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13/01/24

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Originally posted by Infose: ↑

"The status of women's testimony in Islam is disputed. Muslim societies' attitudes range from completely rejecting female testimony in certain legal areas, to conditionally accepting (half-worth that of a male, or with a requirement for supporting male testimony), to completely accepting it without any gender bias...

"Classical commentators[edit] Classical commentators commonly explained the unequal treatment of testimony by asserting that women's nature made them more prone to error than men..."

Some other curiosities.

"But if the woman who is raped accuses that so and so specific person or people raped her, then there are only two ways an Islamic Court can convict the accused rapist/s: The accused rapist confesses to his heinous crime; or she produces four witnesses to justify her claim that so and so person raped her. If the accused rapist does not confess, and the woman is unable to produce the four witnesses; then the Court can levy upon her the case of ‘kazaf’ or falsely accusing somebody... "

"Malik related to me from Ibn Shihab that gave a judgment that the rapist had to pay the raped woman her bride-price. Yahya said that he heard Malik say, "What is done in our community about the man who rapes a woman, virgin or non-virgin, if she is free, is that he must pay the bride-price of the like of her. If she is a slave, he must pay what he has diminished of her worth."

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If the accused rapist does not confess, and the woman is unable to produce the four witnesses; then the Court can levy upon her the case of ‘kazaf’ or falsely accusing somebody... "
It is extremely unlikely that a man will rape a woman in the presence of four witnesses who would be prepared to testify against him so it's a setup for the man to pass the punishment for his crime onto the victim - the woman that he raped.
This is clearly a bias against women in favour of men.
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