Rolf@Arab spring

[Fragony]

Link?

Yes it's me don't worry didn't I save you countles times already

[Vladimir]

Make it stop. Please.

[Fragony]

Make it stop. Please.

It stopped it but t just isn't over. Technicaly

[CountArach]

Yes it's me don't worry didn't I save you countles times already

I'm hoping that is a Zelda reference.

Anyway Frag, you have to provide a link for this sort of stuff, or else I will be locking the thread.

[Fragony]

Oh lock i then, it's still hilarisch though

[gaelic cowboy]

Found summit on reuters interwebby site

Egypt to Allow Men to Have Sex with Dead Wives?

By Stephanie Rabiner, Esq. at FindLaw.com

Fri Apr 27, 2012 12:03am EDT


Necrophilia may soon be legal in Egypt. No really, it's true.

The country's Islamist-dominated government has introduced a law that would allow a man to have sex with his wife for up to six hours after her death, the Daily Mail reports. Yes, after her death.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Some are calling it the "farewell intercourse law," but this blogger is just going to call it what it is -- gross. And thankfully, illegal if you happen to live in the U.S.

Egypt's dead sex law can apparently be traced to a 2011 statement made by cleric Zamzami Abdul Bari. He believes that marriage is valid even after death, and according to the Daily Mail, that both men and women should be able to have intercourse with a dead spouse.

Egypt's National Council for Women is against the farewell intercourse law, reports Al-Arabiya. They see it as another attack on women's rights. But it could also be characterized as an attack on human dignity.

Nearly all religions -- including Islam -- demand respect for the dead, Professor Carl Raschke recently told the Huffington Post. As a result, followers are expected to treat corpses in specific, often ritualistic ways.

This is likely one reason why necrophilia is prohibited in much of the United States. And in states where it is not, laws that aim to protect corpses generally prohibit such conduct. It's often illegal to disinter, desecrate or deface a corpse or grave without permission.

So please, don't go having sex with your wife -- or anyone else -- after she dies. Egypt's farewell intercourse law won't save you from prosecution.

Related Resources:

◦Egypt to Pass Law Allowing Husbands Sex Wih Dead Wives For 6 Hours After Death (The Inquisitr)
◦Thai Man Weds Dead Girlfriend (FindLaw's Legal Grounds)
◦Elderly Woman Disinterred Relatives - for Company (FindLaw's Legally Weird)

[Hax]

Don't lock it. I have some remarks to make that I really feel are important here but I need to leave, will be back tonight.

[Fragony]

As if I would ever lie to you

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I'm hoping that is a Zelda reference.

Anyway Frag, you have to provide a link for this sort of stuff, or else I will be locking the thread.

http://bit.ly/IWVKHo

[Ironside]

From what I can see, after fact checking it as true as everything Westboro church is saying=US law suggestions.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backc...EqMQOQoo.email

[drone]

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backc...EqMQOQoo.email

What? You mean the Daily Mail is wrong? Inconceivable!

[Sasaki Kojiro]

What? You mean the Daily Mail is wrong? Inconceivable!

May be more interesting than that:

http://volokh.com/2012/04/27/questio...osed-in-egypt/

AllahPundit (Hot Air), Andrew Sullivan, and Dan Murphy (Christian Science Monitor) question whether a bill allowing people to have sex with their dead spouses (for up to six hours after the death) was indeed proposed in the Egyptian Parliament. The story apparently began in the Al Ahram newspaper, and was then taken up by the Al Arabiya newspaper; AllahPundit suggests they are not to be trusted:

Al-Ahram is controlled by the Egyptian government, which I assume means it’s heavily influenced by the ruling military junta. And the junta, of course, is invested in discrediting the Islamists in order to defend its prerogatives against parliament’s growing power. (It’s worth noting too that Al-Arabiya, which picked up the story from Al-Ahram, is a Saudi outfit and the Saudis are mighty anxious about the idea of Islamist populists seizing power from sclerotic tyrannical regimes.)

AllahPundit counsels skepticism, but is not sure:

[N]one of this is to say the story isn’t true — the part about the marriage age being lowered is all too plausible — but it’s not hard to see why Mubarak allies might want to make something up or inflate something one of the fringier parliamentarians said in order to galvanize international opinion against the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafists. It is, however, hard to see why the MB would allow parliament to entertain a law like this at a moment when they’re busy gladhanding westerners to reassure them that the Brotherhood are “modern” Islamists who are worthy of foreign aid and trade deals. If this really is being kicked around by MPs, I’d bet it’s the Salafists who are pushing it. But we’ll see.

Sullivan and the Monitor seem to go further. I don’t know who’s right and who’s wrong, but thought I’d note the possibility that Al Ahram and Al Arabiya may not be accurate on this.