What about the other Gulf States-- Kuwait for example? Definitely better [/u] to be a woman in Syria than there.
Secular Syria somehow decriminalizes honor killings in its Penal Code. Syria: Article 548 of the Penal Code states that "He who catches his wife
or one of his ascendants, descendants or sister committing adultery (flagrante delicto) or illegitimate sexual acts with another and he killed or injured one or both of them benefits from an exemption of penalty." Note, not only husbands but brothers or other male relatives can carry out the honor killing, there's no such right in Kuwait's Penal code.
Full text of the code and source, please.
You low down dirty rat. I've seen your silly debates elsewhere and usually you talk out of your hole but that's fine, and you never provide any proof or any source and now you want the full text? Disgusting tactics!
Settle down Beavis. First off, it's just an internet debate/discussion, nothing to get so upset about. Second, it was not a tactic, it was a question. But that was a nice Edward G. Robinson impression.
Anyhow, rather than you assigning unfounded nefarious motives to my question, allow me to explain exactly why I asked it. While the law cited is
prima facie discriminatory against women and morally objectionable, through having to know case law, statutory law and contracts as a function of my job/activism, I long ago realized you can't hang your hat on one section of the law. You have to look at it in context of other parts of the code and caselaw and also see how it has been applied by the police and the courts (granted if it is a civil law system, application/interpretation will not be as important as under a common law system).
In this particular instance my questions would be (1) what exactly is the penalty that is being waived (which none of your sources address) and (2) what is the penalty that is instead imposed (which one of your sources did partially address by claiming a typical sentence for an honor killing is between three months and three years).
So while it's clear the law is wrong, what is not so clear from the post I was questioning is just how bad it is. For example, if the typical punishment is death for murder, but in honor killings it is only 20 years imprisonment, that's not nearly as bad as only giving the offender a fine. In point of fact, killing your spouse because you caught them cheating on you is still considered a common law mitigating circumstance in some US states that can result in a reduction of the charge. Not that I'm defending that practice by any means, but I'm trying to say that form of discrimination against women is not nearly as bad as how the Taliban deals with honor killings.
So that's why I was asking and one of your links at least partially answered one of my curiosities.
you just want to be right all the time
Doesn't everyone?
Good day.
See, that's what I love about you Brits. Even when you're insulting people and calling them names you're polite.
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