I don't think they were "allowed".
We need Crusaders... and the false "religion" of Islam should be destroyed. The filth are nothing more than parasites!
Posted on 09/09/2005 5:43:47 AM PDT by SJackson
They are old predators with new vigour. Often bearded, invariably in flowing robes and expensive turbans. The rich, middle-aged Arabs increasingly stalk the deprived streets of Hyderabad like medieval monarchs would stalk their harems in days that we wrongly think are history. These Viagra enabled Arabs are perpetrating a blatant crime under the veneer of nikaah, the Islamic rules of marriage. Misusing the sanctioned provision which allows a Muslim man to have four wives at a time, many old Arabs are not just marrying minors in Hyderabad, but marrying more than one minor in a single sitting.
"The Arabs prefer teenage, virgin brides," says Jameela Nishat, who counsels and sensitises young women against the malaise. Two of her volunteers, Shahida Yasmeen and Tasneem Sultana, in their early twenties experienced the trauma of being scanned by an old Arab. A few months ago, they accompanied an undercover television reporter who was following these sham marriages. They reached a home where half a dozen other prospective brides were gathered. "It resembled a brothel. The girls were paraded before the Arab who would lift the girls' burqa, run his fingers through their hair, gaze at their figures and converse through an interpreter," says Yasmeen recalling the day.
Most girls inspected by the Arab were minors, and forced by a complex union of their parents and Islamic clerics to yield to the preliminary probes of the Arab.
Curiously, the high priests of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) and the fatwa brigade of Darul Uloom Deoband, who are gearing up to defend the legality of Islamic Courts in the Supreme Court, seem to have shut their eyes to this phenomenon that is aided and abetted by Hyderabad's Qazis or clerics.
Many Qazis prepare both marriage and divorce formalities together. While marriages require the grooms to be present, divorces are a bit different. A talaaq can be given verbally, through a letter, an email, telegraph, phone or even sms. "Many talaaqs are coming through sms these days," confirms Mufti Abdul Ahad Falahi, a Qazi at a Darul Qaza in Mumbai.
"If a woman who has received an intimation of talaaq doubts its veracity, she can check with her husband. If he accepts he has sent the message, the talaaq will be valid."
Most Qazis solemnise these sham marriages in complete violation of Islamic principles of nikaah and talaaq. A woman cannot be married off to another man unless her first husband gives her a divorce, or she has sought khula (separation) and has completed idat (a period of three menstrual cycles from the day of the talaaq).
Maulana Hameeduddin Aqil, head of a prominent Muslim body Millat-e-Islamia, dismisses such marriages as sinful. "They are committing a sin. It's not nikaah, it's prostitution by another name," says the frail, seventy five year old.
Impoverished and easily lured by the promise of a better future, many Muslim parents are increasingly pushing their daughters into this flesh trade that has a convenient respectability of an Islamic marriage. The Arabs, in collusion with the greedy Qazis, marry girls for a short period. In some cases, for a night.
On the first of August, forty five year old Al Rahman Ismail Mirza Abdul Jabbar, a Sheikh from the UAE, approached a broker in these matters, seventy year old Zainab Bi in the walled city, near the historic Char Minar. The broker procured Farheen Sultana and Hina Sultana, aged between thirteen and fifteen, for twenty thousand rupees. Then he hired Qazi Mohammed Abdul Waheed Qureshi to solemnise the marriage. The Qazi, taking advantage of an Islamic provision, married the girls off to the Arab. After the wedding night with the girls, the Arab left at dawn.
The girls' parents were promised their share of the booty by the broker but when it didn't, they went to the media. The girls are not too disturbed by the whole episode.
"The Arab would have given us money. We can't marry an Indian because our parents are too poor to pay dowry," the girls told Noorjahan Sidddiqui, a co-ordinator with Confederation of Voluntary Association, a Hyderabad-based NGO.
Muslim families that cannot afford to match the dowry demands of Indian grooms, are the first preys of old Arab grooms who not only give them the sanctity of marriage but also thousands of rupees. Unlike in India, in the Arab countries, it's the boys who pay girls the dowry. While rich Arabs go West to get white brides, transitory or otherwise, those with modest revenue streams look towards the East, especially Hyderabad where it seems, a well-oiled machinery is in place.
Hyderabad has a long history with Arabs. During their heydays, the Nizams (1724-1948) recruited many Arabs in their army. Subsequently, some of them guarded the Nizams' coffers and their harems too. Many Arabs married local girls and settled in the Barkas area of Hyderabad (it resembles an Arab street even today).
Muslim politicians in the city never took the issue seriously. "It's not on the poll agenda of any politician," says Mazhar Hussain, director of Confederation of Voluntary Associations, a social welfare outfit. Even Majlis-e-Ittihadul Muslameen, the party that Hyderabad's Muslims have voted repeatedly, has done nothing about it.
You cannot deny that the fortunes of many families have changed through such marriages," argues MIM's seventy three year old president Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi , seated at his palatial bungalow situated at a distance from the filthy slums of his faithful voters. Not politicians, not Islamic clerics, not even a majority of citizens, it appears, are too angered by the issue.
In the middle of this small world that looks part victimised and part practical, is a local mosque where a Friday sermon is coming to an end. A lanky imam reads out an "important" announcement: A Muslim body invites the faithful to discuss the evil effects of Television.
With men like that it is no wonder that women allowed themselves to be stuffed into burkahs in the first place.
Well the Prophet was a pedophile (pig poop be upon him) , so why not?
I don't think they were "allowed".
We need Crusaders... and the false "religion" of Islam should be destroyed. The filth are nothing more than parasites!
Sick culture!
If you want to call it a culture.
On the first of August, forty five year old Al Rahman Ismail Mirza Abdul Jabbar, a Sheikh from the UAE, approached a broker in these matters, seventy year old Zainab Bi in the walled city, near the historic Char Minar. The broker procured Farheen Sultana and Hina Sultana, aged between thirteen and fifteen, for twenty thousand rupees. Then he hired Qazi Mohammed Abdul Waheed Qureshi to solemnise the marriage. The Qazi, taking advantage of an Islamic provision, married the girls off to the Arab. After the wedding night with the girls, the Arab left at dawn.
Classy guy.
Dirty Old Men!!!!!!!!!!!!
They are old predators with new vigour. Often bearded, invariably in flowing robes and expensive turbans
Michael Jackson?
You need to relax.
Destroying Islam by the sword is the way they think, not us. We aren't engaged in a religious war. This is a war against monsters who wear the cloak of religion to mask their true natures.
Don't know much about history, do you?
If you don't think it is "religious", you must be blind, or just can't understand facts.
A.- The Islamic "Jihad" is led by "Mullahs", or religious leaders, within various sects of Islam. Each has his own agenda, but are all dedicated to the eradication of any other "religion".
B.- There are always monsters and predators, within every religious organization. Cloaks aren;t always flowing robes. they also come in 3-pc suits, and backwards collars. Evidence- Jimmy Swaggart, Catholic pedophiles.
C.- Ephesians 6:12 - For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
As a Christian, I know that all battles are spiritual. Some are fought on battlefields, some in alleys, but most, are successfully prosecuted on our knees.
In the case of Islamist fundamentalists, they are largely uneducated, taught their "religious duties" from the cradle, and must conform or be killed, themselves. There is no chance for them to escape, short of the sword, or by blowing themselves up, "for Allah". Their "religion" is forced on them.
You say "relax"... tell it to the Marines, in Iraq/Afghanistan/the other hot Islamic hotspots...
They don't want us to relax... they duck the lead!
What solution do you recommend?
You're a fool.
Michael Jackson, currenting residing in Dubai.
Namecalling probably isn't the best way to make a point. Islam means submit (or die). Or be raped, in this case.
Do you just like the sound of the word... or do you have any solutions. You seem to be like the press over the NO debacle. You seem to have lots of criticism, but no clue about the causes, nor the results, of the calamity?
A.- Do you think it is alright to force 13 yr old girls to marry for one night, so their family can receive a dowry? I don't.
B.= Do you think most Islamists would remain within their "religious community" if given the chance? How many do you think would convert to a religion of "choice"?
C.- Do you believe in God? Satan does...!
Rather than call names, why don't you respond with an intelligent rebuttal to my premise? Or, is that too difficult?
I have always thought that the reason Arab men want teenage virgins as bed partners is that they do not desire enough knowledge to invite comparison...
Shameful. But the feminists never want to talk about the plight of women and why toppling Arab regimes is a worthy cause. That said, the Iraqi constitution isn't all it could be on human rights. The Turks did much better for their women.
You only continue to make my point. Take your bigoted, narrow minded world view and bother someone else.
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