Middle Eastern Rape Law

Last Wednesday, More that 100 Afghan women protested a new law in parts of the middle east that suggests marital rape and is incredibly demeaning to women. The new law says that a husband can demand sex from his wife every 4 days unless she is ill or would be harmed by intercourse. The law also says If the woman is menstrating or the day is holy there are expectations. This law is very controversial and demeaning to the woman race beacuse it says that men are still a dominant race in this world when most of the world has gotten past that. The law also has restrictions and regulates when and why a woman may leave her house. That is jsut ridiculous to give a person those type of restrictions in todays world when we are supposed to look past segregation and woman suffarage. Though the law is not in place os of yet, and is being reviewed in its current form. Goverments around the world are outraged and President Barack Obama has deemed it as "abhorrent".

As for the actual protest last week, the 100 women protesting the troubling law were greeted by counter-protesters who shouted down the womens chants, and even came to the extreme of stoning them. Shouting things like " Death to the slaves of the Christians!”, says how much that part of the world is still under opression and how ignotrant they can be to the Western world.