An Incident of Barbaric Islamic Cruelty

Printer-friendly versionSend to friendPDF versionDr Radhasyam Brahmachari Razia Bibi was a resident of the village Gobramari, under the Canning police station in South 24-Parganas, West Bengal and Moulana Mohiuddin Sardar was a resident of the nearby village Moukhali, under the same police station. As a professional moulabi, Mohiuddin had to stay in the village Palta, in the district of Nadia, under the police station Dhubulia. For a few years, he worked also as a teacher in a madrasa in the Karajgram village, under the Police Station Katwa, in the district of Bardhaman. Last year, he had to go to Gobramari to conduct the eId prayer as the Imam and to put up with the family of Razia Bibi and thus came in close and sexual contact with Razia Bibi. When the news came to surface, the villagers of the Gobarmari and the family members of Razia Bibi forced Mohiuddin to marry Razia under allegation that he had made Razia pregnant. Later on, it came out that the allegation was not true. The development made Mohiuddin angry. He was also not satisfied with the marriage as the complexion of Razia was dark and she was of delicate health. The developments, especially the false allegation of pregnancy that compelled him to marry Razia pregnant, made Mohiuddin furious. On October 18, Mohiuddin went to his father-in-law’s house and on the pretext of a short visit to Dhubulia, he took Razia to Karajgram, a comparatively lonely place suitable for committing a crime. There he and Razia put up at a lodge and at night he suffocated Razia to death with her scarf and then tried to behead her with a kitchen knife, he collected at the Howrah railway station by ten rupees. But he found the knife inadequate for the job. To become doubtless about her death, he then tore the head from the body by placing a foot on Razia’s chest. The next day, on 23^rd October, police discovered the dead-body of Razia, body and head completely severed, beside a canal in Karajgram. Mohiuddin, after committing the crime, returned to Kolkata and then to Canning and took shelter in a lodge. The Canning police, at night, went to that lodge to investigate another case, entered the room of Mohiuddin by mistake, when Mohiuddin cried out, “I have committed a mistake. Please leave me. I shall not commit such a mistake again.” The police then took him to the Canning police station and could know the episode after interrogating Mohiuddin. Then the Katwa police was informed and a force from Katwa came to Canning to arrest Mohiuddin. Under police interrogation, Mohiuddin confessed that on 22^nd October, he set out from Gobramari with Razia and roamed the entire day on the streets of Kolkata. In the evening they boarded a Katwa local at Howrah railway station and reached Katwa at night. Then they walked 15 kilometres to reach the Mouli Setu near Karajgram. Interrogation further revealed that Mhiuddin at first strangled Razia with her scarf and then he tried to sever her head with the kitchen knife. But failing to do so, with the fragile kitchen knife, he finally put his left foot on Razia’s chest, caught hold of her hair and tore the head off from her body. There are a few points to notice in the above incident. It was not difficult for Mohiuddin to get rid of Razia. Firstly, he could easily divorce Razia by pronouncing triple talaq. Secondly, he could also marry a second wife of his choice as, according to Shariah law, he could have kept four wives at a time. So it seems that a brutal murder, as mentioned above, was not essential. One has, therefore,  to conclude that Mohiuddin resorted to the above cruelty only to avenge the wrong done to him by forcing him to marry Razia on a false allegation. It is more necessary to investigate why only Muslims are seen to commit such horrible acts of brutality? The present author is fully convinced that it is the creed of Islam that inspires the Muslims to commit such horrid acts of violence. Islam has originated in Arabia where, still today, pastoral life-style persists. Its semi-desert character of land and paucity of rail fall have compelled it remain in the pastoral stage of human civilization and arrested its advancement into an agricultural one, the next higher stage of human civilization. For an individual in a pastoral society, meat is a staple food and hence killing animals and letting blood is a daily routine matter. This pastoral cruelty is overwhelmingly reflected in the Koran, where Allah asks the Muslims to mount such cruelties on the kafirs. Moreover, Allah himself scares the kafirs with various types of extremely cruel punishments in hell. As a follow up, one finds the Muslim rulers in India resorted to punish the kafirs with horribly cruel acts during the Muslim rule that continued for nearly 700 years in this country. One may recall that by the order of Aurangzib, three disciples of Guru Govind Singh were murdered with extreme cruelty. Bhai Moti Dass was sawed alive like a log, Bhai Dyala was boiled alive and another disciple was burnt alive. Firstly he was wrapped with cotton and linen, soaked the cotton with oil and then setting it to fire. It was a normal practice for the Muslim rulers to kill the kafirs, arrested for any pretext, with extraordinary cruelty. Smashing the head under the foot of an elephant, or under a heavy log, tearing the limbs apart by pulling them by elephants etc. were very common as well as amusing to those barbaric rulers. There were people who could invent newer kind of cruelties like flaying a child in front of a mother, flaying the husband in front of his wife and force her eat the flesh of her husband, cutting a child into pieces on his or her mother’s lap and so on. The Prophet Mohammad, in his life time, had taught his followers many such pastoral brutalities and it will be relevant to narrate one of them in the present context. In one occasion eight people, belonging to the Ukl clan, came to Medina and embraced Islam and hence became very dear to Mohammad. But the climate of Medina did not suit them and hence they fell ill. Mohammad prescribed camel-milk as food and camel-urine as medicine for the recovery and hence they were shifted to stable of camels. Within a short time, they recovered from their illness. But after that they committed an unpardonable crime. They murdered the stable keeper, fled with the camels and deserted Islam. They were soon captured by Mohammad’s men and brought to Medina . They committed three very serious crimes. Firstly, they murdered the stable keeper. Secondly, they stole the camels of the stable. And thirdly, they abandoned Islam. The first and the third crime deserved death sentence, while the second crime was enough to chop their right hands off. Mohammad decided to punish them with exemplary punishments and that too by his own hands. He took two iron rods, made them red hot and then pushed the rods into the eyes of the victims. Then he chopped the limbs of the victims off and kept them lying on the hot sand under mid-day sun with the faces up. Within a couple of hours, all the eight victims died. If the Prophet could have exhibited such examples of cruelty, what can one expect from his followers? The most important part of the episode is that, Muslims around the world quickly pick up this pastoral cruelty, after conversion to Islam, through Koran and Hadiths, and the teachings of the Imams of the mosques. And it is needless to say that Islam has instilled the said pastoral cruelty into Mohiuddin of Moukhali village in West Bengal .