I suppose it's naive to think that the madness delineated below occurs only in the most retrograde Islamist societies. One has visions of remote, islamic controlled tribal areas where women are treated like chattel with no rights or dignity. It seems that the PA is little removed from some Taliban style tribal elder council shoveling out sharia law that is unchanged from practices originating in the 7th century.
Demands to change PA law allowing rapists to marry victims - PMW Bulletins
Demands to change PA law allowing rapists
to marry victims
- On International Women's Day, call by Women MPs from Arab Countries to Mahmoud Abbas to repeal law which enables rapists to avoid punishment by agreeing to marry the rape victim - because the law "turns the woman into a victim twice"
By Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
Palestinian Authority law enables a rapist to marry his victim instead of receiving punishment, according to clause 308 of the Jordanian Penal Code, which is still used by the PA, although it has already been repealed in Jordan.
On occasion of International Women's Day, which falls today, the Coalition of Women MPs from Arab Countries to Combat Violence Against Women has expressed hope that PA Chairman Abbas will approve an amendment of the law and repeal the clause, which "turns the woman into a victim twice":
"Secretary of the Women MPs from Arab Countries Sahr Qawasmi said... that the coalition... hopes that clause 308, which allows a rapist to marry the woman who is raped, will be repealed. She expressed hope that [PA] President [Mahmoud Abbas] will approve [amending] this law on March 8 [2018], because this clause means that the man who rapes evades punishment, and because it turns the woman into a victim twice."
[Official PA daily
Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 5, 2