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A Wake Up Call
Sat May 07, 2011 11:52 am
Those who have returned from Mars during the last few days, and missed the
gripping CBS interview with their own Lara Logan about her in-public rape at
the hands of celebrating Egyptians, need to spend a little time with Google
and come up to speed. Although a little long in the tooth, the below true
account is prophetic. If citizens do not wake up to the evil that is coming
at us, you do not want to be a female.
May I stand corrected ? . . . You do not want to be any human being living on
planet earth.
The below article will walk you through a society so brutal that women choose
the slow and unimaginably painful death of internal organ burning away from
drinking caustic soda (lye), over the continuing brutal and hopeless life of
extreme abuse and cruelty . . .
Taliban: A Perfect Islamic Society !
by Keerthi Reddy
On July 16, 1998, the maggot ridden naked corpse of a woman caked with old
blood was found in a ravaged back alley of Khairkhana, Kabul in Afghanistan.
After hours of investigation, the post mortem revealed that the corpse
belonged to a young woman named Shukria, the daughter of Ali Mardan. When she
was alive, Shukriya used to take care of her family's tiny tailor shop in
addition to raising her four young children. Fifty five days earlier, on her
way back from a religious ceremony Shukriya was startled to hear the
screeching of brakes as a car spun to a halt in front of her. A gang of about
seven Muslim holy warriors of the Taliban, who carried beards the length of
which were in exact religious conformance with the Islamic scriptures,
grabbed her and dragged her into their car.
The Taliban is comprised of Pakistanis and Afghanis who are considered the
true "Mujahideen" or "holy warriors of Allah" because they have established a
purely Islamic state which rigidly conforms to the "pious Muslim ideals"
which were outlined and set down by the Prophet Mohammed.
The piercing screams of Shukriya as she was gang raped by the holy warriors
must have been muffled by the sound of the engine, for not a single passer by
dared to protest the crime taking place in front of their eyes. Minutes later
as her cries subsided, a thick and dark trail of blood slowly started
dripping out of the drivers side door. Suddenly the car veered dangerously
and drove off in the distance to an unknown location. No doubt the mangled
and violated body of a woman who just minutes ago was the mother of four
young children and now a lifeless corpse, must have been unceremoniously
dumped by the Mujahideen like yesterday's garbage, only to be found in its
festering condition, fifty five days later.
But that's not what's shocking about this incident.
What's truly shocking about it is the fact that Shukriya's story is just one
among thousands if not millions such similar stories. Amnesty International,
the leading global human rights monitor, in its report on Afghan women
declared that:
"Armed groups have massacred defenseless women in their homes, or have
brutally beaten and raped them. Scores of young women have been abducted and
then raped, taken as wives by commanders or sold into prostitution. Some have
committed suicide to avoid such a fate. Scores of women have reportedly
disappeared and several have been stoned to death. Many women are traumatized
by the horrific abuses, they have suffered or witnessed."
So desperate is their situation that the majority of women prefer to die by
consuming caustic soda or other household poisons. Western aid workers in
Afghanistan have reported a dramatic increase in the number of women
committing suicide because they can no longer bear the country's stifling
Islamic code. The mass phenomenon of Afghani women consuming caustic soda to
put themselves out of their misery is shockingly common. The agony of their
situation can be gleaned from the fact that consuming caustic soda results in
a torturously painful and lingering death. First it burns away the throat,
and then slowly the internal organs are burnt. It takes an average of three
to four days to suffer out the symptoms which are horribly traumatic.
Many doctors are also reporting the fact that thousands of Afghan women now
flock clinics by feigning heart condition. The reason for this drama is to
somehow acquire lethal digoxin tablets for the purpose of committing suicide.
The increase in female suicide was barely highlighted in last year's United
Nations report on Afghanistan. A huge spurt in incidences of women being
admitted to mental hospitals with severe depression has become rampant with
the Talibanization of Afghanistan. The suicides and mental illnesses are
never spoken about in the rigidly fundamentalist Islamic society.
International aid agencies have been threatened with dire consequences for
daring to say anything about the true situation of women in Afghanistan.
The reason for the utter helplessness of the raped, depressed and abused
women of Afghanistan is the Quran. Rape is, if not very difficult, almost
impossible to prove because of Islamic law. Prophet Mohammed's divine
injunctions of Allah clearly outline through the Quran that a woman's word on
rape is not to be taken into account. Proving her innocence is a dauntingly
unreachable task. Almost all the rape victims are in fact charged with an
adulterous and loose moral character. This is because the Quran clearly says
that the testimony of one man is considered as equal to that of two women.
This blatant discrimination is amply explained in Quranic Sura 24:1-4.
Regarding this issue, the famous Islamic scholar Anwar Shaikh comments:
"As a result of this law, a raped woman has to produce four eye-witnesses to
the act, which is more or less an impossibility. Its devastating effect can
be clearly seen in Pakistan where several thousand good, honest Muslim women
are imprisoned for suffering rape. When they report their cases to the
police, they are required to produce four eye-witnesses. As they cannot do
so, they are held as false accusers, and put behind bars."
Many Quranic Surahs exhort torturous punishment for "fornication prone"
women. It is primarily due to this inherent disadvantage which weighs down
Muslim women, that they fear for their very lives when they are the victim of
rape. Instead of having the opportunity to bring the culprit to justice,
these women spend the rest of their lives in fear that the deed will be
discovered and that the victim herself will have to suffer the punishment for
being an adulteress instead of the other way around.
Some of the Quranic Surahs which provide the basis for these type of heinous
punishments on women are provided below. These verses have been taken
verbatim from the translation of the Quran by the respected Muslim scholar,
Abdullah Yusuf Ali:
Quran 4:15: "If any of your women are guilty of lewdness, Take the evidence
of four (reliable) witnesses from amongst you against them; and if they
testify, confine them to houses until death do claim them, or God ordain for
them some (other) way."
Here one must note that anybody can point the finger and accuse a woman of
"lewdness" meaning illicit sex and all they have to do to seal the woman's
horrendous treatment is to get four other witnesses to testify against her.
In case of gang rapes, there have even been situations where one of the
rapists accuses the woman of "lewdness" and four of the other rapists support
this charge with their testimony, in which case by Islamic law, the woman has
to suffer the punishment for adultery.
Quran 4:16: "If two men among you are guilty of lewdness, punish them both.
If they repent and amend, Leave them alone; for God is Oft-returning, Most
Merciful."
The law for Muslim men who indulge in "lewdness" however is quite different.
As long as the men "repent and amend" they are to be let off completely. This
is a blatant instance of women being denied the rights that men enjoy in Islam.
Quran 4:34: "Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because God has
given the one more (strength) than the other, and because they support them
from their means. Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient, and
guard in absence what God would have them guard. As to those women on whose
part ye fear disloyalty and ill-conduct, admonish them, refuse to share their
beds, beat them; but if they return to obedience, seek not against them
Means: For God is Most High, great."
The fate of Muslim women has been sealed by this Quranic Surah as it provides
Muslim men a clear justification for physical violence against women. The
verse is redolent with blatant chauvinism and declares that women should be
obedient as slaves to men. What is truly shocking about this Quranic verse is
that it clearly implicates that if a man even so much as suspects the
fidelity of his wife, he has a right to admonish and physically abuse her by
divine approval of Allah! In many cases of rape in Afghanistan, this very
verse is used as justification by the victim's husbands to beat and torture
her despite her innocence.
Quran 4:31: "If ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly with the
orphans, marry women of your choice, Two or three or four; but if ye fear
that ye shall not be able to deal justly (with them), then only one, or (a
captive) that your right hands possess, that will be more suitable, to
prevent you from doing injustice."
This verse clearly illustrates that concubinage and treating non-Muslim women
as sexual property is divinely sanctioned by Allah himself in Islam. A
non-Muslim woman who is taken captive in war is treated as "Ghanimah" or
plunder. The captured Kafir (non-Muslim) women snatched from their husbands
can be enjoyed with absolute immunity by the Mujahids (holy warriors of
Allah). Not only is it lawful to commit rape on captured women it is in fact
a "pure and pious" act which earns the Muslim merit in the eyes of Allah.
Quran 2:228: "And women shall have rights similar to the rights against them,
according to what is equitable; but men have a degree (of advantage) over
them. And God is Exalted in Power, Wise."
Again a clear vindication of Men's superiority over women is being sanctioned
by Allah himself in this verse. In effect men have more rights than women in
an ideal Islamic society.
The Taliban, in true accordance with Islamic strictures, has forbidden women
to work anymore. Considering the skyrocketing rate of widowhood, the women of
Afghanistan are left with no choice but to sell their bodies as prostitutes
for the sake of a morsel of food. So desperate has the condition of these
women become that they force their five to six year old children to beg on
the streets. Many of the western aid workers secretly admit that almost half
a million of these children are also forced into prostitution to earn tiny
amounts of money for their families' subsistence.
If by chance a woman's rape comes to light she is accused of adultery by
Islamic law. Most often the punishment for adultery is severe lashing or
stoning to death. Over 65% of the Afghani female population is now directly
or indirectly involved in prostitution. As prostitution invites the same
punishment as adultery, millions of Muslim women carry on their trade in a
surreptitious manner. They disguise themselves in rags in order to pass off
as beggars. Their clients are usually shopkeepers who have a store room or an
attic where they take the woman without any problem. Beggar prostitutes
charge about 2 lakh Afghanis which is equal to Rs 250 (Pakistani).
This amount is peanuts considering the cost of living in war tattered
Afghanistan, therefore most prostitutes are desperate to find at least three
to four clients a day. Most of the prostitutes also become "traveling" types,
as they cannot stay in one place for too long, due to fear of detection. The
exceptions are those special prostitutes who work in the brothels which have
the protection of the Taliban. Hordes of Pakistanis also come from across the
border to take advantage of the freely available sexual services.
Even then the situation of Muslim women is far, far better than that of
non-Muslim women who are accursed enough to live in Afghanistan. The
non-Muslim women and children are treated worse than sewer rats. Considering
that Muslim women themselves are being abused so rampantly, one can only
imagine how inhumane the treatment meted out to these victims must be. The
plight of non-Muslims is unimaginably horrific.
All non-Muslims, including Hindus and Sikhs, living in Afghanistan must abide
by the "Ten Commandments'', issued in accordance with the rules of Islamic
Sharia. A few pockets in Kabul and Jalalabad, are still inhabited by these
unlucky Hindus and Sikhs. The Islamic "Law Ministry" in Kabul has issued ten
directives to all non-Muslims, including Hindus and Sikhs, determining their
conduct in their daily lives. These orders include such unimaginably
discriminatory tenets like the rule that non-Muslims are absolutely not
allowed to build any place of worship like temple, church or Gurudwara.
Legally, non-Muslims are not entitled to bring any lawsuits against a Muslim
at all, regardless of the criminality or culpability of the Muslim! One can
only imagine what sort of justice non-Muslim victims of rape and molestation
in Afghanistan must receive!
Non-Muslims must follow such incredible rules as displaying a two-meter long
yellow cloth atop their house for identification of their status as non
believers. The order also bans non-Muslims from living together with Muslims
in one house in a direct indication of the untouchability of the non-Muslims.
The women of non-Muslim families are prohibited from walking in a street or
bazaar without wearing the Islamic "chadar'' to cover them. They cannot wear
jewelry made from any metal more precious than iron in a humiliating reminder
of their low status. What is most outrageous of all however, is the
injunction for non-Muslims to wear dresses which are clearly "different" from
those of Muslims. Non-Muslims must wear a MARKED YELLOW OUTFIT in order to
ensure identification of their Kafir status from a distance. Non-Muslims
CANNOT wear ANY dresses which signify priesthood or other religious denomination.
The status of Kafirs under the Taliban is exactly as Prophet Mohammed had
envisioned it. It is in fact in perfect consonance with the suggested
treatment of non-Muslims in the Quran. A number of apologists and misled
scholars who have been horrified by the Taliban's policies have tried to
explain away their practices as "misinterpretations of Islam". The truth
however is exactly the opposite. The Taliban of Afghanistan, ably supported
by the Islamic purists of Pakistan, is pursuing the establishment of an
Islamic society that can be termed as a perfect realization of the Islamic
ideals entrenched in the Quran. The Taliban IS the perfect Islamic society.
The treatment accorded to women and non-Muslims by the Taliban is exactly as
prescribed by the Quran and the Prophet Mohammed. In fact the reign of the
Prophet Mohammed was marked by exactly the same type of society.
As Islamic terrorism and fundamentalism raises its ugly head all over the
world, its time civilized societies took a long hard look at the Talibanism
of Afghanistan, for the situation there foretells exactly what is in store
for other countries around the world with a sizable Muslim population.
By refusing to stare the problem in the face, we risk allowing it to become
stronger still. If we keep ignoring it, it won't be long before the ability
to stop Talibanization in its tracks slips right out of our fingers.
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