Girl At Islamic School Accused Headmaster of Assault . . . Mob Then Burns Her To Death
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We have previously discussed the violence and discrimination faced by girls and women in some Muslim countries. Nusrat Jahan Rafi, 19, is the latest such victim after she was burned to death. Her offense was reporting a sexual assault by Headmaster Siraj Ud Doula at her Islamic school, or madrassa. Sixteen people are accused of engaging in the conspiracy to murder this girl in Bangladesh.
Headmaster Siraj Ud Doula allegedly order the murder after Rafi refused to withdraw her criminal complaint that Doula groped her in his office — causing her to flee to safety.
On April 6th, Rafi was taking her final exams when she was lured to the roof of the school. She was then attacked by a group wearing burkas and doused with fuel and set on fire in an attempt to fake a suicide. Adding to this tragedy is that a fellow female student lured Rafi up to the roof by telling her that one of her friends was being beaten up. She was allegedly told that one of her friends was being beaten up. So a fellow female student helped murder a girl who merely reported her assault and brought her into the trap by using Safi’s concern for another student in trouble. She was then presented with a blank piece of paper to sign. Rafi stood her ground and refused to recant the charge. She was then drenched in kerosene and burned.
She survived with burns over 80% of her body just long enough to give a statement to police. She knew that she was dying in the ambulance and used her brother’s cellphone to record the names and facts of the attack.
This disgusting crime is not unique but one welcomed difference is that police in Feni has formally brought murder charges, including charges against both the headmaster and students for the Madrassa. Two local politicians from the governing Awami League party were also charged. There is also a charge by a policeman who videotaped Rafi’s original statement at the police station. He can be heard telling her to take her hands from her face and that the charges were “no big deal.” He is charge with illegally recording the victim and then sharing the tape online.
The fact that so many people could be convinced to commit such an act of total depravity is chilling. However, the bravery of Rafi was simply incredible, refusing to yield in the face of a threat to be burned alive. She is another face of courage among girls and women fighting for equal rights in these countries. However, the cost again is staggering.
Johnathan Turley
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I wonder what Howard Zinn would say?
Further example of the love, tolerance, and social justice that is Islam in other parts of the world. (Sarc)
There have been numerous "honor" killings of young Muslim women here in the US by their fathers because they got caught up in "Western ways" or had secretly had boyfriends, or other such crimes against the "Prophet".
Over here our elites are more concerned with American reaction:
"With terrorist attacks in Paris and a shooting spree in California prompting alarm on the part of many Americans, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Thursday that her “greatest fear” is that expressions of anti-Muslim sentiment will lead to attacks on Muslims in the U.S.
“The fear that you have just mentioned is in fact my greatest fear as a prosecutor, as someone who is sworn to the protection of all of the American people, which is that the rhetoric will be accompanied by acts of violence,” Lynch told a dinner hosted by a Muslim civil rights organization. “My message to not just the Muslim community but to the entire American community is: we cannot give in to the fear that these backlashes are really based on.”
And many Muslim Americans practice FGM, where is the outrage from our Muslim Congressional members?
They would have an excellent platform for speaking against this horrendous procedure.
In the Muslim communities women are treated like property. Muslims have not changed much over the centuries, it is still a religion of dominance and submission.
That's a key difference between Islam and Christianity. Muslims apparently feel that it's blasphemy to accept any change from the days of Mohammed, and are therefore stuck in the past (and the extremist Muslims hate the West for considering them backwards, despite this). Christianity, for the most part, has moved away from all the organized violence that marked it for centuries. It still has a long way to go, but it's a lot better than it used to be.
Unfortunately things like this happen all the time in India, as well - it's a cultural thing. A mother-in-law will burn her daughter-in-law to death if she's not being a good wife.
It has as much to do with Western culture as a specific religion, though. That's why the extremists hate Western culture far more than they specifically hate Christianity.
Methinks that some freshmen US congresspeople would approve of the radical Islamist behavior of Headmaster Siraj Ud Doula. There are already a number of documented assaults and murders of Muslim girls and women in the US who angered Muslim men.
Probably a silly question; but from the article those that doused her with fuel and set her on fire were wearing burkas? I assume that Islamic men don't wear them; at least from everything I read. That would mean a fellow female student didn't just lead her up to the roof; but that females (again assuming fellow students) also aided the headmaster?
Guess I am too westernized. I can't believe that many would side against a fellow female.
Remember that in India, it's often the women who light the daughters-in-law on fire.
In this case? I can't find an article which says whether females actually committed the murder. I couldn't find out if it is an all-girls school - and it's certainly possible that males wore burkas to hide their identities. But I wonder as well.
Sad