Believers in gender equality to burn in Hell
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A government plan to give conservative Chad a new family law banning practices such as beating wives has provoked uproar.
"At Friday prayers, Muslim preachers have taken to saying that President Idriss Deby and his family will burn in hell because it is against the Koran to say a woman is equal to a man," the weekly newspaper Notre Temps observed.