Women and Children
"Slept camly the Bulbuli of my song..." Kazi Nazrul Islam
BM Desk, 26th September ,2007 :
The quotation put as the tile to this view is taken from a poem written by the National Poet of Bangladesh, Kazi Nazrul Islam. He was so shocked with the natural demise of his son that he wrote such grief-stricken verse. He was indeed a good father. However, infanticide in Bangladesh shakes the nerves while awful picture is printed in the news paper. On 20 th April 2007, a brutal infanticide was committed at Pallabi, Dhaka . According to the report of the dailies it was known that two daughters -Mahima Karim (10) and Tasmia Karim (3) were murdered by his father Rezaul Karim. After killing the daughters he drunk poison, the report said. The speculation was drawn as the family feud might have been the cause of this brutality. At the time of murder their mother was at her work place – beauty parlor. The report also said that his father was mentally distressed as he was troubled with his job or business.
Such killing of children is called infanticide. Infanticide is the practice of someone intentionally causing the death of a infant.
According to the police source it is less prevalent of murder than burglary. They are taught at Police academy that murder is committed suddenly, but burglary is committed being organized. This is one of the problems of Bangladesh , so called namely Muslim state, but Islamic law is not practiced and in between Roman system neither our expectation is achieved nor did we are getting the essence of Islam. Some arguesthat Islamic law can not be adapted to our society, but these misguided sections of the state often forget that during the 1700s,1600s and before that we were guided by Shariah law which ensured stopping such brutality. At the junction of lawlessness the implementation of Islamic law shall make our society more liveable even at digital age. If the law of Islam and ideology is practiced, then a man could never be impatient and ferocious to his/her daughters .A true essence of parentfood found when the sons of our Prophet Muhammad(SM) died he wept and when the son of Adam (AS) died he wept many hundred years . Patience is one of the important tasks of Islam. In many verses Allah urges to be patient. In the Quaran it is said that death and livelihood for the next day is only known to Allah. In western society the anxiety is rampant, as they emphasize on the patience. Apart from patience, for the poverty killing of girl-infant is totally forbidden in Islam, our Prophet abolished this vogue practiced in ancient Arab. While Pharaoh commenced to kill boy-infant in Egypt , Allah blessed Hazrat Musa (AS) , Samir etc by the aide of Gibrael (AS) . More over according to Al –Quaran & Hadis: it is harshly forbidden to grab the infant's property receivable from source of inheritance. In our society among the poor people there is a tendency to get more infant .Although they are less fed at their early ages , they are pretended to be the source of their parents .It is also a misconception .A children deprives of getting full physical and psychological aid , he /she becomes the tools of criminals in the society . Most of them are used as the hand of criminals. Even Child labour is one of the forms of exploitation, making our society problematic .According to the Bangladesh Institute of labor Studies, attacks on children constituted over 50 percent of the deaths and sexual assaults reported among domestic workers during the year.
In present so called civilized nations have not yet checked the many forms of infanticide. Killings of infant nearly 5000 in the USA by cross fire and the march of the mothers near Washington DC in 2000 for the safety to their infants veiled the fact that they were not fit enough to check infanticide. Use of narcotics, porous law and less spiritual development are driving to commit infanticide all over the world.
Now it is time to get promised to be harsh on infanticide.
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Left : Residentail hotel convicted for allowing prostitution , middle: RAB Action ,right: floating prostitute at farmgate
Dhaka 's prostitute -spot , background , preventive law .
Akhter. 18th September ,2007:
With out glorifying the dignity of women prostitution is such a profession or occupation that filled the hand in full to the organizer of this profession, most cases the male counterpart, as it was an age old- lucrative product for business. Since the aspiration to do intercourse is a by -born nature of a man, (reversely women as well), the business ensured success as it required no more advertisement for. Although prostitution brings money to someone's pocket, the society being burnt with the ‘prostitution diseases 'often can not balance the normality in the society. The impact of this abnormal pacification of sexuality often pushes the legitimate father to act such a behavior that his daughter might have been maltreated by his father.
So the divine guided societies like ours did and do not formally recognizes/ed this hatred profession, although some groups advocate in favor of it. The existing law in Bangladesh , in general, takes the stunt against these activities.
What is prostitution?
According to the World Book Encyclopedia (1976) prostitution is referred as the sexual acts for payment. According to Zarina Rahman khan H.K. Afreen cited in the research paper of Bangladesh National Women Lawyer's Association (BNWLA) (1999) that in our existing social system the women who mitigate the sexual urges of men in exchange for cash are called prostitutes .This profession of the women is called prostitution.
Back ground of this Profession:
There is a controversy whether prostitution was considered as the profession or not, it was widely practiced where the society exploited the women and used them as the tools for the enjoyment of men. Prostitution was widespread in different ancient civilization like Egypt , Greece , Rome , China and India . As the World Book Encyclopedia (1976) urged that in ancient Greece some prostitutes had high social rank and considerable influence .The people of some ancient civilizations associated certain prostitutes with religious activities. In Bengal area this profession was not widespread before the rule of English in 1757. According to the the research paper of Bangladesh National Women Lawyer's Association (BNWLA) (1999) the census of India of 1911 shows that the prostitutes were widespread in Kolkata, the English built city. Bardwan, Presidency Division, Rajshahi, Dhaka and Chittagong division's total 12737 prostitutes only 322 prostitutes belonged to Eastern Bengal, the present Bangladesh . Nearly 17 percents of the prostitutes belonged to present Medinipur district and 8.5 percent belonged Burdwan district. In the year 1863, we find the work of Pearimohon Sen entitled “Rand Bhand Mithey Khatha Tin Loe-e- Kolkata” (Prostitute, buffoom and lies –there three make Calcutta ) [Cited in (BNWLA) (1999), pp. 19] .After the creation of a Muslim state Pakistan , they were not able to abolish the institutionalized prostitution in Mymensingh, Jessore, Goalondo, English road Tanpara in Naraygonj ,the legacy of English rule for the support of the beaurocrats since they seemed to be the vanguard of the English rule . Although the formal brothel based prostitution in Dhaka ( English Road ) and Narayan gonj (Tanpara) were uprooted within last ten years, the new form of prostitution is rooted in Bangladesh .
What is the new form of prostitution in Dhaka ?
Establishment of prostitution shaped a new form not only in Dhaka but also in other parts of Bangladesh . After the liberation war in 1971, secularism was stately nourished and so a generation suspicious to religion and with the patron of a section of powerful elite prostitution in Bangladesh grew up vigorously .The personal lifestyles of two female leaders of the two main parties and one General President's looseness, invigorated the profession. Through the nourishment of NGO prostitution became part of the state. Many NGOs funded from western countries had taken different steps to mashroom the prostitution. In the name of checking AIDS they only provide contraception, acknowledged the status of their professions and the legal rights of them and nothing else . A group of feminist likely incepted in the UK and the USA in the first half of 1900 th century, so called restoration of the rights of prostitution became the vital issue .As a result instead of decreasing the number of prostitution the number is increasing day by day. There are two types of prostitutes in Bangladesh .
• Floating prostitute
• Brothel/ house/ hotel based prostitute.
Floating Prostitutes:
Floating prostitute are scattered all over in Dhaka . They contact with the clients and move to the suitable places consulting with the customers. Farm gate in Dhaka became the big bazaar for prostitute . In front of Ananda cinema hall up to Grameen Phone office a sizeable number of prostitutes are seen wearing burkha. In order to hide their face and to dishonoring the Islamic symbol they use burkha without the resistance of Tejgoan Police Station. Second largest place in the south gate of High court Mazar. Different baul singers meet there and are rented for prostitution. More over corner to the Foreign Ministry building bound to Segun Bagicha road, in front of HR Bhaban at Kakrail bus stand are the spot for prostitutes. In addition, Shahah bag, Dhaka University campus, Baily road theatre, Bouchak market, Goachia Market, Baldha garden and Zia uddyan, Romona Park is the spot where lower middle class women are gathered for prostitution .They are contacted by mobile Phone. In the lower homeless class are seen Gulistan Hockey and Kabadi market complex, Different slums established in rail way property indifferent spot from Tongi to Naraygonj and other slum areas , behind the Ramana Kali Mondir, Farmgate park. The parks of DCC are a grazing fields of the prostitute .In those areas lights are off and in the morning around the concrete seats, lots of condoms can be seen. In Dhaka University campus areas near the Art faculty, TSC up to Shaheed Minar lots of students are seen to gather under the light post, in front of Eden college, Paira tola, Central play ground at Jahangir nagar University .A leftist organization ‘lamp post' in Dhaka University paints different slogans provoking free mixing in the wall .They are engaged in different sexual acts like masturbation. In exchange female students are received monitory help in the form of food and money lend or academic assistance. The MAMA of the universities works at the gate of women hostel maintains liaison exchanging money.
Hotel/brothel/house based prostitution:
When the two big brothels in Dhaka , set up in the time of English rule, were dismantled the traditional form of prostitution. The sardarni and her girls like culture only remains in Mymensing, Goalondo , Jessore, Fultola , Banishanta under Bagerhat district . The residential hotel and house based prostitution became the culture in Dhaka and whole country as well. The wives of foreign wage earners, garments workers , different female NGO and service holder either bachelor or married for earning more income regularly visit the hotels or house .In the residential areas like DOHS, Shewrapara, Rampura, Mirpur, Mohammadpur all over Dhaka a significant numbers of peoples belonged to Police , actor ,fashion designer ,model rent house and keep women and through reliable broker like the book, Adult CD sellers of Nilkhet, Rishhkswa pullers in Ramana area, different attendants of hotels, Bar, club act as the broker or dalal to these prostitutes and their patrons . They get the commission both from the client and the patrons. In addition, the 4- 5 th floor of residential hotels of Bananni, Mohakhali, Farmgate ,Karwan bazaar, Moghbazar, Wireless rail gate Moghbazar, Kakrail , Topkhana, Nababbpur, Fakirapool , Saidebad, Nababpur are used as the hub of prostitutions. In the very morning, women from different spots enter in to the hotels wearing ‘burkhs' in the hotels and leave off at eight o'clock evening. Male attendants of the hotels keep close contact with these women. They charge 250taka for intercourse and 100 taka is allocated for hotel, 80 taka for the girl and 70 taka the attendant .A big amount from the 100 taka is distributed to different police station. Some Journalists and editors, local Political leaders are shared the money. Even some supply the women .Some time in order to show the activities prostitutes are caught and the dalal are beaten in front of hotels and they are released on bail in the following days. Lawyers are earned when they are put on court. In the name of restoration the right of women NGOs received money from western countries, ultimately, making foundation to make the profession deep rooted in Bangladesh . Name of some hotels engaged in these activities, are given below:
Hotel West Inn at Karwan bazaar,Hotel New Metro raj at karwan bazaar, Hotel Atlantic ,Gold star at Top khana, Hotel New Diamond at New Eskaton, Hotel Parassa, Hotel Captown ,Hotel Sebika,Hotel Tajhohal , Ruposhi Bangla, Rajmahal at Mahgbazar , Hotel Neptune, Green Garden at Purana Paltan Lane, Hotel Prioyjan ,Rajdoot , Super star near Shahded Nazrul Islam Sarani ,Hotels of Rajarbagh and Banani are rampant in prostitution . Even you may find girls at the lobby of Dhaka Sheraton and Sonargaon Hotel and other guest houses at Gulshan ,Baridhara area .They charge more than the hotels in different locations .
Besides these a group of business firms like the marriage media, service firm like student counseling firms uses the female staff to pacify the cheat with the clients . In this way a group of women became infected with the quasi- prostitution disease .
What does the Bangladeshi law say?
The constitution law is committed to prevent the prostitution According to clause 18(2) of the constitution of Bangladesh the state shall adopt effective measures to prevent prostitution and gambling. Punishment and Suppression of Immoral Traffic Act, 1933 is widely used to deal the prostitution. According to the section 35 of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Ordinance, 1976 the Police can order the offender to leave the Metropolitan area as per the act of Punishment and Suppression of Immoral Traffic Act, 1933 , a per the section 74 of the act Police can fine five hundred or impose the both who call and inspire the client for prostitution . Before the enter of English the Mughal/Nabab implemented Shariah law, they simultaneously tried to eliminate the poverty and implemented the law strictly. According to Sirajul Islam (1984) it is learn that during Mughal era Hid was applicable to the women engaged in adultery, If she/he is married he is ordered to be died by throwing stones, and if unmarried, he /she was ordered to be given 100 lash and if any body brought false claim of prostitution against any other was ordered to put 80 lash. Through the implementation of this law the prostitution did not become widespread.
The poor implementation of existing law and widespread corruption to halt strong economy and to make easy earning through prostitution by a group of so called VIPs are strong supporter to prostitution.
To Sum,
Prostitution is not religiously and socially supported activities in Bangladesh .Deformation of society and widespread anti- moral policy patron by different secular politicians and NGOs, prostitution became the part of our society. Shall we not be prevented from this disease?
References:
1.The World Book Encyclopedia , Field Enterprise Educational Corporation, 1976,USA
2.Research on Prostitution : An Unresolved Social Issue Due to comprehensive Nature of Suppression of Imoiral Traffic Act,1933 ,1999 , Published by Bangladesh National Women Lawyers' Association (BNWLA) , Dhaka .
3.The Constitution of Bangladesh .
4.Banglar Itihash: Ouponibesik Shasan Kathamo,1984,Dhaka.
Why does this appetite for?
BM DESK , 6 June , 2007 :
On 30 th May, 2007, in the morning, just browsing the eyes over the dailies. Just have been stuck with the news of Miss Universe. Thundered!! No hue and cry about it, whereas some Bangladesh media was so interested that made it a box story. Except few, most of the peoples in Bangladesh can not welcome such type of program where the women, in Bangladesh called the nation of mother, walks in front of the hundreds males and females wearing bikini. Very disturbing indeed!!! When those are exposed, the private property of the individual is exposed . Unfortunately, in the evening when I was tuning Television I watched the Star Channel was showin the prizegiving ceremony of Miss Universe. I was so shameful that I did not call any body to watch the program, even if some one at my side, I had to leave the TV room!
Those who are lazy and want to earn money within short period of time women can be their prime goods to be earned money. Because it is very sensitive and public wish to pay more. It is directly controlled by the Saitan, devil. When our prophet Hazrat Muahmmad (SM) met with Jirael (AS) in the cave Hera , he came later to the house of Hazrat Khadiza (RA), the wife of the Prophet. He was fearful and asked her about it. Then she examined by putting him on the leg and opened the upper part of her. Then she concluded that if it was Satan it would stay, on the other hand, if it would be Jibreal, it would leave . Fortunately, it leaft and proved that Muhammad (SM) was met with right one. What we have learnt from it. It taught us that those who watch other than the married women's body is the fellow of Saitan or devil. These devils have dishonored women in the world . Lots of peoples suffer by the poverty which is created by this section of people. These section of the society refuse to pay a single penny to women unless enjoying his beauty and body. According to the statistics the leader of the most developed (!) country America 's earning of the state achieved from the women :
In the USA revenues from adult movies are collected $20 million, from escort service $11 million , from Sex magazine $ 7.5 million,from sex club the $5 million, from Phone sex $4.5million, from cable $2.5 million, from internet $2.5 million, from CD room $1.5million,from Noveltis $1 million and from other sources revenues worth of $1.5 million. Even from child-pornography they earn $3.0 million. (Source: The Monthly Prithibi, www.bicdhaka.com , November-2006,pp. 57) The same women trade is going on in other so called developed countries. The women around the world rush to that country to make them undress enrich their revenues. Who wants to be killed herself none human can save her.
More pathetic and frustrating when some are busy enough to amplify the culture in Bangladesh when the society logically rejected it.
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Is our woman queen or slave ?
BM research :
Bangladeshi women appeared on the focus when the NGOs started to deal with them frequently after the liberation war since the war stricken economy and the oppressed abandoned women were available in the country. Even though the children who had no father became the prime target for the international groups. The western NGOs hooked them in order to convert in to their belief as they were oppressed by so called Pak Muslim soldiers and their allies. The news paper report after the liberation war indicates that lots of the abandoned children (girls and boys) were adopted by the western countries. Those who were in the country were attracted since in the name of women lots of foreign donations were thrown away to many high ambitious High class lady and their husband in the back to have the fortune. Some politicians, beauracrats, University teachers joined in the mission to earn extra money .This western donation made them too powerful they wanted to impact the political culture . Along with the group , the former leftists ,abandoned after the fall of communism, were accumulated with the train.
However, the question remains : what is the real position of women in Bangladesh ?
The most notable phenomenon in their mission is that they have set up the common enemy to attain their objective: Islam. Islamic principles are their common enemy .Since the leftist eliminated the Islamic principles in the Middle Asia ; they strategically joined with the Western sponsors. Moreover, they have been assisted by the Indian agency also since they have the common goal to eliminate the Islamic principles and Islamic patritic force .
Whereas Islam gave them special significance which made the Bangladeshi women queen. Those include:
1.Bangladeshi Muslims voted two women Prime Ministers avoiding the male counterpart and they used their power as much as they could .
2. According to the statistics provided by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, July 2003 there are 56.8 billion male and female out of 123.9 billion male and female in Bangladesh are economically inactive. Among them 40.1 billions are female: house wives are 28.3 billions. On the other hand, 30.1 billions out of 34.2 billions are male who are economically active and rear up these huge number of females.Unfortunately, our males are not rewarded for their respect and responsibility towards their women family members. Brother, father or husbands are looking after their sisters, wives, mothers, daughters. In the Muslim marriage deed available in Bangladesh guarantees that a husband is liable to provide food and cloth to his wife, even he is to pay mohar to his wife .Even he is to pay mohar if he wants to divorce her .To marry another women, it is required to be ensured that his first wife had allowed his husband to marry.
Basically our religion doest not forbid to women's work, however, the Bangladeshi society is worried about the misuse of women by the mafia male and women circle in the name of women empowerment. Actually these are happened frequently. When the state can not provide the job to the women they inspire their women to engage in prostitution. These pictures are available in the western countries. The same influence hit our peaceful society and broken the peaceful co-existence between man and women. The western sponsored so called fundamentalist cum feminist creating new social problem .A feminist teacher in Jahangirnagar University made illicit relation with her male student made huge controversy and lots of new social problem is creating for the invasion of so called ‘empowerment culture' .Not only this but the wife interchangeable clubs influenced by the western countries made our society .Recently members of the Dhaka club women crippled in the bench of power.
Those who are under the nourishment of their husbands are too much powerful that they direct their husband to make wealth and the husband filed their property in their wife's name, recent anti corruption drive reveal the fact. And these types of women made the slum culture and lots of poor women are serving to their house as servents .Even some servents are died being abused by the lady and in different cases their liberal unmarried boys and drunkard husband. Recently a girl was working as the maid servent in the house of a houselord in the 2nd line of Mirpur section 12 ,block B, who was hanged and dead . Later that lord paid money to Thana and mananged everything.This heina is not respected in our society as it is a sin and he is a criminal.
So we can define our women as the queen in contrast to the western as well as the traditional societies. Although we are not ruled by the Islamic principles fully, yet our women are respected and protected by the clumsy form of Islamic norms.
26.03.07
Boys and women's misuse in Bangladeshi politics
BM DESK :
At the time of blockade program, AL and their allied parties were frequently using children and women to success their program. On 3 rd December 2006 the picture taken from Maghbazar area justified the claim about the using of boys illegally. They were shown in the street procession of LDP to chant against the former regime. In the same way woman was brought in the street to conduct a concert which was seen in Mirpur- 10 and Russel square at Sukrabad blocking the road by AL and few days ago naked little kids were brought to the street by AL which was printed in the Daily Dinkal.
Another, report from the Daily Khabor appeared that the record amount of foreign remittance came to Bangladesh 598.28 Crore taka, big part of that amount is used for the political purposes.
Child labor is illegal in Bangladesh and effort to dishonor women is also against the domestic value. So we are alarmed.
According to the statistics (2001) provided from the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics –there 3 crore 96 lac and 84 thousand boys and girls of the age 5-17. Among them 7423000 are involved in different economic activities side by side attending to school only 3 crore 8 lac and 97 thousand boys and girls attending to school only. Moreover, 40 lac boy and girls neither go to school nor do any work. The survey also depicts that those who works get average daily salary 33 taka and those who get monthly salary get 977 taka.
So it is very easy it exploit in the name of politics if they are kept idle in the name of blockade. If only 33 taka is paid they can used whatever they are dictated. Recently a heinous act committed in the High court. 14- Party supported lawyers provoked to burn the car of an fellow and one boy at about age 12, named Raju smashed the glasses of the car. He confessed to the detective branch of the Police Department while he was arrested on 4 th December 2006 night from Pirerbag at Mirpur. By the instruction of the 14 party supported lawyer he did it, he confessed. He used to work as the tea boy of the lawyer.
8.12.06
