You might be angry at Munawar Hassan of Jamat-e-Islami for saying that in order to avoid jail time, victims of rape should stay quiet.  I feel sorry for him.  He reminds me of Nana Jee. He looks like Nana jee.  Nana Jee was in habit of  using Islam to make his point, or to shut everyone up. I remember when mamoo (Nana jee’s son, my mother’s brother) got married and the question of who will keep the salamis (gift money given to the couple) came up, someone said that the bride should keep the salamis.

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Nana Jee disagreed and said with the utmost confidence that it was unIslamic to do so. He told everyone that Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) did not let his daughter, Bibi Fatima, keep the salamis and salami money was given to Fatima’s father in law instead, since he was the head of the family.  Even at age of 18, I looked at my Nana Jee thinking, “really?! Could you not come up with anything better to keep bride’s money?”

Do not remember who got to keep the money but I knew that day that Nana Jee did not know a thing about Islam. He sat on the prayer mat all day long reading Quran though. Quran; written in a language he did not understand.

Nana Jee was not the Ameer (head) of Jamat-e-Islami.  But one can safely say that it is best to keep Nana Gee away from the government; if given power, he would make a law in which all the brides will have to hand him their money, to follow the Islamic law and to go to heaven.

Believe it or not, this is how all the hadood laws were applied in Pakistan.  Those were not thought through properly.   Why do I feel sorry for Munawar Hassan?  He made a fool out of himself on national TV. He is not a man of even an average IQ. How in the world Jamate-e-Islami picks their Ameer?

The biggest retard gets the position?

On a TV show, the host of the show asked Munawar sahib,”why were so many women put in jails for adultery when they came in with a complaint of being raped?”   The answer was that in order to prove a rape under Islamic law, women were asked to present four witnesses to the crime in court ; since they could not present those four witnesses and were found pregnant; there was enough evidence of their sin, so they were put in jails but rapist was set free.

The solution to this problem given by Munawar Hassan Sahib was that women should stay quiet after a rape to avoid jail time, and he added that it was Allah’s order. When poor host tried to question it, Munawar Sahib immediately accused him of blasphemy.

I tell you, listening to Ameer Sahib was very traumatic to me as a muslim woman.   Satan took this opportunity and immediately started putting negative thoughts about Islam in my head.

“What? God does not want to punish my rapist if heaven’s forbid I ever got raped? Even worse, then does God actually want me get raped?   I mean He sure loves men. He wants me to allow my husband to keep three more wives.  He does not want me to ever say “no” to my husband.

Very disturbed I said my prayers and did toba (apology) for the thoughts Satan had put in my head. And did two tasbeehs of Lahol-wallah to make the Satan go away.   I do not want to get qabar ka azab (punishment in grave) for my stupid thoughts.  If you ask me, being in a qabar (grave) would be azab (punishment) all by itself for someone like myself who is claustrophobic.

I did some research on these laws. Here is what I found; 4 witnesses are only needed when an accusation of adultery is placed on a woman. Accuser has to bring 4 witness or should face the punishment. This law was sent in Quran when people accused Hazrat Aisha RA of adultery.  Rape falls under the category of physical violence and the laws of state for physical violence should be applied in case of a rape. There are laws and punishments in Quran, in other surahs, for people who do others bodily harm.

 

Zia ul Haq made the law without thinking it through.  Law that was sent in Quran to protect women from an accusation of adultery, was used here against women by Zia ul Haq and co.   Talk about unfair and unjust.

 

People who say that these mullahs are dangerous for our religion are right.  From what I hear, hadood laws were changed by Musharaf after a lot of women’s rights organizations demanded a change in them.

 

In a country where state institutions are incompetent and religious parties can turn people in to mad killers, these human rights organizations are a blessing.  Time has come that all the inhumane laws in the country, including the blasphemy law, should be changed following the universal declaration of  human rights by UN.

 

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