Rape Does Not Alter the Victim’s Status!

Vijendra Rao

Do not forget that in totalitarian regimes where women`s rights are a mere token gesture on paper tiger constitutions, the internet and technology are often the only medium these women have to voiceferously air the injustices invoked upon them.

In a lot of dubious countries with politically pandering elites censor the media and abuse women, they cannot easily curb the internet, for the world wide web remains very hard to police, henceforth the evident lack of international protocol to monitor the internet.

this emancipated electronic universe often acts as a safety valve to women who have no other recourse for redressal. a mere post on the website of Amnesty International is all it takes to raise awareness.

Misogynist State Beena Sarwar

Section 144 needs to be contested since it violates chapter 1 Fundamental Rights especially Article 9 of the Pakistan constitution: which stipulates that ``No person shall be deprived of life or liberty``. Incidents in Gujranwala and elsewhere were clearly a travesty to women`s rights and public interest initiatives.

The Book is also Just a Book Ferzana Versey:

You quote ``If Islamic societies want to worry about desecration, they should start looking at how they treat their own people. Then they should, if they must, consolidate into a progressive conglomerate with diverse schools of thought adding dimensions to their ideology.``

I could not agree more with you on this theoreum and will attempt to expound on how Pan-Islamic intellectual integration can materialise. The last time a true Trans National Islamic cause was flaunted on the international political arena and under the UN auspices was during the Bhutto era. Bhutto veered toward Socialist Islam.

Since then many attempts toward pan-Islamic integration are mere cannon fodder being rubber stamped by Western dictates. The OIC (Organisation for Islamic Countries) is an interesting fora though a lot of its policy-decisions are not given due weight in international relations.

A more poignant Islamic revivalism and a genuine opening of the gates of intellectual, non-violent Ijtehad is needed. More ballots. Less bullets.

Dusk Re: # 23
NT Syed

1. Terrorism: loonie Bins hiding in caves. Using unnessesary violence/force against innocent civilians to further their own cause. Any network/organization seeking to use pressure-tactics to justify ideological/religious/political ends.

2. Madrassas: breeding grounds for terrorists.

3. Modernity: globalisation. capitalism. internet age.

Dusk Re: # 20

thunder you quote ``Seems like you are criticising him here ? What is your stance on blair ? do you support him or not ? stop sitting on the fence ? what happened to journalistic integrity ?

listen do not digress from the subject-matter. ``dusk`` has nothing to do with the UK General Elections. Get over it. That topic is done and dusted.

Learn how to move on. Stop nit-picking everything the author says.

Dusk Re: # 19 husna

you are asking me to ``cool down the hyper-bole not every malady in society can be pegged down to the ``madrassas``. AS a matter of fact education is a universally accepted basic infrasturcture on which society is built. If society starts polluting the ears of enfeabled young innocents then yes they can be blamed for global terror.

Look at the root of the tree. Not its branches.

Dusk Re: # 7
Kulsumbeig

But surely modernity is not under fire in this article ? Rather it is stoking the flames... Is it not ? Analyze global events around you from 9/11, to Abu Ghreib, from the bombings in Madrid, Istanbul, Bali and Tel Aviv. Are these not signs of modernity being under fire !

Stoking the flames ? What are you on about. Terrorism stokes the flames if anything. The dictats of propoganda-based Madrassas are responsible for that, along with Western display of muscle in foreign policy. Why would modernity ever stoke its own fire ?

Dusk Re: # 1
Cayenne you suggest that the author needs to ``get out of that dark and dingy city named London``. Though this writing and its symbolisms, the Big Ben, cobbled streets, red buses clearly describe London with a Dickensian touch (notice the comments on the beggar), I think the author is referring to urban decay of a moral fabric in general and not ``London`` in particular. He only uses London as an epitomy of degradation.

Dusk Re: # 5
Husnaangelique

Though this piece is dark and obscurantist, it is more Sartre than Kafka. Witness how the narrator is consumed by the sheer superficial veneer of society and the entourage rather than victimizing and wallwowing in Kafka-styel self-pity.

Dusk Ozer

Your piece reeks of Albert Camus-type existentialism. It seems that the narrator is caught by the surroundings. Is it auto-biographical or pure fiction ?