“A third comment said that the lives of Muslim girls who forget Allah will end in tears and suicide.”
This is how women are kept in line in Sharia states: by fear.
“Reactions to Malayali vlogger’s death show attempts to silence women with a voice,” The News Minute, March 5, 2022 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
In a video posted more than a year ago on YouTube, a young woman, not yet 20, is giving a Malayalam tutorial on wearing a hijab. She removes the shawl she is wearing, asking to be excused for it, while she demonstrates the tying up of hair and the pinning of the hijab on top of it. It seems there was criticism on some previous posts of hers when she appeared without a hijab. The young woman is apologetic as she explains it away as a moment of excitement on straightening her hair, and adds immediately that she is coming back to her old ways, for “what you like is what I like”.
Her name was Rifa Mehnu, and she was a star on social media, with lakhs of followers on Instagram. News of her unexpected death on Tuesday morning brought varied reactions from social media users. She was too young, 20, married and with a kid, living in Dubai. Mehnu (Mehnaz), her husband, reportedly found her dead when he came back home in the early hours of Tuesday, March 1, some time past midnight. Only hours earlier, she had spoken to her family back home in Balussery, a town in rural Kozhikode. She spoke to her toddler son over a video call, a report in Mathrubhumi said.
Both Mehnu and Rifa appeared regularly on Instagram, even on a music album cover. In her last video on Instagram, the couple is seen visiting a restaurant in Dubai and tasting their Kozhikode food. That was posted Monday, February 28, hardly a day before she died.
Oddities began to emerge a little after Rifa’s death, when Mehnu reportedly posted a video about it as an Instagram story and the police got him to remove it. Mehnu found her body in the wee hours of Tuesday and hinted that it was a case of suicide. But Rifa’s family back home is suspicious of the circumstances of her death and reportedly wants further investigation. The Balussery police were not available for comments when TNM tried to reach them.
Reports also suggest that Rifa had been working in Dubai, and Mehnu, whose visa was about to expire, insisted she go back to Kerala with him.
It is, however, not the suspicious circumstances or the unexpected death that seem to have triggered angry comments across social media. Random users are apparently furious about the kind of popularity Rifa enjoyed on Instagram. They have been posting derogatory comments on the “extent certain women went to”, to become stars on social media.
Shimna Azeez, doctor and writer, posted several screenshots of these comments. One of the comments in a screenshot said that Rifa’s death was a lesson to all Muslim women who “showed off on Instagram”. Another said that a few girls in his town were “queens” of Instagram and in the end they had to suffer, bringing “shame” to the entire town. A third comment said that the lives of Muslim girls who forget Allah will end in tears and suicide….
mortimer says
This is what happens to Muslim women who get ‘UPPITY’. They cease to exist.
Islam is an ‘HONOR/SHAME’ culture. A man who has ‘uppity’ women under him is shamed. He must reassert his authority, and recover his ‘honor’ by shedding blood.
Shame can be eliminated by revenge. This is sanctioned by the Qur’an (sura Xl,173). “Believers, retaliation is decreed for you in bloodshed.” Koran 11.173
“The right to life of women (in Pakistan) … is conditional on their obeying social norms and traditions.” -Hina Jilani, Pakistani lawyer and women’s rights activist
“If one surrenders, then she is honorable; if you don’t comply with, if you argue back, if you commit suicide, if you risk death to get married with the one you love, then you are dishonorable…If you have a free soul, you cannot be honorable…” -Female, aged 30, interviewed in Şanlıurfa, Turkey
“I would rather die than lose my honour…Our whole life is founded on honour. If we lose it, we have no life, we become swine. If we lose our honour, we are just like swine. We’re no better than animals.” -Sirhan, age 35, interviewed in ABC documentary The Lost Honor of Sirhan after serving a six month sentence in Jordan for killing his sister who had fallen victim to rape, 2003
somehistory says
So her husband hushed her because she didn’t want to return with him; and he gets support…calling it suicide…from mozlums who see women as beneath respect and easily eliminated when the females just won’t do as the males demand .
islam commands husbands to order their wives around and the women can expect a beating for not doing exactly…or if the husband “fears” she is about to be obstinate; but so many just strangle or beat them to death or slice and dice them to death. There is no love in islam…only lust.
Where and with whom is her little boy? No chance at a normal life for him.
Walter Sieruk says
The death of this young women who was so young she was still more the most part still a girl is very tragic and sad the callous remarks made about, by a number of Muslims , her about now being dead reveals that Islam hardens the human heart to such a terrible extent that such cruel malice filled statement are spoken.
tim gallagher says
I think that islam uses endless terror and threats of murderous violence to keep all people in line. That idea of killing people who decide to leave the stinking religious ideology, apostates, is a clear example. Islam is nothing but a bunch of Mafia like gangsters who stand over everyone, whether Muslim or non-Muslims, and this young woman is yet another of Islam’s endless victims. There are so many of these killings, these “honour” killings. islam is a disgusting, thuggish ideology that doesn’t belong in this modern world. From that young woman’s smile, she looked as if she had the potential to live a happy life, except for unfortunately being trapped as a member of Islam where people, especially women are so expendable..
Bikinis not Burkas says
Quran 33:33 says you must stay in your home, so you can follow:-
The perfect man, NOT, defective DNA.
Muhammad was WHITE!
http://quranx.com/Hadith/Muslim/Reference/Hadith-2340/
Muhammad was a dwarf and fat!
http://sunnah.com/abudawud/42/154
OLD GUY says
I guess that if you are a muslim women who defends sharia you are either stupid or afraid for your life to say anything against your wonderful life style of servitude and abuse. My sympathy to all women who maybe living under the fear of violence from any man. And to the male abuser may you rot in hell.
John Allan says
‘A third comment said that the lives of Muslim girls who forget Allah will end in tears and suicide….’
THEY should be the more concerned about their believing, so devoutly, in a non-existent entity!