Islam Under Scrutiny by Ex-Muslims

Sex Everywhere in Islamic Pakistan

This article appeared in 1998 in Chowk—a website for progressive South Asians. It's a factual field research-based article. I am publishing it in the context of the discussion going on in Islam-watch. - MA Khan

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Conservative societies like ours treat sex almost as a necessary evil, it finds no mention in polite conversation, it is to be indulged in purely for procreation, that too under rigidly defined socio-religious rules—sex is taboo, sex is sacrosanct. But sex is also macho, sex is money and sex is power. Can it be any surprise then that there is Sex Everywhere?

I saw sex in everything when I was in this winter; different types of sex: good and bad sex, forced and consensual sex, extra and pre marital sex, homosexual and procreative sex, trans-sexual and marital sex, sex between , sex between older and younger, sexual harassment and violence, sexual prohibition and guidance, sexual slavery and dominance, sexual perversion and ambiguity and sexlessness.
 
I was confused because in my own stringent notion of sexual morality, people in did not have sex, did not enjoy sex, and reproduced in huge numbers through asexual means. Sex was a private thing veiled deep within the home and its boundaries, hidden within the un-lit bedroom and its purpose of procreation and shrouded in decency of . Then why was I seeing it everywhere in public and was it just me?

The following is an excerpt in naiveté. I could, as others, read it, raise my eyebrows, and say with biting sarcasm, "welcome to the world, honey, so what exactly are you saying that is so new and unique".

At Itwar bazaar, small Afghan boys carry items for shoppers in their large straw baskets. As they waited for the shoppers to bargain over prices of vegetables, fruit, cloth, miscellaneous household products, they played with each other. An older boy ran his fingers over the back of a younger boy's neck. The younger boy looked back threateningly, but seeing that it was an older boy, turned his head away. The older kid persisted and got bolder with every condoned touch. He moved his touch to another body part. The little boy said something in Pushto and moved along with the shopper to another stall. The older boy would get him later. Very strongly, screamed his mature 13 year old eyes, I have been thoroughly sodomized by my uncle whose store I used to work in. I have, in the evenings when the shoppers disappear, sold my body to other men who wanted a tight ass to screw, who found in me a ready partner. I enjoy it. I abhor it. I know how to. I will continue to do it.

At the police surgeon's office, a 15 year old girl comes for a vaginal exam. She ran away from home with her boyfriend and the query is, whether this girl is still a virgin. Because, forbid her hymen is ruptured, the shame factor goes without saying, but she and the little boy will be subject to zina charges for they have fornicated without legal sanction, without religious license and they must suffer the consequences. The chaprasi at the clinic orders the little girl to take off her dusty slippers, show him the teeth in her mouth, stand upright for her height to be measured, answer questions with clarity and honesty, and then climb onto a makeshift examination table with her legs wide open, for society's condemning forceps to enter between her legs and report on her morality status.

In another room at the police surgeon's office seven sex workers wait for their vaginal exams. A police woman, clad in blue uniform, gives the details to an attending officer. The girls were arrested after a raid on a brothel. They were busted. Pretending as if they were an extended joint , connivingly enough, they were operating a prostitution den. An older woman who they called their blood relation aunty was their madam. Their so called uncles and brothers were their pimps. All the girls were in their teens and twenties, all of them pretty and very made up. The next day their not-so-flattering photographs were plastered across the front page of an Urdu daily, Evening Special. One of the whores had the audacity to ask for a glass of water, which the chaprasi refused outright to get for her. Hadn't she had her thirst quenched already after screwing all those guys for money, the police woman demanded to know. How dare she ask for water, a purifying and cleansing liquid standing full-figured, in this hall of shame? Wait till she finds herself spread-eagled on the examination table.

A few hundred blocks away, university students have consensual and coerced sex. The venue is a rented apartment. Seven boys, all college friends pitched in to pay for the rent. They all have copies of the key and bring in their lovers, for quick or leisurely, straight forward or kinky sex. Sex in the afternoon, sex in the morning, sex during all odd hours of the day, skipping class, and skipping work. None of the couples are married to each other. They walk in the hallways of their school, with their eyes glued to the floor, looking up to grasp a look in somebody else's eyes. They must operate in the underground, and be as discreet as possible; they must recognize each other, sense each other's presence, intuit the dire need for each other's protection, secrecy and privacy. However, not all of them are discreet; one boy shows off for he has done almost all the participating girls. He isn't one of those who keeps his eyes to the floor, nor can he keep a secret; he calls the girls he screws, sluts, himself a man.

A girl in her early twenties wears a burqa, head to toe. She lives in a high rise building and took a liking to one of the boys in the building. He moved away with his to the UAE. After several years, he returned and the two ran into each at a tuition center. Clandestinely, they started meeting each other at his home and during these visits made wild, passionate to each other. He kept condoms with him, but preferred the feel without them. Sooner than probability would have it, she got pregnant. She is in trouble now. Good thing she wears a burqa; it helps hide her growing belly while she desperately searches for an illegal abortionist.

Ruqaiyya is a middle-aged woman. Her face is testimony to the twenty years of and physical abuse she has suffered at the hands of her husband. Her face carries with her so many emotions, I can barely hear her words. The lines on her face, the swollen, pudgy cheeks, the carefully applied surma, serve as a road map to her life. I feel sorry for her, yet I could never reach out and touch her, comfort her or embrace her and tell her it will be okay. If I did, she would suck me into her hole of misery and abuse, and deprivation and that tiny square of a toilet where she takes her shit every morning, hoping perhaps, to shit him out of her life, but never succeeds. I can only comfort her from a distance. She documents the abuse and tells about the years he raped her and left her hurting so badly, she couldn't walk for hours. She tells with clarity, the dates of all the incidents that has left her face and body marked forever.

In the back alleys of defense, hijras parade in their glamour. Often times they beg for money, but when the evening sets in, they become sex workers. They are dressed in bright colors, wear cheap perfumes and talcum powder and are willing to go home with you. A taxi-driver stops for one of them. He gets in and gives the cabby a long blow job. The cabbies runs his fingers through the drag queen's long hair or wig; as far as he is concerned, it is a woman going down on him. He hands the hijra 10 rupees after he's done with the job. The hijra complains and protests; it is simply not enough. It won't even buy him his fare back home, let alone a loaf of bread. More, he wants more. The cabby contemplates. He can't have another orgasm any time soon and reluctantly pulls out a wad of bills. The hijra grabs a fifty and darts out of the taxi in a fit of giggles. The cabby screams after him, fails to catch him and then lets him go in a burst of affectionate mockery for this silly creature who looks more like a carnival than a woman, but close enough to womanhood to arouse his erection. Later that evening, the hijra gets picked up from Zamzama Boulevard in Defence, and is taken home by a rich kid from one of those big, white houses with many storeys and rooms, and space enough for garages and front and back lawns.

A fifteen year old servant girl gives in as her master rapes her. He later hands her a hundred rupee note. He tells his friend they both enjoyed it and before the little girl arrived from the village, he had done the same with her mother. The servant girl's mother sweeps and mops floors in the boy's house. Later at night, she tells her daughter, she knows what she did and if she thought she was going to get away with keeping the money, she should think again. Her little brother needs shoes.

A woman lies in bed reading her magazine. She doesn't want to have intercourse and her husband gets furious with her and beats her head in with a hammer. He is enraged at her refusal, enraged even more because he has a displeasing suspicion that her refusal is based in the fact that he can't get an erection, and when he does get it to work, it isn't for long. And then his wife loses interest and starts to ask him about household expenses, neglecting that he is still engaged in manly discourse, and she is completely trivializing his manhood. She has just come out of the hospital an a white bandage adorns her head. She tells me in a hushed voice, she is ready to go back to him. Deep down inside, he is just a gentle and frightened guy.

Another husband's wife is tired of him. All he knows how to do is make her life miserable, beat her, and he never gives her money. She throws him out of the house, climbs onto another man's motor cycle and drives away. Her is shocked at her behavior and neighbors testify to his nightly visit to her home.

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Name: R B SINGH
Date: Thursday August 07, 2008
Time: 13:29:03 -0700

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I thought this article was about Pakistan, all this can not be happening in OUR sweet India, please check people and let me know if it is true, i am getting worried.


Name: Editor
Date: Thursday August 07, 2008
Time: 19:28:18 -0700

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RB Singh, Sex is a natural desire for all humans. It will occur among every people; some undesirable types, too. The problem is: our Muslim brothers and sisters only hold the moral high ground on this sex issue--that Islam has purified Muslims and Islamic countries from the kind of sexual acts, assaults and molestation being discussed here.


Name: ha ha ha .....
Date: Thursday August 07, 2008
Time: 21:06:03 -0700

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"Islam has purified Muslims and Islamic countries from the kind of sexual acts". What kind of joke is this ???? Look in Indonesia, many ustadz or mullahs rape their children pupil. Why? Mohammad himself fuck a little nine year old girl Aisha. Maybe Mohammad himself liked to sodomy little boy too, ha ha ha ....


Name: kafir/infidel ( & Ex-communist ).
Date: Thursday August 07, 2008
Time: 22:32:57 -0700

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It is really a challenge for human intelligence and values. My doubt or question is - How could this poison , this plague of humanity - called ISLAM can survive for 1400 yrs ? not ordinarily - But ISLAM is a bloodthirsty, death cult ,fascist, killing, terror, fear ,murder,rape . This is how it survived . It is time to flush this shit religion and shit book QQURRAN into sewage - becoz they are sewage.


Name: SEX IS BEAUTIFUL AND NATURAL...IT SHUD NOT BE ABUSED !!!!!
Date: Friday August 08, 2008
Time: 00:26:48 -0700

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NO IMAGINARY JEHOVA/ALLAH CREATED MAN FROM MUD/DIRT,BUT MAN EVOLED BY NATURE FROM 1 CELLED ORGANISMS AND NATURE ITSELF IS THE TRUE GOD,WHO EVOLVED UNIVERSE AND MAN.SEX US NATURAL URGE LIKE EATING DRINKING,ETC.... WHY IT IS SUPRESSED BY ONLY MALE BASE PATRIACLA RELIGION ? BCOZ THEY R AFRAID OF WOMAN'S SEXUALITY, AND WANT TO CONTROL WOMAN AT ANY COST.WHY ? BCOZ WOMEN IS PHYSICALLY WEAKER AND MEN WANT TO SOW THEIR SEEDS IN MAXIMUM NUMBER OF WOMEN.ITS HI-TIME TRUTH ABT THE FAKE RELIGION BASED ON FAKE REVELATIONS AND IMAGINARY DEITY JEHOVA-ALLAH IS EXPOSED AND WOMEN R LIBERATED FROM THE CLUTCHES OF RELIGION FOREVER.JUST IMAINE,MAN CANT GIVE BIRTH STILL THINKS THAT SOME MALE IMAGINARY DEITY CREATED UNIVERSE AND ALL PROPHETS R ALWAYS MALE,WHY PROPHETS R NEVER FEMALE ? WHY ALLAH MAKE WOMEN MENSTRUAE AND THEN SAYS ITS DIRTY ? AND WOMEN WHO MENSTRUATE R SICK/ILL [ Q-2.222 ]. ITS BCOZ THERE IS NO JEHOVA/ALLAH AND NATURE IS THE ONLY TRUTH.


Name: caleb singh
Date: Friday August 08, 2008
Time: 02:07:21 -0700

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here is the link to pakis female diamond market http://www.metacafe.com/watch/772316/pakistan_female_diamond_market/

here is another link of shoiab akther activities http://img141.imageshack.us/my.php?image=shoaibakhtar21tn.jpg

here is another link to miss pakistan and note the hypocritic comment of some rabid fundamentalist http://kaladan.com/8/miss-pakistan-world-contestants-pictures/


Name:
Date: Friday August 08, 2008
Time: 09:28:22 -0700

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Hindu Prostitution, Pimping and Holy Devdasi Temple Prostitution. Hindu priests, the holy men of Hinduism require sex slaves for their ummm... needs. These upper caste Hindus known as brahmins happen to be the architects of caste system in India. As well as its upkeepers in this age. Instead of having sex with their wives, these 'holy men' rear penniless low caste Hindu women into 'holy prostitution' or the process of making them 'Devdasis'. The devdasis are owned by their brahmin priests and traded among them like cattle. They have no rights as wives or even as sexual partners. If they get pregnant, the child is never accepted by the brahmin father. They are never given any choice to leave the despicable occupation. Rather, they are reared as sex slaves of the Hindu religious class. If Hindu "holy men" are capable of such barbarian abominations, what can you say about ordinary Hindus? An interesting point is that high caste Hindus such as these pimp-priests never touch or eat in the vessel of low caste "inferior" Hindus. Yet they have no issues in having sex with them! What can non-Hindus expect if this is the status of Hindu girls in hinduism?


Name: Faisal
Date: Friday August 08, 2008
Time: 10:21:42 -0700

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The article is brilliant and tells us about the plight of humans, what i fail to understand is all this hatred against religion weather it be Islam or Hinduism. People are evil and use culture, religion nationalism or what ever else they can find to justify doing evil. So whatever point you obtuse people are making it doesnt really make a difference cause you dont really care about the suffering of people all u care about is making urselves feel better.


Name: christo
Date: Friday August 08, 2008
Time: 10:41:48 -0700

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Could have been written better, but not a bad read.


Name: balam
Date: Saturday August 09, 2008
Time: 11:27:16 -0700

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Recently a member of Pakitan parliment shamelessly called all the Christians lowly sweepers in Pakistan on Chritian T.V channel.Her name is Fawzia Wahab and represents P.P.P and was invited to convey the Christians outrage at the abduction of two little Christian girls aged 10 and 13,gang raped and coverted to Islam and married off to two of her abductors.The girls parents are poor and Christians and the Pakistani Muslim police refused to help because the victims happened to be Christians.The life of Christians in Pakistan is unbearable and the foolish remarks by a Pakistani M.P acted like the salt rubbed in the wounds of Pakistani Christians caused by the Barbaric Muslims.India was raped by Britain and produced two ILLEGITIMATE offsprings.One was called Pakistan and the other one named Bangla-Desh.Both being Anti-Christ and Anti-Christian like their prophet who preached hatered against the Jews and Christianswho would not follow him.No true Christian would follow a Pedophile,pervert,psychopath when they know a divine and sinlessSON of God who could forgive their sins whereas according to the French poet DANTE Mohammad was burning in the lowest part of burning Hell and Being attacked by Pigs-BROTHERS OF FAWZIA WAHAB.I would ADVISE FAWZIA WAHAB TO KEEP HER TRAP SHUT IN FUTURE IF SHE DOES NOT WANT THE TRUE FACE OF MUSLIMS AND ISLAM EXPOSED FURTHER.


Name: The devadasi system has been banned - Matthew
Date: Saturday August 09, 2008
Time: 11:29:35 -0700

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The devadasi system is an evil in society and has been legally banned. I think it is extinct or almost extinct. But in islam there are millions of sex slaves. Every muslim women is a sex slave with less rights over her body compared to non muslim societies


Name:
Date: Sunday August 10, 2008
Time: 02:54:42 -0700

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Hey you are cribbing about prostitution in India by showcasing devadasis,who are only temple -dancers and servants and not prostitutes. In islam every woman is treated as a prostitute- your fake prophet has not spared a 6 year old girl when he was 54 years old, old enough to be Aisha's grandfather. Yech what a stinking lecher that old coot who calls himself a'prophet' must have been! If that was the condition of the daughter of his close friend and the first caliph of islam, you can imagine what lesser muslims and above all kaffirs would have suffered at the hands of this miserable old lecher Muhamad the fake prophet!


Name: Iman naji
Date: Tuesday August 12, 2008
Time: 06:21:19 -0700

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Reference: http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/QURAN/17.htm "The Holy Quran" As written about Israel and her security??? Reference: http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/QURAN/17.htm (Chapter 17) Surah 17. Isra', The Night Journey, Children Of Israel 104. And We said thereafter to the Children of Israel, "Dwell securely in the land (of promise)": but when the second of the warnings came to pass, We gathered you together in a mingled crowd. 105. We sent down the (Qur'an) in Truth, and in Truth has it descended: and We sent thee but to give Glad Tidings and to warn (sinners). 106. (It is) a Qur'an which We have divided (into parts from time to time), in order that thou mightest recite it to men at intervals: We have revealed it by stages. 107. Say: "Whether ye believe in it or not, it is true that those who were given knowledge beforehand, when it is recited to them, fall down on their faces in humble prostration, 108. "And they say: 'Glory to our Lord! Truly has the promise of our Lord been fulfilled!'" 109. They fall down on their faces in tears, and it increases their (earnest) humility. 110. Say: "Call upon Allah, or call upon Rahman: by whatever name ye call upon Him, (it is well): for to Him belong the Most Beautiful Names. Neither speak thy Prayer aloud, nor speak it in a low tone, but seek a middle course between."


Name: to: The Quran forbids the following,
Date: Tuesday August 12, 2008
Time: 21:14:30 -0700

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To make it more complete, why didn't you mention : Quran teaches people to kill other people (infidels)? Quran tells people to curse other people? Things that other religions don't do. When Islam based on Makkiyah verses, it is peaceful, but after Mohammad went to Medina, it is became cruel. I think all the items you mentioned mostly from Makkiyah verses, while Medina verses are mostly cruel. Kill kill and kill.


Name: sfdhlBN
Date: Thursday August 14, 2008
Time: 15:42:42 -0700

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i Have a question can muslims under 18 watch sex on the computer or gay sex Yes or no


Name: The Pedophile 'Prophet' Mohamed
Date: Monday August 18, 2008
Time: 01:27:21 -0700

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Listen people should be able to be free and not be forced to adhere to a cult like Mohamedism by force. Why do you think these terrorists all want to come and live in the west? All these Mohammedans are terrorist as although they hate their cult they try to force it onto everyone so that they do not go to hell on their own. What did that Iranian politician say when visiting the USA- there are no gays in Iran. Of course there is not as of course Mohamed is a prophet and women are equal to men, that they are brothers and bla bla bla. These Mohamedans are hypocrites and are at least a thousand years behind mentally due to their cult.


 
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