Egyptian Women's Group Protests Bills In Islamic Dominated Parliament

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Al Arabiya News reported Wednesday that Egypt's National Council for Women is protesting proposed new laws being considered by the country's Islamic-dominated Parliament that will undermine women's rights. The most widely reported and inflammatory of the proposals (see reports in RT, London Mail), building on a fatwa issued last year by Moroccan cleric Zamzami Abdul Bari, would allow husbands to have sex with their deceased wives up to six hours after the wife's death. Apparently Bari said that since the marriage remains valid even after death, either spouse could have post-death intercourse with the other. A second proposed law that is of concern to women's rights activists is one that would allow girls to marry at the age of 14. Islamists also want to repeal the Islamic right to divorce law (Khula) enacted in Egypt over a decade ago that allows women to obtain a divorce without obstruction by their husband.