Unjust Lashing of a Sudanese Woman
While reviewing the events of last year the media through its programs on 31-12-2010 and 1-1-2011, focused on the incident of where a Sudanese woman was lashed at the end of last year.
The Central Media Office Representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir commented:
A video posted on the internet lately of two policemen in Sudan lashing a woman in public while laughing understandably caused domestic and international outrage. She was initially lashed on her back then her head, front, hands, and legs, unlike the provisions of Islam in how to establish al-hudud which is to avoid the head and face, and this can be done only after having the Islamic judicial law.
In addition, the State that has established this “Hadd” not only doesn’t rule with Islam in all its internal and external affairs, but also colludes with the U.S. in the crime of dividing off South Sudan.
Anti-Islam opportunists have once again jumped upon this incident to accuse Islam of oppressing women, although Islam is the only system that gives the woman her full rights, and preserves her security and dignity, and exercises justice in the judiciary which isn’t approached within any other system.
The lie of Omar Bashir implementing the Shariah laws has become blatantly clear for many Muslims to see, but anti-Islam opportunists have unscrupulously exploited this incident to regurgitate the age-old allegation of women’s oppression under Islamic rule, at a time in which every sincere person is aware of the justice of Islam, and its integrity and security for both men and women.
Furthermore, at a time when the US is working to divide the country, this video comes as a perfect distraction from the great crime of the Bashir government in colluding with the Americans to partition the land and allowing this foreign power to wreak havoc in Sudan. It also functions as an apt propaganda tool for those wishing to influence the outcome of January’s referendum in the direction of splitting the nation and to incite fear and opposition towards the establishment of the Islamic Khilafah in the region.
For those who genuinely wish to understand the status of women under Islamic rule, in contrast to those who have more sinister political motives for espousing women’s rights they should take a look at the elevated position of women under the Khilafah.
– This is a state that will implement the full rights of citizenship for women in education, economics, politics and the legal sphere such as ensuring due process and fair open trials as prescribed by Islam.
– A state that will take with deadly seriousness any allegations of abuse or rape.
– A system that has a sincere concern for women’s dignity, prohibiting her objectification and sexualization unlike liberal governments that cry women’s rights with one hand while allowing their exploitation in pornography and prostitution on the other.
– A state that has a true appreciation of the responsibility of guarding the welfare of women in contrast to western democratic governments who accuse Islam of subjugating women while simultaneously embracing dictatorial regimes in the Muslim world who arrest, imprison, torture, and defile Muslim women for simply opposing the corruption of their rulers.
Is it any wonder then that women across the Muslim world are increasingly turning their hopes towards the establishment of the Khilafah? A state that will turn talk of women’s rights from rhetoric to reality and herald a welcome end to western pliant regimes such as Bashir’s that have stripped away their rights and deprived them of security and justice for so long.
إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَذِكْرَىٰ لِمَنْ كَانَ لَهُ قَلْبٌ أَوْ أَلْقَى السَّمْعَ وَهُوَ شَهِيدٌ
“There is a reminder in that for anyone who has a heart, or who listens well, having seen the evidence.” [Qaf, 50:37]
27 Muharram 1432
2-1-2011
Source : www.khilafah.com