Sikhs in the Middle East

[wahegurubol]

Trafficking

[glow=red:18ef305860]More than 150 women were trafficked to Pakistan every day between 1991 and 1993. (Indrani Sinha, SANLAAP India, "Paper on Globalization & Human Rights")[/glow:18ef305860]

[glow=red:18ef305860]Women kidnapped at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border are being sold in the marketplace for R600 per kilogram as of 1991. (CATW - Asia Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific)[/glow:18ef305860]

Auctions of girls are arranged for three kinds of buyers: rich visiting Arabs (sheiks, businessmen, visitors, state-financed medical and university students), the rich local gentry, and rural farmers. (CATW - Asia Pacific "Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific" (19)

[wahegurubol]

This is because of the prevailing mentality of backward people who do not respect the rights or dignity or honour of women, and who neither follow the Brahmanical laws or the immaculate way of the Prophet Mohammend (PBUH) who is without flaw.

May 17, 2007, 11:15 GMT

Islamabad - A woman was forced to parade naked in public in a central Pakistani village by armed men in revenge for having allegedly helped one of their female relatives to elope with her lover, a press report said Thursday.

Seven men with weapons forced their way into the home of the mother of four in a village near the city of Multan, 600 kilometres south-west of Islamabad, and dragged her outside.

She was later stripped and made to march through the village, The News daily reported. http://news.monstersandcritics.com/southas..._in_revenge_act

[tonyhp32]

That remark by Singho is one of the most ridiculous I have ever heard. The so-called immaculate way of Mohammed is highly flawed. This is why the intellect of men is needed to correct the many errors that exist there. Inheritance is a case in point as many have pointed out on various forums. Trying to portray the Punjabi culture as devoid of any merit and backward whilst trying to mislead people into thinking that the Brahmanical code and Mohammed's religion give dignity and rights to women is a laughable suggestion. Most of the disadvantages that Muslim women have and solely down to the paranoid nature of Mohammed and the events within his family life.

[Kavita]

I found an interesting article.

Iran hangs three men in public for rape

Wednesday Oct 17 21:27 AEST

Iran has hanged three men in public for kidnapping and raping two women, in the latest in a series of executions in the Islamic state criticised by rights groups and the European Union.

The convicted men were put to death at the site of their crime in the southern city of Shiraz, the Fars News Agency said, without giving details on the location.

"These three criminals were charged with kidnapping, disturbing public security, rape and molestation," it quoted Shiraz Public Prosecutor Jaber Baneshi as saying.

"Disguised as taxi drivers, they kidnapped two women and molested them after taking them to gardens near Shiraz," he said.

The number of executions in Iran, many in public, has risen since July with the launch of a summer crackdown on "immoral behaviour".

Police have arrested dozens of drug addicts, smugglers, rapists and murderers.

Amnesty International, which says Iran has one of the highest rates of executions in the world, last month said it had recorded 210 so far this year, compared with 177 for all of 2006.

Murder, rape, adultery, armed robbery, apostasy and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Iran's Sharia law, imposed after the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Iran says it is prosecuting criminals under Islamic law and rejects criticism of its human rights record.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=282878

As you can see it is rapists who get condemned to death. If the assertions of tonyhp32 and wahereguru-bol were correct it would be women that the Iranian regime would hang. This article proves the opposite.

You may want to compare what Iran does to what Saudi Arabia does:

Gang-rape victim faces 90 lashes From correspondents in Riyadh

March 05, 2007 11:10pm

"A SAUDI woman who was kidnapped at knifepoint, gang-raped and then beaten by her brother has been sentenced to 90 lashes - for a meeting a man who was not a relative.

In an interview with the Saudi Gazette, the 19-year-old said she was blackmailed a year ago into meeting a man who threatened to tell her family they were having a relationship outside wedlock, which is illegal in the ultra-conservative desert kingdom.

After driving off together from a shopping mall near her home, the woman and the man were stopped and abducted by a gang of men wielding kitchen knives who took them to a farm where she was raped 14 times by her captors.

Five men were arrested for the rape and given jail terms ranging from 10 months to five years by a panel of judges in the eastern city of Qatif, near the woman's hometown. <all>

But the judges also decided to sentence the woman, identified by the newspaper only as ?G,? and the man to lashes for being alone together in the car.

Unrelated men and women are forbidden from interacting in public in Saudi Arabia, which strictly enforces Islamic Sharia law.

?G? said one of the judges told she was lucky not to have been given jail time. ?I was shocked at the verdict. I couldn't believe my ears,? said the woman, who has appealed against her sentence.

The woman also told the paper she tried to commit suicide because of her ordeal and was beaten by her younger brother because the rape had brought shame on their family."

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21331806-1702,00.html

None of this has been invented by me. These articles from newspapers. None of them support Iran.

[wahegurubol]

why did they sentence the woman for lashes, just because she sat in the car with an unidentified men... LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

[wahegurubol]

singho, will you please shed some light in breast-feeding

[Matheen]

:evil:

w-bol = troll

have mercy, give it a rest bro. you're killing this place.....

[tonyhp32]

I thought Singho was the troll, talking bakwas about Guru Nanak being a sufi and a Shia Muslim and talking up Islam and Mohammed's way being the best.

[Xylitol]

b/c of Jagdi Jyot, the fact that all Gurus indeed have the same light in them and should be regarded as the same; and b/c the Guru rejected the authority of the Koran in his Bani; Guru Nanak could not possibly have been a sufi. You guys can put forward whatever complex arguments with twisted evidence that you wish, but in the end the truth is written in Bani. Additionally, Bani teaches that the Guru is God himself, he is an Avtar. His Guru was nirgun Waheguru, not a Sufi.

I know that Javanmard claims that the later Gurus kind of went a different path, but that flies in the face of the Jagdi Jyot concept told to us in Gurbani and so doesn't hold up to scrutiny. How can you call yourself Singho and continue believing what you do when Bani clearly teaches that it comes from Akaal Purkh himself?

I think that the reason that you guys promote this is due to the belief in the Islamic prophets being the last ones before Nikhlaank comes. By placing Guru Nanak as a Muslim that idea isn't shattered. However, the final door of the Kaaba opened for him - and that is a sign of the last prophet's arrival.

[Matheen]

I thought Singho was the troll, talking bakwas about Guru Nanak being a sufi and a Shia Muslim and talking up Islam and Mohammed's way being the best.

They're as bad as each other. This topic is a waste of time. Guru Ji said they were neither Hindu nor Mussalman.

Its time we started following what they teach, which is what being a Sikh is all about.

[wahegurubol]

Singho is gone it seems . He had nothign to comment.

[Guest]

Singho is gone it seems . He had nothign to comment.

On that note, topic is closed because - orginal topic discussion fully diverted away. Topic started from Sikhs in the middle east shifted away to trafficking of girls in pakistan.