 
  More than 50% of  Palestinians — men and women  — think a woman should marry her rapist. That seems bizarre and  outlandish  by Western standards. The picture to left  shows a group marriage of child brides in  Palestine.
Below is a picture of an 11 year old who was forced to marry her rapist.
 Iraq, Bahrain, Kuwait and Palestine have similar ‘marry-your-rapist laws.
 Egypt is the worst country for women in the Arab world, closely followed by Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Yemen, according to gender experts surveyed in a Thomson Reuters Foundation poll.
 These are the results of a U.N. Women study which finds horrifying attitudes and behaviors toward women in the Muslim world.
 64% of “Palestinian†men say that women who dress provocatively deserve to be sexually harassed. 52% believe that women who are in public places at night are asking to be harassed.
57% think that a woman should marry her rapist and 47% believe that women who are honor killed for bringing “shame†to their families usually did something to deserve it.
A third of “Palestinian†men say that women who don’t wear hijabs deserve to be insulted.
And the women aren’t much better.
More “Palestinian†women than men justify sexual harassment in public places. 54% believe that a woman who was raped should marry her rapist. 41% don’t think he should be prosecuted.
43% of “Palestinian†women agree that women who are out in public at night deserve to be harassed.
Half the population knew of an honor killing that had taken place in their community in the previous year.
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