Rape in the Mullahs’ Prisons
Submitted by Jahanshah Rashidian on Sun, 09/06/2009 - 21:08
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Jahanshah Rashidian
Since the inception of the Islamic regime in Iran in 1979, rapes of political prisoners have increasingly been committed, although rarely reported. Many courageous victims have recently revealed their subjection to rapes. Surprisingly, however, after the controversial June 2009 election, the losing candidate Mehdi Karrubi revealed that both male and female, detained during the post-election protests, have been systematically subjected to vicious rapes.
After the conquest of ancient Persia by the Arab Muslims in 644, tens of thousands, probably, millions of Iranian female were raped, enslaved, and transported away as war-booty to be sold in slave-markets of Arab-Islamic territories. The Persian word 'Tajovoz' does not only mean 'rape' by which a man seized or stole a wife, but also means destruction and occupation of one’s environment by invaders. In a belief system that a passive nine-year-old girl can be raped by her ‘husband’, rape, as an extension of such a patriarchal societal control over females, was introduced by the Arab Muslims as the most hideous, shameful, and submissive element in the culture of occupied Iran. Since the occupation by Arab Muslims, Iranian women, who once equated with their male compatriots, have been since viewed as male-possessions, first of their fathers, then of their husbands. In case of rape in Islamised Persia, they were subjected to blame and shame more than their rapists.
Rape of Female Prisoners
Shortly after the 1979 revolution, many intellectuals, political activists, and sympathisers of the leftist opposition were arrested, and many of them were summarily executed. Virgin prisoners were generally raped before being executed. The reason is that according to the Islamic regime’s interpretation of Islamic laws, killing of a virgin woman is prohibited, because a virgin’s soul goes to Heaven, not to Hell, after death. To solve the dilemma, the night before the execution, the virgin is married by one of the guards, and the marriage is consummated overnight, before carrying out the execution. Apart from such rape, the interrogators of the Mullah regime routinely use rape as a tool of torture to obtain information, confession, or, simply, to humiliate the prisoner.
Rape of Male prisoners
The rape of a male victim typically consists of forced penetration of the anus by a penis or other object as has been reported by some Iranian rape-victims. Because of traditional self-censor, male-rape has until recently remained unreported in Iran. It is believed that a man in a patriarchal culture should be masculine, strong and able to protect himself. Therefore, nothing can be worse, more shameful, for a proud man than being forcibly raped. Young men, who have survived the post-election rapes, are now suffering from rigorous psychological injuries. Rape of male prisoners in the Mullahs’ jails has caused serious damage to inner organs of the victims and depression to them. Since male victims feel shame to identify themselves, they avoid medical treatment unless the victim is seriously injured.
It is believed that religious permission of rape, including male-rape, of ‘opponents of the Islamic regime’ has been recently given by Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, the monitor and spiritual guru of president Ahmadinejad. Islamic authorities usually deny that rape is being committed in their prisons, fearing strong reaction from the public, both inside and outside.
In an interview at the Jamkaran gathering after the revelation of rape in the Mullah’s prisons, Mesbah Yazdi was asked: "Can an interrogator rape the prisoner in order to obtain a confession?" He answered: "The necessary precaution is for the interrogator to perform a ritual washing first and say prayers while raping the prisoner. If the prisoner is female, it is permissible to rape through the vagina or anus. It is better not to have a witness present. If it is a male prisoner, then it’s acceptable for someone else to watch while the rape is committed.”
Zahra Bani Yaghoub, Azar Al Cana’an, and Roya Toloui are among the female prisoners, who were raped and murdered in past years under the same Islamic regime. Additionally, at least two recent teen female victims of the post-election oppression in Iran, Taraneh Mousavi and Saeedeh Pour Agha’i, were documented by the media as being burnt in an attempt to cover up the hideous crime.
To shed light on Mesbakh Yazdi’s permission of rape, it is believed that in numerous offensive raids, called ‘Ghazawat’, early Muslims, under the Prophet, attacked ‘infidel’ tribes; they killed men, robbed their properties, and took whichever females they wanted, raped them, and then brought them to their tribe as their slave-possession. Tolerance of such brutalities in Islam may not be universally believed by Muslims and might be regarded as myth. However, these are the mindsets of the brutal Islamic regime that rules Iran and commits such horrendous crimes.
In an ultimate psychological analysis of rape, rapists seem to come from a subculture of violence, whose values may be different from those of the mainstream. A rapist is often a poorly educated man from the lower socioeconomic strata, who had criminal records. Therefore such a man may be demonstrating his toughness and masculinity in a more violent and antisocial manner, but in the case of a rapist of the Mullahs’ prisons, this is not the dominant factor.
Rapists of the Mullahs' prisons are not necessarily the psychopathic and antisocial torturers, but most likely 'pious' Muslims, married men, and even can be kind fathers. They just follow the 'divine' guidance of the Islamic regime, and do not consider those rapes as crimes, and do not feel remorse after the assault. These sexual 'offenders' are not accountable for their sexual assaults, because rape is allowed or tolerated by Islamic clerics of the regime.
Rape in the Mullahs’ prisons is not an individual decision of an interrogator, as one may commonly believe; it is a systematic process based on a belief system, and for promoting a political agenda. In the Mullahs’ prisons, rapes are often planned. The primary motive for rape is not sexual. They regard and believe in rape as a routine duty, due to its prescription by Islamic clerics of high stature like Ayatollah Mesbakh Yazdi, and its acceptance by the entire Mullah regime. With that in mind, their act of rape is not merely a question of psycho-criminality, but a justified crime.
Disgusting.
Disgusting.
Why there is so much hue and
Why there is so much hue and cry on this issue. Isn't it justified? After all, prayers are said during the actual performance of rape, isn't it? And it is prescribed by the greatest religion on earth, ISLAM! It is the duty of a Muslim to follow the teachings of the great prophet Muhammad and his hole-e book the Koran. Muslims are simply following the example of Muhammad. In fact they try to rape as many men and women as possible since they do not know the actual figure of how many were committed by the greatest rapist in the history of humankind - Muhammad (MHRHWP) (May he rape himself while praying).
Islam = pisslam = bedlam
Islam = pisslam = bedlam
Dear Muslims following a
Dear Muslims following a Mentally Retarded Criminal (Mohammed the Satan’s Child) is a crime against God and all Humanity. God has given everybody a conscience and a mind to use… The book u call holy is filled with Filth and Bullshit, anybody who reads it can understand that… Its an INSULT to God to think God the Almighty would have created such a book and would have needed a Mentally Retarded Criminal to be the messanger for dat book of Filth and Madness.. Shame on all of u who think God would have created such Rubbish… Think and try to understand y on earth u people follow that Mad Man Mohammed, who must be getting Deep Fried in Boiling Oil in Hell for all the crimes he committed… He was the most shameless, ruthless, Maddest, Craziest person to have ever lived on this earth. Dear Muslims stop being his xxxxxx and become Human ….. All the best.
Beauty of Islam. High degree
Beauty of Islam. High degree of respect towards females as stated in Koran.
Humanoid Animals (Believers of Koran / Mohammad).
Pedo bastard mo taught it and
Pedo bastard mo taught it and muslim follow it. As simple as ABC. Remember again, muslim commited crimes for religious reason, not human's weaknesess. All crimes justified and had been done with clear and concious mind, no amount of guilty feeling left in them. Welcome to the muslim world!!!! a world full of barbaric people, barbaric law, suffering and killing.
Beggars (or is it buggers)
Beggars (or is it buggers) belief of any civilised person.
All societies have rapists/murderers etc in them.
the mark of civilisation isn't whether these people(?) are present it is what society thinks of them and does about them.
Civilised societies abhor these crimes and prosecute their perpetrators.
Un-civilised societies may tolerate some level of this.
Only barbaric societies actually condone and support it.
you don't known islam 1st
you don't known islam 1st read and it, Your xxxxxxx qout and reference are base less, if you want to know what islam think about woman and given place to woman, you would wish as woman in a muslim family
faiz, "Your xxxxxxx qout and
faiz,
"Your xxxxxxx qout and reference are base less"
Woman in islam are 2nd class human, no doubt about it. See reality.
"if you want to know what islam think about woman and given place to woman, you would wish as woman in a muslim family"
Action and real example, not mouth. Woman are mere tools and have very limited rights in muslim world. Theory and reality are consistent to each other.
People who consciously follow
People who consciously follow Islam are mentally sick. They might commit any crime like killing, raping, robbing any "infidel" according to their koranic decreers. The only solution is to ban this religion and put it in a category of a criminal organization like those advocating racism, misogyny, rape, theft and cultish devil.
Just about everything on this
Just about everything on this hate filled site are false and misleading. Certainly you know next to nothing about Islam and it is obvious from your writings. Go back to kindergarden and learn something about being a human being before you so brashly go forward without a rock to stand on.
muslima - go and the read the
muslima - go and the read the history of whole asia/india/malay, etc. Murder of millions of inncocent people, rape and pilllage of women and children. Your humanity only extends to your fellow muslims, as it states in your filthy book of religion you call koran - that condones murder of innocent people because they are infidel! cuts out clitrosis from young females, promises girls and boys in heaven to murders and converters.
I think you bastards should be put in prison for advocating and practising such vile religion. And made to pay for your religion's past and current deeds. People of saudi/middle eastern/ pakistani etc, who still prac tice this cult, should be made to recompensate countries and peoples that they have abused. The civilised world should do away with this vile, murderous cult, ASAP.
Muslima, Just about
Muslima,
Just about everything in your post is false and misleading. Certainly you know next to nothing about Islam and it is obvious from your writing. Go back to kindergarden and learn something about being a human being before you so brashly go forward without a rock to stand on.
I thought you of all could benefit the most from your own words. Sometimes it is wise to actually study the topic and look at the critique raised and debate it constructively. Rather than dismissing everything you perceive as negative or disturbing, as being wrong, misunderstanding, fabricated.
Many criticis of Islam find their argumentation in islamic sources. It is always easy to leave a hateful and rude comment on a website which you dont agree with. But how about you approach some of the muslim websites which promote hate, rape, female inferiority - just to name a few. Or does that perhaps not disturb you because perhaps you agree?
A hadith I find disturbing, which is classified as sahih/athentic without debate is this:
We went out with Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) on the expedition to the Bi'l-Mustaliq and took captive some excellent Arab women; and we desired them, for we were suffering from the absence of our wives, (but at the same time) we also desired ransom for them. So we decided to have sexual intercourse with them but by observing 'azl (Withdrawing the male sexual organ before emission of semen to avoid conception). But we said: We are doing an act whereas Allah's Messenger is amongst us; why not ask him? So we asked Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him), and he said: It does not matter if you do not do it, for every soul that is to be born up to the Day of Resurrection will be born. Sahih Muslim Book 8 Number 3371
This hadith serves as a supplement and clarification to the Quranic verses regarding the topic of copulation with slave women. (Female muslims may own slave males but these must be with sexual needs/desires i.e. castrated or such pressumably). The verses in question can be found in 70:29-30 and 23:5-6 and 4:3 and 33:50.
So you see it is not false or hateful or misleading, unless you call hadith false, in which case you would be considered an apostate by majority of Muslims if not all.
Some articles about the
Some articles about the Iranian prison rape, which the Iranian authorities are (of course) denying just like they denied the existance of any iranian homosexuals (most are captured and punished with death by hanging):
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6805885.ece
"He says he wants to end his life and it is not hard to understand why: for daring to wear the green wristband of Iran’s opposition he was locked up for 20 days, beaten, raped repeatedly and subjected to the Abu Ghraib-style sexual humiliations and abuse for which the Iranian regime denounced the United States"
But yet no out cry from the muslim world except when it the torturer is american or non-muslim. Some will also seek to dismiss such rapes and atrocities as fabricated propagana by the west, jews, america, non-muslims etc.
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/pp083009.shtml
Maybe the former President and Assembly of Experts head Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is also in fact a secret agent working for the jews, israel and US? Or maybe CIA? Again where is the loud outrage and protests as seen during the cartoon farce and during Abu Ghraib? Where are the calls for justice from the muslims world "Ummah"? Or is it only appropriate to point fingers when it is a non-muslim and stay silent or in denial when it is a muslim?
http://iranianvoicesintranslation.blogspot.com/2009/08/feminist-attorney...
http://www.iran-bulletin.org/women/RAPE.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/10/world/main5229665.shtml
"Iranian cleric Mahdi Karroubi, one of two defeated pro-reform candidates in the disputed June 12 presidential election, pictured in this file photo from April 28, said he has received reports that male and female detained protesters in Iran have been savagely raped by their jailers"
The "foreign agents are the real culprits not the iranian government" theory is always aired by Mr Ahmadinejad. He said it when Neda rthe protester was shot dead during the elections and he says it now amidst the rape allegations. What is new. The man is a walking lie and an accomplice to rape through his denial. SO are the remaining muslims who stay conveniently ignorant or oblivious.
Problems were never solved through denial religious immunity.
Rape is rape. It does not matter who does it. It should always be condemned.
Just to clarify one comment
Just to clarify one comment that was left above that muslim violence and hate is always directed at non-muslims. from my observations this is not so. The violence is rife within muslim communities, with people giving themselves the title of defenders of the faith, or 'on the true path' or 'more' religious than their fellow community members. They then go on to bully, torture, maim, kill fellow muslims.
It really is a case of indoctrination from birth, using the fear of punishment in the grave, then hell etc.
To think for a moment some guy 1400 years ago, who most probably suffered from epilepsy, simply stated he was the messenger of God, and recited a few hundred verses over 23 years, saying this was the book of God. Now think could this be real or be true.
The reality is the vast majority of muslims never read the koran in a language they understand it is always in Arabic. They also very very rarely read a volume of the hadith in its entirety. Its just fear and violence, and peer pressure. All aspects of cult behaviour. Non of its real. And yes you can be very, very highly educated and never question the religion. The reason for this is that muslim children are indoctrinated very strongly when they are at their most impressionable, and this stays with you forever, unless by some olympian effort you look behind the curtain.
The sad reality one finds after reading the Koran and the hadith, is that Mohammed married at 53 a child of 9. He murdered, or ordered the murder of hundreds of people. He married a woman on the day he and his men killed her father and husband. He prescribed rape as permissible if they captured non muslim women. He was a brutal brutal, mentally ill man.
[Irony on] Oh come on
[Irony on]
Oh come on everybody! Surely we all know that:
Islam is the religion of peace, tolerance and equal rights for all (regardless of colour, sex, race or creed) and that the Sharia law is the only right and proper law for man (since it supports all this equality as well as being Divine in origin) and that the Caliphate/Imamate is the only right and proper means for the conduct of human and humane affairs?
All other suggestions are mere rumour spread by the Jews/CIA/Zionists/Crusaders just like all the terror attacks have been by agents-provocateur from the Jews/CIA/Zionists/Crusaders?
[Irony off]
I'm sure this reflects the belief (if I may debase a good word with such usage) of Faiz and Musilma.
The real irony here is that I suspect that many here (non-muslims) actually know more about "real Islam" than these two 'reflex Muslims' who condemn any who criticise Islam without studying the issues involved.
Re: faiz Comment ID
Re: faiz
Comment ID #21002
Hi faiz, I know a lot about Islam and Koran and much before I happened to stumble upon this site. I have many Muslim friends both men and women. I don't really believe in God but if there is a creator I am most thankful that i wasn't born in Muslim family or country. If there is another life ever I pray and beg never to be born as a Muslima