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Related: About this forumEgyptian women protest proposed law allowing a husband to have sex w/dead wife within 6 hrs of death
Egypts National Council for Women (NCW) has appealed to the Islamist-dominated parliament not to approve two controversial laws on the minimum age of marriage and allowing a husband to have sex with his dead wife within six hours of her death according to a report in an Egyptian newspaper.
The appeal came in a message sent by Dr. Mervat al-Talawi, head of the NCW, to the Egyptian Peoples Assembly Speaker, Dr. Saad al-Katatni, addressing the woes of Egyptian women, especially after the popular uprising that toppled president Hosni Mubarak in February 2011.
She was referring to two laws: one that would legalize the marriage of girls starting from the age of 14 and the other that permits a husband to have sex with his dead wife within the six hours following her death.
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http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/04/25/210198.html
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Egyptian women protest proposed law allowing a husband to have sex w/dead wife within 6 hrs of death (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Apr 2012
OP
It sounds like Talawi was using this sensational law as a platform for discussing women's rights
Gormy Cuss
Apr 2012
#7
the corpse thing i dont know what to say, the marraige thing im for individual cases
loli phabay
Jul 2012
#10
Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)1. Who even thinks of something like that.? Sex with a corpse?
Is it a common thing that it needs to be put into law? I hope they can stop these men.
CrispyQ
(36,502 posts)2. We truly are nothing but vessels to these sick assholes.
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)3. Why? She won't mind.
Dead girls don't say no.
But seriously, the 14 year old thing is troubling because those marriages are usually forced. The necrophilia thing, while relatively harmless, is sick. Why would you want to do such a thing? Is that something that commonly happens there? Is it a tradition? A ritual?
Weird.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)4. I would call it the desecration of a corpse.
Apparently, since there has been a law against it up until now, it's probably controversial there too. Although the notion is certainly sick.
libodem
(19,288 posts)5. That's cold
Punny.
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)7. It sounds like Talawi was using this sensational law as a platform for discussing women's rights
According to Egyptian columnist Amro Abdul Samea in al-Ahram, Talawis message included an appeal to parliament to avoid the controversial legislations that rid women of their rights of getting education and employment, under alleged religious interpretations.
Talawi tried to underline in her message that marginalizing and undermining the status of women in future development plans would undoubtedly negatively affect the countrys human development, simply because women represent half the population, Abdul Samea said in his article.
IOW, the sex-with-corpses law is only an example of the wide scale assault on women's rights in Egypt.
libodem
(19,288 posts)8. Really unthinkable
I can't go there. Who would want to do that? Ewwwwww.
kdmorris
(5,649 posts)9. Is that something at the top of the list for husbands?
OMG my wife is dead... QUICK, must have sex with her?
But 14 is much too young to marry.
loli phabay
(5,580 posts)10. the corpse thing i dont know what to say, the marraige thing im for individual cases