“She said in her victim impact statement that her Muslim family in Bangladesh had disowned her because of cultural differences surrounding the crime of rape.”
In Islam the victim of rape is to blame, for she has sullied the family’s honor by engaging in sexual immorality. The fact that it was forced upon her makes no difference at all. It is the woman’s responsibility in Islam to keep a man from being tempted; if he is tempted, it is her fault, no matter what she may have done to try to stop him. The woman bears the responsibility.
Think this is only something that greasy Islamophobes say?
Think again. We have seen a Muslim rape victim ostracized in India; the charging of a rape victim in Pakistan with adultery; Islamic clerics in Pakistan opposing attempts to end the equating of rape with adultery; a rape victim marrying her attacker in order to avoid being shunned; another rape victim converting to Islam in order to marry her attacker for the same reason; the sentencing of a victim of gang rape in Saudi Arabia to 200 lashes; the sentencing of another victim of gang-rape, a pregnant woman, to 100 lashes; the stoning of a rape victim in Somalia; nine-year-old rape victims in Iran rejected by their families and living on the streets; a Muslim rape victim in India ordered by Islamic clerics to leave her husband; a rape victim in Jordan murdered by her uncle to cleanse the family’s honor; and on and on.
“Rape victim used as sex slave is disowned by family,” by Jenny Loweth, Asian Image, August 20, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A YOUNG woman held captive as a sex slave in Bradford has become a suicidal outcast, disowned by her family because she was raped, a court heard.
The Bangladeshi student was a naive virgin when she was abducted from London and beaten and kept prisoner by takeaway worker, Abdul Hanif.
Jailing Hanif for 17 years yesterday, Judge Peter Benson told him: “You began to use her as a sexual resource and you controlled her and isolated her and locked her in.
“You took her phone and bank card and repeatedly raped her on an almost daily basis.
“Essentially, you treated her as a slave. She was a prisoner and had no life at all.”
After four months of degradation, the 26-year-old woman plucked up the courage to escape Hanif’s tyranny when he threatened to force her into prostitution to pay off his gambling debts.
When she objected, he strangled her with a cable, leaving marks on her throat.
Labelling Hanif intelligent and extremely manipulative, Judge Benson said: “These were acts of calculated depravity where you cruelly and deliberately enslaved a vulnerable young woman.”
The victim, who came to London in 2009 on a student visa, was struggling to pay for her accountancy course and about to be made homeless when Hanif seized his chance to abduct, isolate and imprison her.
He pretended he had found her “a nice new home” in the capital but instead drove her to Bradford.
Judge Benson said: “She was virtually alone in a big foreign city and you wickedly exploited that vulnerability.”
Hanif, 30, of Chapel Lane, Allerton, Bradford, was convicted by a jury of three offences of rape and one of causing the woman actual bodily harm.
He imprisoned her at friends’ addresses before holding her captive for three months at a flat in Pevensey Garth, Thorpe Edge, Bradford.
He kept her locked in, forcing her to cook and clean for him, while he worked at McDonalds in Ingleby Road, Girlington.
Police broke down the door of the flat on June 27 last year to free the traumatised woman, who said Hanif treated her like an animal.
She said in her victim impact statement that her Muslim family in Bagladesh [sic] had disowned her because of cultural differences surrounding the crime of rape.
She was depressed, suicidal and receiving counselling.
“She feels as if her life has been totally ruined, through no fault of her own, because of what the defendant did to her,” said prosecuting barrister David McGonigal….