Dear all

President Musharraf of Pakistan has today called on religeous clerics to review of both the Blasphemy law and the strict Hudood law.

The Hudood law covers crimes of adultery and rape.

Under this law, a rape victim has to produce four witnesses in court to confirm her assault, otherwise she can be tried on charges of wilful adultery while the rapist goes free.

Presumably a woman that has been gang-raped by ten men needs up to forty witnesses otherwise she has commited ten counts of wilful adultery.

The slut.

Meanwhile, the blasphemy laws that first came to Western attention when Salman Rushdie published his work Midnight Garden, which insulted the Prophet Mohamet, are also under scrutiny.

A fatwah, calling for his death was issue and never rescinded, apparently because fatwahs can't be rescinded.

Rushdies follow up books, called The 'Pope is a Pig' and 'Buddha was a Bastard' subsequently failed to win critical acclaim.

yechydda,