Apparently new laws being considered in Egypt will drag its society back to the 9th century. The laws will ban women from working or getting an education, lower the age of marriage to 14 and will permit men to have sex with their wife’s corpse for up to 6 hours after death.

From Alarabiya.net here:

Egypt’s National Council for Women (NCW) has appealed to the Islamist-dominated parliament not to approve two controversial laws on the minimum age of marriage and allowing a husband to have sex with his dead wife within six hours of her death according to a report in an Egyptian newspaper.

The message included an appeal to parliament to avoid the controversial legislations that rid women of their rights of getting education and employment, under alleged religious interpretations.

Yep, don’t you just love the religion of peace?


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