Sharia breeds Misogyny

Deep within the lands of Indonesia, the city of Aceh stands firm. A proud nation of ethnocentrism and an unquestionable law holds the lives of Muslim women at a point of no return – where the life lived is based on the subjective law of Sharia and the sickened punishments to which a religion can be traced.

A 13-year old boy awakens to the smell of steamed rice and the delicate aroma’s of the Eastern spices that would soon become breakfast. He throws on his light-weight attire and peci (Eastern traditional hat) and moves toward the warming embrace of what could be his last meal. Meanwhile, a group of seven men were to prepare themselves for an act that defies human morality: by including this 13-year old boy, they would ensure not only the guaranteed destruction of a woman’s life, but the psychological annihilation of a young, capable male with potential for greatness.

The woman, a widow, suffering isolation and a lack of love from the dead, would attempt to find warmth and any scattered shard of meaning for her life within the arms of a married man. The law had been broken. To find someone that would ease the pain of loss, someone who could, with open arms, bring back joy into a heart left in sorrow. This is of the biggest offence to Sharia Law and so her punishment as a widow would soon surface.

Voices are heard as a collective; a group had gathered and began arguing the punishment that would best fit the crime. Laughter, anger and disgust can be derived from the tone and what is being discussed between the gang of vigilantes. The 13-year old listens in and absorbs - like dry soil does water - all the madness and insanity that these men offer with promise of justice and truth. The depraved would gather to commit a further crime.

The lonely lady had once again met with her lover; the married man. Both eyes staring lovingly, lustfully for the other, both bodies caressed in a bond of physical extravagance – what if they were meant to be?

The darkened forms of eight men would see themselves into the home of this woman. These beings of derision would ensure the end of such an unlawful act of sex, by serving justice through bitter irony. The men took their knees, one by one, raping the widow of everything she is, was and will be. The stench of sweat on their bodies forced against hers, the bittersweet smell of a young boy, of youth, now taking the steps into an abysmal manhood – nothing more could go wrong, her spirit now lost in limbo.

After the revolting ordeal, the gang dumps sewage on both the adulterers and disperse with lack of remorse. Signs of pain and anguish riddled the faces of these lovers as the acid and dirt of the sewage sinks into their pores and leaves them in a state of ultimate humiliation.

Sharia Law seeks to bring about justice and a settled score with regard to the rapists, however, the law dictates an unwavering punishment toward the woman and man for their acts of adultery. A sickened consequence brought on by negligent, conscience-lacking individuals would seem as if it were the ultimate, inhumane penalty for such a crime, yet the law will see that the crushed woman and her married lover is served up to nine lashes from a cane for what they had done. The unreasonable and misogynistic law that attempts to perpetuate peace has had negative effects in the individual’s right to existence and moral balance.

With a young boy now drawn into a world of filth and two lovers torn between culture and law, there is evidence of a darker side to the Eastern Philosophy that dictates several nations and the way in which human beings are treated – more specifically women. The rape alone will cause psychological damage to both the young boy and the widowed woman; this will result in a society that continues to degenerate and move backwards in a world that is progressively about people as a collective and our significance on Earth as the human race. Religious law should be the first to ensure the safety of human-beings and to promote morality and purpose on a macroscopic scale; in order to bring about a stronger and more empathic-driven way of living.

Hope, prayer, belief and initiative will most likely be the saving grace of these nations in turmoil. The realisation needs to come to the rulers and leaders; the same very people that are given such positions of power, yet cannot comprehend a societal balance like that of Western culture, or at least Eastern culture to the point of Buddhism. The 21^st Century dawns an age of phylogeny, an age of peace and tranquillity – no matter the creed, colour, sex or orientation of a person. Peace is the final destination.