Gandalf are these Pakistani clerics the extremists or the mainstream ones? Do you agree with them that it is just wishy washy western liberal morals being cynically exploited to attack Islam?

https://www.rt.com/news/336025-pakistan-womens-law-unislamic/

A new law protecting women from abuse in domestic situations has been denounced by at least 35 religious groups in Pakistan.

The Muslim bodies, made up entirely of men, called on the government in their country’s largest province, Punjab, to reverse the law, calling it un-Islamic and part of a Western conspiracy to destroy Pakistan’s constitution.

The Women’s Protection Act was passed in February to safeguard women from domestic, psychological, and sexual violence. Along with setting up a free helpline, women’s shelters, and local panels to investigate incidents of abuse, the law also calls for offenders to be tracked with GPS bracelets.

Women’s groups have hailed the law as a progressive step, while conservative clerics said it goes against the Quran.

A joint statement from the religious groups said the new law aimed to “add to the miseries of women”, and called on the government to retract the bill.

“This controversial law to protect women was put into operation to accomplish the West’s agenda to destroy the family system in Pakistan,” it read.

Maulana Fazlur Rehman, conservative leader of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islami (Assembly of Islamic Clerics), said the law contradicted Islamic teachings.

“The government is making public only sugar, and hiding the poison of the law,” he said during a press conference.

Rehman previously made bizarre comments about the law, stating it would make “a man insecure” and accused the government of making a “Western colony again”, according to the Independent.

polite_gandalf wrote on May 3^rd, 2016 at 7:05pm:


Must be hard being on your side of the debate when Islamophobes have so much material to work with

Karnal wrote on May 3^rd, 2016 at 8:33pm:


               

It's funny, coz it's true.

Ha, indefensible so the apologists beat a collective retreat to poor satire.

If just one Anglo Australian said just 1% of something like this it would never be forgiven.

When a brown muslim says this it slides because the apologists don't want to do anything to expose themselves to being a racist.

Karnal wrote on May 3^rd, 2016 at 9:39pm:


You have Stockholm syndrome

A new law protecting women from abuse in domestic situations has been denounced by at least 35 religious groups in Pakistan.


Are these religious groups basing this on cultural or religious grounds?

GordyL wrote on May 4^th, 2016 at 9:37am:



the religion is the culture is the legal system.

ban it