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Sri Lanka: Muslim child marriage victim tortured and set on fire by her husband

May 22, 2017 9:33 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Thameem Fatheema Sharmila died “after being tied to a chair, poured oil and set on fire by her abusive husband.”

Another victim among millions, abused by a Muslim man who thinks it is his right to marry a child, own her as property, misuse her at will — even kill her — and be protected by his religion:

The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with ‘Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death) (Bukhari Volume 7, Book 62, Number 88).

As the article states below: “Sharmila was both a victim of her husband but also a victim of the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act (MMDA) and the Constitution,” under which she has no rights.

The crisis of abuse of girls and women in the name of Islam continues globally, while Western apologists and Islamic supremacists scream “Islamophobia” whenever such issues are highlighted. Unfortunately, silence only enables the human rights violations of Islamic supremacists to proliferate.

And now the silent tragedy of child marriage has made its way to the West. Germany has found 1500 cases of child marriage among Muslim migrants; but the new EU-sponsored propaganda children’s video (sponsored by the European Commission) that shows a fairy godmother bringing migrants to Europe on a flying carpet doesn’t include scenes of their being accompanied by child brides.

“Tortured Sri Lankan Muslim Child Marriage Victim Dies, Police Soft-Pedals Capture Of Murderous Husband”, Columbo Telegraph (thanks to The Religion of Peace), May 21, 2017:

Sri Lankan Muslim Child marriage victim, Thameem Fatheema Sharmila has died last night after being tied to a chair, poured oil and set on fire by her abusive husband last Friday.

Activist had been calling the husband to be arrested so he can face justice in courts.

“The police is yet to arrest the husband who is accused of burning a 4 months pregnant teenager alive. It is actually a double homicide.” a spokeswoman of Women’s Action Network today told Colombo Telegraph.

Sharmila a young 18 year old Muslim girl was four months pregnant and lost her baby. She is also the young mother of a 7-month old baby.

She is also a victim of forced child marriage, which is legal for Sri Lankan Muslims. She was 16 years old when was taken to the Nallanthaluwa Kodi Palli Mosque in Munthal, Puttalam and forced to marry Mohamed Imran who was 22 years old. Marrying against her will, Sharmila did not know that Imran was already married twice before and she was his third wife. She never received a marriage certificate as the nikah was not registered by the men officiating the marriage ceremony.

Writing to Colombo Telegraph yesterday, Shreen Abdul Saroor, founder member of Mannar Women’s Development Federation and Women’s Action Network said: “She faced serious physical abuse and psychological trauma after the marriage and had reached out to a colleague a month ago asking for information in obtaining a divorce via the Quazi courts, but never came back again. Later it was learnt that she also went to the police who mediated and reconciled she and her husband and sent her back to him, despite grave danger of further abuse.

“After the attempted murder of his wife, Mohamed Imran took away their 7 month-old baby threatening her that if she reported the incident as being his fault that he would harm the baby as well. Sharmila in her moments of waking consciousness was concerned only about her baby. Fortunately the baby is now safe with other family members but Mohamed Imran is on the run from the police.”

“It is unbearable to see the young lives of Sri Lankan Muslim women being destroyed because of the lack of legal protection of their rights. Sharmila was both a victim of her husband but also a victim of the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act (MMDA) and the Constitution, which does not (yet) protect her rights. What did this child do to deserve this fate? Was it her fault that she was born Muslim in Sri Lanka?” Shreen questioned.

“This happened because of the flawed and inadequate laws in the country specially Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act and Domestic Violence Act, growing religious fundamentalism and structures like mosques and Quazi courts playing with women’s rights and of course negligence of the police. Let’s see what the court will do?”, Shreen Abdul Saroor told Colombo Telegraph….

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Filed Under: child marriage, Featured, Sharia, Sri Lanka, women's rights in Islam Tagged With: Mohamed Imran, Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act, Puttalam, Thameem Fatheema Sharmila


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  1. mortimer says

    May 22, 2017 at 9:56 am

    Child marriage is one of the greatest forms of child abuse, and yet, Western feminists barely mention it.

    If they were true Feminists, they would fight night and day to eliminate this great EVIL, just like women fought in the past to eliminate slavery.

    • Kiki says

      May 22, 2017 at 11:57 am

      I know, child marriage is one of the worst things that can happen. It’s scary that some people view it as acceptable.

      Reading about the abuses these children go through—especially in the FLDS and radical Islamic countries–it’s amazing more people aren’t speaking out.

      Thankfully there are some: Rebecca Musser, an ex FLDS member fights against child marriage, and there are Muslim activists who started the “Child, Not Bride” movement. Still, these speakers need our help.

  2. Debi Brand says

    May 22, 2017 at 9:57 am

    “Another victim among millions, abused by a Muslim man who thinks it is his right to marry a child, own her as property, misuse her at will — even kill her — and be protected by his religion:”

    Well said, Spencer.

    I add, it is likewise one more reason I shame and call for their cowardice in face of Islam, all who pretend Islam is something other than what its orthodox works show it to be.

    One more reason, why, I call and count as fools for Islam, and cowards in face of Islam all non-Muslims who call and sanction Islam as a great faith or great religion.

    So too, all of the same who declare “sacred” the ground Muhammad allegedly “graced,” walked on, soaked with the blood of “unbelievers.”

    • Robert Spencer says

      May 22, 2017 at 10:01 am

      “Well said, Spencer.”

      Thanks, but Christine Williams wrote that, as is clear from the byline.

      • Debi Brand says

        May 22, 2017 at 10:25 am

        Opps, missed that Robert.

        All the same, hats off to both you and Christine. God bless and keep the same.

        My respect.

        dl

  3. mortimer says

    May 22, 2017 at 10:02 am

    A common method of honor-killing in the East is to stage an apparently ‘accidental’ kitchen fire with kerosene.

    -5000 honour killings internationally per year.
    -1000 honour killings occur in India
    -1000 honour killings occur in Pakistan
    -12 honour killings per year in UK

    • Michael Copeland says

      May 22, 2017 at 12:01 pm

      In Islam “honour”, of course, means “male supremacy”.

  4. john spielman says

    May 22, 2017 at 10:06 am

    where ever islam goes – it leaves a trail of blood, death and suffering behind it!

  5. mortimer says

    May 22, 2017 at 10:26 am

    REPORTING of honor killings is inaccurate because the police help to cover it up and the family lies about it in most cases.

    The Department of Justice estimated in its 2014 report that based on U.S. demographics, 23 to 27 honor killings occur in the country each year. But because of inadequate tracking systems that fail to collect necessary information on homicides, there is no reliable summary of honor killings in the U.S.

    Islam allows men to beat their wives and the Koran says mysteriously, “…As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them. Then if they obey you, seek not a way against them.” K.4.34.

    SEEK A WAY could mean anything including death. That is the way many Muslim males interpret that.

  6. Eur says

    May 22, 2017 at 11:06 am

    So feminist…. isn’t it Linda?

    • gravenimage says

      May 22, 2017 at 9:28 pm

      Yes–just one more case that gives the lie to Linda Sarsour’s blatant Taqiyya.

  7. no_one says

    May 22, 2017 at 11:16 am

    Put her name on my prayer list. We are allowed to pray for those who were not Christians counting on the mercy of our Lord. Will pray for her and for all victims of child marriage. They had no chance to be Christian and it is not their fault. Our Lord knows and will have mercy on these poor souls.

    • Kiki says

      May 22, 2017 at 11:52 am

      I’m not religious, but I’ll pray for her too: that she’s at peace, someplace safe, somewhere far away from all the suffering she went through. That poor, poor girl…..

  8. Donald R Laster Jr says

    May 22, 2017 at 11:48 am

    This is Islam and is what is to be expected by a theocracy that allows and sanctions depravity.

  9. Kiki says

    May 22, 2017 at 11:50 am

    That poor girl, forced into marriage and tortured like that….and now her 7 month old daughter will have to grow up without her mother. We need to raise awareness about this, share the story on social media.

    What really broke my heart was reading how, when she woke up, she was only concerned for her child, worried her husband would harm her too. Thank goodness the little girl is away from her father and being raised by someone else.

    Rest in peace Thameem…..we who heard your story will never forget it. We’ll do what we can to help stop honor-killings. And defend against jihad.

  10. Michael Copeland says

    May 22, 2017 at 12:05 pm

    “She was 16 years old when was taken to the … Mosque… and forced to marry….”.
    Yes, force is a characteristic of Islam:

    “Does Islam, or does it not, force people by the power of the sword to submit to its authority corporeally if not spiritually? Yes.”
    Osama bin Laden

  11. somehistory says

    May 22, 2017 at 1:07 pm

    The scum murderer was not her “husband”…he was her rapist and torturer.

    These are not *marriages.* They are contracts for daily rape and torture of children. Contracts to which the child is not a signatory. The child is made a slave to the rapist. And as in this case, a slave to a murderer.

    These scummy creatures will meet with Divine Justice.

    • Kiki says

      May 22, 2017 at 5:56 pm

      Agreed! Rapists aren’t husbands, no matter what any church or court of law says.

      The so-called husband in this article sounds a lot like Warren Jeffs! It’s scary that so many children, whether in Sri Lanka or Utah, are faced with forced marriages and rape by adults.

    • gravenimage says

      May 22, 2017 at 9:33 pm

      Very true, Somehistory.

  12. Cretius says

    May 22, 2017 at 2:12 pm

    The man is a swine and deserves no mercy.

  13. Stan Lee says

    May 22, 2017 at 4:53 pm

    Muslim marriage law grants all power to the husband, and none to the wife. In essence, she is helpless if that is what he wants her to be.
    Such power granted by shariah can turn a man with little to no self-esteem into someone brutally demonstrating his powers over her.
    There was nothing to stop him from tying her to that chair, pouring oil over her and setting her afire. He was demonstrating the power vested in him by his ideology, and she was just a disposable creature due as painful a death as he could give to her. It is really doubtful that he’ll be convicted of murder, he was “only” doing to her “what was written” as part of a husband’s powers as a worshipful Muslim. Will it ever be called murder, or simply a husband giving a wife what she deserved in his Muslim judgement?

  14. abad says

    May 22, 2017 at 8:01 pm

    That poor child.

    Her husband is going straight to hell.

  15. Guest says

    May 22, 2017 at 9:14 pm

    A country that allows this is a country that needs to be nuked.

  16. gravenimage says

    May 22, 2017 at 9:26 pm

    Sri Lanka: Muslim child marriage victim tortured and set on fire by her husband
    …………………..

    Poor girl–and her poor unborn child.

    God, I hate Islam.

  17. Sarah says

    May 23, 2017 at 6:49 am

    Dollars to donuts, this Mohammed character will show up in Australia soon enough, begging for asylum, madly lying about how he’s running from the Tamil Tigers or some such nonsense.

    The AAT will be stupid enough to grant it to him, you watch.

    Someone needs to tie him to a chair, pour oil on him and set him aflame. I do not advocate for an eye for an eye justice ordinarily- but when it comes to primitive’s like this creature, its the only justice they respect and fear.

  18. Politicianphobia says

    May 23, 2017 at 2:30 pm

    I DETEST ISLAM.

  19. Ali Bey says

    May 23, 2017 at 4:02 pm

    Don,t insult swines, Cretius, please

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