Alice Bettencourt has done a good job to work on the severity of the Hudood Laws in Pakistan and taken it as the only case study for her thesis. This is good omen. Now she can do a little more to determine as to: a. Are these laws according to tenets of Islam. b. Whether these laws are creation of customs.
As regards the honour killing, it is un-Islamic, as according to Islam, if some one is blamed for fornication, four witnesses have to be produced. This is impossible in all situations. Merely talking to some one, known or unknown, does not qualify killing. It is jealously and needs to be punished. Even false accusation is punishable according to Islam. Pakistan, though created as a country for Muslims to order their lives according to tenets of Islam has failed to do so because of the ignorance of politician, jurists as well as the mullas about the real spirit of Islam. They have pleasing each other at the cost of poor women. There is need of educating the society that a woman is not a part of property like land, house, cash, etc. but an active partner of man. She is the caretaker of man in absence of man, who is responsible to work and earn cash. The woman has to create a family environment that builds a good civil society. The west is realizing this now since its misdirected notion of women's emancipation has led to disruption of family and society. Making merry is not life. Living peacefully within home, society and globally is at the roots of man-woman relationships. The HIV/AIDs is spreading only because it is overlooking the firm laws of Islam. Think again about this and you will find that the Islam wants peace and harmony by eradicating the cause and not by hankering after solutions. Pakistan and the world must study the divine law and not act only to meet the contingencies of time and situation. ***End-violence is sponsored by UNIFEM and receives generous support from ICAP*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe end-violence OR type: unsubscribe end-violence Archives of previous End-violence messages can be found at: http://www.edc.org/GLG/end-violence/hypermail/
