Talk:Hudood Ordinance

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"A number of international and Pakistani human rights organizations are making an effort to get the law repealed. They are driven by ideological considerations rather than on-the-ground considerations." This is POV, there are many reasons to get this law repealed. Please can someone arrange for this to be removed?

[edit] POV?

This entire article seems POV to me....

Me too, although I don't have any argument with protecting women's rights. In fact, my wife is one. A woman, that is.

The challenge is to rewrite all the new info neutrally. What I just reverted sounds like an anti-Hudood editorial. --Uncle Ed 20:35, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sex and rape

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The Ordinance is most criticized for criminalizing all extra-marital sex (zina), and making it exceptionally difficult and dangerous to prove an allegation of rape. (strikout markup for deleted part)

Who has criticized it for criminalizing voluntary sex like adultery or premarital intercourse? I haven't seen anything like that, in or out of Wikipedia. The only criticism I've seen is that of the double standard which punishes a woman but condones a man, for the same act.

This, by the way, is a major ethical/moral difference between Christianity and Islam. Recall the New Testament account of Jesus and the woman caught in the act of adultery. --Uncle Ed 17:38, 17 November 2006 (UTC)