Afghan President Endorses Clerics code That downgrades women

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's rights. Check out the article here http://www.thestar.com/news/world/artic ... sexes?bn=1

Oh my.....

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It says women should not travel without a male guardian or mingle with men in public places such as schools, offices or markets. It also allows wife-beating in the case of a “sharia-compliant†reason, although it rejects forced marriage and the bartering of women to settle disputes.

In Kabul, Karzai said that the council had not put “any limitations†on women, and that it was only stating “the sharia law of all Muslims and all Afghans.†But some Muslim scholars have disputed the clerics’ strict interpretation.

“We want the correct Islam, not the Islam of politics,†activist Fatana Ishaq Gailani, a founder of the Afghanistan Women’s Council, told reporters in Kabul.

Here is something frightening. The first sentence isn't that drastically different than what some fundamentalist Christians teach.