Islamic Republic of Mauritania: Parliament rejects laws stiffening penalties for violence against women

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This is the reality of women’s rights in Islam, beyond all the hype and deception from Linda Sarsour and her Women’s March “feminist” allies. Islam codifies violence against women, sanctioning the beating of disobedient women in the Quran (4:34). That makes it impossible for Islamic states such as Mauritania to criminalize violence against women. To do so would be un-Islamic. And so we have the paradoxical situation that criminalizing violence against women is “islamophobic” in Islamic states, and discussing Islamic misogyny is “islamophobic” in the West. Madness.

“In conservative Mauritania, confronting sexual violence laws,” AFP, March 7, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Feminists in Mauritania are fighting an uphill battle to see tougher penalties for sexual violence and discrimination in a conservative state where criminal law is derived from Sharia.

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“Few survivors of sexual assault dare to speak out in Mauritania,” Human Rights Watch said in a report last September.

It blasted “a dysfunctional system that discourages victims from pressing charges (and) can lead to re-traumatisation or punishment.”

Women’s groups have helped to draft legislation to combat gender-based violence, calling for stiffer penalties for rape, criminalisation of sexual harassment and the creation of specific courts to handle sexual violence.

But the bill has been twice rejected by parliament, despite efforts to craft text which is within the confines of Sharia law — for example, extra-marital sex would remain a crime.

Lawmakers objected to provisions allowing women to travel without their husbands’ permission, and permitting victim support groups to file civil suits.

Spearheading the struggle for change is the Association of Women Heads of Family (AFCF), whose president Aminetou El Moctar told AFP: “We need this law, because we know violence against women is soaring” — although statistics on the scourge are seriously lacking.

At AFCF’s offices, Zahra (not her real name), related how a neighbour snatched her five-year-old daughter from her home while she was sleeping, and then raped the girl.

Because of the girl’s young age and the fact that the rapist was a serial paedophile, he was quickly convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

But AFCF says that in Mauritania, convicted rapists rarely serve out their sentences.

“He will probably do a year at most,” said Mariem, a case worker. “After that he’ll be able to pay bail and get out on parole. Then, when there’s a general amnesty, he’ll benefit from it.”…

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felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Where oh where is the feminist sisterhood in other countries as back up?

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

But Islam is so wonderful!
Linda Sourface said so and Muslim Omar, OAC and Muslim Tlaib aren’t complaining.
How come? LOL!!
http://www.inspiredbymuhammad.com/img/profile_2.jpg

Citizen 1949
Citizen 1949
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

We know the answer to your question. The feminist movement is more for the advancement of liberalism and political correctness than for the advancement and protection of women. Normal women run from the practitioners of feminism because they know it’s a scam.
On the other hand, it looks like the Islamic Republic of Mauritania would be a great place for the three amigos (i.e. Muslim Omar, OAC and Muslim Tlaib) to go for an extended stay.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  Citizen 1949

I know you do! I was just being sarcastic. You are so right!
Modern day feminism has become a grotesque joke.
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Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago
Reply to  Citizen 1949

Agree. And Macron threatens Hungary , poland for not selling out their countries to islamonazis
like he and his party has been doing in france https://tinyurl.com/y6vlqtwq

what’s wrong with these lunatics ?

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

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Jay Wizzy
Jay Wizzy
5 years ago

Mauritania has the highest slavery index: 20 percent of the population are Africans enslaved by Arabs.
They are tortured, killed, raped, bred for slavery & dispelled from their land.
In Africa by Arabs.
Protesting inside Muhammadist tyrannies is futile.
We must recognize that, think globally, organize from Non-muhammadist regions, talk about that, educate, block all Muhammadist immigration & encroachment of the unjust Muhammadist ideology in society, education, media & governance & abolish Muhammadist tyranny.
Today Africans are enslaved, castrated, divorced, beaten & killed in Saudi Arabia & enslaved in the UAE, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, Iraq, North-Sudan, Libya (surge), Algeria (surge), Mauritania (20 percent), Niger, Mali, Somalia, Nigeria in emulation of unjust Muhammad who started the global African slave-trade by saying his unproven deity had turned Africans black so Africans’ descendants would be slaves to Arabs & Turks (see Wikiislam).

cylde
cylde
5 years ago

Muslim men have a right to beat women and dogs.

Badger
Badger
5 years ago
Reply to  cylde

Muslims torture dogs. I wish I could have some of those sub humans in my basement. I’d teach those dogs some tricks the sand_niggers wouldn’t like.

cylde
cylde
5 years ago

Muslim men have a right to beat women and dogs.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
5 years ago

Who cares? Mauritania is an islamic slave state FFS!

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

Well, look whose is “grabbing them by the pssy” now?

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

This is the religion that the left chooses to defend. Heh.

Badger
Badger
5 years ago

Mauritania permits slavery.

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