Holy terror (niet alleen RK priesters doen het)

[Tim76]

Holy Terror The ordeal of a 17-year old boy, who was completely disfigured for refusing to succumb to a religious scholar's sexual advances, is far from over... By Massoud Ansari Back Seventeen-year-old Abid Tanoli cuts a tragic figure as he sits desolate and alone on a hospital bed in Karachi. At least 50 per cent of his body is covered in burns which have blinded both his eyes, shorn his scalp and resulted in the complete disfiguration of his face. The refusal of a visiting team of doctors from the Texas-based 'House of Charity,' to take him to the US for further treatment, is a another blow to the teenager. Although clearly sympathetic, the doctors are firm: "We basically provide charity services to children below 16 years of age," they say. Locals believe that Abid will remain permanently blind, given the lack of state-of-the-art burn treatment facilities in Pakistan. "Almost all of the soft tissues of his eyes, including the cornea and conjunctiva, have been extensively damaged," says Dr. Hanif, an eye-specialist at the private Patel Hospital in Karachi. However, doctors say that such facilities are available in the US, UK and other western countries, and that the boy could be treated there. 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." According to a report compiled by Madadgaar - a joint project of LHRLA (Lawyers for Human Rights and Legal Aid) and UNICEF - in the year 2002, some 1,615 cases of child abuse were reported in the national and vernacular press in Pakistan: "Out of 1,615 cases, 340 children were raped, 287 were sodomised and 53 children were murdered after being sexually abused," it states. A survey carried out by the Pakistani ministry of interior affairs last year lists the existence of 15,000 religious seminaries across the country, in which two million students, the majority of whom are males, seek religious education. "Sexual abuse of children is always a major issue in segregated societies all over the world, and the hundreds and thousands of religious schools which exist in Pakistan are no exception," believes Manzoor Baloch, a local sociologist. Human rights activists like Zia Ahmed Awan, President of LHRLA- an organisation that provides free legal aid - says that many incidents involving sexual harassment of young children take place within religious schools across Pakistan. However, most incidents are not reported in the media due to various reasons. "They are either hushed up and sorted out within the confines of the school or, at other times, parents are pressurised not to report the incident to the media as it would give religion a bad name," he contends. Mohammed Abid Tanoli, Abid's father, met with great resistance when he tried to take up his son's case with the religious clergy. Initially asked to hush up the incident, he was even threatened with harsh consequences when he refused to back down. "I despise hypocrites who sport huge beards in the name of religion and hinder the passage of justice in the name of Islam," Tanoli says. "I had a beard, and all my four sons were studying in the madrassa. However, following this incident, the first thing I did was to pull out all my children from the madrassa. Also, I shaved off my beard." But Abid and his family's torment didn't end there. The perpetrators of this horrendous crime pressurised the hospital administration to discharge the boy while he was still under treatment. "I cried before the doctors and told them I didn't have enough money to take the child to a private hospital, but they didn't listen to me and threw my ailing son out of the hospital, saying that wasn't their concern. This was one of the tactics the religious clergy used to try and pressurise me so that I wouldn't fight my son's case in a court of law," says Tanoli. Tanoli then contacted local human rights organisations and, with their assistance, managed to get his son admitted in a private hospital, where Abid is being treated free of charge. Tanoli then reported the case at the Mominabad police station, naming Qari Amin and his three accomplices in the FIR. Police have now arrested Qari Amin and two of his associates. All of the accused are currently in prison and being tried in the lower court. Tanoli, who was even offered 500,000 rupees as compensation if he were to withdraw the case, has been moved to an unknown location. He is determined to teach these criminals a lesson. "I don't need the money and I'm not worried about the threats," he says defiantly. Back at the hospital, doctors have recently carried out skin grafts of Abid's armpit. "His is a very complicated case, because the acid burns have damaged his eyes, skull and the upper portion of his body," says Dr. Mazhar Nizam, a plastic surgeon. Human right activists have contacted a host of foreign charity organisations to find a financer, willing to fund Abid's treatment abroad. "We have received responses from some of these organisations and hope to send him abroad for further treatment soon," says Amir Murtaza, a Madadgaar activist. http://www.newsline.com.pk/NewsJuly2003/newsbeat6july.htm

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Acid attack on boy who 'refused sex with Muslim cleric' Back to the Radical Islam Page By Massoud Ansari in Karachi (Filed: 08/02/2004) 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. 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. It is the first such case to be brought against a Muslim cleric and threatens to expose a scandal of sex abuse within Pakistan's secretive Islamic schools. Abid was blinded and maimed in the assault, which he says came shortly after he rejected sexual demands from the Islamic teacher at a madrassa in a crowded, lower middle-class district of Karachi. "He threatened to ruin me for life," Abid recalled, "but I didn't take him seriously. I just stopped going to the madrassa". Abid, who was 14 at the time, told neither parents nor friends what had happened because, he said, he was ashamed. A few days later, as he played with his brothers and sister at home, he said that his religious teacher - accompanied by three associates - broke into the house, bolted the door and threw acid over him, screaming: "This should be a lesson for your life." Abid was taken to a public hospital, where doctors told him that he would be scarred for life. 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. "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. Haroon Tanoli, Abid's father, met strong resistance when he tried to take up his son's case with officials at the school. He says that they offered to help him secure a cash payment from the alleged attackers, provided that he did not involve the police. Since then, he has been threatened with harsh consequences for refusing to back down. "I despise hypocrites who sport huge beards in the name of religion and hinder the passage of justice in the name of Islam," said Mr Tanoli. "I had a beard, and all my four sons were studying in a madrassa. However, following this incident, the first thing I did was to pull my children out of the madrassa - and shave off my beard." Even as Abid was receiving treatment, the religious authorities pressed the hospital to discharge him. Mr Tanoli managed to get him admitted to a different hospital, where he is being treated free, although the family cannot afford an operation to save his sight. Mr Tanoli refuses to back down, despite being offered one million rupees (£12,000) by the teacher's relations if he withdraws the charges. He has moved to a secret location for his own safety. http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/aicid.htm

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Madrassas hit by sex abuse claims By Paul Anderson BBC News, Islamabad Students read the Koran at a Madrassa Some clerics demanded an apology from Mr Hussain A Pakistani minister has revealed hundreds of cases of alleged child sex abuse at Islamic schools, or madrassas. There were 500 complaints this year of abuse allegedly committed by clerics, Aamer Liaquat Hussain, a minister in the religious affairs department, said. That compares with 2,000 last year, but as yet there have been no successful prosecutions, Mr Hussain told the BBC. The minister's revelations have sparked death threats and infuriated some religious political leaders. Mr Hussain said he had received death threats from clerics, but that he had done his job and his conscience was clear. Leaders angered The time had come for his country to face the bitter truth - the sickness of child abuse, he said. The allegations involving Pakistan's Sunni majority and Shia minority referred to a tiny proportion of the country's 10,000 or so madrassas, he said. He added that the body responsible for them, the Federation of Madrassas, was willing to co-operate with investigations because some clerics were bringing a bad name to Islam. However, the revelations have angered some Islamic leaders. At a parliamentary meeting this week, some demanded he apologise. The abuse revelations were made during a week in which the Pakistani government has been meeting religious leaders to build awareness of the spread of HIV/Aids. Pakistan is stepping up its anti-Aids campaign, and the idea is to utilise the clerics' unique reach into communities to increase HIV/Aids awareness and to preach prevention. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4084951.stm

[FAITHLESS]

This world is out of control. :kwaad:

[Queen_of_Hearts]

Pakistan....:jammer:

[Kahali]

Verschrikkelijk........ dit reli-facisme Khli

[MooiRood]

Dat "niet alleen RK priesters het doen" wist ik al. Er doen vreselijke verhalen de ronde over sekteleiders die door hun volgelingen praktisch als heilig worden of werden beschouwd. Maar deze verhalen zijn wel buitengewoon gruwelijk! Goed dat er meer dan 1 bron bij staat deze keer. Overigens vind ik het heel erg dat zulke incidenten ertoe leiden dat oprechte gelovigen zich van de Schepper af keren.

[HeyoanUts]

Zouden zulke dingen ook in de moskee gebeuren? :confused:

[Scottie]

This world is out of control. :kwaad:Ik weet niet of dat zo is. Er zijn geen acolietjes met zuur bewerkt. Ik vroeg me al af of er geen seksschandaaltje ergens binnen de *********** te vinden zou zijn. Het pedoschandaal in A'dam-West is in 1999 in de doofpot gestopt. Die doofpot staat in het hoofdbureau van Politie, aan de Marnixstraat. Ik begon al te denken dat vele islamstromingen zuiver waren, dat de gelovigen niet door een duivel verleid konden worden. Even dacht ik dat mijn bekering tot de islam ophanden was, maar helaas, ook moslims blijken mensen, zwak en falend. "In het zuur van uw aanschijn zult gij uw dagelijks brood verdienen ..." Scottie.

[Huey]

Welk pedo schandaal in Amsterdam-west?