of Jordanians oppose amending this article. </span></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">At least 50 women a year are imprisoned in Jordan on "honor" related cases. Most will be killed by their family if they are released. "Once imprisoned a woman can only be released to a male relative who must agree not to murder them. Regarless of assurances women are often murdered within hours after their discharge. In one particularly grisly incident, Fayaz Mohammed secured the release of his seventeen-year old daughter, Lamis, from a Jordanian Detention center. He guaranteed her safety and then slit her throat once she was released in his care. Fayaz was sentenced to nine months in prison for his crime. (<em>The World and I</em>, May 2003, p. 184-9) </span></span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><em><span style="color: lime"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Women in Muslim Kashmir</span></span></em> </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <ul style="text-align: center"> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">A woman who leaves the house with her face uncovered runs the risk of having acid thrown in her face.</span> </span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">A woman's virginity is considered the family's responsibility, especially the male members who will dominate her for her entire life, first her father, then her brothers, then her husband and finally her sons.</span></span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><em><span style="color: lime"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Women in Palestine</span></span></em> </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <ul style="text-align: center"> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Women are not allowed to travel alone. They are required to have a male relative accompany them if they leave the house. Unfortunately, her male "guardian" - father, brother, uncle or cousin - may also be her rapist. Should she become pregnant, he will publicly condemn for dishonoring the family and then kill her and the unborn child. In 2002, 17-year old Afaf Younes was killed by her father, who had allegedly been sexually molesting her. Afaf had tried to escape his sexual abuse by running away, but she was caught and returned to her father. He then shot her in the name of honor. (<em>The World and I</em>, May 2003, p. 191)</span> </span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Among Palestinians, all sexual encounters, including rape and incest are blamed on the woman. Men are presumed innocent; the women must have tempted him into raping her or enticed him into having an affair. Even if a woman survives a violent rape, she is condemned for her "mistake" and may be killed by her family. (<em>The World and I</em>, May 2003, p. 188) </span></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">If a woman brings shame to her family, her male relatives are bound by duty and culture to kill her. "A woman shamed is like rotting flesh," according to one Palestinian merchant. "If it is not cut away, it will consume the body. What I mean is that the whole family will be tainted if she is not killed." </span></span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><em><span style="color: lime"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Women in Pakistan</span></span></em> </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <ul style="text-align: center"> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">In law, the testimony of one man is equal to that of two women</span> </span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">For a woman to prove rape, four adult males of "impeccable" character must witness the penetration according to the local interpretation of Shari'a or Islamic Law. As a result very, very few men are charged with rape.</span> </span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">However, according to a CNN report in August 2002, 60% of women are charged with adultery in Pakistan if they are raped. The punishment for their "crime" is that the women are jailed or are forced to marry their rapist.</span></span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><em><span style="color: lime"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Women in Saudi Arabia</span></span></em> </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <ul style="text-align: center"> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Women are not allowed to drive automobiles or fly anywhere without the permission of their husband or senior male relative.</span> </span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Women can only work in complete segregation from men.</span> </span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">"Honor killings" are widespread. A male relative can kill his female relative for such "offenses" as, allegations of premarital or extramarital sex, refusing an arranged marriage, attempting to obtain a divorce, or simply talking with a man.</span></span></li> </ul><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>I will write more in few days as I am busy in coming days</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Jatinder Singh</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="drkhalsa, post: 5740, member: 384"] Dear Muslim I dont want to argue about what Islam teaches but what i am giving is facts your assertion that rotten apple spoils pthers does not seems to work here all these are Islamic countries and all are showing signs of rotten stuff and the rest that live in western world do do such things because western law (which is based on rationaity) is saving muslims and there women [b][color=#336699][font=Arial]Jordan:[/font][/color][/b][b][color=#3366ff][font=Arial] [/font][/color][/b] [font=Arial]On May 31, 1994, Kifaya Husayn, a 16-year-old Jordanian girl, was lashed to a chair by her 32-year-old brother. He gave her a drink of water and told her to recite an Islamic prayer. Then he slashed her throat. Immediately afterward, he ran out into the street, waving the bloody knife and crying, 'I have killed my sister to cleanse my honor.' Kifaya's crime? She was raped by another brother, a 21-year-old man. Her judge and jury? Her own uncles, who convinced her eldest brother that Kifaya was too much of a disgrace to the family’s honor to be allowed to live." The murderer was sentenced to fifteen years, but the sentence was subsequently reduced to seven and a half years, an extremely severe penalty by Jordanian standards. [/font] [font=Arial Unicode MS][size=3] [/size][/font][font=Arial] Chicago Tribune, May 3, 1998[/font] [b][color=#336699][font=Arial]Lahore, Pakistan:[/font][/color][/b][b][color=#3366ff][font=Arial] [/font][/color][/b] [font=Arial]6 April 1999, 29-year-old Samia Sarwar, the mother of two young boys, was shot dead in the office of her lawyer. Samia was seeking a divorce after suffering years of domestic abuse from her violent husband. Her family felt that in seeking divorce, she had tarnished their honor, and for this she was brutally killed.[/font][font=Arial] [/font] [font=Arial] Amnesty International, 1999[/font] [b][color=#336699][font=Arial]Palestine:[/font][/color][/b][b][color=#3366ff][font=Arial] [/font][/color][/b] [font=Arial]A 25-year-old Palestinian who hanged his sister with a rope: "I did not kill her, but rather helped her to commit suicide and to carry out the death penalty she sentenced herself to. I did it to wash with her blood the family honor that was violated because of her and in response to the will of society that would not have had any mercy on me if I didn't . . . Society taught us from childhood that blood is the only solution to wash the honor."[/font][i][font=Arial] [/font][/i] [font=Arial] Al-Ayyam, June 1, 2000[/font] [size=3][font=Arial Unicode MS] [/font][/size] [size=3][font=Arial Unicode MS] [/font][/size] [size=3][font=Arial Unicode MS] [/font][/size] [font=Arial Unicode MS][size=3]In the last few weeks, the Swedish society has been touched by the brutal and calculated murder of Fadima Sahindal; a young courageous woman who chose to live according to her will and paid the price by her life. In the last two months, two other young women in Denmark and Britain were killed by their fathers because of the honor of the family. Honor of men and the family took their lives. Honor killing is a tribal and Islamic practice prevalent in Islam- ridden countries and Muslim inhabited communities in the West. Being killed deliberately and brutally is, in fact, a price that victims pay to practice their minimal human rights such as how to dress, talk to men other than their male family members, live, work and study independently, and marry at will, or have voluntary sexual relations.[/size][/font] [font=Arial Unicode MS][size=3]Hundreds of women get shot, burned, strangled, stoned, poisoned, beheaded or stabbed every year in Islam ridden countries because their male relatives believe their actions have soiled the family name. They die, so family honor may survive. According to this tribal and religious practice, woman is a man's possession and a reflection of his honor. It is the man's honor that gets tarnished if a woman is 'loose'. The murderers and their defenders refer to this verse of the Koran that allows husbands to beat their wives: "As to those women on whose part ye fear disloyalty and ill - conduct, admonish them, refuse to share their beds, beat them", the Koran, chapter 4, verse 34. Honor killing is a tribal practice that has been incorporated in the religion of Islam, because of its anti - women nature and misogynist philosophy. And the law is usually on the man's side, not only in the Middle Eastern and the Central Asian countries, but shamefully, in the Western countries too. They often letting murderers go unpunished or with a light sentence.[/size][/font] [font=Arial Unicode MS][size=3]According to this Islamic concept and tradition, from the early childhood, girls are taught about "eib", which means shame, and "sharaf", which means honor. And everywhere girls go are reminders that their most important mission in life is to remain virgin until they marry. Boys are also taught to have "ghayrat", meaning to be ardent. All these concepts are Islamic concepts, and that is why the killers always defend their acts of murder by these Islamic concepts. According to the UN statistics, the majority of these murders occur in the Islam - ridden countries and Muslin inhabited communities in the West.[/size][/font] [font=Arial Unicode MS][size=3]Though, honor killing may seem not much surprising in societies such as Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, its occurrence is indeed shocking and shameful in the heart of Europe in the 21st Century. And that is where the reactionary idea of Cultural Relativism is put into practice to justify women's victimization by excusing Islam and backward traditions. Unfortunately, until recently which some measures were implemented by the Swedish government, this government not only neglected to protect the lives and the rights of these women, but also justified their murders under the name of respecting 'other' people's religion and culture. While the murderers have repeatedly and openly defend their act by referring to Islam and the Koran, the majority of feminists, the mainstream media and intellectuals try to explain these murders as the prevalent patterns of domestic violence against women in the Western societies. While the murderers, whether in the Middle Eastern countries or in the Muslim inhabited communities in the West, openly state that their act of murder are "crimes of honor", and that they are merely following the directions set down in their religious beliefs, both in the Koran and in the Bible, the apologetic Western intellectuals repeatedly assure us that it is not Islam and the backward traditions, it is the common pattern of violence that is happening to the Western women too.[/size][/font] [font=Arial Unicode MS][size=3]Swedish intellectuals should show the honesty that is required and expected from intellectuals, by telling the truth, by siding with those innocent young women who were victimized and continue to be brutally victimized because of the Islamic and backward tradition. It is not acceptable to apologize for Islam and backwardness.[/size][/font] [font=Arial Unicode MS][size=3]And as far as the Swedish government is concerned, there shouldn't be a different basis for people's right in the one and same society; in the Swedish society. All should be considered as Swedish citizens and equal before the law. The Swedish society is duty bound to safe guard and protect the rights of women and girls from Muslim origins. This could be done only by abolishing all the respective discriminatory laws against these girls and women. This could be done only when there is no respect, excuse and legal interpretation for the misogynist Islamic and traditional beliefs and practices.[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Arial Unicode MS] [/font][/size] [size=3][font=Arial Unicode MS] [/font][/size] [size=3][font=Arial Unicode MS] [/font][/size] [center][font=Arial Unicode MS][b][color=aqua]As with many Holy Books the Quran is open to interpretation. Many of its teachings are paradoxical, contradictory and not relevant to the present period. To give just one example, the Quran has entire sections on how to treat a slave because in the 7th century slavery was seen as quite normal. Here are some of the teachings the Quran has with regards to women.[/color][/b][size=3] [/size][/font] [font=Arial Unicode MS][b][color=yellow]Negative things the Quran says about women:[/color][/b][b][color=aqua] "Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other and because men spend their wealth to maintain women. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those women from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them. They if they obey you take no further action against them. Allah is high, supreme." [/color][/b][b][color=lime]Holy Quran. Sura 4:34[/color][/b][/font] [font=Arial Unicode MS][color=lime]And for those of you who speak Arabic:[/color] "Al-rijal qawwamun ‘ala al-nisa’ bi ma faddala Allahu ba‘duhum ‘ala ba‘din wa bi ma anfaqu min amwalihim. Fa al-salihat qanitat, hafizat li’l-ghayb bi ma hafiza Allah. Wa allati tukhafuna nushuzahunna, fa ‘izuhunna wa ahjuruhunna fi’l-madaji‘ wa adribuhunna, fa in ata‘nakum, fa la tabghu ‘alayhinna sabilan. Inna Allah kana ‘Aliyyan, Kabir."[/font] [b][color=aqua][font=Arial Unicode MS]In the teachings of the Quran adulterous women should be flogged while women found guilty of fornication should be put under house arrest until death or until "Allah ordains for them another way."[/font][/color][/b] [b][color=aqua][font=Arial Unicode MS]Also according to the Quran, a daughter can only receive half the inheritance of a son. A woman's testimony in court is worth half that of a man's. The compensation for the murder of a woman is half that as for a man.[/font][/color][/b] [font=Arial Unicode MS][b][color=yellow]Positive things the Quran says about women:[/color][/b][b][color=aqua] The education of girls is a sacred duty. Women are allowed to own and inherit property. And, according to the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, sexual satisfaction is a woman's entitlement.[/color][/b][/font] [/center] [center][font=Arial Unicode MS][size=3] [/size][/font] [/center] [center][b][i][color=lime][font=Arial]Women in Taliban Afghanistan[/font][/color][/i][font=Arial][color=#ffffff] [/color][/font][/b] [size=3][font=Arial][b][font=Arial]Though the Taliban have been driven out of power in Afghanistan much of the laws and traditions they enforced still remain in place. Mercifully the situation is changing but slowly. . . [/font][/b][font=Arial][/font][/font][/size] [list] [*][font=Arial][font=Arial]Since theTaliban took power in 1996 women have had to wear a tentlike garment called a burqua. They have been beaten and stoned in public for not having the proper attire, even if this means simply not having the mesh covering in front of their eyes. One woman was beaten to death by an angry mob of fundamentalists for accidentally exposing her arm while she was driving which she was also forbidden to do. Another was stoned to death for trying to leave the country with a man that was not a relative.[/font][font=Arial][size=3] [/size][/font][/font] [*][font=Arial][font=Arial]Women were not allowed to work or even go out in public without a male relative; professional women such as professors, translators, doctors, lawyers, artists and writers were forced from their jobs and restricted to their homes.[/font][font=Arial][size=3] [/size][/font][/font] [*][font=Arial][font=Arial]Homes where a woman is present must have their windows painted so that she can never be seen by outsiders. They must wear silent shoes so that they are never heard.[/font][font=Arial][size=3] [/size][/font][/font] [*][font=Arial][font=Arial]Women live in fear of their lives for the slightest misbehavior. Because they cannot work, those without male relatives or husbands are either starving to death or begging in the street, even if they hold Ph.D.'s.[/font][font=Arial][size=3] [/size][/font][/font] [*][font=Arial][font=Arial]Depression is becoming so widespread that it has reached emergency levels. There is no way in such an extreme Islamic society to know the suicide rate with certainty, but relief workers are estimating that the suicide rate among women must be extraordinarily high: those who cannot find proper medication and treatment for severe depression and would rather take their lives than live in such conditions.[/font][font=Arial][size=3] [/size][/font][/font] [*][font=Arial][font=Arial]At one of the rare hospitals for women, a reporter found still, nearly lifeless bodies lying motionless on top of beds, wrapped in their burqua, unwilling to speak, eat, or do anything, but slowly wasting away.[/font][font=Arial][size=3] [/size][/font][font=Arial]Others have gone mad and were seen crouched in corners, perpetually rocking or crying, most of them in fear. It is at the point where the term "human rights violations" has become an understatement.[/font][font=Arial][size=3] [/size][/font][/font] [*][font=Arial][color=windowtext][font=Arial]Husbands have the power of life and death over their women relatives, especially their wives, but an angry mob has just as much right to stone or beat a woman, often to death, for exposing an inch of flesh or offending them in the slightest way.[/font][/color][font=Arial][/font][/font] [/list][/center] [center][size=3][font=Arial] [/font][/size] [/center] [center][b][i][color=lime][font=Arial]Women in Bahrain[/font][/color][/i][font=Arial][color=#ffffff] [/color][/font][/b] [list] [*][font=Arial][color=windowtext][font=Arial]In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a woman's genitals but is prohibited from looking directly at them during the examination. He may only see their reflection in a mirror. [/font][/color][font=Arial][/font][/font] [/list][/center] [center][size=3][font=Arial] [/font][/size] [/center] [center][b][i][color=lime][font=Arial]Women in Bangladesh[/font][/color][/i][font=Arial][color=#ffffff] [/color][/font][/b] [list] [*][font=Arial][font=Arial]Over 2000 women a year are victims of fatal or disfiguring acid attacks for alleged improper behaviour. ([i]The World and I[/i], May 2003) [/font][font=Arial][/font][/font] [*][font=Arial][color=windowtext][font=Arial]A rapist can sometimes marry the woman he has assaulted and avoid prosecution. This saves the family's "honor" and the woman's life. The result is that the assailant is now effectively allowed to rape his victim repeatedly, with the blessing of the court system.[/font][/color][font=Arial][/font][/font] [/list][/center] [center][size=3][font=Arial] [/font][/size] [/center] [center][b][i][color=lime][font=Arial]Women in Egypt[/font][/color][/i][font=Arial][color=#ffffff] [/color][/font][/b] [list] [*][font=Arial][font=Arial]A woman cannot leave the country without her husband's permission.[/font][font=Arial][size=3] [/size][/font][/font] [*][font=Arial][font=Arial]FGM (Female Circumcision or Female Genital Mutilation) is widespread in Egypt[/font][font=Arial][size=3]. [/size][/font][/font] [*][font=Arial][font=Arial]"Honor Killing" is still practiced in rural areas and even in the main city of Cairo..[/font][font=Arial][size=3] [/size][/font][/font] [*][font=Arial][color=windowtext][font=Arial]Wife beating is so prevalent that most housewives see it as a normal part of marriage. Social workers spend much of their time just trying to convince victims that their husband's violent acts are unnacceptable.[/font][/color][font=Arial][/font][/font] [/list][/center] [center][size=3][font=Arial] [/font][/size] [/center] [center][b][i][color=lime][font=Arial]Women in the Islamic Republic of Iran[/font][/color][/i][font=Arial][color=#ffffff] [/color][/font][/b] [list] [*][font=Arial][font=Arial]The legal age for marriage of a girl is 9 years old[/font][font=Arial][size=3]. [/size][/font][/font] [*][font=Arial][color=windowtext][font=Arial]Iran's penal code specifies, "The stoning of an adulterer or adulteress shall be carried out while each is placed in a hole and covered with soil, he up to his waist and she up to a line above her breasts". Court appointed officials or ordinary citizens then pelt the accused with stones large enough to cause pain but not large enough to kill immediately. In the Islamic penal code called Sharia the burden to prove guilt in a man is much more than with a woman. Thus women are punished more by their "transgressions" than men. Two women were stoned to death in Iran in 2001, one for adultery and the other for appearing in a pornographic movie. [/font][/color][color=windowtext][font=Arial]Cited in TIME Europe; Sept 2, 2002, p. 26-7[/font][/color][font=Arial][/font][/font] [/list][/center] [center][size=3][font=Arial] [/font][/size] [/center] [center][b][i][color=lime][font=Arial]Women in Jordan[/font][/color][/i][font=Arial][color=#ffffff] [/color][/font][/b] [list] [*][font=Arial][font=Arial]Article 340 of the Jordanian Penal Code states, "He who discovers his wife or one of his female relatives has commited adultery and kills, wounds, or injures one or both of them, is exempted from any penalty." In December 2001 Articles 97 and 98 allow for a reduced sentence for crimes committed in a "fit of fury" related to the perceived loss of honor. Approximately 75% of such "honor" killings are committed by the brother of the victim. The average sentence for the murder is about 6 months. Attempts by International Human Rights groups to cancel or modify this law are charactarised as attempts to erode Arab morals and destroy families. 62% of Jordanians oppose amending this article. [/font][font=Arial][/font][/font] [*][font=Arial][color=windowtext][font=Arial]At least 50 women a year are imprisoned in Jordan on "honor" related cases. Most will be killed by their family if they are released. "Once imprisoned a woman can only be released to a male relative who must agree not to murder them. Regarless of assurances women are often murdered within hours after their discharge. In one particularly grisly incident, Fayaz Mohammed secured the release of his seventeen-year old daughter, Lamis, from a Jordanian Detention center. He guaranteed her safety and then slit her throat once she was released in his care. Fayaz was sentenced to nine months in prison for his crime. ([i]The World and I[/i], May 2003, p. 184-9) [/font][/color][font=Arial][/font][/font] [/list][/center] [center][size=3][font=Arial] [/font][/size] [/center] [center][b][i][color=lime][font=Arial]Women in Muslim Kashmir[/font][/color][/i][font=Arial][color=#ffffff] [/color][/font][/b] [list] [*][font=Arial][font=Arial]A woman who leaves the house with her face uncovered runs the risk of having acid thrown in her face.[/font][font=Arial][size=3] [/size][/font][/font] [*][font=Arial][color=windowtext][font=Arial]A woman's virginity is considered the family's responsibility, especially the male members who will dominate her for her entire life, first her father, then her brothers, then her husband and finally her sons.[/font][/color][font=Arial][/font][/font] [/list][/center] [center][size=3][font=Arial] [/font][/size] [/center] [center][b][i][color=lime][font=Arial]Women in Palestine[/font][/color][/i][font=Arial][color=#ffffff] [/color][/font][/b] [list] [*][font=Arial][font=Arial]Women are not allowed to travel alone. They are required to have a male relative accompany them if they leave the house. Unfortunately, her male "guardian" - father, brother, uncle or cousin - may also be her rapist. Should she become pregnant, he will publicly condemn for dishonoring the family and then kill her and the unborn child. In 2002, 17-year old Afaf Younes was killed by her father, who had allegedly been sexually molesting her. Afaf had tried to escape his sexual abuse by running away, but she was caught and returned to her father. He then shot her in the name of honor. ([i]The World and I[/i], May 2003, p. 191)[/font][font=Arial][size=3] [/size][/font][/font] [*][font=Arial][font=Arial]Among Palestinians, all sexual encounters, including rape and incest are blamed on the woman. Men are presumed innocent; the women must have tempted him into raping her or enticed him into having an affair. Even if a woman survives a violent rape, she is condemned for her "mistake" and may be killed by her family. ([i]The World and I[/i], May 2003, p. 188) [/font][font=Arial][/font][/font] [*][font=Arial][color=windowtext][font=Arial]If a woman brings shame to her family, her male relatives are bound by duty and culture to kill her. "A woman shamed is like rotting flesh," according to one Palestinian merchant. "If it is not cut away, it will consume the body. What I mean is that the whole family will be tainted if she is not killed." [/font][/color][font=Arial][/font][/font] [/list][/center] [center][size=3][font=Arial] [/font][/size] [/center] [center][b][i][color=lime][font=Arial]Women in Pakistan[/font][/color][/i][font=Arial][color=#ffffff] [/color][/font][/b] [list] [*][font=Arial][font=Arial]In law, the testimony of one man is equal to that of two women[/font][font=Arial][size=3] [/size][/font][/font] [*][font=Arial][font=Arial]For a woman to prove rape, four adult males of "impeccable" character must witness the penetration according to the local interpretation of Shari'a or Islamic Law. As a result very, very few men are charged with rape.[/font][font=Arial][size=3] [/size][/font][/font] [*][font=Arial][color=windowtext][font=Arial]However, according to a CNN report in August 2002, 60% of women are charged with adultery in Pakistan if they are raped. The punishment for their "crime" is that the women are jailed or are forced to marry their rapist.[/font][/color][font=Arial][/font][/font] [/list][/center] [center][size=3][font=Arial] [/font][/size] [/center] [center][b][i][color=lime][font=Arial]Women in Saudi Arabia[/font][/color][/i][font=Arial][color=#ffffff] [/color][/font][/b] [list] [*][font=Arial][font=Arial]Women are not allowed to drive automobiles or fly anywhere without the permission of their husband or senior male relative.[/font][font=Arial][size=3] [/size][/font][/font] [*][font=Arial][font=Arial]Women can only work in complete segregation from men.[/font][font=Arial][size=3] [/size][/font][/font] [*][font=Arial][color=windowtext][font=Arial]"Honor killings" are widespread. A male relative can kill his female relative for such "offenses" as, allegations of premarital or extramarital sex, refusing an arranged marriage, attempting to obtain a divorce, or simply talking with a man.[/font][/color][font=Arial][/font][/font] [/list][/center] [font=Arial Unicode MS][size=3] [/size][/font] [size=3][font=Arial] [/font][/size] I will write more in few days as I am busy in coming days Jatinder Singh [/QUOTE]
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