Vani and swara
Written by The Resista Monday, 07 August 2006 13:03
Vani and swara, is a practice found not exclusively in Pakistan whereby girls given away in marriage, often at ridiculously young ages, to act as compensation for the crimes or transgressions of a male relative. It would not be unusual for child under 10 to be wed to an adult male. Just as it is illegal in Pakistan to commit an honor killing there are laws against this disgusting Islamic tradition also. Pakistan passed the anti-vani law in January of this year. However the law is enforced so rarely as to not even exist. The same is true for prosecution of honor killings.
In Saudi Arabia, a woman's testimony in court is worth half that of a man's testimony if her husband divorces any kids are now solely under his caring. The mother has whatever rights the husband gives her.
In Pakistan, Zina (fornication) law says extramarital sex is punishable by public whipping or even stoning to death. If a woman is raped, she runs a high risk of being charged with zina, particularly if she becomes pregnant. In order to prove an absence of consent however, a woman is required to provide four witnesses to the rape, a near impossible task. The punishments are often not stayed.
And this on females living under Islam from one of Islams biggest heroes Khomeini who said: "A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate. If he penetrates and the child is harmed then he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. This girl however would not count as one of his four permanent wives. The man will not be eligible to marry the girl's sister."-(What a wise sage)
Is it any wonder that men in such places are inculcated with a uber Misogyny? The wonderful enlightened free woman of America scares them. It threatens their little domestic dictatorships. Hatred and oppression of woman is the only outlet of freedom they poses. In the home they are the kings. When you live in a dictatorship like Saudi Arabia this domestic overlord-ship provides some sense of control over your life. Maybe that’s why Islam sees democracy as such a threat? Democracy encourages woman to a life beyond the slavery of he husbands house.
Certainly not all women in strict Islamic homes guided by sharia are oppressed underlings whose function is to sever her husbands or fathers or brothers needs. But so many do that it is high on the radar screens of all western human rights organizations.
Again I call for Islam to have a reformation. Grow up! This is the 21st century, and baby we’ve come along way.
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