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| Victim ordered to wed rapist |
| 07.19.05 (6:04 am) [edit] |
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By Shaikh Azizur Rahman THE WASHINGTON TIMES July 19, 2005 BOMBAY -- Hard-line Islamic clerics in a northern Indian village have declared that a woman's 10-year-old marriage was nullified when her father-in-law raped her -- and ordered the mother of five to marry the rapist. The fatwa, or religious edict, was issued by Darool Uloom Deoband, South Asia's most powerful Islamic theological school known for promoting a radical brand of Islam that is said to have inspired the Taliban in Afghanistan. The decision has outraged both Muslim and Hindu leaders and prompted a fierce debate that has dominated the front pages of national newspapers across India. The fatwa ordered Imrana Ilahi, 28, to separate from her husband and treat him as her son because she had sex with his father. "She had a physical relationship with her father-in-law, and it nullifies her marriage," said Mohammad Masood Madani, a cleric at the theological school. He said it made no difference whether the sex was consensual or forced. The village council then decreed that Mrs. Ilahi would have to marry her father-in-law. Feminists and liberal Muslims reacted with fury, staging nationwide street protests. But Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh on June 29 supported the fatwa, saying: "The decision of the Muslim religious leaders in the Imrana case must have been taken after a lot of thought. ... The religious leaders are all very learned and they understand the Muslim community and its sentiments." The rape took place June 4 in the village of Charthawal in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, when Mrs. Ilahi's husband, Noor Ilahi, was away. When Mr. Ilahi, a brick kiln laborer, learned of the attack, the village court instructed him to divorce his wife. But Mr. Ilahi, 32, told his wife: "My father is dirty and you are clean. I still love you and I cannot desert you." Mrs. Ilahi, with her husband and five children, sneaked out of Charthawal and took shelter in Kukra, the village of her parents. Mrs. Ilahi received another rude shock when the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, the country's most influential Muslim umbrella organization, endorsed the punishment meted out by Darool Uloom Deoband. "The fact that the woman was 'used' by her husband's blood relative makes her [unclean] for her husband and there is no way she can be allowed to live with him," the law board said. Life on Planet Islam. Sounds great, doesn't it? http://www.washtimes.com/world/20050718-111059 -2058r.htm" title="http://www.washtimes.com/world/20050718-111059 -2058r.htm" target="_blank"http://www.washtimes.com/worl... |
posted by: SusanofPudlin (reply)
post date: 07.19.05 (5:01 am)
wish I hadn't seen the story. Sometimes I think I am better off being oblivious to the happenings in other parts of the world.
posted by: SusanofPudlin (reply)
post date: 07.19.05 (5:02 am)
The first part of my comment dissappeared. It was "how tragic for all involved. Sometimes I - "
posted by: thoolou (reply)
post date: 07.19.05 (6:59 am)
Reply to: SusanofPudlin
I know what you mean, but if we close our eyes to this type of insanity, we allow it to fester and spread...
posted by: RedTigress (reply)
post date: 07.20.05 (10:38 am)
Couldn't find your Palestinian child abuse slideshow, but this article caught my eye while snooping around your blog and I'm in shock.
It sounds like this poor woman needs to escape this negative and hurtful atmostphere. She was raped and this is ok in Islam. Does someone need a change of religion?
posted by: thoolou (reply)
post date: 07.20.05 (11:11 am)
Reply to: RedTigress
Well, first you have to have an actual religion. I tend to classify Islam as more of an Idiology, like Fascism and Nazism...
posted by: RedTigress (reply)
post date: 07.23.05 (6:41 pm)
Reply to: thoolou
Same here.
