(THE ELECTRIC NEWSPAPER)
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By Low Ching Ling
15 April 2006
He took four permanent and six temporary (Muta) wives..
He used the Quran to prey on his own flesh and blood to fulfil his insatiable sexual appetite.
He told his children, you are my women so I have the right to have sex with you according to Quran.
But in the eyes of the law, the father of 64 children is a rapist.
For more than a year, he forced five of his daughters to have sex with him.
Yesterday, he pleaded guilty to nine charges of rape and aggravated rape of five of his daughters.
Another 34 charges, including one of attempted rape of another daughter, were taken into consideration.
The man cannot be named, to protect the identities of the victims.
Amazingly, he has some faithful followers, though others have questioned his beliefs.
FIERY TEACHER
He is well-versed in Islamic history and fluent in Arabic. He gave religious lessons at mosques, tertiary institutions and at home and also founded his own religious movement.
All his wives are Singaporeans and they live in three HDB flats in the north.
They are attractive. Two stood out with their beauty. The others, too, had pleasant features, flawless skin and expressive eyes.
Over the years, his 10 wives bore him 66 children - 33 boys and 31 girls. They are now aged between 9 months and 16 years.
WELL-EDUCATED WIVES
Family friends told The New Paper that a few of the wives speak fluent English and seem well-educated. And they made no attempt to stop him from preying on their daughters since he convinced them it is according to Quran.
LOVE & CARE
Referring to a verse in the Quran, he told them a father had 'ownership' over his children. He said that meant he could have sex with his daughters.
He believed that if he could satisfy his daughters' sexual needs, they would be less likely to have sex with boys.
He also saw it as the lesser of two evils - having sex with him would prevent his daughters from contracting illnesses from other boys. They would also always have his love and care.
His wives and daughters who are all Muslims believed him. After all, they considered him a devout Muslim who conducted quranic classes and is an scholar of Quran
What made it sick was that the girls' mothers helped in catering to his perverse pleasures.
Whenever he wanted sex with his daughters, his wives would approach them and tell them to go into his bedroom.
Sometimes, when the girls were reluctant, the wives would urge them to comply.
Whenever a daughter got pregnant he had her aborted.
In mitigation, he said he acted according to a verse in the Quran.
BBC: 'Incest Muslim man' saved from lynch mob
West Bengal Muslim father married and impregnated 15 year-old daughter with sanction from Allah
A Muslim who married his 15-year-old daughter and made her pregnant had to be rescued from angry villagers in the Indian state of West Bengal, police say
Afazuddin Ali, 36, has five children - three of them daughters.
A few months ago Ali married his eldest daughter, telling his wife Sakina that Allah had ordained him to do so.
Not convinced by his story, his angry neighbours in Kasiajhiora village nearly lynched him for what they said was a clear case of incest.
Marriage within the nuclear family is forbidden in Islam.
'Divine sanction'
"He is a deeply religious man and will never lie in the name of Allah," Sakina told a court in the northern district of Jalpaiguri.
"I agreed to his marriage with our eldest daughter when he invoked divine sanction," she said.
But this story has failed to impress the other villagers.
"We didn't know she was married so when we confronted his wife, she told us about the bizarre marriage six months ago," Sheikh Ramzan, a village leader at Kasiajhiora, said.
"We wanted to smash his head, we were so angry."
When the angry mob attacked Ali on Sunday, a police team went to the village and rescued Ali and his wife.
The couple were produced before a magistrate in Jalpaiguri on Monday.
But as the lower court has no criminal jurisdiction, Ali and his wife were released.
"The police have not lodged any specific charge against Afazuddin (Ali) and my court has no jurisdiction over criminal matters, so what can I do," sub-divisional officer Atanu Roy said.
Angry villagers say that is not good enough.
"The girl is a minor, so at the very least her father should face criminal charges for marrying a minor," villager Sheikh Ramzan said.
Ali and his wife have not returned home because they fear a fresh attack from angry villagers.
They are staying in Jalpaiguri town at the moment.
MUSLIM FATHER RAPES DAUGHTER
KHAIRPUR, April 26: A Muslim man has been booked for allegedly assaulting his daughter. Complainant Ghulam Akbar Leghari has stated in an FIR filed with the A-Section police that on April 22 that after returning home from work he came to know that his sister Nadra had been admitted to the Lady Willington Hospital in Khairpur.
Mr Leghari said that when he and his brother Zafar went to the hospital, their sister told him that the father had been sexually assaulting her. After eight months of pregnancy, the father brought her to the hospital where she underwent an operation and gave birth to a baby boy.
She said the father had escaped with the baby.
MUSLIM MAN RAPES DAUGHTER IN LAW
Press Trust of India
Posted online: Monday, June 20, 2005
Updated: Friday, July 01, 2005
Ghaziabad, UP, June 20: A Muslim woman, who was allegedly raped by her father-in-law in Muzaffarnagar district on June 3 has said that she would not obey the directives of shariyat panchayat to stay away from her husband (Islamic shariat board decided that the woman should leave her husband and start living with the old man).
The woman said that she had full faith in police and law and her alleged rapist father-in-law should be punished severely (that wouldn’t happen because father in law followed a sunna).
RELIGIOUS Muslim FATHER RAPES DAUGHTERS
JUSTIFIES HIS ACTS BY RELIGIOUS SCRIPTURES
(STRAIT TIMES, Singapore)
Aug 25, 2005 (AP): A religious Muslim man , whose identity was withheld to protect his victims, used Quranic interpretations to justify sex with his daughters, Deputy Public Prosecutor Eugene Lee told the High Court.
While conducting religious lessons, he convinced his wives that he had ownership over his children, which included having sex with them, The Straits Times said.
Forty-three charges were leveled against the father, who preyed on his daughters when they were between 12 and 15 years old, from December 2003 to June 2005. The charges included rape, attempted rape and aggravated rape.
Two of the girls became pregnant and had abortions.
The incidents 'were so numerous that they were hard-pressed to keep count, much less remember the exact specifics of each incident,' Lee was quoted as saying.
The man would send one of his wives to tell a daughter to go to their father's bedroom, Lee said. He had sex with them even though the girls cried out in pain.
The eldest of the abused daughters reported her father to the police on June 24, 2005. He was arrested the next day.