Bangladesh arrests four for caning, stoning woman over affair

[Black_cats]

Bangladesh arrests four for caning, stoning woman over affair​

Police say the woman was ‘caned 82 strokes’ and ‘stoned 80 times’ with small brick pieces after an imam issued a ‘fatwa’, a religious decree.

Police say the imam of a mosque is among those arrested in Habiganj in northeast Bangladesh [File: Monirul Alam/EPA]
Published On 11 Apr 202311 Apr 2023



A Muslim scholar and three village elders have been arrested in Bangladesh on charges of ordering a woman to be caned and stoned after she was accused of an extramarital affair, according to police.

Police on Monday said the woman was “caned 82 strokes” and “stoned 80 times” with small brick pieces after an imam issued a fatwa, a religious decree, punishing her last week.

Police inspector Zakir Hossain said on Tuesday officers arrested four people, including the imam of the mosque in Habiganj in the northeast, after the woman filed a criminal case on April 7 against 17 people.

He told Al Jazeera the cases were filed under Bangladesh’s Prevention of Oppression Against Women and Children Act.

“After the filing of the case, we arrested the local cleric who gave the fatwa. We have also arrested three other village elders who took part in the informal council, known as ‘shalish’,” Hossain said.

“The village council ordered the caning and stoning in the name of Sharia law after she was accused of an extramarital affair,” Hossain said.

The village elders “said it will absolve her from her sin and will redeem her honour”, he added.

The police officer said the 30-year-old woman was allegedly having an affair with a local autorickshaw driver. Her husband, he said, works in the Gulf country of Oman and returned home after the incident was reported.

“He also seeks justice for what happened to his wife,” Hossain told AFP news agency.

The woman said she was “a victim of terrible injustice”.

“I can’t express in language what they did to me,” she said.

The mainly Muslim South Asian nation of 170 million people has a secular legal system and applying Islamic law in criminal cases is illegal.

The fatwa triggered an outcry, with feminist groups and rights activists staging protests to demand the perpetrators’ prosecution.

“They acted like medieval people,” Fauzia Moslem, the president of the country’s largest women’s group, told AFP.

Decades ago, village councils in rural Bangladesh commonly used Islamic law to punish Muslim women accused of adultery.

In a 2011 ruling, Bangladesh’s Supreme Court allowed fatwas to be issued but prohibited their enforcement.

The decision effectively allowed Islamic law to be followed voluntarily but prohibited any kind of punishment by Muslim scholars or village councils.

Faisal Mahmud contributed to this report from Dhaka, Bangladesh.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES

 

[jamahir]

This Talibani thought is the result of Bangladeshi Muslims listening to the Typical Modern Indian "Muslim" and arranging the Tableeghi Jamaat Biswa Ijtema for years. I say empty the whole village, burn it down and send this imaam and his followers to Yakutsk, the Russian area in Siberia where the winter temperature goes to -70 Celsius. Let this "imaam" issue fatwa against Nature which will kill him and followers if they dare disrespect it.

These Talibanis will become common should Bangladesh be regime-changed and the NATO-beloveds called BNP and Jamaat come to power.

Resist, Bangladeshis ! Resist !

@BananaRepublicUK @UKBengali @EasyNow @AmiEktaKharapChele @Indos

@Bilal9 @bluesky @fallstuff @Destranator @VikingRaider

 

[jamahir]

@Punch777, why the Angry react ?

 

[bluesky]

Bangladesh arrests four for caning, stoning woman over affair​

Police say the woman was ‘caned 82 strokes’ and ‘stoned 80 times’ with small brick pieces after an imam issued a ‘fatwa’, a religious decree.

Police say the imam of a mosque is among those arrested in Habiganj in northeast Bangladesh [File: Monirul Alam/EPA]
Published On 11 Apr 202311 Apr 2023



A Muslim scholar and three village elders have been arrested in Bangladesh on charges of ordering a woman to be caned and stoned after she was accused of an extramarital affair, according to police.

Police on Monday said the woman was “caned 82 strokes” and “stoned 80 times” with small brick pieces after an imam issued a fatwa, a religious decree, punishing her last week.

Police inspector Zakir Hossain said on Tuesday officers arrested four people, including the imam of the mosque in Habiganj in the northeast, after the woman filed a criminal case on April 7 against 17 people.

He told Al Jazeera the cases were filed under Bangladesh’s Prevention of Oppression Against Women and Children Act.

“After the filing of the case, we arrested the local cleric who gave the fatwa. We have also arrested three other village elders who took part in the informal council, known as ‘shalish’,” Hossain said.

“The village council ordered the caning and stoning in the name of Sharia law after she was accused of an extramarital affair,” Hossain said.

The village elders “said it will absolve her from her sin and will redeem her honour”, he added.

The police officer said the 30-year-old woman was allegedly having an affair with a local autorickshaw driver. Her husband, he said, works in the Gulf country of Oman and returned home after the incident was reported.

“He also seeks justice for what happened to his wife,” Hossain told AFP news agency.

The woman said she was “a victim of terrible injustice”.

“I can’t express in language what they did to me,” she said.

The mainly Muslim South Asian nation of 170 million people has a secular legal system and applying Islamic law in criminal cases is illegal.

The fatwa triggered an outcry, with feminist groups and rights activists staging protests to demand the perpetrators’ prosecution.

“They acted like medieval people,” Fauzia Moslem, the president of the country’s largest women’s group, told AFP.

Decades ago, village councils in rural Bangladesh commonly used Islamic law to punish Muslim women accused of adultery.

In a 2011 ruling, Bangladesh’s Supreme Court allowed fatwas to be issued but prohibited their enforcement.

The decision effectively allowed Islamic law to be followed voluntarily but prohibited any kind of punishment by Muslim scholars or village councils.

Faisal Mahmud contributed to this report from Dhaka, Bangladesh.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES

BD is essentially living in the 6th century dark age. The illiterate Imam should be given exemplary punishment by the Court for taking laws in his own dirty hands.

 

[Azadkashmir]

doesnt everybody take law into their own hands like two guys slugging it out.

 

[Abu Shaleh Rumi]

1st. They must be punished.

2nd. Extramarital affair should be criminalized.

 

[bluesky]

1st. They must be punished.

2nd. Extramarital affair should be criminalized.

What is your suggestion to punish millions of Muslim men visiting prostitutes?

 

[nahtanbob]

1st. They must be punished.

2nd. Extramarital affair should be criminalized.

as bad as 2nd is, criminalizing makes it worse

 

[iamnobody]

Personally I am against this stuff.

We should respect their religion and culture. We just can't force western ethos down the throat of Muslim countries.

 

[Zarvan]

This Talibani thought is the result of Bangladeshi Muslims listening to the Typical Modern Indian "Muslim" and arranging the Tableeghi Jamaat Biswa Ijtema for years. I say empty the whole village, burn it down and send this imaam and his followers to Yakutsk, the Russian area in Siberia where the winter temperature goes to -70 Celsius. Let this "imaam" issue fatwa against Nature which will kill him and followers if they dare disrespect it.

These Talibanis will become common should Bangladesh be regime-changed and the NATO-beloveds called BNP and Jamaat come to power.

Resist, Bangladeshis ! Resist !

@BananaRepublicUK @UKBengali @EasyNow @AmiEktaKharapChele @Indos

@Bilal9 @bluesky @fallstuff @Destranator @VikingRaider

Islamic punishments are duty of state not anyone can take law in their hand.

 

[Black_cats]

Islamic punishments are duty of state not anyone can take law in their hand.

This is mostly Jews and Christian punishment! Though it was in practice in Arabian peninsula pre Prophet Muhammad period.

 

[jamahir]

BD is essentially living in the 6th century dark age. The illiterate Imam should be given exemplary punishment by the Court for taking laws in his own dirty hands.

BD is still lot better than IND, PAK and AFG.

1st. They must be punished.

2nd. Extramarital affair should be criminalized.

Islamic punishments are duty of state not anyone can take law in their hand.

1. What do you say should be the punishment for mullahs who maintain bank accounts in interest-based banking system and pay their followers from there ?

2. What do you say of families who honor-kill their own members ?

 

[bluesky]

This is mostly Jews and Christian punishment! Though it was in practice in Arabian peninsula pre Prophet Muhammad period.

Here you are very conveniently blaming Jews and Christians for all bad Muslim laws. When others have gotten rid of many obsolete laws, traditions, and culture, it is only superstitious Muslims who adhere to them and claim it was decided by someone living over our head.

No wonder, Muslims are hated all over the world being void of knowledge.

 

[Black_cats]

Here you are very conveniently blaming Jews and Christians for all bad Muslim laws. When others have gotten rid of many obsolete laws, traditions, and culture, it is only superstitious Muslims who adhere to them and claim it was decided by someone living over our head.

No wonder, Muslims are hated all over the world being void of knowledge.

This is not a Muslim or Islamic law rather a traditional local law which was adopted by later Muslim rulers. But from Jews and Christian perspective it was a religious law. No where in Quran it instruct to stone someone but Bible does.

 

[bluesky]

This is not a Muslim or Islamic law rather a traditional local law which was adopted by later Muslim rulers. But from Jews and Christian perspective it was a religious law. No where in Quran it instruct to stone someone but Bible does.

If so, discard this and many other laws that were incorporated in the old books. These are not anymore relevant after 1400 years.

People do not even live in their fathers' era but by choice, we live in the 7th century thinking it will take us to Paradice.