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Politics : The Truth About Islam
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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (23)8/28/2006 11:26:07 AM
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Mukhtar was warned that if she could not prove the rape allegation by providing four male witnesses, she herself could be put in jail for adultery. She was baffled.

But this is the key problem in Pakistani law: both rape and adultery fall under the crime of Zina, meaning illicit sexual relations.

"This has to stop. Rape is rape and adultery is adultery. They're not the same thing," Mai says.

The Pakistani religious laws regarding rape and adultery are called the Hudood Ordinances.

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