Wrapped in the distracted throes of clerical senselessness, fresh girl child suffers. The story that follows is horrifying:
Simply 14, Bangladeshi girl charged with falseness was lashed to death
SHARIATPUR, BANGLADESH (CNN) -- Hena Akhter's hold out words to her mother proclaimed her rawness. But it was too dead to border the 14-year-old girl.
Her man villagers in Bangladesh's Shariatpur area had earlier voted for backbreaking opinion on her. Ghastly, they thought, of having an employment with a wedded man. The imam from the draw to a close mosque reasonable the fatwa, or clerical decree, and the punishment: 101 lashes delivered in no time, deliberately in public.
Hena dropped following 70.
Bloodied and discolored, she was conquered to sanatorium, everyplace she died a week latter.
Wonderfully, an premature autopsy checking account cited no injuries and deemed her death a suicide. Hena's contacts insisted her torso be exhumed. They appreciate the world to know what really happened to their teenager.
Islam is, of course, a in advance cobbled bit of mess stolen from Judaism, so it is no examination that the misogyny came laterally with the compost. What's even specially inequitable, is this:
Hena's contacts hailed from country Shariatpur, crisscrossed by dimness rivers that lend waters to rice paddies and plush vegetable fields.
Hena was the youngest of five children uneducated to Darbesh Khan, a day supply, and his next of kin, Aklima Begum. They shared a hut ready from ribbed tin and outdated orchard and led a simple life that was to the point marred a court ago with the return of Hena's cousin Mahbub Khan.
Pissing on the poor? Oh group, Islam group does weight enhance - but decently if you're precious.
Mahbub Khan came back to Shariatpur from a be sparing with working in Malaysia. His son was Hena's age and the two were in seventh notch together.
Khan eyed Hena and began demanding her on her way to school and back, thought Hena's pioneer. He complained to the elders who run the colony about his nephew, three time Hena's age.
Yes, this is way specially than 'boys-will-be-boys' demeanor. It's a countless red orthodox, at token in adequate countries.
The elders admonished Mahbub Khan and reasonable him to pay 1,000 in fines to Hena's contacts. But Mahbub was Darbesh's from way back brother's son and Darbesh was asked to let the examine break.
As anticipated, it went south very swiftly.
A range of months latter on a winter night, as Hena's sister Alya told it, Hena was walking from her room to an external toilet so Mahbub Khan gagged her with cloth, irritated her bearing in mind fuse shrubbery and stroke and raped her.
Mahbub is preferably evidently a sexual predator.It gets slash, fast.
Hena struggled to escape, Alya told CNN. Mahbub Khan's next of kin heard Hena's rumbling screams and so she found Hena with her companion, she dragged the teenage girl back to her hut, stroke her and trodden her on the flowerbed.
In a culture that sanctifies men and spits on women, this is all to communal.
The advent day, the colony elders met to utter the shell at Mahbub Khan's legislative body, Alya thought. The imam magnificent his fatwa. Khan and Hena were found at fault of an improper firm. Her payback under sharia or Islamic law was 101 lashes; his 201.
This imam must be photograph.
Mahbub Khan managed to escape following the head of government few lashes.
And along with he bolts? Polite. Wouldn't intention use a few hours in a room with 'Bub Khan.
Darbesh Khan and Aklima Begum had no much loved but to intention the imam's order. They watched as the lash broke the skin texture of their youngest child and she sculpt not at home to the flooring.
"To the same extent happened to Hena is momentous and we all continue to be faulty that we couldn't border her life," thought Sultana Kamal, who heads the internship batter Ain o Shalish Kendro.
To the same extent most of these folks don't be in front of, is that they're single enabling the crazies with their unsightly superstition.
Bangladesh is calculated a tolerant and restrained Muslim sovereign state, and national law forbids the practice of sharia. But striker and journalist Shoaib Choudhury, who papers such belongings, thought sharia is unmoving very knowingly in use in villages and towns aided by the lack of expansion and strong judicial systems.
The Matchless Smart likewise prohibited fatwas a decade ago, but material internship monitors continue much-admired specially than 500 belongings of women in folks 10 living who were punished fine hair a clerical decree. And few who continue issued such rulings continue been charged.
They must in all probability get fitting on that shit, but accommodationists are where, in every sovereign state it seems. The US in parallel teems with millions of them.
The reign needs to enact a hold law to array with such perpetrators trusty for extrajudicial penalty in the name of Islam.
--Sultana Kamal, shallowness of internship batter Ain o Shalish Kendro.
(Strikethrough informer)
Standstill month, the encourage asked the reign to instruct what it had done to try out extrajudicial penalty based on fatwa. It reasonable the circulation of information to all mosques and madrassas, or clerical schools, that sharia is criminal in Bangladesh.
I'd be fixture to bet this has been done in advance.
The Joined Nations estimates that almost partly of Bangladeshi women withstand from domestic batter and innumerable likewise jointly deem rape, beatings, piercing attacks and even death in the function of of the country's rumbling patriarchal policy.
Oh yeah - the incredibly assholes who tried to lead some assessment prohibiting attacks on religion, but so crazies hide under the clerical sunshade, nothing sees "THEM".
There was some action conquered in the function of of the media uproar, though:
Monday, the doctors trusty for Hena's head of government autopsy faced achievement for what a encourage called a "untruthful inquiry checking account to hide the real opening of Hena's death."
Resident shock sparked by that autopsy checking account driven the high encourage to order the exhumation of Hena's torso in February. A jiffy autopsy performed at Dhaka Medical Conservatory Hospice revealed Hena had died of local rare and her torso unpleasant task the follow of good injuries.
Police are now conducting an investigation and continue arrested lots of kind, amid Mahbub Khan, in strap with Hena's death.
Normally I'm a pacifistic man, but I wouldn't object of ridicule to stringing these animals up. And there's specially idea in the following:
Police were guarding Hena's contacts earlier than this month. Darbesh and Aklima "FEARED Justice FOR HAVING Uttered OUT Against THE IMAM AND THE Society ELDERS".
They had meted out the most good payback for their youngest teenager. They might put zero chronological them.
For example religion is petite specially than a boot upon the neck of the inferior. It is zero specially than the reason hand-me-down by the savage to excavation upon the weak-willed and the weak-minded. Mysticism is not the stand opening of troubles in our world, but moderately the very well centuries-old reason hand-me-down to land crack, each mental and physical, the psychotic's alibi for ferocity.
How I long for for the day that present-day is no religion. No specially excuses, no specially free passes. But unmoving that day is far in reserve, and not native in my ultimate.
