Saturday, 30 July 2011 15:51 Vin Ienco
In Islam proving rape is designed to be next to impossible under the rules of Sharia. The burden of avoiding sexual encounters is not a matter for a man to trifle with. It is purely a woman’s duty. Rape can only be proven if four devout adult Muslim males are produced as witnesses. The background for the Koranic requirement of four witnesses to adultery is:
Bukhari 5:59:462 – Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was accused of cheating [on her polygamous husband]. Three witnesses corroborated the event, but Muhammad did not want to believe it, and so established the arbitrary rule that four witnesses are required.
Koran 24:13 – “Why did they not bring four witnesses of it? But as they have not brought witnesses they are liars before Allah.”
We also have a verse that wipes out the accusation of rape in marriage:
Koran 2.223: Your wives are as a tilth (prepared soil) unto you; (to cultivate), so approach your tilth when or how ye will; but do some good act for your souls beforehand; and fear Allah. And know that ye are to meet Him (in the Hereafter), and give (these) good tidings to those who believe.
In late 2006, the then Mufti of Australia, Egyptian born Taj El-Din Hilaly, delivered a sermon during Ramadan at a large mosque in Sydney. The integral part of his speech was:
“If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it … whose fault is it, the cats’ or the uncovered meat? The uncovered meat is the problem. If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would have occurred.”
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