I first heard this story when attending the Sharia workshop that I had blogged about previously. I know that this happens some time ago and most probably many have heard of it. For a few months earlier this year, I stuck my head under the sand in order to concentrate on the first drafts of my thesis and only started catching up on things sometime in June. So here is the link to it
http://www.muslimaccess.com/articles/Women/rape_zina_in_islam.asp
Hearing about it incensed me. Firstly, do you think that rape always have to be brutal? Do you think that one might not actually feel physical pleasure even when one is psychologically scarred during the incident, if it IS the aim of the perpetrator to make you FEEL pleasure? How do you think that two perfect strangers, with no love or attachment to one another, can actually still have sex and enjoy it?!? When one discusses, forget about talking about it MERELy as a violent crime. yes, some rape ARE perpetrated as a means to degrade women (and even men). Some are committed by psychotic men with a hang-up but by means not all. But I doubt paedophiles sexually abuse minors for that reason. In cases of incest, it is not necessarily that the father who rapes the daughter would go around raping all other girls of her age group in the village. Perhaps, we should see that rape can be perpetrated because of obsession with an illicit desire. A desire to break taboos, screw the consequence. Perhaps, other than merely throwing these perpetrators to jail, since they are already jailed under tax-payers money (not to mention us financing the people who canes them), why not have psychologists and anthropologists study more of what motivates them to do what they do? There have been much studies done in the west on this, and from my observation (though this is not necessarily concrete as I have not researched this in greater detail), incests happen relatively often in small, closed (and perhaps repressive) communities. Not that it doesn't happen in big cities. Of course not. But, when one has less options, what does one do? Especially in rural areas. Freud and a few other psychoanalysts have discussed incest obssession. One wonders about men who decide to take wives around the age of their daughers. Is that not merely a vicarious enactment of an incest fantasy?
By saying that a girl enjoys sex with her father(especially a village teenaged girl who is most probably not very exposed to the idea of sex itself), even if her body SEEMS to say that she does (when she mentally DOES NOT), is similar to justifying an industry of pornography that feeds the fantasy of incest/incest-rape.
Perhaps I'll write an article on this later, once I have the time to do better and more concrete research. Rather than it being totally my personal opinions. (:
On a slightly different vein, read this ht
Why do we let a few ignorant and most probably misogynistic group of men dominate the way laws are enacted and therefore make Islam an ugly religion to people who are nots its adherents? Oh, btw, apparently, who is IN or OUTSIDE Islam is apparently disputable. But more on this later. (:
