A Raped Daughter-in-Law, Mullahs and Muslims in South Asia

Hashmi's views on Sharia law are a bit distorted, which isn't surprising since he is, after all, a "liberal" Muslim. Nonetheless, some points he makes on mysogyny and certain "mullahs" abusing their powers over the Sharia are quite disturbing. The fact that Muslims are so indifferent, as he points out, when it comes to such issues isn't any better.


by Taj Hashmi
Research Associate, York University, Canada
Published on July 11, 2005

A Muslim father-in-law is alleged to have raped his young daughter-in-law, early June this year, in a village in Muzaffar Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, India. Since then we are getting contradictory versions about the sickening story. What is, however, incontrovertible is that a cleric of the Deoband Madrassa, the most influential Islamic seminary in South Asia, has issued a fatwa (religious decree) proclaiming that the rape victim cannot live together with her husband, as per the Shariah law, she has been turned into her husband’s “mother”...

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