This UCA News article doesn’t dare explain why women are “socially ostracized when they become victims of rape.” The ostracism stems from Islamic assumptions derived from the hijab imperative: women must cover in order to remove temptation from men. If a man is tempted, whether the woman is covered or not, the fault lies with the woman, for not removing the temptation. If she is raped, the rape is therefore her fault. But she can remove the shame and dishonor she has brought upon herself by tempting a man to rape by marrying the rapist and thereby legitimizing everything he has done.
“Bangladesh’s marry-your-rapist trend angers Church, activists,” by Stephan Uttom, UCA News, March 25, 2022:
A rising trend of rape victims settling for marriage with their rapists has triggered an angry response from female activists in Bangladesh who termed it unethical and unacceptable in a civilized society.
“Instead of punishment, a rapist is being allowed to marry a rape victim. This is absolutely unethical and it undermines women’s rights. If the perpetrators get away this way, then more rape will happen in our society,” said Rita Roselin Costa, convener of the women’s desk at the Catholic bishops’ Laity Commission.
In Bangladesh, women and minor girls are socially ostracized when they become victims of rape, she said, adding that even if they go for trial, they lose patience for justice due to the lengthy and complex legal system.
“And then the criminals take the opportunity, marry the victims and get relieved from the punishment,” she said.
Costa, a social activist and mother of three, was speaking to UCA News after a court granted bail to a police officer after he married the woman he raped in June 2020. The inspector was jailed and convicted of rape.
On March 23, Judge Mehedi Hasan Talukdar of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal in Panchagarh district in northern Bangladesh granted bail to police sub-inspector Abdul Jalil after he married his rape victim on the court’s premises….
On Nov. 19, 2020, Zahirul Islam Zia was granted bail after he married a teenage girl at a jail gate in Feni district in southeastern Bangladesh. Islam was arrested and jailed after the girl filed a case accusing him of raping her with the promise of marriage….
Human rights lawyer Rina Parvin termed the practice of marriage between rapists and victims as “a miscarriage of justice.”
“This is totally unacceptable from a legal or moral point of view. It is in no way sympathetic to the victim who has endured physical and mental abuse. It is clear the perpetrators resort to such methods only to escape punishment. The victim was raped before the court trial and now she will be raped repeatedly,” Parvin told UCA News.
“In a patriarchal society like Bangladesh, males always want to save males, but lawyers need to stand for truth and justice. Our legal system needs to change so that a rapist is never exempted from punishment and allowed to marry a rape victim,” Parvin added….
Keith O says
I’m not sure who is the worst for the treatment of women? Islam or Catholicism?
Islam rapes women and treats them as a third class possession.
Catholicism treats them as baby making machines, who, in some countries, if they have a miscarriage are convicted of murder.
gravenimage says
Ah, yes–because everyone knows that women in Italy are just as badly treated as women in Afghanistan…oh, wait…no, they aren’t…
Keith O says
GI, At no point did I mention Italy!
Do a search on South American countries, I think Ecuador, Guatemala and Brazil.
Women who have miscarriages are often charged with murder. This also happens with any women who have still births.
Don’t believe me, find out for yourself!
john smith says
I was unaware of that Keith, so I did a search. I was quite shocked with what I found especially in Central America, it seems women have been jailed for the reasons you’ve mentioned. However, I believe it’s unfair to blame Catholicism for this, as you’ll find no doctrine in Christianity to support it. On the other hand you will find plenty of doctrine in islam to support rape, murder and misogyny.
Infidel says
Keith
Fair point. However, w/ the Catholic example, one can compare the likes of Ecuador or Brazil w/ the likes of other Catholic countries like Italy, Spain, Poland, Hungary, and one will find out the discrepancy in treatment
By contrast, compare Bangladesh w/ countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey and see whether women in the latter are that much better off than in Bangladesh? I think you’ll find that there is enough of a contrast in the Catholic cases to exculpate the Catholic church, as opposed to the variances in the islamic cases
gravenimage says
Keith, your belief that Catholicism teaches convicting women if they miscarry is mistaken. There is nothing in Catholic teaching that says this, nor has any pontiff preached any such thing.
gravenimage says
Bangladesh: Rape victims ostracized for being raped, often forced to marry their rapist
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Just repulsive–but orthodox Islam.
Melc says
Bloody religion. Islam is the worst though as it controls every part of people’s lives what and when to eat to how how to shit. There is even
A religious instruction to kill kafirs and beat women. Of course what can you expect from the ravings of a medieval pedophile warlord who captured slaves and traded them.
OLD GUY says
We need to quit calling islam a religion. It needs to be recognized as an organization that commits war crimes against humanity. And there is plenty of history to back up that charge.
Infidel says
I no longer do, and I’m making some headway w/ the book ‘Allah is dead’. It makes a good case for denying islam the status of a religion, particularly in the context of the US First Amendment protections
gravenimage says
OLD GUY, Islam is a religion by all definitions. It is an *evil* religion, though.