And he used the Qur'an to justify what he was doing. Of course, the Qur'an explicitly forbids this: "Forbidden unto you are your mothers, and your daughters..." (4:23). That makes this one of the few cases where the oft-repeated contention that the solution to Islamic violence is more Islam actually makes sense: if the wives had known the Qur'an, they might have been able to contradict him. However, even then they might not have dared to do so, since the Qur'an and Sunnah so strongly inculcate the idea that a woman is a man's servant, and that she must obey him in all things or face physical punishment (Qur'an 4:34).
From Deutsche Presse Agentur, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
Singapore, April 14 (DPA) A Muslim father who enlisted the help of his multiple wives to rape five teenage daughters pleaded guilty in one of the most heinous cases of sexual abuse in Singapore, news reports said Friday.The 45-year-old man, whose identity was withheld to protect his victims, subverted parts of the Koran to justify incest, Deputy Public Prosecutor Eugene Lee told the High Court.
While conducting religious lessons, he convinced his wives that he had ownership over his children, which included having sex with them, The Straits Times said.
Forty-three charges were levelled against the father, who preyed on his daughters when they were between 12 and 15 years old, from December 2003 to June 2005. The charges included rape, attempted rape and aggravated rape.
Two of the girls became pregnant and had abortions.
Justice Tay Yong Kwang on Thursday set Tuesday for sentencing.
The girls, now in the care of the ministry of community development, could not recollect the exact number of instances of abuse.
The incidents 'were so numerous that they were hard-pressed to keep count, much less remember the exact specifics of each incident', Lee was quoted as saying.
The man would send one of his wives to tell a daughter to go to their father's bedroom, Lee said. He had sex with them even though the girls cried out in pain.
The eldest of the abused daughters reported her father to the police on June 24, 2005. He was arrested the next day.
The bespectacled defendant with greying hair pleaded guilty to nine of the charges. Tay said he will take the remaining counts into consideration in sentencing.
The prosecution asked the judge for a substantial prison sentence. The penalty for rape is a maximum of 20 years in jail and caning. The penalty for aggravated rape is at least eight years in jail and 12 strokes of the cane.
This negates the above "Experts say women honored in islam".
If this had happen in an Islamic country, the father would have gotten 30 days in prison, and the daughters would have been stoned.
I thought he'd get the death penalty. If you can get executed for smuggling drugs in Singapore, then surely you'd get executed for raping your children for years? Absolutely preposterous.
Islime is as Islime does.
"While conducting religious lessons, he convinced his wives that he had ownership over his children, which included having sex with them, The Straits Times said"
This is the key issue. While sick, perverted, bastards exist in every culture and society, and many of those sickos twist religion to get what they want, it is clear that Islam's disgusting view of women makes it a perfect ideology for these types of criminal pedophiles.
freewoman,
Articles like this one makes you shake your head wondering why Islam says one thing about women, does another.
Any cult that condones what one sex wants to do with the other sex should be outlawed.
Any cult that suggests that it's ok to have sex with young girls should be outlawed.
The koran condones pedophilia and incest when it specifies that women are tilth and can be done with as pleased. A man has to be sick in the head when he sees his daughters as sexual and fair game.
Why are these women not killing their husbands, sons or brothers to save the honor of their daughters? It would be considered an honor killing.
This is the very reason women are NOT educated as muslims. So they won't know that the koran really does condone sex with anyone or anything. So men can say and do with impunity ANYTHING they PERVERSELY want to do with ANY female.
The nice thing is that Singaporean judges are pretty strict. This guy is going to spend a lot of time locked up in a small cell in Changi as well as the pleasures of the cane. And if Singaporean prisons are like British ones, then he might well come under the summary justice of his fellow convicts. In Britain, child abusers are the lowest of the low and regularly murdered by other prisoners.
According to this article about the same guy, he had 10 wive and 64 children:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3642085a12,00.html
"The man, who ran a transportation business, had four legal wives and six contractual wives – an arrangement whereby a Muslim couple enters into a union for a fixed term. His 33 sons and 31 daughters range in age from 9 months to 16 years."
I read that article Kelley.
He thought he could satisfy the sexual needs of his daughters......riiiight.
He's just a sick insane maniacal bastard.
I am all about the caning.
I wonder will it be televised?
Truly a case of 'misunderstanding the Religion of Peace'...
He probably will be caned under Singapore law. Oh, not the simple ones you get from your parents. But the ones from a rotan (stick made of cane, about half inch an inch thick). And he'll get it from one of the Prison Wardens.
Just hope when he arrives in prison Bubba will take him as his wife. He'll be in a LIVING hell.