Bahrain Offers Women No Protection from Spousal Rape
— “Getting a divorce and custody of one’s children is very difficult in Bahrain, even in cases where a husband sexually attacks his wife.”
— “Similar to almost all Arab and Islamic countries, Bahrain offers women no protection from their sexually abusive husbands”
— “Scholar and judge at the Shariah courts, Shaikh Mohsin Al Asfoor says men have the right to demand sexual relations with their wives as the word ‘rape’ doesn’t exist between couples.”
— Mohsin Al Asfoor: “Shariah courts have declined many cases filed by women against their husbands because they forced them to have sex, especially females who signed the marriage contracts but were waiting to be wedded, because Islamic regulations are clear in the right of men to have sex with their wives whenever they wish”
— “Religious educator Fatima Busandel agrees with Shaikh Al Asfoor saying that women can’t say no to their husbands and that if they tolerate hardship in their sexual relations they will receive God’s blessing for trying to protect their homes.”