Rape and rule

Mulayam Singh says if the clerics at one Islamic school have given a direction it must be well thought out. Even if the direction means that a woman raped by her father-in-law has to marry the rapist because she is no longer halaal for her husband. The kids will go to the father. And when the rapist father-in-law and the raped woman have children, they will call their elder siblings nephews. What crooked interpretation of the Sharia!

The debate will go on and so will the interpretations. In this whole rigmarole of whose trophy Imrana becomes, no one is talking about the criminal aspect of the case. In India, the personal laws for Muslims are dealt under the Sharia, but rape is a criminal act. And has to be dealt by criminal laws. The father-in-law will remain the rest of his life in jail hopefully. This leaves the raped woman, Imrana, as nobody's wife, since she is haraam for her husband.

P.S.
Headlines innocent, space-crunched sub-editors end up with. Just read:
Women's body spurns rape edict.