"Whatever was I thinking staying stateside? EEEE-HEEE!"
Posted on 10/07/2005 1:24:16 AM PDT by goldstategop
Indian media have been publishing exposés documenting the foul behavior of Gulf Arabs in the southern Indian town of Hyderabad “Fly-by-night bridegrooms,” by R Akhileshwari in the Deccan Herald and “One minor girl, many Arabs,” by Mohammed Wajihuddin in the Times of India are two important examples. Wajihuddin sets the stage:
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.
(I have silently corrected some typos). Wajihuddin then specifies the problem:
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.
The Arabs usually “marry” the girls for short periods, sometimes just a single night. In fact, Wajihuddin reports, marriage and divorce formalities are often prepared at the same time, thereby expediting the process for all involved. Akhileshwari notes that “their girl children are available for as little as 5,000 rupees to satisfy the lust of doddering old Arab men.” Five thousand rupees, by the way, equals just a bit over US$100.
An Indian television program recently reported on a show-casing of eight prospective brides, most of them minors, at which they were offered up to their Arab suitors. “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,” recalls one of Nishat’s assistants.
Wajihuddin also offers a specific case history:
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 [DP comment: that equals US$450]. Then he hired Qazi [DP comment: an Islamic judge, usually spelled qadi in English] 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.
So much for that “marriage.”
Sunita Krishnan, head of an anti human-trafficking organization, Prajwala, makes the only too-obvious point that girl children are not valued. “If a girl child is sold or her life ruined, it is not a national loss, that’s why this is a non-issue, both for community and to society.” With the exception of Maulana Hameeduddin Aqil, the head of Millat-e-Islamia (a local organization, apparently not connected the notorious Pakistani terrorist group), who speaks out against these sham marriages (“They are committing a sin. It’s not nikaah, it’s prostitution by another name”), the Islamic authorities in India are almost all silent about this travesty of the Shari’a.
For their part, Muslim politicians in the city of Hyderabad apparently could care less. “It’s not on the poll agenda of any politician,” says Mazhar Hussain, director of a social welfare organization, the Confederation of Voluntary Associations. The Majlis-e-Ittihadul Muslameen, the main party of Hyderabad’s Muslims, is blissfully unconcerned: “You cannot deny that the fortunes of many families have changed through such marriages,” MIM’s president, Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, cheerfully points out.
Comments:
(1) Ironically, the girls thus proffered appear all to be Muslim – no Hindus or others need apply.
(2) The behavior of Arabs in India in some way parallels that of Japanese and Westerners in Thailand, with the notable difference that the Indian case involves marriage, an emphasis on virginity, and local authorities seemingly pleased with providing their minor girls for sex tourism.
(3) Arabian sex tourism is not exclusive to India but also takes place in other poor countries.
(4) This trade in persons is merely one dimension of a problem that prevails through Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states (for another dimension, see “Saudis Import Slaves to America”).
(5) Concubinage, forced labor, indentured servitude, slavery – these deep problems are nowhere near being addressed in the Gulf region, much less solved. Indeed, one prominent Saudi theologian has gone so far as to state that “Slavery is a part of Islam” and whoever says it should be abolished “is an infidel.” So long as such attitudes can be articulated publicly, without censure, abuses are certain to continue.
(6) The hypocrisy of this trade is perhaps its vilest aspect. Better prostitution, frankly acknowledged, than religiously-sanctioned fake marriages, for the former is understood to be a vice while the latter parades as a virtue.
(7) Wajihuddin compares the Arabian men to “medieval monarchs” and the analogy is apt. These transactions, involving Muslim minors and conducted under the auspices of Islamic law, point yet again to the dominance of premodern ways in the Muslim world and the urgent need to modernize the Islamic religion.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Not too big of a surprise. I was in the USAF for 10 years and bounced around alot. In Europe I saw those righteous, holy muslims trying to bed down as many infidel Euro babes they could. I was in Africa a few times and the locals hated the Arabs for the same reason. No, I'm not surprised. The MSM won't touch it because CAIR would be on them quicker than flies on roadkill.
"Whatever was I thinking staying stateside? EEEE-HEEE!"
It is even worse than this. (At least, this kind of behavior will get them in trouble with Muslim women.)
In the Gulf states & Saudi Arabia, there are thousands of Filipinos and other Asian female servants. They are seduced or raped by their employers. When children are born they are not allowed to leave the country with their mothers. They are raised in institutions with no contact with the outside world. No visitors allowed. Not acknowledged. The indigent people shun them yet will not allow them to leave. Beyond sad.
This isn't a Muslim issue. It's an Arab one. Reforming Islam wouldn't change this. They're getting one sick, backwards culture confused with another.
LOL...
Dubai is the center of such stuff
Do you mean prostitutes or false marriages?
(2) The behavior of Arabs in India in some way parallels that of Japanese and Westerners in Thailand, with the notable difference that the Indian case involves marriage, an emphasis on virginity, and local authorities seemingly pleased with providing their minor girls for sex tourism.
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Thailand has a buncha hookers but anyone coming here for kiddies is going to go to a very nasty jail for a long time before being deported back to their own country to serve some more jail time.
Most of the kiddie fiddlers here are not western (or Japanese). They are homegrown or from other nearby countries (especially the big one that begins with a C) and they rarely see the inside of a jail.
Prostitutes parade around the ritzy hotels but I haven't heard that virgins are sold at cheap prices as brides for a night. Doubt that would be tolerated in the land of the sheikhs.
No doubt the typical reaction to this story in the Muslim world will be outrage that the young girls were allowed to live after disgracing their husbands so. Don't they know how to do a proper stoning in Hyderabad?
China, I presume. But why would they not see the inside of jail? No justice in Thailand or are they feared? or favored?
The country is 10-15% chinese. The only chinese rich enough to travel abroad are rich therefore very likely political. Loads of chinatowns, loads of chinese so they can keep it in the community whereas a westerner would go through someone they did not know/had no relation with. Most times the westerner's pimp friend does a deal with the police and gets some more cash. The papers have a field day and everyone gets to point out how wicked westerners are while ignoring what the other 95% of residents get up to.
On the whole a very nice country but with it's faults.
And to be fair it took the west a long time to deal with the problem, or even recognise it. As the country grows economically they become more educated and hopefully will do more about it. They are trying to get rid of this child-sex image but seem only to concentrate on westerners (which is still a good thing - Thai prisons are notoriously bad so the right place to put these people - but they should widen the scope a bit more)
All cultures are the same and one is not superior to the other. If Arab dinosaurs are going around raping little girls, well that is their culture and imperialist America should just mind it's own business.
This is multiculturalism and this is what our kids are indoctrinated with in the government schools. This thought process is what enables normal-looking people to, with a straight face, look at barbarity and cruelty around the world in the year 2005 and not see any problem at all.
Top fellow from the Public Health Dept of our city came into the office with an STD. Single fellow. Seems he took a trip to Thailand and had unprotected sex. Talk about dumb. My partner took care of him -- was so disgusted that she didn't lower her voice when she talked about it in the hallway. He probably heard her disgust.
It is interesting. On one hand their is a sex industry which is out in the open but on the other the girls here have a lot more freedom in their actions, they often get treated like normal employees and can leave their job at anytime. Many go from bar to bar trying to find the best place to make money.
I know in the UK everything is underground and run by the east european and russian gangsters and the majority of women are forced.
Being in my twenties and not fat, bald or generally disgusting I am lucky that I do not need to frequent these places, in fact they are pretty horrid. Full of fat, old men and women who have done many things with fat, old men. Not exactly a turn on.
In Thailand they are forced more by easy money than by violence.
Islam is submission, so this Arab scholar has it exactly right
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