article_snippet.sent: A Muslim cleric has issued a fatwa ordering a woman to agree to sex with a woman husband even if they are on the back of a camel, as her husband denounces the idea of marital rape as 'made up by European people'.
article_snippet.sent: Perak Mufti Tan Sri Harussani Zakaria Perak Mufti Tan Sri Harussani Zakaria said women should never say no to women husbands - and claimed marital rape was 'made up' by Europeans, so there was no need for Muslims to take any notice .
article_snippet.sent: So there's no such thing as rape in marriage.
article_snippet.sent: This is made by European people, why should we follow?'
article_snippet.sent: Unsurprisingly, his religious edict and outrageous comments have horrified many in his home country of Malaysia and beyond.
article_snippet.sent: Writing in MalaysiaKini.com, Joshua Teh, an advocacy officer at the Women’s Centre for Change in Penang, said: 'Have we not provided excuses for rapists long enough? '
article_snippet.sent: we need to recognise that women, both married and not married, have the right over women, both married and not married own bodies, and that includes the right to reject sex. '
article_snippet.sent: To turn a blind eye to the right to reject sex is to reduce the woman’s dignity as a person and to further normalise the prevalence of sexual crimes in our society.'
article_snippet.sent: Disgusted: his claim that women couldn't even say no if women were on a camel has horrified many in the mainly Muslim country, where an estimated 3,000 women a year are raped .
article_snippet.sent: However, another mufti has said sex between a married couple must take place in a 'harmonious situation so as not to hurt each other' - which means rape is not possible.
article_snippet.sent: What's more, Dr Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin - known as 'Dr Maz' - has said a man is not allowed to refuse sex with a man wife, nor is a man allowed to stop without 'getting consensus from his wife for fear that his wife did not have time to enjoy'.
highlights_snippet.sent: Malaysian cleric claims marital rape is  'made up by European people'
  Comments came after the launch of country's 'No Excuses' rape campaign .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: But another Islamic scholar has now said men are also banned from refusing men wives - nor are men allowed to leave men 'unsatisfied' 