Abu Azmi repeatedly emphasizes that what he is saying is simply Islamic teaching, and he will not speak against Islam. Does he have a case? Well, Qur’an 24:4 and 24:13 stipulate that sexual crimes can only be established by the testimony of four male Muslim witnesses…
The problem with this is that women who accuse men of rape but cannot produce four male witnesses are often accused themselves of zina — unlawful sexual intercourse — and jailed as a result. And Abu Azmi and others believe they should be killed.
“SHOCKING! Women having sex should be hanged, says Abu Azmi,” from NDTV, April 11 (thanks to Mark):
In a bizarre and grotesque statement, the state Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Abu Azmi said women who were raped should also be punished. The statement came after this reporter questioned Azmi about SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav’s comments on rape.
Yadav had, at a rally in UP, said that the death sentence, as punishment, for rape was too harsh. “Ladkon se aisi galtiyan ho jati hain, to iska matlab yeh to nahi ki unhe phaansi de di jaaye (Boys make mistakes, but this doesn’t mean you hang them),” he told the gathering. (Mulayam’s shocker on rape: ‘they are boys, they make mistakes’)
