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Lebanon's highest Sunni Muslim authority on Friday rejected a bill aimed at protecting women against domestic violence and marital rape, saying it would lead to the demise "of the family as in the West."
AFP: Lebanon Sunni clergy reject domestic abuse law
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Dar al-Fatwa also slammed as "heresy" a clause in the bill that criminalises marital rape, accusing those behind the draft law of "inventing new types of crimes."
"We must continue to follow sharia (Islamic law) as concerns the Muslim family," it added
Criminalizing rape and wife beating is against sharia...got it...
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