It’s ok to surrender wife to rapist, Egyptian Cleric says in fatwa — RT News

It’s ok to surrender wife to rapist, Egyptian Cleric says in fatwa — RT News:

 An Egyptian preacher has issued a fatwa – an Islamic legal opinion – according to which rape is like robbery and a husband should not risk his life protecting his wife’s honor from another man.

Yasser Burhami, the vice president of Salafist Call, the religious arm of the political ultra-conservative Nour party, has compared a rape with a robbery, saying that nobody should put their live in danger for money.

“In this case he [husband] is forced [to surrender her] and not obliged [to defend her],”Al Arabiya quoted the cleric as saying in his fatwa.

Burhami’s remarks, published on Anasalafy.com have been widely condemned by other clerics and activists in Egypt.