17yr old Muslimah facing death penalty for wearing Hijab

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Letter from Prison:
17 year old Muslimah facing death for Hijab

Sister Huda Kaya and her three daughters were arrested with fifty others protesting the ban on hijab (islamic headscarf) in Ynonu University, Turkey. The prosecutor is demanding the death penalty for them. The trial adjourned on 22 June 1999.

We have a new letter from Sister Nurcihan Saatcioglu, daughter of Huda Kaya, now aged 17 currently on trial facing the death penalty. It was sent from her prison in Malatya.
The english translation isn’t brilliant but still understandable:

THE LETTER OF NURCIHAN SAATCIOGLU
08-07-1999

THURSDAY

TO ISLAMIC HUMAN RIGHTS COMISSION

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

Elhamdulillah and salam to His Honourable Prophet Muhammed, our lovely leader, our lovely guide. Salam to Honourable Prophet Muhammed (s)'s followers, the momineen resisting against oppression and the mmomineen whose hearts are beating with us, sharing our pains.

My lovely sisters and brothers,

It doesn’t matter how far away you are as we feel our hearts beating as one and as we feel you are our brothers and sisters. How happy we are, that we have a Holy Dawah. It is so holy that we can resist against all the forces of infidels and munafiqeen. Elhamdulillah. Elhamdulillah for thousands of times.

After the arrest of my mother, my sister Intisar, me and my sister Nurulhak on 21 May 1999, as I was going out of the classroom a final look to all my class mates was glanced by me. At that time all my classmates and the teacher in that class could do nothing for me. They were wondering what I had lived through, the first time I was arrested. And now I have one more experience to tell them. For the last time I was going to the classroom to take my bag. I saw that my friends from other classes were also very much surprised. Some of them were trying not to leave me. And the others and my teacher were trying to share my emotions while I was trying to calm them.

For the last term of our school life we are going to be away from our class and the teachers and our classmates. But we feel and know that it was worth it, and we are ready for it.

And we all know that one day we are going to face that four walls, the jails…

We are not going to graduate. All we want is to get Allah’s pleasure. So we say Elhamdulillah that we are here, because we know that the only thing that worth is to get His pleasure. So it doesn’t really matter whether we graduate from school, because for us it is important to take our graduation licences through Allah’s pleasure. It is important for us to see the Allah’s sign in our graduation licences . It is very important for us that our graduation licences be prepared for that Big Day on Allah’s side. Allah is enough for us as a best friend…

Below is the “OATH of FREEDOM” that I read out in the headscarf demonstrations on 30 04 1999 Friday in front of the Governor’s Building.

OATH OF FREEDOM

We were born freely

We will live freely and when death comes to us

We will die freely

Because we have written “Jihad” on our foreheads

We put the struggle in the beginning of our prayers,
in every morning.

“For a free country”

“For a free school”

“For our honour”

“For our identity”

Giving no concession

We’ll resist,

RESIST !!!

We’ll WIN !!!

We have SWORN !!!

Be our witness, Allah !!!

Be our witness, Allah !!!

Be our witness, Allah !!!

If one day I get the death penalty, I am going to repeat the same oath. I am going to read the “Oath of Freedom” again.

“And whoever takes Allah and His apostle and those who believe for a guardian, then surely the party of Allah are they that shall be triumphant.”

(Maidah-56/ Holy Qur’an).

My Lord be our friend and assistance.

WITH SALAM AND PRAYERS

Nurcihan Saatcioglu

Comment:

And some women complain that they find it difficult to wear the hijab for fear of Islamophobic attacks, difficulty in getting a job, losing their non-practicing friends, mistaken for an Islamic extremist, and the list of excuses continues and becomes more inovative by the day.

I would advise the sisters and brothers and myself to reflect upon the courage and bravery of these women who fear no-one but Allah and bow to no-one but Allah and in the process sacrifice so much of the pleasures of this life, because the best things of this life are nothing compared to the rewards of the next life.

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Re: 17yr old Muslimah facing death penalty for wearing Hijab

Why forward?

The story is from 1999. Huda Kaya and her daughters were not sentenced to death

And Turkey abolished the death penalty in 2002.

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Re: 17yr old Muslimah facing death penalty for wearing Hijab

They were let out of prison in Jan 2000.

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Re: 17yr old Muslimah facing death penalty for wearing Hijab

Typical Islamist Radical bull**** propoganda;

1- Turkey completely abolished the death penalty in 2002.

2- No one including, No. 1 leader of PKK Abdullah Ocalan, was executed to death penalty for about 20 years.

This kinda propoganda is for idiots.

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Re: 17yr old Muslimah facing death penalty for wearing Hijab

:rolleyes: That explains itself!

What was the craziest...
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Re: 17yr old Muslimah facing death penalty for wearing Hijab

Showkat bro, please update your sources.

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Re: 17yr old Muslimah facing death penalty for wearing Hijab

I think Showkat's intention was not to dispute the fact that they were released or the death penalty was abolished but to show what courage the muslimah had inspite of the fact the she could be facing a death sentence for just wearing a head-scarf whereas many muslimahs of today cannot muster the courage just because of peer pressure.

This thread is for muslims not non-muslims in my opinion.

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Re: 17yr old Muslimah facing death penalty for wearing Hijab

Salaams All

Jzk for pointing out the current facts. The point of the thread is show certain things. Turkey changes and implements laws to please the west and not Allah swt and secondly their are Muslims who fear Allah more than anything in this life.

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Re: 17yr old Muslimah facing death penalty for wearing Hijab

show, I hope you have learnt the lesson and will never ever post or forward things you receive from teenager on Internet. Many people get humiliated by forwarding emails/fake hadeeths/myths/fake stories etc etc.

May Allah save us from spreading rumours and lies.

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Re: 17yr old Muslimah facing death penalty for wearing Hijab

showkat uncle, I know a certain son of a former Nigerian President who would like to talk with you about several million dollars in an offshore bank account that he has access to. I'll forward the email to you via PM. It sounds like the type of thing you would fall for, err I mean be interested in.

Let us all know how it turns out.

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Re: 17yr old Muslimah facing death penalty for wearing Hijab

Guys try to read on till the end of the post and you will see the point of the thread and while ur at it try not to ridicule the thread starter.

Showkot come up with a more suitable name for your thread and I will change it for you. The current one is misleading and does no justice to the purpose of your thread.