I took the post down because I wasn't sure this story had any validity or not; it sounded like a bunch of bullshit to me.
Cutting through all of the crap, it appears the story isn't actually true. At least as far as I can tell through all of the smoke and mirrors.
It could be a politically-motivated hoax.
This is a post that is also linked in the first link also casting doubts on the story.
If it's too weird to be true, it probably is. Or isn't.
This story is likely where the truth is:
Two laws that are allegedly before Egypt’s parliament are creating a storm of controversy in the international media. One is said to propose allowing spouses to have sex with their partners six hours after their death, and the other is to lower the age of marriage to fourteen.
But Egyptian political activist Ahmed Zahran of the party Tayar Masry, or “Stream,” says that at least one of them does not exist.
“There is no law and no draft,” he said over the phone, speaking about the rumor that MPs were considering making necrophilia legal.
The news about these two draft laws were circulated by Al Arabiya and the Daily Mail yesterday, after the Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram was said to have reported the issue. The news sites said that Egypt’s National Council for Women was launching an appeal against the laws, but a quick look on their website reveals no news of said discussion.
Zahran said that Egyptian Parliamentary sessions can be seen live on the internet, and that no such law has been proposed. He also explained that Egyptian journalist Sarah Carr has investigated the matter, and has said that what is being called the “farewell intercourse law” originated with a talk given by an Egyptian media personality, and has no bases in the discussions of actual MPs, at least in the public sphere.
Yep. The story sounds like a hoax.
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