An Egyptian
preacher has issued a fatwa – an Islamic legal opinion – according to which
rape is like robbery and a husband should not risk his life protecting his
wife’s honor from another man.
Yasser Burhami,
the vice president of Salafist Call, the religious arm of the political
ultra-conservative Nour party, has compared a rape with a robbery, saying that
nobody should put their live in danger for money.
“In this case he
[husband] is forced [to surrender her] and not obliged [to defend her],”Al
Arabiya quoted the cleric as saying in his fatwa.
Burhami’s
remarks, published on Anasalafy.com have been widely condemned by other clerics
and activists in Egypt.
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