Re: Rape victims will not be jailed
It seems that you think that you only know what was really happening under Hudud-ul-Zia ordinance in Pakistan and whole world is ignorant idiots.
Read the whole research article below: It is just one of many on the subject.
http://www.globalwebpost.com/farooqm/writings/gender/rape_fiqh.html
** Abstract:** from middle of that article that deals with Pakistan Hudud-ul-Zia law:
** Anyone accused of rape is considered to have been involved in zina (adultery/fornication). The accuser (victim) must then produce four credible male witnesses to give testimony against the accused that he has raped the accuser. If the accuser fails to meet the witness requirement, then the accuser, usually a female, is by default charged of zina and, if convicted, given the punishment prescribed under the Hudood law. If the female does not bring up the accusation of rape, then the woman is by default charged with zina.** Unconsenting sexual intercourse is termed zina-bil-jabr, and carries a *tazir *penalty for the perpetrator of 25 years in prison and 30 lashes; there is also a more severe *hadd *punishment, but, as noted, this has never been carried out. However these penalties offer little protection to women since, **in practice, a woman who has been raped and makes an accusation of zina-bil-jabr is laying herself open to accusations of adultery, and thus to conviction for zina. [Marcus, p. 9]
Many women who, once accused of zina, have claimed to have been rape victims, were charged and imprisoned under this Hudood law, as they failed to produce the supporting witnesses. Thousands of women have been languishing in prisons of Pakistan under this Hudood law. A society that presumably wants to implement such laws for protection of morality and decency seems to be oblivious to the fact that these raped victims are further sexually victimized in prisons by police.
Also, pregnancy without marriage (or a counter-charge of rape) is recognized as a basis for prosecution for zina. It is not difficult to contemplate that a woman can become pregnant due to rape, and even so, it may not be easy in a male-dominated society to bring the charge of rape against the rapist.