“There is no compulsion in religion” (Qur’an 2:256), but it is unlikely that Rafik and his wife would consider how they treated this woman to be compulsion. The rape was justified on the basis of the Qur’an allowance for the sexual enslavement of the “captives of the right hand” (4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50 and 70:30), and the pressure to convert to Islam was then offered as a means to save her soul from the hellfire that would be due her for being raped, i.e., enticing a man when it is every woman’s responsibility to ensure that he is not enticed.
“Couple arrested in Karnataka for forcing married woman to convert to Islam,” PTI, April 23, 2024:
Belagavi, A couple was arrested after a 28-year-old married woman accused them of allegedly forcing her to convert to Islam by threatening to circulate her private photographs, police said on Monday.
The victim also alleged that she was raped by the man, Rafik, in front of his wife on several occasions when she was staying with them at a rented house since 2021, police said.
According to the police, the woman also alleged in her complaint that this month, the couple forced her to wear a burqa instead of “kumkum” and also forced her to perform namaaz five times in a day. Rafik also threatened to circulate her intimate pictures to her family members and others if she did not divorce her husband, convert to Islam and live with them, she said in the complaint.
The victim got married in 2013 and has two children. In 2020, she met Rafik at her husband’s grocery store which he visited frequently and later befriended her. They also got involved in a physical relationship, which her husband got to know later. This led to a quarrel and she left her husband’s house, a senior police officer said.
After a gap of about two months, she returned to her husband’s house on the condition that she would end her relationship with Rafik, but when she conveyed that to him, he started threatening her with her private pictures, he said.
The woman continued to stay in touch with Rafik but when her husband got to know about it, they had a quarrel and she left her husband’s house and began staying with the accused and his wife, the officer added. The victim has been staying with the couple since 2021 and she alleged that the accused raped her multiple times in front of his wife, the officer said….
SC says
In the words of that famous British monarch QE I
“Orf with his head” and his wifes head. But to make it more appropriate give him a penectomy and castration first without anaesthetic.
OLD GUY says
Sadly this is coming to a neighborhood near us sooner than we think. Open borders brings you DIVERSITY alright and violence, rape and death.
abu taleb says
The weird thing is that the tiny 2-3% minority of Christians in India are accused of doing genocide toward the Indian Hindu.
No wonder the muslims keep attacking the Hindu, it is the Christians who are doing the genocide, not the muslims.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, that’s what’s been going on in Manipur, where Christian Kukis, who occupy 90% of the state land, are massacring Hindu Meiteis, who occupy just the 10% in and around the capital Imphal. While both central & state govts look the other way
bill says
There seems to be some mental and/or moral confusion in the story. If she had a home and family why did she go and live with a muslim?