[Reader-list] Islamic justice

[Aarti Sethi]

No Aditya. There is absolutely no similarity between you and the girl
who was killed. So please spare us yet another reiteration of your
victim narrative. It used to be boring, and in this avatar it is
positively nauseating. I cannot believe you would attempt to use news
of the death of a 13-year old at the hands of the horrendous
patriarchy that undergirds all religions, to make a case for your
suffering. It really is pathetic. I feel terribly sorry for you. It
was in that spirit that I suggested help. There is nothing shameful
about it. Perhaps your grief has clouded out all rational thought, and
some sessions with someone who is trained to deal with this might
help. I am not mocking you, please believe me.

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Aditya Raj Kaul
<kauladityaraj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Its changing season. Communicable diseases are spreading like fire. Keep
> away!!!
>
> I need not reply to trash, Aarti. You be happy with it. Its sort of
> difficult to digest some open truth. Isn't it ? :-)
>
> I'm tagged ill, just because I'm a victim of a similar 'Islamic Justice'.
> Great going Pseudo-secular ..
>
> Okay, I stop it. Will you ?
>
> Period.
>
> On 11/3/08, Aarti Sethi <aarti.sethi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Please Aditya. Stop it. This is not Islamic justice, but a perversion
>> and atrocity of the worst kind. What are you trying to do by posting
>> this and calling it "Islamic Justice"?  Would you like me to post
>> new-reports of the sort of caste atrocities that are perpetrated every
>> other day, the Kairlanji killing, for instance (where incidentally the
>> two women were raped till they died, and then raped after they died)
>> and call it "Hindu justice"? It makes as much, or as little sense, at
>> this...
>>
>> You are deeply ill Aditya. You really need to get some help.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Aditya Raj Kaul
>> <kauladityaraj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/03/somalia-rape-amnesty
>> >
>> > *Somalian rape victim, 13, stoned to death.*
>> > Chris McGreal, Africa correspondent The Guardian,
>> > Monday November 3 2008
>> >
>> > An Islamist rebel administration in Somalia has had a 13-year-old
>> > girl stoned to death for adultery after the child's father reported
>> > that she was raped by three men.
>> >
>> > Amnesty International said al-Shabab militia, which controls the
>> > southern city of Kismayo, arranged for 50 men to stone Aisha Ibrahim
>> > Duhulow in front of about 1,000 spectators. A lorry load of stones
>> > was brought to the stadium for the killing.
>> >
>> > Amnesty said Duhulow struggled with her captors and had to be
>> > forcibly carried into the stadium.
>> >
>> > "At one point during the stoning, Amnesty International has been told
>> > by numerous eyewitnesses that nurses were instructed to check whether
>> > Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow was still alive when buried in the ground. They
>> > removed her from the ground, declared that she was, and she was
>> > replaced in the hole where she had been buried for the stoning to
>> > continue," the human rights group said. It continued: "Inside the
>> > stadium, militia members opened fire when some of the witnesses to
>> > the killing attempted to save her life, and shot dead a boy who was a
>> > bystander."
>> >
>> > Amnesty said Duhulow was originally reported by witnesses as being 23
>> > years old, based on her appearance, but established from her father
>> > that she was a child. He told Amnesty that when they tried to report
>> > her rape to the militia, the child was accused of adultery and
>> > detained. None of the men accused was arrested.
>> >
>> > "This was not justice, nor was it an execution," said Amnesty's
>> > Somalia campaigner, David Copeman. "This killing is yet another human
>> > rights abuse committed by the combatants to the conflict in Somalia,
>> > and again demonstrates the importance of international action to
>> > investigate and document such abuses, through an international
>> > commission of inquiry."
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Aditya Raj Kaul
>> >
>> > Freelance Correspondent, The Times of India
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>> >
>> > Campaign Blog: http://kashmiris-in-exile.blogspot.com/
>> > Personal Blog: http://activistsdiary.blogspot.com/
>>
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