nstar777:
Keeping all their other crimes aside, stop forcing your fatwa on other people. If you want to condemn someone’s crimes against society then do it, but keep your own biases within the wahhabi mosques.
To all those who are condemning all barelwis, and qadris for the abuse by one of their maulana; do you guys think salafi madressahs are free of any such abuses? So will you condemn all salafis as well?
Just for example, read following:
http://www.dawn.com/2005/08/20/ed.htm
The latest incident relates to the torture and sexual abuse of boys at a madressah at Dijkot, at some distance from Faisalabad. The madressah’s head and teachers have been arrested by the police who acted on the complaint of a visiting parent whose children were among the torture victims. The disclosures are horrifying. Madressah students, aged between four and 12, said that many were kept in chains, subjected to sexual assaults and burnt with hot iron rods. Time and again, newspapers have published similar reports, exposing the brutal, even fiendish mode of punishment that religious teachers routinely administer to their students on the slightest pretext, without the faintest regard for the mental and psychological damage that such punishment causes to the young victims.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/08/wpak108.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/02/08/ixworld.html
Acid attack on boy who ‘refused sex with Muslim cleric’
By Massoud Ansari in Karachi
On his hospital bed last week, 16-year-old Abid Tanoli sat listless and alone, half of his body covered by burns that all but destroyed both his eyes and left his face horribly disfigured.
The teenager talked, with difficulty, of how his life had been destroyed since the fateful day in June 2002 when he refused to have sex with his teacher at a religious school in Pakistan.
The boy was horrifically injured in an acid attack after he rebuffed the Muslim cleric’s sexual advances. Now, he has alarmed Pakistan’s powerful religious establishment by pressing charges against his alleged assailants.
Lawyers and campaigners against sexual abuse of children say that it is not uncommon in Pakistan, especially in the segregated surroundings of the country’s estimated 20,000 religious schools, but cases involving members of the clergy are rarely - if ever - exposed.
A teacher at the school, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and two of his friends are in prison awaiting trial for attempted murder and rape. All three deny the charges. A fourth alleged attacker is still at large.
“They are either hushed up and sorted out within the confines of school, or parents are pressurised not to report the incident to the media as it would give religion a bad name,” said Zia Ahmed Awan, the president of Madadgaar, a joint project of LHRLA (Lawyers for Human Rights and Legal Aid) and Unicef, the United Nations children’s fund.
I personally knew a kid in Karachi who was very talkative, but he cringed with fear whenever the word ‘madressah’ was uttered in front of him.