So .....

*. Israel has never had laws which allowed a rapist to marry his victim;

*. many Arab (and other countries) (and Palestine) have such laws on their books, now, in 2017;

*. some more progressie Arab countries have had such laws, but have now repealed them.

So, since Israel has never had such vile laws, it can be effaced from any map of the region which dealt with this issue, the ABC asserts.

What a piss-weak excuse: why not leave Israel white, like the European countries to the north, not named but not coloured either ?

I'm an ABC baby, I've only ever listened to ABC radio, particularly ABC-FM, I'm listening to it now, but this is contemptible.

Joe

Like the ABC commercial Acronym-alite in the US, the ABC.com.au, favours exclusivity for ideological left leaning stupidity. Only thing missing in Auzkong, is the Democrats and Hillary Clinton.

the abc experts were stunned that 70% of Tony Burke's electorate voted against perverting the marriage act. They then needed gender experts to blame white men for the muslim vote. Simply they should not get tax payer funded money as they are so blinded by dogma.

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Other languages
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Not really, Nick. But it wouldn't have looked good for the ABC to inadvertently highlight that the only country which has never had such a vile law is Israel.

On that map, Saudi Arabia is not coloured. Is this fair dinkum or an oversight ? Saudi Arabia has never had that law ? It's not approved by the Koran ? Really ?

Joe

//On that map, Saudi Arabia is not coloured. Is this fair dinkum or an oversight ? Saudi Arabia has never had that law ?//

The coloured countries have or had laws that allow a rapist to avoid punishment if he marries his victim.

There is no penal code in Saudi Arabia and there is no written law which specifically criminalizes rape or prescribes its punishment... presumably why it was left uncoloured.