A bid to ban child marriage in Pakistan utterly failed, after the Council of Islamic Ideology declared the legislation “anti-Islamic” and “blasphemous.”
The bill didn’t even move past the first stage in the legislative process, The Express Tribune reports. It was almost immediately pulled Thursday by Pakistan Muslim League party’s Marvi Menon following condemnation from CII, whose job it is to advise the legislature on whether bills are compliant with Sharia law. In this case, the bill clearly violated Islamic law as tradition holds marriage as acceptable when a girl hits puberty.
After CII’s declaration, a parliamentary committee rejected the legislation solely for religious reasons and Menon subsequently pulled the legislation.
Existing legislation in Pakistan already violates Islamic law. The Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Act 2014 places the legal age of marriage at 16 for women, but the recent proposal attempted to move that age up to 18 and also included serious punishment for the common practice of child marriage. That punishment would have included prison for up to two years for anyone caught engaging in child marriage.
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5 comments:
Same result from the anti-bestiality law.
So, if these are your beliefs and you want to practice being an Islamic Muslim, get out of the States and move to Pakistan. Like tomorrow.
Not here, not now, not ever. Let social justice catch up with them at home - about another seventy five years might do it.
Please remember that you were "unAmerican" if you did not support the Patriot act, which was as anti-patriotic as you can get. Remember that they are trying to sell a war and it will all make more sense. Iran has no EMP pulse, it's a far fetched fairy tail.
Pigs.
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