Israel. Book of Exodus 22:16-17 English Standard Version (ESV)

16 “If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his wife."

He lives his life with his rape victim staring at him everyday and neighbours as well . cringe...

Yeah you sure israel hasnt had that law singer?
I would keep my mouth shut about such things if I were you.
Given what your god says about it.

Nick,

Exodus ? Society four thousand years ago? Yes, that's how backward that vile custom is, you're right. But even that quote from Exodus doesn't speak directly of rape or compulsion or force, simply of a man lying with a virgin. Yes, it's a custom of four thousand years ago, which is still current in many backward and uncivilised countries in the Middle East. Young women, be warned.

Toni,

Are you saying that, because rape isn't a crime in Saudi Arabia, that's why it wasn't coloured on that map ? That, because rape isn't a crime there, Saudi Arabia is somehow on a par with other countries where it - and the right of a rapist to escape punishment - are illegal ? Interesting logic.

Joe

Loudmouth
If he just lay with her then it was adultery and both got stoned.
Here it's him "seducing", (in English), without her being part of adultery. Jews are Jewish and say "Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one" each sabbath from Deuteronomy dated to time of the book of Exodus . If they don't like stoning then David can be
1) Islamic
2) Christian
3) atheist
4) dump his keyboard
5) dump his keyboard.

nicknamenick wonderful at being judge of Israel's laws from thousands of years ago. Pity you are not so concerned about the tens off thousands of babies murdered by secularist in 2017. Such self righteousness certainly causes such delusion.

Nick,

Not if neither was married.

Anyway, back to 2017: rape-and-marriage has never been the law of Israel, it hasn't yet even been criminalised in very backward societies like Saudi Arabia, and is still legal in slightly less primitive and backward societies like Iraq and Libya and Algeria and Syria. Fortunately, it HAS been criminalised even in some Arab/Muslim countries. Well, it's a start, I suppose. A long way to go yet, to drag many countries into the modern world and recognise women's rights.

So Israel is the only country in the Middle East where rape-and-marriage has never been legal ? For how many thousand years has that been so ? What, do women have equal rights in Israel ?

Joe