Post by M?rtenPost by 1MAN4ALLPost by Dorian WestHe's a race-traitor anyway, fuck him. He converted from a prophet who was a
man of peace and love to a prophet who was a thief, murderer and paedophile
and that makes him an untrustworthy traitor. Fuck him.
Everything that you have stated is not true. I suggest that you clean
up your language, keep an open mind, read some books written by Muslim
authors, and try to love others as if they are your own family. Once
you have calmed down and have matured a little bit, you may also write
Why should anyone "love" those moslum dogs? They have no love or even
tolerance or respect for anyone that is not moslum.
http://www.listislam.cjb.net
Tell me if this is not true Islam?
NY Times
In Pakistan, Rape Victims Are the 'Criminals'
By SETH MYDANS
HORLAKI, Pakistan The evidence of guilt was there for all to see: a
newborn baby in the arms of its mother, a village woman named Zafran
Bibi.
Her crime: she had been raped. Her sentence: death by stoning.
Now Ms. Zafran, who is about 26, is in solitary confinement in a
death-row cell in Kohat, a nearby town. The only visitor she is
allowed is her baby daughter, now a year old and being cared for by a
prison nurse.
In photographs, Ms. Zafran is a tall woman with striking green eyes
a peasant woman of the hot and barren hills of Pakistan's northwest
frontier country. Unschooled and illiterate, like most other women
here, she may have little understanding of what has happened to her.
But her story is not uncommon under Pakistan's strict Islamic laws.
Thumping a fat red statute book, the white-bearded judge who convicted
her, Anwar Ali Khan, said he had simply followed the letter of the
Koran-based law, known as hudood, that mandates punishments.
"The illegitimate child is not disowned by her and therefore is proof
of zina," he said, referring to laws that forbid any sexual contact
outside marriage. Furthermore, he said, in accusing her brother-in-law
of raping her, Ms. Zafran had confessed to her crime.
"The lady stated before this court that, yes, she had committed sexual
intercourse, but with the brother of her husband," Judge Khan said.
"This left no option to the court but to impose the highest penalty."
Although legal fine points do exist, little distinction is made in
court between forced and consensual sex.
When hudood was enacted 23 years ago, the laws were formally described
as measures to ban "all forms of adultery, whether the offense is
committed with or without the consent of the parties." But it is
almost always the women who are punished, whatever the facts.
The case of Ms. Zafran fits a familiar pattern. But it raised an
outcry, even in Pakistan, because of the sentence of death by stoning,
a punishment called for by hudood but never carried out here. The
facts of her case have become the subject of editorials and news
stories in Pakistan, bringing her some notoriety, and in early May, a
higher court called for a review of Ms. Zafran's sentence.
But even if the case returns to a more typical course, she is likely
to spend 10 to 15 years in prison as the result of her rape, said
Rukhshanda Naz, who heads the local branch of a women's rights group
called Aurat. As many as 80 percent of all women in Pakistani jails
have been convicted under laws that ban extramarital sex, according to
Aurat.
Ms. Zafran, whether she was angry or just naïve, chose to point her
finger at the man she said raped her. The assaults, she said, came
sometimes on the hillside behind her house when she went to cut hay,
sometimes at home when nobody was there to see.
Sardar Ali Khan, her lawyer, said that Ms. Zadran had told him she
cried when she was raped and that she had cried again as she spoke to
him about what happened.
Her husband, Niamat Khan, was serving a prison sentence for murder and
in his absence, she had become the plaything of at least one of his
brothers.
"She complained to her mother-in-law and her father-in-law," her
lawyer said, "but they just turned away." It was her pregnancy that
forced her accusations into the open and led to her conviction for
zina.
Human rights groups say abuse of women is endemic in Pakistan. Often,
they are locked inside their homes where they are subjected to
beatings, acid attacks, burning and rape. Every year there are
hundreds of "honor killings," in which a woman is murdered for
perceived breaches of modesty.
For the most part, abuses like these are carried out with impunity,
and often with the support of traditional communities.
Rape itself is a crime under hudood, but it is so difficult to prove
that men are rarely convicted. On the other hand, human rights workers
say, as many as half the women who report a rape are charged under
zina laws with adultery.
"With the men, they apply the principle that you are innocent until
proven guilty," said Asma Jahangir, an official of the independent
Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and the author of a book on
hudood. "With the women, they apply the principle that you are guilty
until proven innocent."
The man Ms. Zafran accused, Jamal Khan, was set free without charges.
A case against him would have been a waste of the court's time. Under
the laws of zina, four male witnesses, all Muslims and all citizens of
upright character, must testify to having seen a rape take place. The
testimony of women or non-Muslims is not admissible. The victim's
accusation also carries little weight; the only significant testimony
she can give is an admission of guilt.
"The proof is totally impossible," said Ms. Naz. "If a woman brings a
charge of rape, she puts herself in grave danger." If, on the other
hand, the woman does not report the rape and becomes pregnant out of
wedlock, her silence can be taken as proof of guilt.
It is not only women but also young girls who are at risk, Aurat says.
If girls report a rape, they face the same prospects of punishment as
women.
A man can deflect an accusation of rape by claiming that his victim,
of any age, consented. If the victim has reached puberty, she is
considered to be an adult and is then subject to prosecution for zina.
As a result, the Aurat report says, girls as young as 12 or 13 have
been convicted of having forbidden sexual relations and have been
punished with imprisonment and a public whipping.
With no safe recourse, rights workers say, rape victims often flee to
the protection of influential families, which may take them in as
servants.
The harsh life of women like Ms. Zafran seems to blend with the
harshness of the land on which they live. The dry, rocky hills along
the frontier with Afghanistan, where only thorn bushes thrive, offer
no hint to the people here that a gentler life is possible. Flat mud
houses scattered like tiny forts across the landscape suggest that
there is little companionship among the people who toil here.
When Ms. Zafran was given in marriage to Niamat Khan, his family took
possession of her and she disappeared into their mud-walled compound a
mile away. Her parents rarely saw her again; they are too poor even to
have a photograph to remind them of her.
In this barren world, where people grow hard to survive, their
tenderness for their daughter seems all the more painful. They sat
silently one recent day on the string beds that are the only
furnishings of their bare one-room home.
Ms. Zafran's father, Zaidan, an unsmiling, weatherbeaten man, spread
his hands as if he had no words to offer.
"When we heard the sentence, we couldn't breathe," he said at last.
"We couldn't think. For days we couldn't eat. There was nothing we
could do for our daughter." He said he had sold his family's only
possessions, two thin goats, to help pay for a lawyer.
His wife, Shiraka, whose beauty seems only to have been deepened by
her difficult life, looked away. "I have been sucked dry by grief,"
she said.