Law??!!

If you thought laws were made to protect people, have a look at these articles in the Shia Personal Status Law, also called the Rape Law.

Obedience, readiness for intercourse and not leaving the house without the permission of the husband are the duties of the wife, violation of every one of them will mean disobedience to the husband.
Rape within marriage is legal.
Rape is included in the category of Zina (adultery) and the victims who are minor girls or women are stoned to death. (Their unpardonable crime is to have been raped.)
In a rape case, circumstantial evidences are not considered and there has to be at least four adult male witnesses.
If a rape is proven (which does not happen in 99 out of 100 cases), the rapist is obliged to pay the victim the amount typically received as marriage payment to similar brides (and can go scot free)
(As no other punishment is mentioned, the punishment of rape, if proven, can be only financial compensation)
In a rape case, the evidence of women is originally inadmissible on account of their weakness of understanding; want of memory and incapacity of governing.
Adultery also includes any type of intimate relationship between a girl/woman and a man to whom she is not permanently or temporarily married. Such a relationship does not necessarily mean a sexual relationship.
The law denies women the right to leave their homes except for ‘legitimate’ purposes.
Women are forbidden from working or receiving education without their husband’s permission.
Women must wear make-up if their husbands wished.
Guardianship of children is granted to either father or paternal grandfather.

These are the articles in the Shia Law to which a new amendment has been passed in July which gives the husband right to starve his wife/wives who refuse sex.

I cannot believe such a society can exist. I cannot believe there is a set of people who support such laws. I cannot believe there is a government which passes such bills for political gains. My heart goes out for the women who have to go through such barbaric and heinous acts all though their lives. I pity those children who grow up witnessing women being stoned and caned to death.

I feel extremely grateful for being associated with family, friends, society, city, nation, government, legislation, people who respect my individuality.
I’m grateful to be able to ride back from work in the night and still feel safe.
I’m grateful for not having gone through a traumatic experience of being beaten and chased by random strangers for dancing in a pub being a woman.
I’m grateful to be able to express my thoughts, take my decisions, and exercise my right to education.