Category: Women’s Rights Matter

Pakistan – Muslim Forces 12-year-old Girl to Convert, Marry Him

Pakistan – Muslim Forces 12-year-old Girl to Convert, Marry Him
— “The reaction of Pakistani law enforcement authorities to Sajida Masih’s
complaint so far — ridiculing her and asserting that there is nothing she can do because her daughter is now a Muslim — does not encourage her hopes of recovering her daughter Huma at next Thursday’s (June 11) hearing.”
— “The Christian mother of a 12-year-old girl in Punjab Province who was kidnapped, coerced into converting to Islam and forcibly married to a 37-year-old Muslim hopes to recover her daughter at a court hearing next week”

Malaysia: Abused Teenage Model Flees

(Malaysia/Indonesia) Teenage model who married Malaysian prince ‘flees abusive marriage’
— Manohara Odelia Pinot: “I’ve been treated like an animal. I’m like his property and I was in his room and whenever he wants to play with me he just goes into the room and plays with me. I’m like an object.”
— Manohara Odelia Pinot states she was injected with tranquilizers and threatened with torture
— Pinot says that “she was subject to a ‘daily routine’ of abuse”

—  April 23, 2009: Malaysian PM dodges questions about missing model
—- Her mother, Daisy Fajarina “said the last time she saw Manohara was when she accompanied the couple on a pilgrimage to Muslim holy sites in Saudi Arabia in late February”

Pakistan Karachi: When a woman’s right becomes a ‘sin’

(Pakistan) Karachi: When a woman’s right becomes a ‘sin’
— “‘Is it a crime to even think of getting married for a second time?’ is the question that Sakina, 36, posed before the magistrate of the Malir Courts on Monday.”
— “‘What was I punished for?’ she asks. The punishment that she is referring to was blackening of the face and shaving off her head, all because she, a divorcee, dared and actually dreamed of having a second marriage.”
— “She informed the court that her husband, Lemoo, had divorced her two years ago and since then she had been living at her father’s house.”
— “She wished to marry for a second time and on May 27, went to the courts to consult her lawyer for a ‘khula’ as she realised that written proof would be needed.”
— “However, when her father and brothers came to know about her intention to divorce her husband, they tortured her.”

Canada Ottawa: Brother gets life in “honour killing”

(Canada) Ottawa: Brother gets life in honour killing
— murder of Khatera Sadiqi
— “A ‘twisted sense of values’ led an Ottawa man to murder his sister and the man she loved, the judge in an honour killing trial said Saturday.”
— Additional report
— Brother locked up for life

(Canada) Ottawa: ‘Perverted notion of honour, respect’
— “Crown calls for jury to find Sadiqi guilty on two counts of first-degree murder”
— charged with murdering sister Khatera Sadiqi

Sweden: Finally! Western Law Remedies Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman Among Muslim Immigrant Communities — by Phyllis Chesler

(Sweden) Finally! Western Law Remedies Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman Among  Muslim Immigrant Communities — by Phyllis Chesler
— The Phyllis Chesler Organization
http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/
— Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman – by Phyllis Chesler
http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/books/womans-inhumanity-to-woman
http://www.amazon.com/Womans-Inhumanity-Woman-Phyllis-Chesler/dp/1556529465/

Sudan: Women and Other Slaves Freed

(Sudan) Christian Solidarity International (CSI): 232 Sudanese Slaves Liberated
— “The liberated slaves reported having been subjected to beatings, death threats,  rape, female genital mutilation, forced conversion to Islam, racial and religious insults and work without pay. Some slaves reported witnessing the execution of fellow captives.”
— “Among the interviewed slaves were:”
—- “Achan Mawien Guat – pregnant 17 year-old: Enslaved, Raped, Circumcised, and Islamized.”
—- “Mary Atak Geng Baak – 18 year-old Christian: Enslaved, Islamized, Sexually Abused,  Terrorized, and Economically Exploited.”

Pakistan: Extremist theaten woman with “blasphemy” charge

(Pakistan) Punjab’s Mustafabad: Islamic Radicals Storm ‘Blasphemy’ Hearing
— ‘Blasphemy’ case against Munir Masih and his wife Ruqiya Bibi
— “Radical Pakistani Muslims in a town outside of Lahore this month overran
a courtroom in hopes of swaying a judge in a ‘blasphemy’ case against a
Christian couple, and a member of the prosecution later threatened to kill the wife”
— “The couple had granted a Muslim neighbor’s request to store some of his
possessions in their home, including a Quran.”
— “The Islamic clergymen storming into the courtroom claimed that no non-Muslims had the right to keep a Quran in their home”
— “After the bail hearing, a member of the prosecution team approached Bibi while she was outside the courtroom waiting to testify and threatened to kill her. ‘Ruqiya was waiting outside the court for her turn,’ Gull said, ‘and one man came and said, ”Whatever the decision, we will kill you.””