Saturday, August 26, 2006

Not Tonight, Dear, I Have A Headache....

....is not an acceptable excuse in Pakistan:

A woman Member of National Assembly (MNA) in Pakistan has said that married women in her country should not be treated like “buffaloes” when it comes to men forcing sex on them, and be given due respect.

Kashmala Tariq, who is also a member of the NA’s Select Committee on Women’s Protection Bill, proposed that a husband having sex with his wife without her consent “should be tried under rape charges”.

Men should not have sex with their wives against their will, the Daily Times quoted her as saying.

According to her, other members of the committee, including Mehnaz Rafi, Zahid Hamid and Wasim Sajjad, had endorsed her viewpoint.

However, Rashmala’s proposal received a jolt when federal Minister of State for Religious Affairs, Dr Aamir Liaqat Hussain opposed her idea saying that it was “un-Islamic to stop husbands from having sex with their wives even if they were doing so without their consent”.


Meanwhile, the sounds of crickets chirping and tumbleweeds blowing through windswept halls reverberate through the office of Status of Women Canada, following a hysterical crying jag about an Ottawa housewife's call to take away their funding.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Feminists in North America only care about their own priveleges - they don't even care about 'foreign women' in a place like Ontario being treated like cattle, it's no sweat off their brow...