Published in The News on April 7, 2007
I’m amused by the Council of Islamic Ideology’s declaration that four witnesses are required to prove adultery. For one thing, no one in his right mind would commit adultery in full view of four males. Secondly, adultery means different things to different people. In the wild north, a woman is liable to be stoned to death or shot if she’s caught talking to a man who is not her father, brother or uncle. So they should remove that caveat about confessing to adultery being sufficient for conviction.
If I were hauled to a police station or kidnapped by the heavily veiled female students of the Jamia Hafsa, I would confess to any crime, even the murder of the first prime minister of the country (although I was only seven years old at the time) to save myself from being tortured.
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