Zameer Ahmed is simply repeating a standard Islamic belief. The Qur’an says: “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. And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful.” (33:59) The implication there is that if women do not cover themselves adequately with their outer garments, they may be abused, and that such abuse would be justified.
This is why rape victims in Pakistan and other Muslim countries are often imprisoned or punished in other ways.
“Rape Cases Highest In Country Because Women Don’t Wear Hijab, Claims Karnataka MLA,” by Shweta Sengar, India Times, February 14, 2022:
Amid the hijab row in Karnataka’s schools and colleges, a Congress MLA in the state claimed that the rate is highest in India because some women don’t wear hijab.
“Hijab means ‘parda’ (veil) in Islam. It is for hiding the beauty of girls when they come of age. Today you can see that the rape rate is the highest in our country. What do you think is the reason for this? The reason is that several women don’t wear hijab,” said the MLA, Zameer Ahmed.
Going further with his atrocious logic, the Congress MLA, speaking to news agency ANI, said, “But, wearing hijab is not compulsory, only those who want to protect themselves and those who don’t want to show their beauty to everyone wear it. This has been in practice for years.”
Zameer is not the first political leader to make such misogynistic remarks blaming women’s attire for men going astray and harassing them.
Four days ago, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s political secretary MP Renukacharya made a regressive statement that women should not wear attire that ‘excite and provoke men’.
BexarKat says
Very interesting line of thought.
As is much of Islam is a religion that steals their ideology from Judaism and Christianity, we might note that Muslim women cover their hair because orthodox Jewish women do as well.
Jewish women cover either by a head or scarf covering or more modernly by wigs.
However, here this politician claims rapes are high because women do not wear hijabs,
but Jewish women wear their hair covered because of a history of actual rapes that occurred.
mortimer says
Good points from BK. The real reason is in Sharia law. There is no punishment for a Muslim rapist in Sharia law, if he rapes a kafir.
THAT is the reason that the Muslim rape stats are high in every Muslim population.
Our slogan: ‘It’s the IDEOLOGY, stupid.’
gravenimage says
BexarKat, in only a few sects of Judaism do women cover their hair. More importantly, Judaism *does not* call for the rape of women who expose their hair.
revereridesagain says
Well, in India it isn’t as if they can claim the women’s skirts are too short.
Infidel says
Precisely. Even if women are dressed in pants/t-shirts or saris, they still get targeted.
Walter Sieruk says
What that Muslim politician said only further proves true the old saying, which is that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.”
Those Muslim males who commit the rapes need to “man up” and take responsibility for their own actions and stop trying to shift the blame the for their vile heinous horrendous behavior on the victims who are the women who they had raped.
Walter Sieruk says
“Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent – the Lord detests them both.”
The NIV Bible , Proverbs 17:15.
somehistory says
Blame it on the Bossa nova…no, wait it’s a mozlum speaking, so blame it on the victim.
Rape by mozlums happen due to the women not following the demands of the lusty mozlum terrorists who like to terrorize women by sexual assaults.
Bombings by mozlums happen because other nations don’t like mozlum terror attacks.
Beheadings, torture, stabbing, strangulations, etc. by mozlums happen because infidels and mozlum family members don’t want to be dictated to, but wish a little freedom to choose.
Yes, it’s all the fault of the victims. And yet, the mozlums play the victim card when these things happen…and still, it is the fault of the infidels. mozlums get to have it both ways.
Keith O says
Unfortunately spot on.
Mudslimes want and get it both ways, blaming the victim for the horrors inflicted upon them and claiming to be the victim when they are called to account.
somehistory says
Thank you.
unbeliever1 says
It seems that Muslims have a different way of reasoning than logically thinking people.
abu taleb says
Muslims seem to forget that most of the rapists are muslims. Are they raping the non hijab women as a punishment? And why most rapists are muslims, including pious and learnt muslims like teachers and clerics.
Hijab is supposed to protect women from whom? From the muslims, not from the non muslims, so it tells us that Islam creates environment to enable raping women.
somehistory says
“it tells us that Islam creates environment to enable raping women.”
That is it in a nutshell.
James Lincoln says
abu taleb says,
“Hijab is supposed to protect women from whom? From the muslims, not from the non muslims”
Perfectly stated, my compliments.
gravenimage says
India: Muslim politician claims rape rate is high because women don’t wear hijab
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Is he admitting that most of the rapists in India are Muslim? It sure sounds like it, since Muslims are the ones apt to recognize the Hijab as a sign that they should leave her unmolested and instead rape an unveiled victim.
OLD GUY says
Just how weak are Muslim men? Seeing a women’s hair makes them commit RAPE. Seeing a person burn a Qur’an makes them murder the guy burning it. Blowing up strangers because they don’t like non-muslims. Something is wrong with their minds or what they are taught from early childhood.
Islamonauseoic says
No, the rape rate is high in India because Muslim men, for some reason, can’t seem to manage to control their sexual urges and they blame women for that. These men need to be re-educated.