The Supreme Court has ruled that the blood money that must be paid in the case of death under Sharia Law (and people wonder why I don't drive here) is, for a woman, exactly half of that owed for a man. From The National:
The decision was issued as part of the court’s reasoning for fining an insurance company Dh1 million for the death of a foetus in a 2007 traffic accident. The gender of the foetus was not determined and the courts said the blood money should be equal to that of a woman, Dh100,000. The blood money for a man is Dh200,000.
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I wonder what ridiculous justification they have for this rule: Why a woman's blood money = 1/2 of a man's !???
Are they saying that women are a "lower class" human beings...this is just stupid and very sad.
Really bad to know about such a gender discrimination but this all can not be affiliated with a religion but it's there all over the world. We see that in West women get less wages than men so no place is an exception from such a gender discrimination.
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