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The structure of the article in the first link is somewhat bizarre. Note how a "scarf" is told to be a "hijab", to become a plain scarf again. But more importantly I don’t get the leap from a tragedy in Canada to honour killings…
But i have a question IbnKafka, is it still tue that in Morocco, Article 418 of Penal Code grants "extenuating circumstances" to a husband who murders or injures his wife for "flagrante delicto"..?
xoussef: Married men beware, because article 418 of the Moroccan penal code is gender-neutral and goes for both spouses: the wife surprising her husband in flagrante delicto could also invoke it…
the wife surprising her husband in flagrante delicto could also invoke it…
When was the last time a moroccan wife killed her husband because he dishonoured her? When was the last time a sister killed her brother because he fooled around with a girl and dishonoured the family?
chouchou: well, yes, most murderers generally speaking are men, so the prohibition of murder will be of lesser hinderance to women. The same applies to article 418 of the penal code. I was not arguing the preponderance of women as perpetrators of domestic violence, just stating what the law says.
chouchou: keep your shirt on, doc – I’m not the one making a song-and-dance number out of article 418, I just gave a straight answer to a straight question.
Ibnkafka: I’ve read somewhere of a hypothetical reform of the penal code in the pipes.. do you know if this is likely or not? I think this one article should be a strong candidate to abolishment..
Possibly, but the only thing of substance I heard concerns the reduction of capital crimes and the criminalisation of some offences under international humanitarian law.
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Meg Ryan a raison:
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/video-ihh-leader-tells-gaza-flotilla-activists-to-throw-idf-soldiers-into-the-sea-1.296993
The structure of the article in the first link is somewhat bizarre. Note how a "scarf" is told to be a "hijab", to become a plain scarf again. But more importantly I don’t get the leap from a tragedy in Canada to honour killings…
But i have a question IbnKafka, is it still tue that in Morocco, Article 418 of Penal Code grants "extenuating circumstances" to a husband who murders or injures his wife for "flagrante delicto"..?
xoussef: Married men beware, because article 418 of the Moroccan penal code is gender-neutral and goes for both spouses: the wife surprising her husband in flagrante delicto could also invoke it…
the wife surprising her husband in flagrante delicto could also invoke it…
When was the last time a moroccan wife killed her husband because he dishonoured her? When was the last time a sister killed her brother because he fooled around with a girl and dishonoured the family?
chouchou: well, yes, most murderers generally speaking are men, so the prohibition of murder will be of lesser hinderance to women. The same applies to article 418 of the penal code. I was not arguing the preponderance of women as perpetrators of domestic violence, just stating what the law says.
ibnkafka: It might appear that way if you have no sense of proportions. Or, in your case, if you are trying to justify article 418.
chouchou: keep your shirt on, doc – I’m not the one making a song-and-dance number out of article 418, I just gave a straight answer to a straight question.
Ibnkafka: I’ve read somewhere of a hypothetical reform of the penal code in the pipes.. do you know if this is likely or not? I think this one article should be a strong candidate to abolishment..
Possibly, but the only thing of substance I heard concerns the reduction of capital crimes and the criminalisation of some offences under international humanitarian law.