When a Girl Is Executed … for Being Raped
Asalam-o-alaikum Dear Members...
today one another story had made me pensive and gloomy as I always try to make myself overcome from such thoughts and do not think about any issue that makes me sad or desturb but I need to think not only me but All of us have to ponder about it.. cant say much just request you all that read this story and tell me does it belong to justice?? If Mufti and Ulema starts giving wrong fatwas then from whom should we seek about the Shariah??
We’re all focused right now on Libya and budget battles at home, but this story from Bangladesh just broke my heart and outraged me — and offers a reminder of the daily human rights struggles of so many women and girls in villages around the world. A 14-year-old Bangladeshi girl, Hena,allegedly was ambushed when she went to an outdoor toilet, gagged, beaten and raped by an older man in her village (who was actually her cousin). They were caught by wife of the alleged rapist, and the wife then beat Hena up. An imam at a local mosque issued a fatwa saying that Hena was guilty of adultery and must be punished, and a village makeshift court sentenced Hena to 100 lashes in a public whipping.
Her last words were protestations of innocence. An excellent CNN blog post, based on interviews with family members, says that the parents “had no choice but to mind the imam’s order. They watched as the whip broke the skin of their youngest child and she fell unconscious to the ground.”
Hena collapsed after 70 lashes and was taken to the hospital. She died a week later, by some accounts because of internal bleeding and a general loss of blood. The doctors recorded her death as a suicide. (Women and girls who are raped are typically expected to commit suicide, to spare everyone the embarrassment of an honor crime.) I’ve covered enough of these kinds of stories to know that it’s difficult to know exactly what happened unless you’re on the scene talking to everyone who was there; maybe the imam has a different version of events. But all accounts that I’ve seen such that this was a brutal attack on a helpless girl in the name of sharia and justice.
Fortunately, Bangladesh has a robust civil society, which has reacted with outrage to the case. A court ordered the body exhumed after word leaked out, and an examination revealed severe injuries. Lawsuits are now underway against the doctors who had called her death a suicide, and several people have been rounded up — including the alleged rapist. The Bangladesh press is on the case. But Hena’s family is under police protection because of concern that other villagers will take revenge at them for getting the imam and others in trouble.
Let’s hope that the public reaction and punishments are so strong that the word goes out to all of Bangladesh’s villages that such misogynist fatwas are not only immoral but also illegal. And that the crime lies not in being raped, but in raping.
Now what??? its not just a one story about a woman... daily woman do suffers from such incidents what are we doing?? why people has become such devilish they have no fear of Allah no fear of the judgment day??
voh wakt kaisa guzer raha hoga enke parents pe jub aapni innocnet beiti ko itne brutaly opression ka shikar bante hue dekhe pahle tu rape kero then lashes...Sud afsoos
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Only 14, Bangladeshi girl charged with adultery was lashed to death
Es k back End pe kia game chal rahi hai Allah tbarik know better...