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Why Sharia Looks Overwhelming
As India emerges from yet another futile
year covered in shame; yet aspiring to build
a secure and crime free nation one day.
Incidents such as the Delhi rape case and the
sexual assault on the two year old girl are still
haunting fresh on the minds of the people.
Unhealed and unraveled, they have left a
deep scar on the face of India. The bus which
spread ignominy whilst moving on the roads
of the capital, has kindled a kind of fire in
every thinking Indian’s heart, which cannot
be easily stopped until justice prevails in the
society.
The preponderant outrage which is being
witnessed in the entire subcontinent is a
clear indication of a dramatic change in the
perception of the people. The masses have
come to the notion that rigorous laws are
the only deterrent to stop crimes in India.
Especially rapes, which nowadays has
entangled India like an epidemic. And unless
a strong immunity to counter attack its
deadly widespread is not engaged, many a
life’s of our mothers and daughters are in
serious vulnerability. Overwhelmingly, the
only solution which is by enlarge visible and
appealing to the masses, in trying to impede
this atrocity is the adoption of a leaf out of
the Sharia law.
The Sharia law has predominantly been
proven to be as great deterrent to sexual
assaults, rapes, drug abuses, child
molestations and providing ample security
to women in majority of the Islamic world.
The law has been abstracted from the Quran
which is the essence of the sharia law and
absolute manifesto during the time of the
Islamic prophet Muhammad. The Sharia
looks into all endeavors of the crime and
orders a stringent sentence based on the
seriousness of the crime committed. A
death penalty is usually the central aspect
for one who commits rape or fornication if
proven guilty.
According to United Nations Office on Drugs
and Crime (UNODC) report, counties like
Egypt, UAE, Qatar, Oman, Yemen, which are
considered to be strictly Sharia based and in
some ways to the democratic world to be
autocratic in nature; apparently happens to
be one of the safest countries for women to
live in, where the combined rape cases of
these five countries between 2003 to 2010
are 910 opposed to a staggering 141,713 in
India alone,. A recent face book discussion
regarding the security of women in Saudi
Arabia; led to an astounding reality to know
that, majority of the non Muslim expat
women’s feel much safer living under the
umbrella of the Sharia law than living under
the law of their own countries.
It’s so quite intriguing for a world to know
that countries which have always been
criticized of being oppressive towards
women can provide security like no other
country of the world has done. America and
Britain apparently are the top ten worst rape
afflicted countries of the world. India, which
has traditionally been a land to different
cultures, customs and religions, where
people have always lived together
acknowledging each other’s faith and
values; sharing the positive aspects of every
religion can be inspired by the Islamic Sharia
law.
The whole nation today is mourning for a
system and law which can strongly punish
these sexual predators who are causing this
atrocity on women and bringing shame to
the nation. The law on the other hand is
vehemently impotent; in neither stopping
the influx of rape crimes taking place in our
society nor resolving the pending cases,
which are rotting in the courts since eons.
Take for instance the case of the girl from
Hyderabad Sonal who was sexually
assaulted by her relatives when she was 8 yrs
old, and now at 16 she is still battling it out
for justice. And it’s so pathetic that in the last
8 years, there has been no justice which has
been done to her.
Abreast to the episode which has shaken
India there are innumerable diabolical
incidents mushrooming up off late. Recently
a girl as young as two years was raped and
murdered, and a 6 year old girl was lured by a
chocolate to carry out a rape on New Years
Eve, reveals the darker side of India. Where,
pedophilic misogamists are haunting in our
society ready to pounce on every
opportunity. A strong feeling of dismal
parody subjects the mind with the world
looking alike a jungle and humans as animals
strangled in the ever so archaic law of the
Jungle, “Only the strongest survive”. How
can a country which is not leaving any stone
u n t u r n e d i n a d a p t i n g t o n e w
accomplishments and wanting to stand tall
in the global foray of latest technological
advancements be confined to crippling
laws? It’s high time that we need to think of a
serious reformation in the laws, and events
like these are apt platforms to bring in new
revolutions.
Many a people who want to impose tighter
laws alike Sharia in India, has to remember
one thing that, the objective of the Sharia is
not just confined to putting people to death
when they commit rape or sexual assault.
But the punishment is actually a lesson for
others who pacify their lusts by unlawful
means. As Sharia does punish the culprits as
to him being an ordinary man, military
personnel, a minister’s son or an Actor
without any pre conceived prejudice or
animosity against anyone; it also does
nullify the catalysts of crime to the very
grass roots irrespective of the gender.
Women living under the Sharia rule should
actually dress modesty in public and should
not become the medium to instigate a
crime. Much of the countries which have
implemented Sharia have a code of dressing
in public, have legally banned Drugs,
prostitution, pornography though all means
by magazines, DVD’s or by internet. To a
certain extent one can argue that our very
own film Industry is also a major accomplice
in hypnotizing the minds with sexual
thoughts and lacking moral responsibility.
Most of the movies which are being made
today can easily be labeled as 15+, where
erotic rape scenes and the exploiting of a
women’s body is used to the best possible
effect, and constantly being shoved down
on the screens in theatres and home.
Although, the film Industry is filling their
pockets; but on the other hand they are
polluting the minds of the masses and
specially the younger generation.
So, Sharia is a mechanism, where its innate
nature is to stop the crime in the budding
stages itself rather than answering to the
consequences later on. It acts as a deterrent
by addressing to the very crux of the
problem. It would be too early to comment if
the government can impose a law like sharia
fully fludged, but strict laws can be a good
start for something good and specially when
the whole nation is craving for one.
There are some decisions that are to be
made by political correctness and there are
some which are made on Instincts and India
today is on the verge of falling down and we
don’t have enough time to fiddle about.
Every single second lost in trying to impose a
rule; a mother, a daughter is being put to
death. And the stains of blood will be on the
faces of the people in power.
Er. Shaik Abdul Sattar
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