Kerala which is has been in the news for all the wrong reasons has again proved that women are not safe in the Communist-ruled state after it emerged that a young woman who had converted to Islam at the Kozhikode Mukhadar Tarbiathul Islamic Center made shocking revelations wherein she accused the head of the center of torture and sexually exploiting women and girls under the pretext of ‘teaching’ them Islam.
In an explicit interview given to Janam TV, the woman said the chief of the Islamic seminary sexually abused a large number of girls and called the Islamic Center a prison and said women and girls were forbidden from leaving the religious seminary.
In her interview, the woman said that the head of the Centre who is a Muslim cleric, raped an 18-19-year-old girl one day, and later he told her that by taking a bath all her sins would be forgiven even though he is the one who allegedly raped her.
When asked how she got to know about the incident, the woman told Janam TV that it was the victim herself who shared her story with her, and on the same day, the victim was taken away by her family.
The interview may not get national attention but it is creating a tsunami in Kerala after she said how Muslim clerics targeted unsuspecting and vulnerable women and girls to join the religious center, where they commit unspeakable atrocities against them.
She said women and impressionable young girls were conned into joining the religious seminary under the pretext of offering them a house to live in and money for their expenses.
When young women would join the seminary, they were asked to stay at the center for 40 days, and during this period the chief of the seminary sought a private audience where he allegedly tortured the girls and sexually exploited them.
In the interview, the new convert to Islam said that the 19-year-old girl who was subjected to torture and sexual assault happened on June 8 but no official complaint was lodged with the police as the girl was reportedly threatened by the powerful Islamic cleric against reporting the incident with the police.
Also, in Islam, when a woman is raped it must be witnessed by four men of repute in order to punish the rapist which is impossible.
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