Muslim Woman Farzana Names New-Born Son Ram Rahim Giving A Message Of Hindu-Muslim Unity On The Day of Consecration at Ram Temple
New Age
Islam News Bureau
22 January 2024
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Muslim Woman Farzana Names New-Born Son Ram Rahim
Giving A Message Of Hindu-Muslim Unity On The Day of Consecration at Ram Temple
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Jewish Beauty Queen From Israel, Muslim Women Doctor
From Britain Denounce World Silence On Hamas’ Sexual Attacks
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Crackdown On Hijab Intensifies In Iran: 74,000
Text Messages Sent To Women Warning Them Of Hijab Violations
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Bilkis Bano Case: All 11 Convicts Surrender At Godhra
Jail Shortly Before End Of Deadline Set By SC
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Women In Gaza Having C-Sections Without Painkillers As
Girls Use Tent Scraps For Period Products
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Muslim Woman Farzana Names New-Born Son Ram Rahim
Giving A Message Of Hindu-Muslim Unity On The Day of Consecration at Ram Temple
22 January, 2024
Firozabad (UP), Jan 22 (PTI) On the day
of the consecration ceremony at the Ram temple in Ayodhya, a Muslim woman here
on Monday gave birth to a child and named him Ram Rahim giving a message of
Hindu-Muslim unity.
Dr Naveen Jain, the in-charge of the
District Women hospital, said that a woman Farzana gave birth to a baby boy on
Monday.
“Both the child and the mother are
fine”, Dr Jain said.
“The child’s grandmother Husna Banu has
named him Ram Rahim,” he added.
Banu said that she has named the child
as Ram Rahim to give a message of Hindu-Muslim unity. PTI CORR AB AS AS
Source: theprint.in
https://theprint.in/india/ram-temple-consecration-muslim-woman-names-newborn-son-ram-rahim/1934144/
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Jewish Beauty Queen From Israel, Muslim Women Doctor
From Britain Denounce World Silence On Hamas’ Sexual Attacks
A memorial
at Kibbutz Re'im (Photo/TPS)
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21 January, 2024
Tel Aviv [Israel], January 21 (ANI/TPS):
A Jewish beauty queen from Israel and a Muslim doctor from Britain denounced
Hamas’ sexual violence and the silence of feminist groups at the World Economic
Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday.
Linor Abargil, and Qanta Ahmed were
participating in a group discussion at the gathering. The Israeli-organized
event, titled, “Women at the Forefront of the Global Peace and Security
Agenda.”
Abargil, now a lawyer, women’s rights
activist and mother of four, described being raped as a teenager several weeks
before the 1998 Miss World competition, which she went on to win, becoming
connected to women’s rights groups around the world, and the silence she
encountered from those organizations following Hamas’s sexual violence during
the October 7 massacres in southern Israel. Abargil’s voice trembled as she
read from her prepared remarks.
“On October 7th we witnessed the most
horrible massacres atrocities rape mutilation of the worst human behavior
carried out by the Hamas terrorist organization. I turned to all my colleagues
and friends worldwide, as well as to the leading women’s rights organization to
expose this terrible event, certain that they will speak up and condemn this
unspeakable event,” Abargil said.
“And what did I discover? That there is
a discriminatory approach, and violence against one woman doesn’t equal to
violence another, as in this case of Israel. Their silence, apathy and oblivion
shocked me to the core. They even had the audacity to ask for evidence when it
was all there to see. There is no need for more proof, it’s all out there to
see,” she said.
“And there’s still girls that are out
there being raped and abused every day. Anyone who doesn’t speak up against
this is silently complicit to sexual violence against all women, not just
Israeli women. For the first time, I really feel alone. I always felt that as a
victim, I had support, that someone had my back. And now I stand here at Davos
with that empty feeling of being alone,” Abargil said.
“The word is silent is not and not a
word is being said. I cannot accept that I have come here alone carrying their
blood, their torn clothes, their wounds, their broken bones, their shattered
and burnt bodies left behind by Hamas with nothing left to bury,” she added.
Also participating was Dr. Qanta Ahmed,
a Muslim doctor from Britain and women’s rights activist. Ahmed visited Israel
after the October 7 attacks “to bear witness,” she said.
“I felt compelled to go and witness the
events shortly after October 7 in my capacity as a doctor and as a Muslim who
condemns the actions of Islamist jihadism, which is how I believe Hamas acted,”
Ahmed explained. “And the work of a doctor is generally listening to a patient
and keeping them company, even if we have no treatment options, and that
bearing witness is important for us to do as human beings, whether we’re Muslim
or Jewish or Christian.”
Ahmed stressed that “These ideologies in
radical Islam are all about exterminating ‘the Other,’ including the Christian
women in Qaraqosh, in Nineveh in Iraq, burning churches, eliminating women,
girls [and] babies. They do not discriminate in their hate, though the
antisemitism I’ve seen is eliminationist and genocidal.”
Ahmed added that she was visiting
Israel’s National Forensic Center “looking at the remains of people that had
been subjected to this genocidal violence, when a Muslim Queen questioned if
there was truly evidence that children and women had been lost in this way,”
referring to Jordanian Queen Rania. The queen had told CNN that the butchery
“hasn’t been independently verified.”
Said Ahmed to Abargil, “So many Israeli
police, detectives, soldiers doctors, forensics specialists told me even more
barbaric than the violence was the denial and so your voice is extremely
important and I stand with you, not because I’m a Muslim committed to
demolishing radical Islam, but as a human being and you are my fellow human
being and I will stand with you.”
The true scope of the rapes may never be
known, because most of the victims and witnesses were killed. At least 1,200
people were massacred in Hamas’s attacks on Israeli communities near the Gaza
border on Oct. 7. Several female hostages released during a November ceasefire
have described being sexually abused while in captivity.
The Davos discussion also featured
Tatiana Kotlyarenko, an advisor on anti-trafficking issues at the Organization
for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and Anastasiya Dzyakava, an
expert on child protection. (ANI/TPS)
Source: theprint.in
https://theprint.in/world/jewish-muslim-women-denounce-world-silence-on-hamas-sexual-attacks/1933354/#:~:text=Tel%20Aviv%20%5BIsrael%5D%2C%20January,in%20Davos%2C%20Switzerland%20on%20Wednesday.
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Crackdown On Hijab Intensifies In Iran: 74,000
Text Messages Sent To Women Warning Them Of Hijab Violations
21 January, 2024
Qom’s police commander says 74,000 text
messages have been sent to women in the last 10 months warning them of hijab
violations.
Mohammad-Reza Mirheidari highlighted,
"The referral of cases to the judicial authorities has increased more than
six times compared to last year."
Additionally, he mentioned, "We
sealed off nine women's beauty salons, 65 coffee shops, four sports clubs, and
nine other complexes."
In recent months, the Tehran police have
intensified efforts to curb persistent hijab defiance, leading to the seizure
of cars.
Iranian officials have acknowledged the
issuance of police warnings through text messages alerting citizens to the
imminent seizure of vehicles for non-compliance with compulsory hijab rules.
The police directive reportedly extends
to citizens, resulting in the confiscation of hundreds of cars temporarily
prohibited from use.
As part of an escalating crackdown on
hijab defiance, Iranian parliamentarians have given their approval to the
government's Hijab and Chastity bill. The legislation, aiming for stricter
penalties regarding hijab infractions, has faced substantial criticism from
human rights groups.
The heightened enforcement of hijab regulations
follows widespread protests in Iran since the death of Iranian-Kurd Mahsa Amini
in 2022. Amini's arrest in Tehran, allegedly for defying the Islamic republic’s
mandatory hijab, triggered the most significant uprising in recent history.
Women across the country have been
actively challenging the mandatory hijab, resulting in an increased presence of
hijab enforcers in public spaces such as subway stations.
Moreover, surveillance cameras have been
installed to identify and apprehend individuals violating hijab regulations.
Source: iranintl.com
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202401212102
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Bilkis Bano case: All 11 convicts
surrender at Godhra jail shortly before end of deadline set by SC
22.01.24
All 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case
have surrendered at the Godhra sub jail in Gujarat's Panchmahal district in
keeping with the deadline set by the Supreme Court.
The 11 convicts surrendered before jail
authorities late Sunday night, local Crime Branch inspector NL Desai said.
"They reached the jail before
midnight of January 21, which was the deadline set for them to surrender,"
he said.
The top court on January 8 annulled the
remission granted by the Gujarat government to the 11 convicts in the
high-profile case while slamming the state for being "complicit" with
an accused and abusing its discretion.
It ordered the convicts, who were
released prematurely on Independence Day in 2022, to go back to jail within two
weeks.
The apex court on Friday rejected pleas
of the convicts for grant of more time to surrender and asked them to do so by
Sunday.
The 11 convicts are Bakabhai Vohania,
Bipin Chandra Joshi, Kesarbhai Vohania, Govind Nai, Jaswant Nai, Mitesh Bhatt,
Pradeep Mordhiya, Radheshyam Shah, Rajubhai Soni, Ramesh Chandana and Shailesh
Bhatt.
Bilkis Bano was 21 years old and five
months pregnant when she was gang-raped while trying to escape the horror of
the communal riots that broke out after the Godhra train burning incident in
February 2002. Her three-year-old daughter was among the seven family members
killed.
On August 15, 2022, the 11 convicts, who
spent 14 years in jail as part of the life sentence, were granted premature
release after the Gujarat government accepted their remission applications in
accordance with its 1992 policy, citing their 'good conduct' during
imprisonment.
The 11 convicts are residents of Singvad
and Randhikpur villages in Singvad taluka of Dahod district near Panchmahal.
Quashing the remission order, the
Supreme Court had ruled that the Gujarat government lacked jurisdiction to
grant premature release to the convicts as the case trial was held in
Maharashtra.
Days after the SC order, the convicts
moved the top court seeking more time to surrender on various grounds such as
failing health, impending surgery, son's marriage and harvesting ripe crops.
These applications were dismissed by the
apex court on Friday with the observation that the reasons cited had no merit.
Source: telegraphindia.com
https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/bilkis-bano-case-all-11-convicts-surrender-at-godhra-sub-jail-before-midnight-of-january-21/cid/1995393
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Women in Gaza having c-sections without
painkillers as girls use tent scraps for period products
21 January 2024
Pregnant women are having C-sections
without anaesthetic while others are forced to use scraps of tents in place of
period products, aid workers say.
Babies are being "delivered into
hell", without their mothers having any anaesthetic, according to UNICEF
communications specialist Tess Ingram.
With more than 1.9 million Gazans displaced
since 7 October, a tent "city" of almost two square miles has been
set up in Rafah, south of the strip.
No food or medical supplies are allowed
to enter the territory, including sanitary towels, tampons and contraceptive
pills that could stop or delay periods.
Riham Jafari, an ActionAid worker based
in Bethlehem, said: "Imagine having to manage your period with no period
products, toilet paper or soap, and no chance of being able to wash yourself.
"This is the reality for hundreds
of thousands of women and girls in Gaza right now.
"Some women cut part of towels to
use on their periods - this is not healthy.
"They are using parts of the tents
or fibres. They cut off part of it to use as pads and some of them are using
their extra clothes as pads."
Using unclean materials as sanitary
products can cause a risk of infection and potentially deadly toxic shock
syndrome.
Ms Ingram added: "Seeing newborn
babies suffer while some mothers bleed to death should keep us all awake at
night."
Women and girls have made up roughly 70%
of the 25,000 people killed in Gaza since 7 October, according to the Hamas-run
health ministry.
Young girls use bottled water to wash in
a tent camp in Rafah, southern Gaza
One ActionAid Palestine worker, who
asked to remain anonymous, added: "There was no water available for me to
get clean during my period. I had no sanitary pads for my own needs."
A woman called Adara, who was forced to
flee her home with her four children, said they "suffer a lot whenever we
want to go to the bathroom" and have to "stand in line for a long
time".
With clean running water incredibly
sparse in Gaza, people there are falling well short of the 15 litres needed per
person per day.
According to estimates from the UN's
agency for Palestine, only one of the three water pipelines between Israel and
Gaza is functional, and there is only one toilet per 486 people.
ActionAid is calling for a ceasefire to
allow more aid into the territory.
Source: news.sky.com
https://news.sky.com/story/women-and-girls-in-gaza-using-scraps-of-tent-material-in-place-of-period-products-13053083
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