BOMBAY -- Hard-line Islamic clerics in a northern Indian village have declared that a woman's 10-year-old marriage was nullified when her father-in-law raped her -- and ordered the mother of five to marry the rapist.To be fair, some of the "moderate" Muslims in the community have come out against the fatwa. It's amazing to me that any reading of Koran could generate this type of "reasoning."
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The fatwa ordered Imrana Ilahi, 28, to separate from her husband and treat him as her son because she had sex with his father.
"She had a physical relationship with her father-in-law, and it nullifies her marriage," said Mohammad Masood Madani, a cleric at the theological school. He said it made no difference whether the sex was consensual or forced. The village council then decreed that Mrs. Ilahi would have to marry her father-in-law.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Dispatch From the Religion of Peace
A rape victim has been ordered to marry the rapist.
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