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Pakistan: Woman who set herself on fire after reporting rape dies

Mar 14, 2014 1:52 pm By Robert Spencer

vietnamese-buddhist-monk-bThe UK’s Daily Mail reported last year that “under UAE law, rapists can only be convicted if either the perpetrator confesses or if four adult Muslim males witness the crime.” This isn’t just Emirati law; it is pure Sharia, based on Qur’an 24:4 and 24:13. Those verses, in turn, are according to Islamic tradition, the result of Muhammad’s exoneration of his favorite wife, Aisha, who was suspected of adultery.

Allah gave Muhammad a revelation requiring four male witnesses to establish such a crime: “And those who accuse honourable women but bring not four witnesses, scourge them (with) eighty stripes and never (afterward) accept their testimony, they indeed are evil-doers” (Qur’an 24:4). The problem with this is that women who accuse men of rape but cannot produce four male witnesses are often accused themselves of zina — unlawful sexual intercourse — and jailed as a result.

This is found wherever Sharia is found. According to Sisters In Islam, a Muslim reform group, there is evidence that most — up to 75% — of the women imprisoned in Pakistan are there because of rape. Their accusation, in the absence of the requisite four witnesses, becomes tantamount to a confession.

So imagine the despair this poor woman felt after she reported the rape and the perpetrator was exonerated. She knew she was facing a future of ostracism, harassment, vilification, poverty, isolation, and perhaps even honor murder. So like Thich Quang Duc, she made her death a plea and a statement of protest.

“Woman in Pakistan who sets herself on fire after reporting attempted rape to police dies,” from the Associated Press, March 14 (thanks to Kenneth):

LAHORE, Pakistan – A police officer in Pakistan says a woman who set herself on fire outside a police station after reporting men tried to rape her has died.

Police Chief Usman Akran Gondal of Muzaffargarh district says the woman died Friday after setting herself on fire Thursday in the village of Beit Mir Hazar Khan.

Gondal says the woman’s brother filed a complaint with police in January, saying his sister had been abducted and the assailants tried to rape her.

Gondal says authorities investigated the claim but found no evidence to support it so they let the men go.

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said the woman had gone to the police station to protest.

Rape cases are rarely prosecuted in Pakistan. Women who complain are often stigmatized.

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  1. Salah says

    Mar 14, 2014 at 2:37 pm

    “..the result of Muhammad’s exoneration of his favorite wife, Aisha, who was suspected of adultery.”

    The story of Aisha and the young handsome soldier Safwan (as opposed to the old fat ugly prophet of Islam)!!!
    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/10/aisha-and-safwan.html

  2. twostellas says

    Mar 14, 2014 at 6:28 pm

    Here’s the video, very terrible. An outrage, really. Why do Muslims not feel mass outrage for this?

    http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tv/teenage-rape-victim-dies-after-setting-herself-ablaze-10760?

    • Islamisdeath says

      Mar 15, 2014 at 8:11 pm

      Because they’re muslims and are therefore addled by islam

  3. eib says

    Mar 14, 2014 at 8:45 pm

    She is innocent as a lamb.
    Innocent. Islam murders all innocence, all goodness, all nurturance, and yes, it is inimical to women.

    • Kalliope says

      Mar 15, 2014 at 7:14 am

      An insightful post, eib.

      ʾIslām is a not so much a religion as it is a system that is designed to hinder the development of natural and mutual affection between the sexes. When male infants in Muslim families are trained from birth to imitate demon-infested Muḥammad in all ways, this is what you get.

      Muḥammad was never punished for his rapes.
      He never took responsibility for any of his crimes, either.
      Yet Muslims laud Muḥammad, and praise his unholiness as the best of all examples.

      Muḥammad the demon-possessed man.

  4. C. Andy DePaule says

    Mar 14, 2014 at 11:02 pm

    This should not take away from the story but there is a problem with the graphic.
    That picture is a 51 year old picture of a Buddhist monk named Thich Quang Duc who burned himself in protest of the Diem government of South Viet Nam.
    It can be see here; http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Viet+Nam+buddhist+monk+burns+self+1963&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
    Love this jihad watch web site and often look here to find the truth that the media is not willing to print.
    Andy

  5. Jay Boo says

    Mar 14, 2014 at 11:43 pm

    Yet Muslims have the gall to riot
    if anyone should dare burn their disgusting hate manual.

    • Jerry says

      Mar 16, 2014 at 1:23 pm

      I do not particularlry wish to burn that manual, but I so wish they printed them on much more absorbent paper!

  6. Just A Concerned Citizen says

    Mar 15, 2014 at 4:50 am

    Well, this one at least managed a captioned photo and brief story on the back page of the Arabic news here in the Gulf (where they put the editorials and “oddball” news). No mention whatsoever of course of the requisite witnesses and all of the other nonsense… I’m realizing more and more that the local media apparently takes it for granted that anyone who can savvy their gibberish is already well aware of how it goes, and there’s simply no need to spell it out for any infidel readership.

  7. fair_dinkum says

    Mar 15, 2014 at 5:25 am

    i always recall an account my sister gave me of an episode in her life. she was attending what youd call in the states, a community college as bridging to univerity courses. the place she attended was in south west sydney, an ‘islamised’ part of the city. on her 1st day she realised that she was one of the elder students and that she was the only WASP female. as she ate her lunch in the yard, some moslem (lebanese) boys started to insult and pick on her. suddenly, a group of female moslem students chased them away with threats and foul language.

    she thanked them and they sat with her. these were mostly teens and sis was in her mid 20’s. they told my sister that she would be safe from now on, which she was. but the point to this happened as they all got to know her.. after telling her their weekend plans (mostly trying to get out of their respective houses, secretly or by lying, and away from family oppression to let off a little steam) they asked sis what her plans were.

    she told them that as she was still living at home and stufdying, she didnt have much cash that week and would probably go stay with her boyfriends (now husband) parents house where he still lived (saving money) and would spend the weekend there. the muslimas were silent and amazed. they asked if her parents knew, she said yes, i dont need to lie. they asked if her parents gave her a hard time. no, the knew the young man and were happy for her. did the boys parents mind? no, they loved her as well…

    one of the girls became very emotional and blurted out to the others angrily “see! THATS how it will be for my daughters!” they all agreed.

    that was almost 20 years ago. i wonder if their now (probably) teen age daughters are getting more freedom than their mothers were allowed. id say not. it just takes one of these mighty moslem males to say no, and thats the end of the topic.

    the point being that this is only one story. when moslem women can collaborate and force issues, who knows? its heartening to see, for example, iraqi women marching for rights but you wonder if theyll live very long. literally. statistically no. they will be murdered or stoned by a mob.

    pakistan is a cesspit. this poor woman. and the treatment the others in jail must be experiencing. they seeth im sure. but are too scared by the bluff, the bullshit of mohammed.

  8. Reality Check says

    Mar 15, 2014 at 11:08 am

    Here is one more example of Muhammad’s cruelty to women – the killing of Umm Qirfa.

    Umm Qirfa was the leader of her tribe and an elderly woman of courage and wisdom. She was captured and killed in the most sadistic way possible – each of her legs was tied to a rope and each rope was pulled by a camel until she was ripped in two.

    As horrible as her death was, she was still spared the sight of her beautiful daughter being passed from one lustful Muslim soldier to another until Muhammad took her for himself.

    Islam truly is the religion of peace – it has sent millions of people to rest in peace for 1,400 years now.

    • Defcon 4 says

      Mar 15, 2014 at 1:25 pm

      A new atrocity committed on the orders of muhahahahamad/manson that I’ve never read about. Was her crime against muhahahahamad criticising hiim?

      • Reality Check says

        Mar 15, 2014 at 5:21 pm

        No, her crime was that her tribe wanted nothing to do with Islam, so Muhammad had to send his butchers against it.

        http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/muhammad/myths-mu-elderly.htm

        Typical Muhammad – have those worshipping him even read all the hadiths describing his savagery? Sometimes I believe they’ve actually read nothing and have only been fed the least compromising passages about his life.

  9. Kalliope says

    Mar 15, 2014 at 1:02 pm

    Oh my goodness, I had forgotten about Umm Qirfa.

    Murderous Muḥammad with morals straight from the Abyss.

    The Killing of Umm Qirfa by Prophet Mohammed

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