'Farewell Intercourse' law allowing sex with dead wives sparks fury in Egypt

[mankind]

Egypt’s Islamist-dominated parliament is set to introduce a law allowing husbands to have sex with their dead wives up to six hours after death. Critics fear it highlights a trend of increasingly anti-female legislation since the Arab Spring.
*The “farewell Intercourse” bill was inspired by a Fatwa issued by a Moroccan cleric last year. Zamzami Abdul Bar said that since the two would meet in Heaven again anyway, death shouldn’t get in the way of one last post-mortem marital romp.

Critics have slammed the law as “catastrophic.” Prominent journalist and TV host Jaber al-Qarmouty used his program on Tuesday to lash out at the proposed law.
“This is unbelievable. It is a catastrophe to give the husband such a right! Has the Islamic trend reached that far? Is there really a draft law in this regard? Are there people thinking in this manner,” he lamented on air.
Egypt’s National Council for Women (NCW) also called on Parliament not to adopt this and other measures which they believe increasingly seek to roll back women’s rights.
The NTC further charges that "marginalizing and undermining the status of women would negatively affect the country's human development.”
Along with the rather grim “farewell Intercourse” draft law, parliament is also set to approve legislation that would allow girls as young as 14 to get married.
Lawmakers are also seeking to eliminate a reform implemented over a decade ago that allows women to end unhappy or abusive marriages without interference from their spouses.
NCW head Dr. Mervat al-Talawi sent a message to the People’s Assembly speaker outlining the plight of women in post-revolutionary Egypt.
Apart from the controversial marriage reforms, she also reportedly appealed to parliament not to legislate away a woman’s right to education and employment under the guise of religion, Al Arabiya reports.
But with the Muslim Brotherhood securing the biggest bloc in parliament and posed to take the presidency in next month’s elections, the rights women enjoyed during the Mubarak era may soon be a thing of the past.

http://rt.com/news/egypt-sex-dead-wife-054/

[ps3isawesome]

I get how the law is weird but what does it have to do with women's rights?

[Royals]

I get how the law is weird but what does it have to do with women's rights?

I guess they don't enjoy getting raped when they die.

[podsaurus]

Wait...what....

[Funeralfog]

only six hours?

[Ghost-Rhayne]

That's so fucked up, an EPIC smh @ the fucked up idiots who came up with the draft.

[Thorzilla]

Bomb down that parliament already. Kill them all.

[Sufi]

"Has the Islamic trend reached that far?"

I'm not sure what this has to do with Islam.

[$Greatness$]

[Xelios]

[THUGGEDOUT]

Wow, and I thought that law about them being able to marry their rape victims was sick. Oh well, good luck gettin a stiffy with a stiffy...

[Dave-The-Rave]

I introduce a new law..anyone who could even get a boner to fuck a corpse is pretty twisted and should have it chopped off the moment it shows.

[podsaurus]

I introduce a new law..anyone who could even get a boner to fuck a corpse is pretty twisted and should have it chopped off the moment it shows.

Are you sure it can be done? I think they'll have a hard time seeing it.

I'd like to say I'm shocked by this but with all the stupid things people do and say these days I'm not. Stupid people being stupid, as usual.

[Sylar]

legalising necrophilia ftw

[Lethal_NFS]

I do not understand how anyone would want to have sex with their dead spouse? Even if they died within 6hrs. Dead is dead.

And they allow marriage at 14? That place is all jacked up.

[PeanutButterMunky]

I do not understand how anyone would want to have sex with their dead spouse? Even if they died within 6hrs. Dead is dead.

And they allow marriage at 14? That place is all jacked up.

Some parts of the middle east allow 9 year olds to be wed. There are terribly unfortunate circumstances in other parts of the world. It's hard to imagine or even fathom how it's allowed. Really sad more than anything.

I didn't even have words for the dead spouse intercourse...

[Bigdoggy]

well we can already tell which country is going straight to hell after reading the bible in biblical terms that is. LOL I have to say though, that is fucking sick, just awful and anyone that has sex with a corpse should be put down, shot in the head right on the spot. absolutely disgusting, it's like these countries don't know any better and it's clear they don't.

[Dave-The-Rave]

This was debunked apparently.

[Kuro]

you had to be real sick in the head if you'd fuck a dead body regardless of what relation you had with them..thats just plain downright wrong

[squirrelbo1]

And they allow marriage at 14? That place is all jacked up.

That's only two years younger than the UK and its only one year younger than the age of sexual consent in many parts of Europe. I agree that getting married at 14 is stupid but then I think that realistically getting married much before 25 is stupid in terms of your life. But I'm not going to judge somebody who does. Neither do I think we should legislate against it.



Also thus dead corpse thing has to be false. Respect of dead bodies is paramount in all religions.


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[Sufi]

Also thus dead corpse thing has to be false. Respect of dead bodies is paramount in all religions.

Yup, which is what I don't get. If it had anything to do with Islam...the only thing you can do is wash your deceased spouse.

It's not allowed to walk over a grave as well...so this seems a little far from it.

[TRF]

I get how the law is weird but what does it have to do with women's rights?

Because they legally can't object to their body being desecrated when they die, I would guess.


Tapatalking from my bed. Ya mutha says hi.

[DreDayDetox]

"Hey so when are you doing the funera--hey hey wtf are you doing?!"

"Nothing man, just doin' my dead wife, it's legal!"

dafuq Egypt!

[SchaffinOSX]

Seems legit.

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[TRF]

Some people get stiff when they see a stiff …


Tapatalking from my bed. Ya mutha says hi.