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2005-07-10 Arabia

Yemeni women campaign for equal blood money

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Posted by Fred 2005-07-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Nothing to make fun at. The fact is that if the family of a murdered woman wants the murder executed it has to pay the difference in blood money between man and woman to the murderer's family (a woman life is worth half the one of man). Meaning that if the family of the murdered is poor it could be forced to settle due to being unable to pay.

Isn't Sharia nice?

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-07-10 05:35|| 2005-07-10 05:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Recently, many preachers at mosques in the Yemeni capital have been telling the public that the blood money of women is half that of men and that was "a strict rule" that can never be changed or amended, even though none of them has concrete evidence from the Quran or the Sunnah.

"It is written! Well, maybe not written. But we talked it over at Abdullah's last week, and we think it ought to be written! And so it shall be written, as soon as I find my Mullah's Magic Marker."

These clowns are making this stuff up as they go.

Posted by Darth VAda 2005-07-10 07:07|| 2005-07-10 07:07|| Front Page Top

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