In Bangladesh, #MeToo can get a woman killed
This is a terrible, sickening story:
Dozens of protesters gathered in Bangladesh’s capital of Dhaka on Friday to demand justice for an 18-year-old woman who died after being set on fire for refusing to drop sexual harassment charges against her Islamic school’s principal. Nusrat Jahan Rafi told her family she was lured to the roof of her rural school in the town of Feni on April 6 and asked to withdraw the charges by five people clad in burqas.
When she refused, she said her hands were tied and she was doused in kerosene and set alight. Rafi told the story to her brother in an ambulance on the way to the hospital and he recorded her testimony on his mobile phone.
“The teacher touched me, I will fight this crime till my last breath,” Rafi said in the video, according to BBC News. She also identified some of her attackers as students at the school.
Rafi died four days later in a Dhaka hospital with burns covering 80 percent of her body. The violence has shaken Bangladesh, triggering protests and raising concerns over the plight of women and girls in the conservative Muslim-majority nation of 160 million people where sexual harassment and violence are often unreported, victims are intimidated and the legal process is often lengthy…
Tens of thousands of people attended Rafi’s funeral prayers in Feni, and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina promised Rafi’s family when they met in Dhaka that those responsible would be punished. At least 17 people, including students, have been arrested in connection with the case, said Banaj Kumar Majumder, the head of the Police Bureau of Investigation.
In this case the woman’s family had been totally behind her, and the madrasa principal had been arrested, “infuriating him and his supporters.”
One can see why, in that atmosphere, a girl or woman would be reluctant to come forward.
More:
Police said the arrested suspects told them during interrogations that the attack on Rafi was planned and ordered by the school’s principal from prison when his men went to see him.
It was timed for daytime so that it would look like a suicide attempt, Majumder said.
And here’s a question (from “Ruffa G) I’d like answered:
rELiGiOn oF PeAcE.
I wonder what intersectional feminists like @lsarsour and @IlhanMN have to say about this?! Will they condemn brown patriarchy or just like every feminist theyre just gonna ignore this kinda barbarism done by brown men. ?
— Ruffa G (@guchenez) April 19, 2019
I did some looking on Google, but so far I haven’t found anything from Sarsour or Omar. If you find something, please let me know.
Ah, yes , just additional confirmation that all cultures are equal; that one cannot say that some cultures are “better” than others’.
All one can say is that cultures may be different.
In this case, it’s Bangladeshi culture.
Now we can see why the Lords of the former British Empire considered some of their colonies/possessions to be inhabited by savages.
It’s because they were; and they STILL are.
These savages may have access to all the accouterments of a modern technologically advanced nation (e.g., cell phones, PCs, TV, cars, etc), but it really does not change their culture and values; it just provides an easier way for them to impose and spread their savagery and Neanderthal mindset.
Let me guess: the USA sends aid to these animals, these pigs, these vermin.
Yep, my taxpayer and YOUR taxpayer dollars – however minimal – goes to Bangladesh.
Absolutely disgusting.
People who are always looking for “hate crimes” have mostly been … looking for hate in all the wrong places.
Barbarism, from the religion of peace.
The other side of the coin might be Harvey Mansfield being disinvited from an address to Concordia University on the topic of the great books, due, apparently, to his having written the wonderful book “Manliness”. Canada’s contribution to the growing barbarism now abroad in the world, albeit non-violent in this instance.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-disinvites-harvard-professor-harvey-mansfield-from-giving-talk-on-great-books/
Relax Jake. It’s Islam.
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”
Charles James Napier
Consistent with Mike K’s comment at 6:46 p.m., I can confirm, having lived in India for a short time, that the plight of women in traditional, non-westernized Hindu culture is also pretty sad. Hindu women don’t have to glide around in the heat covered head to toe in black, but otherwise, it’s rough.
Interesting article — “Bangladesh’s Creeping Islamism”; an excerpt:
Islam is a great evil. It will come down to nuking Mecca or surrendering to Mecca. There are no other options.
Terrible actions, by bad people, for bad reasons.
Islam is being used as an excuse by men who really do want the power to rape young women when they desire to.
I don’t think 50 Shades of Grey was to support Muslim ideas about women, but I’m not sure there’s no relation.
Oh you humans, always doing what you deem in your eyes righteousness but is pure abomination in our eyes.
As for Rafi, she or rather her spirit is welcome in the fold of the Divine and will be given rest and recuperation after her adventure amongst you… mortals. She has proven in one of the more difficult tests of Earth mortality, that her spirit will not submit this World’s Logic. That is the fruit, testimony, and power of her spiritual journey and status. She will be worthy of advancing.
You have accomplished your mission, waga imouto. The rest will be finished in due course.
She will be well taken care of, have no worries about that, humans. As for you humans… well that is a different issue.
ymarsakar:
I once asked you this question many years ago, and recent comments of yours have made me wonder once again: do you consider yourself human, and if so, why do you so often write to humans as though you were not one of them? I’m not trying to be cute or sarcastic here. It’s a real question.
Neo:
ymarskar said today https://www.thenewneo.com/2019/04/19/the-mueller-report-the-persistence-of-russiagate-and-the-conspiracy-theory-phenomenon/#comment-2431566 in a comment to Roy Nathanson
“Not a threat to me personally or to my gods or to my Divinity.” So you could infer that he considers himself a “god” of some sort.
Good luck getting a straight answer to your question.
Kate, you are correct about India. The State Dept. and OECD do studies on the worst countries in the world to be a woman. I couldn’t find those, but I did come up with this from US News & World Report. The countries are ranked “by perception” but it’s not to different from the more in-depth studies.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/slideshows/10-worst-countries-for-gender-equality-ranked-by-perception?onepage
Ann, I was amused by this para from your linked article:
“…During my school years in the 1980s, religion was a matter of personal choice. No one batted an eyelid if you chose not to fast during Ramadan. Today, eat in public during the holiday and you may be chided by strangers. Thanks to shows on cable TV, social media and group meetings, Islamists have succeeded to an alarming degree in painting secularism as a threat to Islam.”
I’m amused because she thinks that what she used to do in the 80s fell within the scope of acceptable Islamic practice. It wasn’t. It was not even Islam. Islam isn’t a matter of personal choice. Islam means submission (not peace; salaam is Arabic for peace, a cognate of the Hebrew shalom). A Muslim is “one how has submitted.” If she’s not fasting during Ramadan then she hasn’t submitted and is therefore not a Muslim. Her prophet would have considered her an apostate and therefore worthy of death.
Sahih al-Bukhari – Book of Judgments (Ahkaam) – (1) Chapter: “Obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those of you who are in authority…”
” Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Messenger said, ‘Whoever obeys me, obeys Allah, and whoever disobeys me, disobeys Allah, and whoever obeys the ruler I appoint, obeys me, and whoever disobeys him, disobeys me.'”
Obedience is not optional for a Muslim. The rule isn’t “Obey if you feel like it.” It’s, “Obey whether you like it or not.” The five pillars are not optional; The Shahada (profession of faith), Salat (prayer five times a day), Zakat (tithing), Soum (fasting during Ramadan), and Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in your life unless you can’t afford it) are requirements.
Muhammad had to be talked out of burning people alive in their own homes if they didn’t show up for prayer. That’s how simple it is to apostatize in Islam, and apostasy carries a death sentence. I want to make it clear; I despise Islam. Which is not at all the same thing as saying I despise Muslims. Quite the contrary. One of the reasons I despise Islam is because of what it does to people who have had the misfortune of being born Muslim. I’m well aware that of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims at least half of them wake up every day with absolutely no use for the miserable creed.
But let’s not twist ourselves into pretzels trying to invent words like “Islamism.” What’s next? Super-Islamistism?
There’s just Islam. And there’s only one man’s opinion in Islam whose opinion counts and he may not even have existed at least as depicted in the biographical and historical literature and the hadith collections. But the Muhammad as depicted in the literature is the only man’s whose opinion counts and frankly he was a sociopath and a murderer. So pace Imams Obama, Cameron, Merkel, Francis, et al, ISIS was about as Islamic as you can get.
Neo, you won’t hear a peep from Sarsour or Omar about this. Since their mission in life is to depict the US as hell on earth they certainly can’t let the truth shine light on their false narrative, can they? This is why Aayan Hirsi Ali can’t be allowed to speak on campus. All the budding mattress-girls would have to confront the fact that compared to most of the rest of the world they’re among the luckiest people on the planet. That knowledge sustained me during my 20 years of Naval service.
Happy Easter.
do you consider yourself human, and if so, why do you so often write to humans as though you were not one of them? I’m not trying to be cute or sarcastic here. It’s a real question.
What is a human? That is like saying Bush II lied, but what is a lie? Some people are using different definitions here.
I don’t tend to use labels for myself, as the world has plenty of labels.
So if I say “you all are Republicans” or “you all are males”, people here and elsewhere tend to assume that this means I am saying “I am a Demoncrat” or “I am a female”.
No, stating a statement or argument, does not mean I believe or have claimed the reverse or obverse or inverse for myself. That would be changing the subject of the topic and sentence.
If I knew what I was, I might have a term or label for it. But I am neutral still on this topic.
So you could infer that he considers himself a “god” of some sort.
There are many Sons of God, Yeshua bin Joseph was not the only one of course. There are also many Daughters of God.
The issue is of course always with definitions. That depends on what is is…. hah.
I have often told Yeshua directly that he is too ambiguous and too cryptic in his teachings to humanity. But I suppose I am guilty of that too depending on who is listening.
Allah’s Messenger said, ‘Whoever obeys me, obeys Allah, and whoever disobeys me, disobeys Allah, and whoever obeys the ruler I appoint, obeys me, and whoever disobeys him, disobeys me.’”
And what if Mohammed tells us today that all the Caliphates that came after him, Shia and Sunni, did not have his divine authority?
Then there is a problem, heh.
Mohammed, like Yeshua, didn’t write much of anything themselves. That is an interesting key note. What was written about them came later, afterwards, and potentially corrupted by human agendas: political, megalomaniac, religious, wealth based, etc.
Much of what Islam sees as Mohammed is from the texts outside of the Koran. Texts written by the Caliphs.