The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan, which is dominated by Imran Khan’s ruling party, has issued a decree ordering all girls in public schools to wear “a gown, abaya, veil, or chadar” to protect them from rampant harassment, sex abuse and even murder. But a backlash from children’s rights groups has caused the government to waver.
The initial government move toward the mandatory requirement for girls to cover up was in perfect obedience to Quranic texts:
(Quran 24:31) And tell the believing women to reduce of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers, their brothers’ sons, their sisters’ sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects of women. And let them not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment. And turn to Allah in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed.
If a woman does not cover, she is fair game to be assaulted:
(Quran 33:59) O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused.
Imran Khan’s government was conforming to Islamic law, which puts the onus on women for male abuse. But the problem is that male children are being abused also; the government has not addressed that.
In 2018, Pakistan had a total of 3,832 cases of child abuse….Of the total children abused, 2,094 were boys and 1,738 were girls, the report added.
The priority of the Pakistani government is not human rights. It’s Islamic law.
“School kids in Pakistan are raped, killed. So Imran Khan govt and clerics recommend abayas,” by Naila Inayat, The Print, September 19, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
In yet another absurd chain of events in Prime Minister Imran Khan’s ‘Naya Pakistan’, the ruling party’s government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa made it mandatory for girls in public schools to ‘cover themselves up’ with a gown, abaya, veil, or chadar. The reason behind the decision gave a lot away: the government, which had already circulated its order in a district a couple of days ago, believed its measure would protect the girls from “unethical incidents”.
The Imran Khan government, which is responsible for the safety of young girls and boys, hides under tradition, religious and cultural values to pass its responsibility onto the children themselves. It seriously believes that enforcing a regressive practice on schoolgirls is the best way to protect them from harassment or abuse.
But then, what is the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf government if not a bag of surprise? A day after the mandatory order, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan did what the Imran Khan government does best: take a U-turn. And why not – after all, Imran Khan is “glad” that he is called “a prime minister of U-turns”. “Only an idiot doesn’t do any U-turns; only a moron… when he comes across a wall… only that stupid idiot keeps banging his head against the brick wall,” he proudly declares…
Infidel says
Makes sense, given that the Taliban is even more popular there than in Afghanistan. And also that that was the province that gave Imran Khan his political support before it spread to Panjab and Sind.
They did mention that last year, 2000+ boys were molested, even more than the 1700 girls. There, see? Equality in Islam! ???
gravenimage says
Yes–and notice that the boys are not being told to cover, as the girls are, even so.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government makes it mandatory for schoolgirls cover up to keep from being raped
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In Islam, rapists are not the problem–the victims are.
Joe says
Rapists need to be held responsible for their crimes. Clothing is not the blame. In many cases, the non-Muslims were covered from head to toe, and they were still raped. Any criminal can cough up some excuse. Even when the victim is fully clothed, the rapist can always say that the child was not properly clothed when she was raped.
pin pin says
lmao in those backward countries, rapist makes the laws, which is one their entire country is full of rapist and retards.