Posted on 01/22/2002 11:21:58 PM PST by Madiuq
Girls, five to 17 years old, and young boys — daughters and sons of Afghan refugees — are being auctioned off in the lawless frontier areas of Pakistan, according to a US newspaper.
In a dispatch from Jamrud, Pakistan, The Washington Times reported that the girls are sold into prostitution or live-in servitude in Pakistan, or join the harems of the rich in West Asia, while the boys are in demand for camel races.
The trade, the paper said, is thriving. Girls are auctioned off in a large rectangular room where intricate Afghan carpets cover the floor and pillows serve as seats for low tables.
Buyers puff on hookahs as the girls, escorted by an elderly woman, walk to a dais in the centre of the room dressed only in thin cotton smocks. Before purchase, a buyer has the right to remove the tunic and inspect the girl in front of the crowd.
Dozens of locals say Afghan girls between the ages of 5 and 17 are sold in the range of $80-100. The price depends on the colour of their eyes and skin. If they are virgins, the price is higher.
Assalamalikaum mufti sahib. A few brothers approached me and put to me that Islam allows a man to have a relationship with both his wife and his slave/servant girl. Is this true, and if so what is the case if there is more than one slave/servant girl as I thought that in Islam, a man is only allowed to have an intimate relationship with his wife/s only and no one else. Jazakallah khair for your help
Answer 4533 2002-01-03
A man may have intimate relations with his wife or slave girl. This applies no matter how many slave girls one may possess. He may not have intimate relations with his servant. A slave is one whom one physically owns. Since slavery is not in vogue nowadays, this does not apply today.
Refer attached, 'Slavery'
and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best
Mufti Ebrahim Desai FATWA DEPT.
http://www.islam.tc/ask-imam/view.php?q=4533
A lot of people go outside the US for this reason- they don't want to go through a nightmare custody battle and maybe lose.
Eclectic: "This nation is sick"
Am I misinterpreting what you mean? Are you saying it's "sick" for American families to want to help orphaned children? Because that's what it sure sounds like you are saying...
Pakistan is not what we would consider a unified country. Originally, Pakistan was made up of land taken from a slightly older Afghanistan and land taken from India. The hope was that the similar cultures of the parts would be cohesive. But in the end, the chunk of Pakistan up there next to Afghanistan remains alienated from the southern part of Pakistan, so much so that the pieces may as well be two countries. The central government of Pakistan rules over the south but the inhospitable north is for all practical purposes lawless. Things go on there that the government has no power to stop or regulate.
You get a mild version of that when you compare Quebec with the rest of Canada. Or Northern Ireland with the rest of Great Britain. Or eventually, what we'll see in the southwestern US when compared with the rest of the country. Once group or tribal identity becomes more critical than nationality, nations lose their cohesiveness and risk civil war, anarchy, or at least increasing lawlessness.
Oh, good!It had me worried for minute that it was all being handled through the Ministry of Surplus Property Disposal! < /sarcasm>
For a military dictatorship with the capacity to install an unpopular government in a foriegn country and support its world-wide and cross-border terorist activities, you'd think they have enough power to control this lawlessnes. Unless, the Islamic country believes this practice is consistent with its religion.
The Prime Directive of liberalism: FEELING good about oneself is the most important thing in all the world, while DOING good is for fools.
You see it in the brutality that occurred in Afghanistan, both by and against the Taliban. You see it in the slave trade. You see it in the eagerness by some to die as "martyrs" for the cause of the day.
Maybe it's because of the enormous population in that region, and some of the squalid living conditions. Maybe it's just the culture. I'm not sure.
But it certainly makes me glad that I live in America.
Until the state decides to extend to multi-racial families the same legal recognition that the state extends to "gay" and "transgendered" adoptive families, it will become more and more difficult for our American children to find loving homes.
This is a terrible state of affairs. And these 'elderly women' sicken me. Don't they know what they are doing to these little girls?
BTW...what's a hookah?
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