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16-Year-Old Rape Victim Whipped For Being Pregnant From Rape
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by Amy Judd | January 26, 2010 at 03:04 pm
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A 16-year-old rape victim in Bangladesh was whipped 101 times for becoming pregnant from her rape.
Her father was told, fined and warned that his family risked becoming outsiders if he didn't pay up from the girl's attack.
The girl was attacked, then married quickly after, not to her rapist, then she was divorced when her new husband found out that she was pregnant. She was raped by a 20-year-old man from her village in the Brahmanbaria district of Bangladesh.
Bangladesh's Daily Star newspaper reported that she was so ashamed following the attack that she did not lodge a complaint.
The Muslim elders in her village issued a fatwa against girl insisting that she be kept isolated from everyone else until her family agreed that corporal punishment was the only option.
Her rapist was pardoned.
The girl is now appealing for justice.
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at 16:28 on January 26th, 2010
Those fun loving muslims again!
Pathetic.
at 19:24 on January 26th, 2010
H.A. and Roy.C. similar cases have been reported in Christian, Jewish, Hindu and other faith group, this not only in Europe, Latin America or Asia but also in North America.
(Example Peru. http://reproductiverights.org/en/press-room/teen-rape-victim-files-case-against-peru-in-un-committee)
Sadly it is wide spread still today.
at 19:30 on January 26th, 2010
This is really sick stuff!
at 22:14 on January 26th, 2010
we have the power of the aid $ to make these countries change their ways. We could also stop buying gas from countries Saudi, oh! but then we'll be unable to use our cars?
at 02:50 on January 27th, 2010
This is barbaric and totally disgusting. Paschen makes a good point. Punishing a rape victim is totaly against Islam. It says in the Quran; "if a woman is forced into prostitution no sin is on her for this vile and despicable act". It also says words to the effect of; "Allah allows to reproduce whome he wills" so the fact that she was pregnant was a blessing from God, or a morality test upon her family and community. I think she passed and they all failed miserably. The Quran also says to protect the orphan, this young womans temporary "husband" failed in that aspect of the religion as well. Prophet Mohammed was an orphan himself.
at 03:48 on January 27th, 2010
"The Muslim elders in her village issued a fatwa against girl..."
If this is against Islam, how/why would they issue a fatwa?
at 05:00 on January 27th, 2010
Their is a muslim saying that states the first three people to enter hell will include an Imam. A hypocrit that preaches but doesnt follow the rules. There is corruption in certain mosques, in far to many mosques. The elders pay the bills and often the Imam does what they say regardless of how knowledgable the elders are about the religion.
at 05:13 on January 27th, 2010
So, why then is this type thing seen in so many muslim nations?
Looks like it is widely accepted to me, nor have i ever seen it condemned publicly by muslims.
at 05:22 on January 27th, 2010
As Paschen said; it happens all over in many nations of many religions. The fact is all religion says to protect the weak, decent people do that naturally, without thinking twice about it (or for the sake of God). Many rapists get punished in muslim countrys, you have commented on such stories here yourself Hugh. Remember the woman that got mutilated, and the perpetrators were sentenced to the same fate, that case was in Pakistan.
at 12:15 on February 26th, 2010
I am 14 and got pregnant after I was raped, but I am surrounded by loads of really amazing and supportive people and now, after having a miscarriage (I would have had to have had an abortion otherwise, I'm too young and thin to carry a baby for nie months, let alone raise one and if I had had the baby then chances are we would both have died, but no one thought it was my fault, and now I'm starting to get better, though it will probobly be with me for the rest of my life. I can only begin to imagine what this girl is going though. This is totally awful...