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| Gulnaz in prison with her young son |
A 19yr old Afghan woman, Gulnaz, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for adultery after relatives discovered the unmarried lady was pregnant. (It's a crime in Afghanistan to have sex outside of marriage). Gulnaz told authorities that her cousin's husband had raped, and made her pregnant and that she had tried to fight him off on the night he attacked her. The alleged rapist, who was also arrested and locked up for adultery, denied it was rape.
After Gulnaz incarceration, the EU and other world human rights organizations got involved and called on the Afghan president to release the rape victim. Yesterday Thursday December 1, Afghan President Hamid Karzai pardoned Gulnaz, on the condition that she will marry her attacker.
Gulnaz had initially refused a judge's offer of freedom if she agreed to marry the rapist. She changed her mind because she didn't want her child, who had been born in prison, to grow up in prison. And also because that was the the only way to bring peace between her, her family and her rapists family, as she is said to have brought shame to both families.
About half of the 300 to 400 women jailed in Afghanistan are imprisoned for so-called "moral crimes" such as sex outside marriage, or running away from their husbands, according to reports by the United Nations and research organizations.
linda, i don first write am here b4,say i no blame the other pakistan woman way kill her hubby cos if she leave or run from her hubby he will kill her or cut off her nose and ear..that is afghanistan and pakistan for you.
ReplyDeleteThis people dey craze.. Na dem b dem hausa mentor..nw dz useless northerners go follow them
ReplyDeletena wa ohh! jailed for 12 solid years???for an injustice done to you! wise choice to agreeing to marry the guy so she can be out of prison at least for the sake of her child..burr hol on! that rapist of a guy gats to be careful cos she might just poison him. which would serve him right anyway...
ReplyDeleteWhich kain law be dat nah.
ReplyDeletethat's just sad!
ReplyDeletethat is such a wicked law and a wicked(er) country! She does not only have to deal with being raped and having to get pregnant therefrom. She also has to bear getting married to the bastard of a man! Poor her.
ReplyDelete(my very mean alter ego would have said may the man die so she can be free but my sane real me would not allow the alter say that)
atleast for the sake of the child,so that the child might grow as other children in the society
ReplyDeleteThis is bull crap, thank God im not from countries like this sha! This is not fair
ReplyDeletethis is crazy,i will kill the guy slowly
ReplyDeleteShe shud just sneek in2 his room 1 day and kill d moda fucker, ds is a crime against humanity
ReplyDeleteNiaja beta pas sm country aleast we knw dey jail how rapist victims d only tin be say d rapist wil be walkin free lol
ReplyDelete@Superswag or watever u call ur illiterate self, tink before u speak.such tins can happen anywhere an i ve seen worse scenarios of such stories in d south. so gets ur fact clear....U ILLITERATE
ReplyDeleteShe should gather her courage because she will need it! Poison is her option right now after the foolish wedding. In short, Rat Poison, Ota pia pia! We can export to her! Mumu Laws!
ReplyDeleteIts rather unfortunate but God is watching
ReplyDeleteWell, that's islamic law for you. See the backward mindset they have. How does sharia justify the craziness of jailing a rape victim for 12 years? And for her to gain "freedom", according to sharia law, the victim of rape has to marry the rapist! Go on sharia law! You are the best legal system, NOT. This is the same sharia law those morons in northern Nigeria wants to impose on Nigeria! Sharia (islamic law) is bad law and the worst mistake any country can ever make. Once you sharia, you cannot un-sharia. You've been warned:
ReplyDelete1.) Sharia denies the right of a people to change their government: once it is Islamic, good luck getting it un-Islamic.
2.) Sharia levies discriminatory taxes (jizya) whose ultimate purpose is to punish nonbelievers for being nonbelievers. It is a penalty tax -- indeed, a "sin tax!" If there have been battles over the "death tax" and "marriage penalty," an "infidel tax" should seem like a far worse case of bad policy. Google: Jizya
3.) A government that needs to set up an apparatus to mind your moral business so closely is:
a. bigger than it needs to be. It's spending your money for that.
b. condescending and insulting to citizens' intelligence, and also enables the abdication of self-responsibility -- good moral standing = not getting caught.
c. able to use the ideological cleansing of society as a distraction from getting more meaningful work done.
Arewa Consultative Forum (Boko Haram) is responsible for multiple gun, bomb and suicide attacks in Nigeria. The conspiracy of silence by northern leaders, northern elites and Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) encouraged Boko Haram to act with impunity. Northern leaders, northern elites and Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) deliberately kept quiet because Boko Haram is acting on their behalf. Boko Haram’s deadly insurgency is fuelled by Arewa Consultative Forum's support and desire to enforce Islamic law (Sharia) in northern Nigeria and the whole of Nigeria. Through its public mask, Boko Haram, Arewa Consultative Forum is demanding for stricter form of Sharia to replace common and customary law in the 19 states that make up northern Nigeria. They want a stricter form of Sharia implemented, as in Saudi Arabia or Iran where stoning and amputations are not uncommon. We do not want anything Sharia, sharia law or sharia bank anywhere in Nigeria. There is no place for sharia in any modern society. There is no fairness, equality or justice in sharia law. Sharia law favours the rich, used against poor people and used by the powerful to hunt down political enemies. In countries where sharia is enforced, the elites and leaders manipulate sharia for political and religious reasons. Poor people would bear the brunt of a more severe form of Sharia if Nigeria became an Islamic state. Sharia law hands down harsh sentences to poor muslims, while the rich use it to their advantage. In countries where severe form of sharia is enforced, poor women accused of adultery are stoned to death or jailed for a very long time. We don't want or need such barbaric, primitive, jungle and backward "justice" anywhere in Nigeria. The risk Arewa Consultative Forum (Boko Haram) pose to Nigeria, Africa and the whole world should not be underestimated. Boko Haram = Arewa Consultative Forum (AFC). Arewa Consultative Forum = murders, suicide bombers, gunrunners, coup plotters, economic saboteurs, terrorists and scumbags. The total plan of Arewa Consultative Forum is to turn Federal Republic of Nigeria to Islamic Republic of Nigeria, just like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Iran, Syria.
Under sharia law, Linda Ikeji and everyone opposing sharia law on this blog post could have their hands amputatiated or hanged. You've been warn. Say NO to Sharia Law. Say no to Boko Haram (Arewa Consultative Forum (AFC).
Who cares?? They want a stupid religion, they got a stupid religion. I wonder what good is a religion that suppresses women, violently kill innocent lives and make life unbearable for everyone around them.
ReplyDeleteLinda, the latest update on this as at 11pm (British time) was that she had decided not to marry the man and wants to leave the area she was staying.
ReplyDeletelmao...hahahahaha.,if na dat kind law dy 9ja,dat means 99.9 percnt of nigerians 4 dy jail.. Ah pity d woman
ReplyDeleteAnd this is what Boko Haram wants to introduce here! We will resist them.
ReplyDeleteAh an, why not? I will marry him oh...But gimme one year, he will either be castrated or killed by rat poison "accidentally"...
ReplyDeletetoasting - the islamic way
ReplyDeletemany people are ignorant here. Islam has nothing to do with this.It is a cultural thing. @say no to shariah law is talking what he knows not..just what ignorance does to people..
ReplyDeleteNow my day is bad. Dont even knw what to make of dis.
ReplyDelete@anonymous! How can u say its a cultural thing? Why is dat it is where islam is prevalent that stupid cultures and laws like these arise?i don't hate any moslem! i however do not respect them or appreciate what they are doing in societies! The religion breeds violent pple and many of them practice witchcraft and voodoo! i don't see what good could come from a religion like dat.
ReplyDeleteMadness!! and craziness wow!! so much for overthrowing the Taliban, Hamad Karzai is as bad as dem. This story is too disturbing to leave any constructive comments
ReplyDeleteLinda, she was actually released on an unconditional presidential pardon, which means that she doesn't actually have to marry the rapist (unless she wants to). According to her lawyer, she is trying to move on with her life.
ReplyDeleteMADNESS! Lord knows what this lady is going through, i pray that God comforts her and heals her o
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