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Seriously? Pakistani men can ‘lightly’ beat their wives if she ‘defies his commands,’ Islamic council says

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h1><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;999999&semi;"><em>&&num;8216&semi;Protection for women is un-islamic&quest;  Seriously people&comma; aren&&num;8217&semi;t we missing something about NOT turning women into chattels&quest;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;span><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<h3><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2b0404&semi;">According to The Council of Islamic Ideology &lpar;CII&rpar;&comma; made up of Islamic scholars and clerics&colon; A law granting  &&num;8220&semi;legal protection to women from domestic&comma; psychological and sexual violence&&num;8221&semi; is  &&num;8220&semi;un-Islamic&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span><&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2b0404&semi;">CII- &&num;8216&semi;A husband can beat his wife&comma; so long as it&&num;8217&semi;s done &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;lightly&period;”&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2b0404&semi;">A woman should be beaten if she doesn&&num;8217&semi;t wear hijab&comma; or if she speaks too loudly&period; <&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3><strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2b0404&semi;">Female nurses should not be allowed to take care of male patients Women should be banned from working in advertising<br &sol;>&NewLine;Women can not give out money without the permission of their husbands<&sol;span><br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-27130" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;05&sol;paki&lowbar;beat&lowbar;wife4&period;jpg" alt&equals;"paki&lowbar;beat&lowbar;wife4&period;jpg" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"480" &sol;><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2b0404&semi;"><br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span><&sol;strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;000000&semi;">CII- protection for women is  &&num;8220&semi;un-Islamic&&num;8221&semi; <&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>The Council of Islamic Ideology &lpar;CII&rpar;&comma; made up of Islamic scholars and clerics&comma; drafted up a sickening proposal this week to Pakistani legislators&comma; the Washington Post reported&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;If you want her to mend her ways&comma; you should first advise her&period; … If she refuses&comma; stop talking to her … stop sharing a bed with her&comma; and if things do not change&comma; get a bit strict&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Muhammad Kahn Sherani&comma; head of the CII&comma; told Pakistan&&num;8217&semi;s Express-Tribune newspaper&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The CII is a powerful constitutional body&comma; and drafted the proposal in response to The Women&&num;8217&semi;s Protection Act&comma; CNN said&period; The act gives &&num;8220&semi;unprecedented&&num;8221&semi; legal protection to women from domestic&comma; psychological and sexual violence &&num;8211&semi; protections that the CII have called &&num;8220&semi;un-Islamic&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-27128" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;05&sol;paki&lowbar;beat&lowbar;wife3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"paki&lowbar;beat&lowbar;wife3" width&equals;"1200" height&equals;"873" &sol;>The country has a bad track record in protection of Women&&num;8217&semi;s rights which has led to protests by victims<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Sherani said that &&num;8220&semi;the whole law is wrong&comma;&&num;8221&semi; according to the Independent&comma; and cited passages from the Koran&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;A husband should be allowed to lightly beat his wife if she defies his commands and refuses to dress up as per his desires&semi; turns down demand of intercourse without any religious excuse or does not take bath after intercourse or menstrual periods&comma;&&num;8221&semi; the CII&&num;8217&semi;s report states&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ra-module h">&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"ra-figure"><figcaption>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption"><img class&equals;" wp-image-27129 aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;05&sol;paki&lowbar;beat&lowbar;wife1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"paki&lowbar;beat&lowbar;wife1&period;jpg" width&equals;"996" height&equals;"689" &sol;>The Council of Islamic Ideology’s proposal is seen as a response to the The Women&&num;8217&semi;s Protection Act&comma; which gave protections from abuse to women&period;<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Sherani defines &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;light beating” as&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Hit her with light things like handkerchief&comma; a hat or a turban&comma; but do not hit her on the face or private parts&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;The CII&&num;8217&semi;s proposal adds that a woman should be beaten if she doesn&&num;8217&semi;t wear hijab&comma; or if she speaks too loudly&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She also cannot give out money without the permission of her husband&period; The CII does allow for women to participate in politics&comma; and believes women of age don&&num;8217&semi;t need a guardian to accompany them places&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>The 163-page bill proposes several bans on women&colon;<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;It says there should be a ban on co-education after primary education&comma; ban on women from taking part in military combat&comma; ban on welcoming foreign delegations&comma; interacting with males and making recreational visits with &OpenCurlyQuote;Na-Mehram’&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;It says female nurses should not be allowed to take care of male patients and recommends that women should be banned from working in advertisements&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;It recommends that an abortion after 120 days of conceiving should be declared &OpenCurlyQuote;murder’&period; However&comma; it says a woman can join politics and contract a Nikah without permission of parents&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The bill suggests that anyone who tries to force women to marry with the Holy Quran or facilitate this should be awarded 10-year imprisonment&period; Similarly&comma; the proposed bill says if any non-Muslim woman is forced to convert&comma; then the oppressor will be awarded three-year imprisonment while the woman will not be murdered if she reverts to her previous faith&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-27131" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;05&sol;paki&lowbar;beat&lowbar;wife5&period;jpg" alt&equals;"paki&lowbar;beat&lowbar;wife5&period;jpg" width&equals;"763" height&equals;"572" &sol;>JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and other leaders attend a joint meeting of religious organisations on Women Protection Bill in Lahore on March<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>The CII has previously ruled that a rape case can&&num;8217&semi;t be brought to court until four male witnesses are present to testify to the incident&comma; the Independent noted&comma; and DNA evidence can&&num;8217&semi;t be used in rape cases at all&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A CII official said that changes can still be made to the report before it is passed off to Pakistani lawmakers&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Earlier in March this year&comma; The Women’s Protection Act was passed by Punjab Assembly &comma; which gives legal protection to women from domestic&comma; psychological and sexual violence&period;&comma; while calling for the creation of a toll-free abuse reporting hot line&comma; women’s shelters and district-level panels to investigate reports of abuse and mandates the use of GPS bracelets to keep track of offenders&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A month later&comma; more than 35 religious parties and groups came together for a conference called by the Jamaat-e-Islami party and condemned the country&&num;8217&semi;s women’s protection law as un-Islamic&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The controversial law to protect women was promulgated to accomplish the West’s agenda to destroy the family system in Pakistan&comma;” read the joint declaration issued at the end of the concrescence&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This act … is redundant and would add to the miseries of women&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;The passage of the The Women’s Protection Act was initially welcomed by rights groups&comma; but spirits have since dampened as conservative voices have increasingly called for its retraction&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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