Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Muslim Academic Claims Sharia Law Good for Feminism

From Yahoo7 News:

Prominent Muslim academic Dr Susan Carland has explained how Sharia law can be an effective method of promoting women’s rights and there is no justification under the Islamic doctrine for punishing victims of rape.

Dr Carland, who's married to TV personality Waleed Aly, told an inner Sydney audience, including feminist Eva Cox, that Sharia law could be used to persuade Muslim men that it was wrong for women who are victims of rape to be stoned or lashed for adultery.

Under Sharia law, a woman’s word is considered worthless without male witnesses to corroborate her story.

Read more here.

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/family_law/2017/05/muslim-academic-claims-sharia-law-good-for-feminism.html

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