What Sharia Law Really Means

News24 reported yesterday that Gulnaz, an Afghan woman who had been jailed when she reported that she had been raped (yes, you read that right), has been pardoned and set free. She was jailed for adultery because she had been raped. She is now in hiding with her daughter, who was conceived in the rape.

An article in the U.K. Telegraph reported on Wednesday:

Violence against women in Afghanistan appears to be increasing rather than decreasing, despite billions of dollars of international aid which has poured into the country during the decade-long war.

The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission logged 1,026 cases of violence against women in the second quarter of 2011 compared with 2,700 cases for the whole of 2010.

Some 87 per cent of Afghan women report having experienced physical, sexual or psychological violence or forced marriage, according to figures quoted in an October report by the charity Oxfam.

Last month, the United Nations said that a landmark law aiming to protect women against violence in Afghanistan had only been used to prosecute just over 100 cases since being enacted two years ago.

This is the legacy of the Taliban-enforced Sharia Law. We have already had honor killings in America by Muslim men. We need to make sure that Sharia Law does not creep into our legal system. 

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