Divorced and Destitute Muslim Women of West Bengal hold
Protest-march in Kolkata
Begum Rokeya Shakhawat Hussain
I strongly encourage all the Muslimahs on planet earth to go
for sex change operation to become a man before they pass away so that they can
enjoy the same rights and privileges as all the Muslims when they died and go
to that halal heaven where there’s 72 white skin houris awaiting for them as
according to Mr MBA(Muhammad bin Allah)’s ‘truthful’ account.
In halal heaven, Mr MBA and his dead moon god, Allah only
accept those human beings with a circumcised penis and hairy balls as a sign of
recognition and cast all those human beings whose bottom is empty to hell. No
wonder all the Muslimahs were treated badly and have to suffer the worst kind
of fate on planet earth than all the Muslims!
On Thursday, December 9, 2010, a unique and unbelievable
incident took place in Kolkata. Over 2000 divorced and destitute Muslim women
assembled at College Square. Most of the women were from the district of
Murshidabad, one of the Muslim dominated (70%) districts of West Bengal, a
state of eastern India on the border of Bangladesh. Women from a few other districts
of the state were also assembled and these unfortunate women were either
divorced by oral ‘triple talaq’ or simply driven out by their husbands along
with their children. They selected the date 9th December as on this date the
Muslim lady Begum Rokeya Shakhawat Hussain, the progressive and well known
social worker, died in 1932. She spent her life for the uplift of the Muslim
women and founded the first Muslim Girls’ school, the Shakhawat Memorial
School, in Kolkata for educating the Muslim girls.
Begum Rokeya Shakhawat Hussain
But her activities were highly condemned and bitterly
criticized by the Muslim clerics, who wanted to see Muslim women illiterate. It
is needless to say that these clerics were in favour of using women as sex
objects and a machines for producing children as many as possible. In fact,
they practically excommunicated her from the Muslim society. The bitterness
went to the extent that when she died on December 9, 1932, the clerics refused
to bury her body in Muslim burial ground at Gobra, Kolkata, even though many
prominent Muslim personalities of her time, including A K M Fazlul Haq, the
then prime minister of the undivided Bengal joined her Janaja prayer.
To introduce Begum Rokeya (or Roquia) Sakhawat Hussain,
Wikipedia writes, “She was a prolific writer and a social worker in undivided
Bengal in the early 20th century. She is most famous for her efforts on behalf
of gender equality and other social issues. She established the first school
aimed primarily at Muslim girls, which still exists today. She was a notable
Muslim feminist; modern feminist writers such as Taslima Nasrin cite her as
aninfluence. Roquia Khatun was born in 1880 in the village of Pairabondh,
Rangpur, in what was then the British Indian Empireand is now Bangladesh. Her
father, Jahiruddin Muhammad Abu Ali Haidar Saber, was a highly educated
zamindar (landlord). Roquia had two sisters, Karimunnesa Khatun and Humayra
Khatun; and three brothers, one of whom died in childhood. Roquia’s eldest
brother Ibrahim, and her immediate elder sister Karimunnesa, both had great
influence on her life. Karimunnesa wanted to study Bangla, the language of the
majority in Bengal. The family disliked this because many upper class Muslims
of the time preferred to use Arabic and Persian as the media of education,
instead of their native language, Bangla. Ibrahim taught English and Bangla to
Roquia and Karimunnesa; both sisters became authors.”
Birth Place of Begum Rokeya in Pairabondh, Rangpur
Roquia Khatun was born in 1880 in the village of Pairabondh,
Rangpur, now in Bangladesh. Roquia married at the age of sixteen in 1896 to
Khan Bahadur Sakhawat Hussain, who was the Deputy Magistrate of Bhagalpur,
which is now a district under the Indian state of Bihar. In 1909, Sakhawat
Hussain died. He had encouraged his wife to set aside money to start a school
primarily for Muslim women. Five months after his death, Roquia established a
high schoolin her beloved husband’s memory, naming it Sakhawat Memorial Girls’
High School. It started in Bhagalpur, then she moved the school in Kolkata in
1911.
Begum Rokeya wrote many books and few of her notable works
include: Sultana’s Dream Oborodhbashini (“The woman in captivity”), Motichur,
Paddorag (“Essence of the Lotus”)Narir Adhikar (“The Rights of Women”), an
unfinished essay for the Islamic Women’s Association
She also founded the Anjuman e Khawateen e Islam (Islamic
Women’s Association), which worked for raising the status of Muslim women.
Begum Roquia remained busy with the school, the association, and writings for
the rest of her life. She died of heart problems on December 9, 1932. In
Bangladesh today, December 9 is celebrated as Rokeya Day. Begum Roquia was an
inspiring figure and it is she who inspired Dr Maleka Begum, Dr Afroja Khatun,
Begum Khadija Banu, Begum Mustaei Banu and other women leaders to stage the
demonstration in Kolkata, particularly on the ‘Rokeya Day’. These leaders
estimated a gathering of around 3000 Muslim women, but many of them were
blocked by the local community leaders and Muslim clerics, on their way to
Kolkata.
Dr Maleka Begum is an Associate Professor in the Department
of Women and Gender Studied in the Dhaka University (in the 4th Floor, Arts
Building). Begum Afroja Khatun is the Convenor of the “Bengal Forum for Muslim
Women’s Right and Empowerment” (BFMWRE), based in Kolkata. On December 6,
BFMWRE issued a hand bill where Begum Afroja Khatun appealed to the divorced
and destitute Muslim women of the state of West Bengal (WB) to join the Protest
March from the College Square to the statue of M K Gandhi on the Mayo Road in
Kolkata. It also said that a meeting would be held on the final destination of
the protest march and deputations would be sent to the Governor and the Chief
Minister of WB to draw their attention to the grievances and demands of the
unfortunate Muslim women. The demands contained:
1) Both men and women must have similar rights to divorce
their spouses. The Muslim tradition of divorcing his wife by oral ‘triple
talaq’ must be abolished and a divorce by a decree of the court be only granted
as a valid divorce.
2) The Muslim tradition of polygamy must be stopped
immediately.
3) Both men and women must have equal rights over the
properties of the ancestors.
4) The law of adaptation must be revived.
5) Laws must be legislated for supporting the tortured,
divorced, deserted women and aged women and make them financially independent.
The facsimile of the hand bill issued by BFMWRE
The leaflet also contains a few important quotes of Begum
Rokeya e.g.
“The religion (Islam) has tightened our shackles of slavery
and males are dominating over us, in the name of religion.” (Nabanur)
“We have gone to the lowest level of slavery, but none of
our sisters could raise her head high. The most important reason is, perhaps,
whenever any of our sisters raised her head and made a protest, at once her
head was smashed in the name of religion.” ( The Downfall of the Women)
“In fact, any ornament is an instrument of slavery. If it is
considered as an object for beautification, is that notion not disgraceful? Is
an effort of beautification not an weakness of mind?” (The Downfall of Women)
“What is the purpose of veil? Is it not captivity for women
inside the four walls of a room being deprived of all kinds of freedom and
privileges?” (Three Huts)
“There is not even an iota of doubt that we have not born to
live as a slave.” (The Downfall of Women)
After the women assembled at College Square, a meeting was
held. The meeting began sharply at 10 am, after garlanding the portrait of
Begum Rokeya Shakhawat. Then the protesters took out a procession where more
than 2000 women took part. The main meeting was held at that spot where many
prominent speakers and organizers spoke about the heart rending sufferings of
the Muslim women, who were either divorced or driven out by their husbands.
Women who took part in the procession
The main speaker Dr Dr Maleka Begum, an Associate Professor
in the Department of Women and Gender Studied in the Dhaka University, harshly
reproached the so called secular Government of WB and the Central Government of
New Delhi for still allowing the Muslim men to divorce their wives by simply
the oral ‘triple talaq’ and without any alimony, whereas in many Muslim
countries, the practice has been declared illegal and abolished. She said that
even in the neighbouring Bangladesh, which is a Muslim country, the practice of
triple ‘talaq’ and ‘hilla marriage’ have been declared illegal and a punishable
offence. She expressed her amazement how in secular India these mediaeval
practices are being allowed to continue still today.
The important people who were present at the meeting were
Begum Afroja Khatun, Professor Khadija banu, the president of Rokeya Naari
Unnayan Samiti (a NGO fighting for the rights of Muslim women), the well known
human-rights activist Rabindranath Datta, Giasuddin, the founder, and Mujaffar
Hussain, the secretary of the Dharmamukta Manabatabadi Mancha (A Forum for the
establishment of human-rights apart from religion). Ten divorced and destitute
women also expressed their experience. They broke into tears while narrating
their heart rending stories.
Khadija Banu, in her speech, said, “An investigation would
reveal that in every village of the district of Murshidabad, there are 10 to 15
women, who were either divorced or driven out by their husbands. In fact there
are 300,000 to 350,000 such women in this district alone.” Extreme poverty is
leading them to leave the district and migrate to adjacent districts. Till
date, they have not received any dole or any other assistance from the
government.” Wile replying the journalists, she said, “On the contrary, they
are facing obstruction and threats from the religious clerics and community
leaders.”
While delivering his address, the social activist
Rabindranath Datta (the co-author of this article) said that the Muslim Clerics
did not allow Begum Rokeya’s body to be buried in the Muslim Burial Ground at
Gobra, in Kolkata. Even a request by Fajalul Haq, the then Prime Minister of
undivided Bengal, fell on deaf ears. At last her body was laid to rest at the
residential area of one of her kin at Panihati. Her offence was – she tried to
educate Muslim women.”
Memorial Centre, Pairabondh, Rangpur, Bangladesh
The Meeting was presided over by Justice Malay Ray, who
served as Chief Justice of two High Courts. Among other prominent speakers,
there were Professor Alauddim, Swapan Mandal and so on. All the speakers
harshly deplored the Government for allowing the Muslims to follow separate
Islamic Personal Law and accept oral ‘triple talaq’ as a valid practice, even
after 63 years of obtaining freedom. The speakers appealed to the Government to
abolish the practice as soon as possible. Other speakers said that the
enforcement of uniform civil law-code, irrespective of religion, can only end
this cruel and inhuman practice of ‘triple talaq’.
It is really shocking that both the print and the electronic
media, guided by the Muslim appeasing State and the Central Governments and,
perhaps funded by the Arab petro-dollar, maintained complete silence about the
incident. Only the organs of several NGOs, fighting for human-rights,
highlighted the incident in detail with pictures.
Dhaka (Bangladesh) – The victim of repeated rapes who has
become pregnant is being
forced by local Islamic Bengali leaders to marry the man who
abused her and sentenced to
beating for the “crime” committed. This is the story of a
teenager in the
village of Char Padma in Faridpur district of central
Bangladesh.
Omar Faruk is a teacher from the “Maktab”, the village
Islamic school. The imam
has long abused the minor, taking advantage of the position
of prestige within
the local community. The girl is in the seventh month of
pregnancy, her physical
and mental health are not good, and she risks a premature
birth.
For several months she hid the violence and pregnancy, for
fear and shame. When
her belly started to grow, the news spread throughout the
village. On July 18
last the Arbitration Council met, consisting of a group of
experts led by Fazlur
Rahman Fazal, to discuss the matter and issue a verdict. The
meeting ended with
a conviction of 101 lashings a head for the young girl and the
imam, author of
the violence.
Local sources revealed that both have already received 25
beatings, pursuant to
the decision. The girl will even have to marry her torturer,
who has two
previous marriages behind him. In Bangladesh, women are
often victims of
violence and abuse, most of which goes unpunished. AsiaNews
in recent years has
repeatedly documented instances of women and young girls
raped, disfigured,
victims of family feuds, excluded because they convert to
Christianity and
repudiated by their family.
In recent weeks, Annie Halder, a Catholic activist,
denounced a continued growth
in the instances of violence, especially against “anyone who
decides to convert
to Christianity”. Among others, the woman recalled the case
of Christina Gomez
A critical assessment of the superimposed
hypothetical conjectures upon the identity of the women in Muslim culture- Hindu -Hate them .
In Hindu Sanskrit ( Culture) women independence is
not prohibited. She is not required to
live under the protection of father at young age thereafter under the
domination of her husband and lastly under her son domination when she attain
the old age. She is not required to stand behind the row of the man despite the
fact that she may be more educated than her husband. The demand of the dowry at
the time of the marriage of the daughter, permanently joining the family of her
husband is not only illogical demand, as is being created by Muslim culture,
but the same is again the demonstration to the society by the affluent and
educated class of the Hindus to treat the women child with neglect at the time
of her growth inside the womb and they are seldom killed through abortion and
even after taking their birth. Thus the demand of the dowry and the offering of
the same is a crime against humanity. The institution of marriage is subjected
to great abuses and has become repugnant to the principles of Hindu law. The
polygamy has led to the perpetration of
revolting crime. No marriage should be permitted and the male may not be
allowed to make any contact with another women when his one wife is alive.
However Has rat mohd. conducted fourteen marriages in his life time and his
prophecies to the Muslim for conducting four marriages during their life time
is the cause of disparity in the society and there by inviting the Hindu
counter part to commit such crime under
the lust of the carnal desire and on the
experimentation as instigated to them by Muslim citizens. Thus the preaching of
the Quran provides the discrepancy in the harmonically atmosphere between the
two sect of the society living in our nation.
The Muslim according to Sura wakara, aayat of Quran no.223 may treat
their wife as that of the agriculture field of harvesting the crop for which
they are free to dig the women wherever they want to dig her. In case of
divorce by reciting talaq thrice at a time or during the sleep, the wife has to
undergone the co habitation with another person only there after she may become
the valid wife of her husband. The lady in Muslim is considered as “hurray” and
are treated like the property conquered
during the war time of Daruley -e- Islam required to be converted from
Daruley-e –herb. Thus the Muslim cannot be permitted to sit idle during the
period of living under the predomination
of other religion and he is forced to commit jehad by killing other
fellow citizens. Thus the preaching of hazrat mohd and his action during his
lifetime have now become detrimental to the interest of majority of the
citizens belonging to the non violent community of Hindu civilization. Such a
preaching are the seditious crime upon other fellow citizen and thus the same
is prohibited under section 95 read with 96 of Cr. P.C and under section 153 –A
and also under section 251 – A of IPC .
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