Hudud - the road never taken
COMMENT When Kelantan first exhibited her zeal in implementing hudud, through the passing of the Kelantan Syariah Criminal Enactment (Hudud) 1993 the same year, and Terengganu in 2002, we knew that something was wrong.
This law, as enacted, required a woman who reports that she has been raped to produce four male witnesses in support of her case, failing which a charge of false accusation, resulting in 80 lashes on conviction, would ensue.
When the self-same legislation subjects a pregnant rape victim to the irrefutable presumption of zina (illicit sex), we were convinced that it was not Islamic.
When women were not accorded equal right to be a witness of fact as men under this version of hudud, one would innocuously think that God would not, otherwise, have had to create women...
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