On Monday, May 31, Delhi Police arrested a 48-year-old Muslim cleric on charges of raping a minor girl inside a mosque in northeast Delhi. It is alleged that the 12-year-old had gone inside the mosque on Sunday night to fetch water; upon her return, she told her parents what she had endured in the mosque. The girl’s parents filed a complaint with the Delhi Police on Sunday night. The police began a search and arrested the accused, who was from Gaziabad’s Loni, on Monday. The cleric, who is married and has four children, has been “booked under section 376 [rape] of the Indian Penal Code and relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act,” said the police.
As heinous as the crime is, one would expect that woke-liberal-feminist activists, especially those hailing from Bollywood (the Indian film industry), would flood their Instagram and Twitter handles with outraged condemnations of the act. Yet not one of these flag-bearers of morality and icons of outrage could summon up enough courage to do so.
Why? Is it because they want to keep from being labeled “Islamophobes” for slamming a rape-accused mullah? Or have the occurrences of clerics who have mastered Islamic theology and sacred law committing rapes of children inside Muslim religious venues become so rampant and common on the Indian subcontinent that they hardly surprise anyone anymore?
Back in April of this year, a 14-year-old girl was raped by a moulvi (a Muslim religious scholar) named Zafru inside a mosque in Alwar, Rajasthan. In this case, the girl had not gone to the mosque voluntarily, but was abducted from her house, taken to the mosque, and raped. Zafru, who had a wife and two children, then threw the minor into a nearby well and fled the town with his family. The girl was rescued by the police with the help of local people.
The events surrounding these rapes get weirder with every occurrence. The villagers of Katra, Muzaffarpur took turns sending meals to the cleric of a local mosque. Back in January 2019, when a 15-year-old girl went to deliver food to the cleric at the mosque, he sedated her and subsequently raped her inside the venue. He also made a video in the process. She was threatened into silence and was repeatedly raped at the mosque, resulting in a pregnancy, which broke the news to the locals.
In March 2019, a minor girl was lured inside a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan by cleric Qari Saeed. The cleric, as it is alleged, had promised to give her good-luck bearing amulets, and sexually assaulted her in a room inside the mosque. In August 2020, a disturbing video emerged on the internet from Pakistan’s Sindh province. The viral video showed a Muslim cleric raping a minor boy while he was reading the Quran in the prayer house.
When it comes to sexually abusing minors, the madrassas have also contributed a fair share of headlines. A madrassa manager along with five others was accused of raping an 11-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghosi in 2018. In August 2020, a 25-year-old madrassa teacher from Raipur, Chhattisgarh, was booked for raping his nine-year-old student, whom he taught Urdu. These Islamic religious schools are awash with instances of molestation of minor boys. It is an open secret and an accepted way of life here. In February 2018, a lone student of Madrasa Darul-Hudda in Baramulla was called by his teacher into his room, where, right after wrapping up his morning prayer, the teacher molested the minor boy. Other students were arriving at the mosque to study the Qur’an when this incident took place.
This episode stands out in itself, not because of the nature of crime, but because of its timing. As we have come to conclude from several news reports, madrassa teachers generally take boys with them during nighttime to perform unnatural sex acts. It is hence unique that the Madrasa Darul-Hudda teacher allegedly chose the morning, after prayer time, to accomplish the act.
In another shocking instance, Kashmiri Maulvi Aijaz Shaikh was accused of raping scores of minor boys under the pretext of warding off evil paranormal elements, and was booked under section 377 of Jammu & Kashmir’s Ranbir Penal Code. Parents would voluntarily send their children as young as 11- to 14-year-olds to have the “evil eye” removed by the maulvi. The teacher of the Qur’an and Arabic in a local school would not only sexually exploit them, but when he had collected several boys, he would make them perform sexual activities on each other, and watched them all night.
Islamic schools and mosques in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are infested with crimes of the sexual abuse of children, irrespective of gender. However, seldom has any exemplary judgement been pronounced to punish the perpetrators. What is even rarer is for the family members of the minor victims to file formal complaints of sexual abuse against these institutions, fearing social backlash and victim-blaming.
Indian media treats these cases with kid gloves, lest reporting on them ends up infuriating the demographic that is known to gather in mobs and target establishments and their facilities. Hence, in many cases, they have been found guilty of manipulating facts by giving out misleading headlines that suggest that Hindu priests have committed the atrocious sexual assaults. Only when one reads the entire article and locates the name of the culprit does one realizes that the perpetrator is a Muslim and not a Hindu. Again, most people tend to glance over the headlines and scroll to the next. Hence the truth remains obscured, just the way the media intended.
SAFI says
Remind me again what does Allah’s perfect Law dictate on this? It’s been a while since I looked that up but I seem to remember something about the girl needing to bring no less than four eye-witnesses willing to testify that he raped her in order for anything bad to happen to this muslim holly-man. Thank the Gods India has its own infidel laws , cause it’s virtually impossible to prosecute a rapist under islamic sharia
SAFI says
Sorry I forgot to clarify that the witnesses have to be all male, if four women witness the crime that doesn’t count. In addition to that failure to produce those four male witnesses will be taken as evidence that the girl has committed “adultery” instead and will be punished for that.
SAFI says
The fact she was a minor should of course play no role. There’s no age of consent in Allah’s perfect law, the Prophet made that clear by marrying pre-pubescent girls himself when he was in his 50s…
Raconteur says
These Muslim clergy and religious institutions not only condone but mastermind this
In biggest grooming gang type sex scandal in India,1992 Ajmer Dargah scandal the culprit Muslim Shrine top management & owners family in which hundreds of girls school students were raped and blackmailed with photographs
Watch below video about this biggest organized gang rape
Read more in detail section of video
https://youtu.be/XoJZdMe9hFo
gravenimage says
And little boys are also regularly victimized.
Keith O says
These sorts of actions tell us a lot about the pure evil that is in the hearts and minds of men when they are quite willing to plan out and commit sexual assaults/rapes against children in their “holy places”.
This sickening phenomenon is not restricted to Islam.
The case of Cardinal George Pell who was charged and convicted of raping alter boys in St Marys Cathedral in Sydney.
gravenimage says
The fact that Islam actually sacralizes the abuse and rape of little girls and boys–and that the “Prophet” himself indulged–means that this is likely far more rife in Islam.
Keith O says
Too true, Kiddy fiddlers are everywhere but the really perverse bastards bang their heads on the floor.
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
India: Muslim cleric booked for raping minor girl in a mosque, but what’s new?
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Grimly, there is nothing new about these horrors–except that in this case the crime is actually being prosecuted.
Thanks for this expose by Ashlyn Davis.
Raja says
India is a strange country. It still does not know how to deal with a rapist. There are lots of escape routes for the perpetrators of all kinds of crimes. The criminal justice system is one of the worst in the world. A bribe of 20-30 dollars at the initial stages can blot the crime.
India is perhaps the only nation where police and politicians make a living on bribes, the system is just conducive for all criminals.For the mullahs, India must be a rape-paradise, they are encouraged by the devil and protected by the state.
Mera Bharat mahan. (My india is great, a slogan coined by hypocritical late PM Rajiv Gandhi and probably by the first PM)
Infidel says
+10
Walter Sieruk says
Once in a Islamic propaganda booklet written for uninformed and nice Westerners , in it , it had a picture of another minor girl, little girl with her pet kitten and under that photo was printed the words
“Islam is a religion that respects life, all life.”
What a lot o balderdash , that’s statement is a blatant falsehood lie if there ever was on
Walter Sieruk says
I keyboarded error the last two word should not had been “was on ” but “was one,”
Nonetheless, its all stands that it’s a bogus claim that “Islam respects life, a life”
For the awful reality is Islam does not respect life, any life.
Jayell says
Not many years ago there was a charming documentary on British TV about the goings-on in a mosque, which included a scene with an imam ‘instructing’ his young pupils in a way that would get him arrested in a normal school. We didn’t get to see what else went on. And people think it’s OK to take pot shots at the Catholic Church, but not this lot!
Eddie says
Catholic church doesnt come out and try to kill you and your family for speaking the truth.
Giacomo Latta says
”the demographic that is known to gather in mobs and target establishments and their facilities”
Ah, yes, Norwegian grandmothers have struck again. Perhaps we should all use such euphemisms and if a certain sector of the population, say, the demographic that is known to gather in mobs and target establishments and their facilities, should insist that they are the target then let them prove how and why it cannot be them.
Bhaskar Mittal says
The cleric should be treated as per their own law – Shariah Law. Cut him in Public.
Infidel says
Except that shariah law would demand 4 witnesses, whereas in this case, her word was enough to book him – as it should be
Infidel says
One glaring aspect about the silence of India’s ‘Secularists’ on this story is that they don’t care about this pedophilia even though the victims were muslimah kids, not their hated expendable Hindu kids. In other words, they are fine w/ any crime as long as it’s done by muslims.
As I suggested yesterday, they should all be rounded up and extradited to Pakistan, even if they are non-muslim Indian citizens
OLD GUY says
And Biden/Harris are ok with these child raping migrants moving into our neighborhoods. Open borders will subject our daughters to these muslim/islamic child abusers. Under islam child marriage and sex with 12yr olds fits their religious teachings. Why are our political leaders so dam afraid of standing up against these atrocities and restricting their migration into our country?
Halaku says
Mullahs raping kids is commonplace and under-reported. And the Indian media warily carries the few reports that do come out in some inside page as a minor incident. And misdirection is common with headlines like ‘Godman rapes minor’; Godman being a term contemptuously and loosely used for Hindu religious leaders and mendicants by India’s English media. I would be curious to know if any of the rapists has been brought to justice.