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Feb 10 2009

Pakistan: 16-year-old burned with acid after rebuffed Muslim cleric’s sexual advances

Posted by: Nora in Islamism

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. (Photo: here. Attention: it’s really dismaying, I nearly got sick).

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.

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.

via Sexual abuse of young boys by clerics rampant in Pakistan. | Vlad Tepes.

Normally these happens to girls, not boys (consider the photos I posted here, here and here). But well, it is not surprising… It is dismaying that this happens with virtually no international consequences.

From the link above where the photo is:

Young Abid’s ordeal began when he refused to have sex with his religious teacher in a Karachi madrassa, where he had been enrolled by his parents. Abid was doused in acid as punishment for refusing to oblige him. “He threatened to ruin me for life,” Abid says, “but I didn’t take him seriously. I stopped going to the madrassa instead. I didn’t tell anyone about what had happened because I was ashamed.”

A few days later, Abid was playing with his younger siblings at home, when his school teacher, who was accompanied by three associates, broke into his house, bolted the main door and threw acid over his body. “This should be a lesson for life,” said Qari Amin, his teacher.

“I was unable to see anything,” recalls Abid. “My whole face was burning – I felt as if I was on fire.” Abid was rushed to a public hospital, where doctors told him he had been disfigured for life.

“It would have been better if they had just killed my son,” says 40-year-old Resham Jan, Abid’s mother. “We are dying every day. My son was such a good-looking person. I cannot believe he has been reduced to such a sorry state.”

Absolutely sickening.

Tags: Islamism, Pakistan, sexual violence, violence

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10 Responses to “Pakistan: 16-year-old burned with acid after rebuffed Muslim cleric’s sexual advances”

No a todo says: February 10th, 2009 at 11:41 pm

The story is really disgusting, and it does prove that it’s absolutely stupid to look for an Alliance of Civilizations. There are not civilizations, but civilization or barbarity.

This is the kind of news we can’t find in the spanish newspapers. That’s the reason because the work you do everyday through your blog(s) is such an important one. And that’s one of the reasons which can explain why people like me myself used to read everything you write. Even the Obamamessiah! XDDDD

Keep the flame alive, Nora!

No a todo’s last blog post..“Eluana non è morta, è stata ammazzata”
Always On Watch says: February 10th, 2009 at 11:51 pm

These Moslem pervs enrage me beyond words.

I work with classes of teenagers, and 90% of them are boys. What if something like this happened to one of them? I’d go postal, I think.

Always On Watch’s last blog post..Obamavision Alienates The Television Networks
Nora says: February 11th, 2009 at 12:22 am

No a todo: You’re right. Civilization, considered as the real respect towards human dignity in every possible form, can’t ally itself with this kind of barbarism. Firstly, because it would be considering that barbarism is the same as civilization. Secondly, because we are not defending human rights and human dignity of all.

This is the kind of news we can’t find in the spanish newspapers.

No, of course not… These news are too politically incorrect to find in any Spanish newspaper…

Keep the flame alive, Nora!

Yeah, of course, I am kicking ass, baby!!! There is no other honorable way to deal with this… :S
Nora says: February 11th, 2009 at 12:42 am

AOW:

These Moslem pervs enrage me beyond words.

Me too. And no, I am not a teenagers’ teacher. But that’s the same. I remember watching this video:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid271557392/bctid1151557602
about teenagers used as sexual slaves in Pakistan. It was just sickening: they are even dressed as girls, use make-up and take part in dance competitions before the men to see who dances better:

“I have no wife. He is my wife. I dress him as a boy and he sleeps with me. I have fun with him. He is everything for me”, he insists while kissing his image.

And: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=%7BD51B2383-01A0-4896-B174-19F115EC0942%7D

homosexuality is “extremely common” in many parts of the Arab world. [1] Indeed, even though homosexuality is officially despised in this culture and strictly prohibited and punishable by imprisonment, incarceration and/or death, having sex with boys or effeminate men is actually a social norm. Males serve as available substitutes for unavailable women. The key is this: the male who does the penetrating is not considered to be homosexual or emasculated any more than if he were to have sex with his wife, while the male who is penetrated is emasculated. The boy, however, is not considered to be emasculated since he is not yet considered to be a man. A man who has sex with boys is simply doing what many men (especially unmarried ones) do. [2] And this reality is connected to the fact that, as scholar Bruce Dunne has demonstrated, sex in Islamic-Arab societies is not about mutuality between partners, but about the adult male’s achievement of pleasure through violent domination. [3]

So, in a culture where women are absolutely inferior to man and are only considered as a tool to produce sons and daughters, this can’t be surprising… They can even say that this boy was not fulfilling his duty…
No a todo says: February 11th, 2009 at 1:56 am

Nora, have you posted this text before? I think it deserves a post with capital letters in so many languages as possible!

homosexuality is “extremely common” in many parts of the Arab world. [1] Indeed, even though homosexuality is officially despised in this culture and strictly prohibited and punishable by imprisonment, incarceration and/or death, having sex with boys or effeminate men is actually a social norm. Males serve as available substitutes for unavailable women. The key is this: the male who does the penetrating is not considered to be homosexual or emasculated any more than if he were to have sex with his wife, while the male who is penetrated is emasculated. The boy, however, is not considered to be emasculated since he is not yet considered to be a man. A man who has sex with boys is simply doing what many men (especially unmarried ones) do. [2] And this reality is connected to the fact that, as scholar Bruce Dunne has demonstrated, sex in Islamic-Arab societies is not about mutuality between partners, but about the adult male’s achievement of pleasure through violent domination. [3]

No a todo’s last blog post..“Eluana non è morta, è stata ammazzata”
Nora says: February 11th, 2009 at 2:05 am

Yes, I have, No a todo. It’s posted and translated here: http://vorzheva.blogspot.com/2007/11/esclavos-sexuales-en-afganistn.html

Hope it’s not soooo hard for you!!! Because it’s really disgusting
melo says: February 11th, 2009 at 2:43 am

Is there any kind of filth that you can’t find in those madrassas?

melo’s last blog post..why am i not surprised?
Nora says: February 11th, 2009 at 9:21 am

Don’t know, melo… but imagine the international reaction if this would have happened in a Catholic church and the priest would have been a Catholic one. As they belong to the Religion of Peace TM, there’s no problem… and no publicity in the MSM.

Hugs.
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Pakistan: 16-year-old burned with acid after rebuffed Muslim cleric’s sexual advances