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22
2007
| Women in Veil Behind Bars: What Can We Do? |
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| Written by Rina Morados | |||||||||||||||||
| Monday, 22 January 2007 | |||||||||||||||||
Page 4 of 15 I realized that time that we need help from someone that can help us show the facts of the suspects’ innocence. I texted General Iqbala in Camp Crame and narrated to him the incident. On his part, he asked some reliable person at the compound to check the incident and apart from the result of my interview with the girl and her family. I mentioned to him reliable facts attesting that Jen was not into drug pushing but a Nanny also relating to him the incident. Around 5:00 PM, the station commander summoned me upstairs. He told me General Iqbalah called up and in their talk General Iqbalah asked him to conduct further investigation that resulted to our conference. We got two testimonies of Muslim elders attesting the innocence of Jen. But as to the 14-year-old boy they still have to investigate because report in the field showed that the boy’s family is involved in selling drugs. We told them, our concern is that they should establish facts based on sound and material evidence and we Muslims do not tolerate illegal and haram acts. We don’t tolerate evil doings and much more drugs that destroy the future of the Muslims. I agree with him the need to educate the Muslim community about the danger of drugs. Drug is haram. Considering the facts we presented to the station commander, Jen was released. Alhamdullilah, Jen was spared. Without our timely intervention and Allah swt help Jen might have just added the congestion of Muslim Sisters in Camp Karingal. This is what Warden is telling me, while we focus educating Sisters inside the Camp we should also consider doing something to prevent Muslim women in coming in, either guilty or innocent. And I re-echo the same call to every one of us. We cannot discount the fact of harassment-- just to note the increasing number of Muslims—men and women put to jail after the 9/11 incident. The US and our government’s campaign against terrorism put Muslims in alarming situation in this country i.e. men as suspects in terrorism and women linked to drugs. We do have our constitutional rights. We should be allowed to invoke these rights at all times at any cost. But why Muslim women are into drugs? I am referring to the guilty ones. Sad but this is the reality some of our women are involved. And this brings us to the third issue the I want to discuss. This is an issue I’d like to address to our parents and religious leaders. Women’s involvement in a haram activity shows decadence of our moral values and lack of understanding the true teachings of Islam. Why these young women allowed venturing life in Manila away from their families? Apparently, is there a shift of family values? Are women now expected to earn for the family’s living? Or parents allowed their daughters to pursue dreams of giving their families luxury in life at the expense of danger working abroad? Who are at loss? What’s the result? We see more women getting into haram things. So, we call on our religious leaders to do something educate Muslims the true values of Islam. |
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