JihadWatch:  Munawar Hasan is the president of Jamaat-e-Islami of Pakistan, the country's largest and most powerful pro-Sharia party.  I have embedded a video which includes his speech regarding this matter on the News Videos page of this website.  This video is not in English, unfortunately, but in it he says that a woman should not report being raped unless she has four male Muslim witnesses who saw the act.  In this he is on solid Qu'ranic ground.  "Why did they not produce four witnesses?  Since they produce not witnesses, they verily are liars in the sight of Allah" (Qu'ran 24:13).  The Malaysian Islamic reformist group Sisters in Islam has pointed out the injustice of this:  "In Pakistan, it is reported that three out of four women in prison under its Hudud laws [these are the laws of what is forbidden and permitted by Allah himself], are rape victims.  Because rape is equated with zina [unlawful sexual intercourse] under Hudud law, rape victims are required to produce four pious male witnesses.  It is of course nearly impossible for the rape victims to produce the four male witnesses required to prove their allegation.  Therefore their police report of rape was taken as a confession of illicit sex on their part and they were duly found guilty.

My Comments:  I am finally silenced; I am so astounded by this, I am speechless.  I believe the hideous stupidity of the announcement itself is enough to convince you of how ridiculously lame in the mind these people become when they give themselves over to this thinking long enough.  "The Spirit speaks expressly that some will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils" 1 Timothy 4:1.