In the 21st century...

A dear friend sent me this forward and after watching the video I had to post it here, for all of you that still wonder if human rights are violated in the world, you can see here yet another clear example of it.

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On the 10th of dec 2010 Dunia Al-Watan posted this disturbing you tube video to their web site. The video shows the lashing of a Sudanese woman, executed by Sudanese uniformed policemen, outside the Khartoum Police Central Station. The web site reported that this video has been renounced by many sudanese as being an excessive use of power that excedes the legal punishment and reached the degree of physical torture and severe humiliation.

The web site also reported that the woman has received phenomenon of violent and cruel lashes (punishment of whipping) to her back, arms, head, chest, tommy and legs which was executed by policemen in public.

As you watch this video, you will not miss the fun time these police officers seem to be having as they watch the pain of this woman.

Promenant Sudanese lawyer and human rights activists, Nabil Adib Abdalla, has questioned, in his weekly article in one of the Sudanese papers, the rights of the state to execute such humiliating punishment on its citizens. Mr. Abdallah said that such physical punishments defeats the purpose of the legal rights of the society in punishment; the society targets the correction and rehabilitation of the criminal. Physical punishments, he added, carries humiliation and degradation which contributes to the psychological dammage of the person who has committed the crime. Mr. Abdallah has also questioned the rights of the state in forcing its employees (the police) to execute such inhumane punishments against their fellow citizens.

Many web-sites has described the event as being barbaric, but refused to link it to the sharia and Islamic laws. However, Islamic sharia law is in application in Sudan and the punishment of lashing together with other inhumane punishments such as the imputation of the human hand and/or feet, and the punishment of stoning are encoded in many articles of the sudanese Islamic criminal law. Such punishments are not legislated by the Sudanese parlement, but are taken straight from quranic verses and the hadith of Muhamed. The Parlement has no power to change or abolish these punishment as they are seen as divine punishments set by Allah himself and no human has the rights or the power to argue its suitability.

Furthermore, since the application of the Islamic Sharia law, 27 years ago in Sudan, many women and men of all ages have received this humiliating violent punishment. Even worst, others have lost their hands and/or legs under the same Islamic laws.

As my dear friend and colleague, Austaz Mario, has pointed out; this sort of violation for human rights has led for the referendum on the separation of the South of Sudan from the Islamic ruled North.

I really wish that the west will look carefully to this video, and watch the suffering of both the abused and the abuser. I pray that the west will stand its grounds in refusing the application of such abusive laws, or any part of it. I pray that Muslims will never be given the rights to degrade and humiliate others under the name of Islam.

Blessings,

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