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Qatar: Rape victims accused of sex outside marriage,
face up to a year in prison and 100 lashes
OCT 11, 2021 9:00 AM
BY ROBERT SPENCER
Numerous rape victims are in prison in Pakistan as well. From the perspective of Islamic law, if they tempted men to rape them, they are at fault, and must be punished. The rape must also have been public, since four male Muslim witnesses are required to have witnessed the act in order to establish it in Sharia court (cf. Qur’an 24:4, 24:14).
“The land where raped women end up being at fault:
Sexual violence victims ‘can easily become the accused’ in Qatar due to government’s extreme view of Islamic law, campaigners warn,”
by Ian Gallagher,
Mail On Sunday,
October 9, 2021:
…Campaigners say victims of sexual violence ‘can easily become the accused’ in the authoritarian Gulf state, due to the government’s extreme interpretation of Islamic law.
Many cases have emerged of men being taken at their word claiming sex was consensual, leaving the accuser facing charges of having sex outside of marriage. Punishments for the crime of ‘zina’ – any act of illicit intercourse – normally involve a year in prison and, if the woman is Muslim, up to 100 lashes.
Rothna Begum, senior women’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch, told The Mail on Sunday of her fears that zina laws will be brought into focus at next year’s World Cup….
Around the time Qatar began lobbying for the rights to the World Cup, stories about women punished under zina laws stopped appearing in state-run papers. Since then, Qatar has sought to gloss over anything that might present a negative image.
In March, a report by Human Rights Watch highlighted discrimination through the male guardianship system, which requires them to seek male approval to marry, study or travel. It says Qatari women face ‘deep discrimination in almost all aspects of their lives’. Examples abound. A British woman abandoned by her Qatari husband told the MoS that she is unable to return to the UK with their children because he refuses to give his permission.
The woman, who lives in Doha, said: ‘Society and the law are on his side. It always favours the man, yet he was abusive during our marriage and beat me up for some perceived slight. He hasn’t seen me or the kids for years yet still exerts this power over me. I am trapped here. I tried to get a divorce but it was dismissed. If I went to the airport with my children, I would be arrested.’
In 2019, Noof al-Maadeed, then 21, escaped Qatar after years of domestic abuse. She said she was ‘only allowed to go to school and back. Anything else [and I could] expect a beating’.
Unmarried women under 25 cannot travel abroad without the permission of their male guardian. But Maadeed took her father’s phone and used it to process an exit permit, then climbed out of her bedroom window to go to the airport. She flew to Ukraine then the UK, where she claimed asylum….
Pakistan’s first transgender protection center opens,
minister vows there’s more to come
14 Oct, 2021 13:03
© REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
Pakistan has opened its first protection center for transgender people in the capital city of Islamabad, in a ceremony attended by Federal Minister for Human Rights Dr. Shireen Mazari, who promised to open more.
Speaking at the inauguration on Wednesday, Mazari said that the country must do more to ensure the rights and opportunities of Pakistan’s transgender people. “The transgender community should be provided the same employment and health rights as other citizens of Pakistan are granted,” the minister said.
She said that the new center in Islamabad would provide transgender people with legal aid, basic health facilities, psychological counseling, and temporary shelter for the community’s most needy.
The transgender community has been included within Pakistan’s strategy to alleviate poverty and healthcare initiatives, Mazari stated, adding that she hoped this project would open up new opportunities.
The new center will also carry out activities within the wider community to promote awareness about transgender people and their plight in Pakistan. Mazari vowed that more centers, like the one in the capital, would be opened up around the country.
Transgender people are often considered outcasts in the notoriously conservative Pakistan. The government has sought to respond and in 2018 passed a law legally recognizing transgender people with the ratification of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act.
In July 2021, the government opened its first school for transgender students in the city of Multan, Punjab province.
Last year, a group of transgender women were attacked by a gunman as they returned home after performing at a wedding function on the outskirts of Peshawar. One died from their injuries, while another was wounded.
I guess that is an example of Islam's response to transgenderism. I would expect more violence in the future.
Syria: Man tortures 5-y/o daughter to death for 'getting clothes dirty often'
He said he was instigated to torment her by his second wife
Published: November 06, 2021 16:11
Tawfiq Nasrallah, Senior News Editor
Gulf News
Dubai: A Syrian man allegedly beat his little daughter to death for constantly getting her clothes dirty, local media reported.
The 5-year-old girl is said to have succumbed to her injuries after being brutally beaten by her father, who was reportedly instigated by his second wife just because she was constantly getting her clothes dirty.
According to Syrian Ministry of Interior, the little girl, who was living with her father after his break-up with her mother, was tied up and severally beaten with a long hose for hours. She was also burnt with cigarette butts during one torture session.
The man is said to have buried his daughter in a cemetery close to her family’s house, which is located in Damascus countryside.
Acting on a tip-off, Syrian police launched investigation into the disappearance of the girl and upon interrogation, the girl’s father admitted to unintentionally killing his daughter while torturing her. After the body was recovered, traces of torture and burns were seen on her body. He said he did so upon the instigation of his second wife.
It sounds like he felt he had a right to torture the child for getting her clothes dirty. Is that Islamic law?
The suspect was arrested and will be referred to the public prosecution for further legal actions.
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