Where is public outcry over stoning of yet another teenage girl, Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow?
By Farzana Hassan and Hasan Mahmud
Although Duhulow was a rape victim, the tragic incident nonetheless sheds light on the numerous fallacies existing in Sharia law over adultery and rape as criminal offenses. The two are often treated as one and the same, which is why so many rape victims suffer the same fate as young Duhulow. Rape is deemed "adultery without consent" placing the onus on the rape victim to prove her innocence by providing four Muslim adult male witnesses. Often there is no such "proof" of rape. The victim is then left with an adultery charge.
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