Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Is Marital Rape a Crime in America or Is It a Muslim Religious Right?





















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Is Marital Rape a Crime in America or Is It a Muslim Religious Right?




by Phyllis Chesler

Pajamas Media

July 28, 2010



http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/830/marital-rape-crime-muslim-religious-right













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Excerpt:

Yesterday, I wrote about a recent New Jersey appellate decision which reversed a lower court ruling which had refused to grant a battered and maritally raped woman a "final restraining order." This kind of decision—and worse—is made every day in the American court system, and it exposes battered women and abused children to horrific suffering, terrible danger, even death.


Yesterday, I focused on the main thrust of the decision, which was about granting a restraining order in a case in which domestic violence had occurred—violence which included but which was not limited to criminal sexual violence.


That was yesterday.



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