MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

Qur’an Sura 4:34, “Men have authority over women because [Allah] has made the one superior to the other… Good women are obedient… As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them. Then if they obey you, take no further action against them…”

By Saleha Soadat, RAWA News – “Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Wednesday said that it recorded 550 cases of violence against women in the last month, showing a remarkable increase from previous months.

‘In the last month, 550 cases of violence against including, beating, forced marriages, murder and rape – most of them happening in the remoter provinces of the country – have been recorded at the Human Rights Commission,’ AIHRC Women’s Rights Coordinator Latifa Sultani said.

Religious scholars condemned the perpetrators of the violence saying that families who commit such deeds against women are living in ignorance, unaware of the tenants of Islam and the rights of women.

‘Families who commit any kind of violence against women are living in the era of ignorance. We are now living in the modern era of Islam, we should fight against such events,’ Afghan religious scholar Mawlawi Hedayatullah told TOLOnews.

The Afghan Women’s Network (AWN) also expressed its concerns over the statistics saying that the numbers for last month were exceptional.

AWN chief Ferozan Mashal said she is working hard to launch an awareness programme in order for people to know what are women’s rights.

The civil society is putting pressure on different organs to enforce laws. We also play a vital role in informing the people about what are their rights and the laws of the country,’ she told TOLOnews.

In the last fortnight, severe cases of abuse have been reported in Herat province including the beheading of a woman by her mother-in-law for refusing to be a prostitute, and the stabbing death of a woman at the hands of her husband.” Source – RAWA News.

• Flashback: Covered, Confined, Cursed: The Place Of Women In Islam
• Flashback: Arab Lecturer Admission On Palestinian TV: Part Of Our Identity Is To ‘Attack’, ‘Beat’ And ‘Kill Women’
• Flashback: Tunisia: New Draft Constitution Diminishes Women To Inferior Status
• Flashback: Israel: Local Cleric Favors Beating Women As Radical Islamic Revolution Closes In On Israeli Arabs
• Flashback: Arab Women Joining Women’s Rights Movement: Revolutions Topple Dictators, But There Remains ‘A Dictator In Every Household’