Thousands in Mali protest equal rights marriage law

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This is pretty distressing:

Tens of thousands of people in Mali's capital, Bamako, have been protesting against a new law which gives women equal rights in marriage.

The law, passed earlier this month, also strengthens inheritance rights for women and children born out of wedlock.

Sigh. Perhaps even more depression-inducing is this quote from Hadja Sapiato Dembele of the National Union of Muslim Women's Associations: "A man must protect his wife, a wife must obey her husband...It's a tiny minority of women here that wants this new law - the intellectuals. The poor and illiterate women of this country - the real Muslims - are against it."

http://www.feministing.com/archives/017389.html

[valerief]

1. Mali morons, Merka morons. All the same, huh? nt

[Rebubula]

3. Yup.....

...people are dumb all over the world.

We do not have a corner on the market, but we advertise it better.

[Echo In Light]

2. Bill Hicks: "some parts of the world cry out REVOLUTION, while others cry EVOLUTION!"