This is one of those horrifying stories that make you realise that left to itself, Islam creates hell holes or women, children and religious minorities. In Afghanistan children in remote i.e. more Islamic areas of the country, who have been sexually assaulted, are being put through humiliating ‘virginity tests’. These ‘virginity tests’ have no scientific validity whatsoever but they are continuing to be carried out on sexual assault victims despite healthcare and development NGO’s calling for the practise to stop.
Khaama Press a news agency from Afghanistan is reporting that the group Human Rights Watch is detailing some pretty distressing cases where abused children have been subjected to worthless ‘virginity tests’.
Khaama Press said:
Afghan girls and women, particularly the sexual violence victims, with the Human Rights Watch (HRW) new report unveiling a new distressing report from a remote part of Afghanistan where two children became the victims of the persistent issue.
According to HRW, a 6 and 7 year old girl were subjected to the distressing virginity test after reports emerged regarding an incident involving sexual assault on the two girls.
The case was reported to the authorities by a midwife after a local family turned to her for help when their 6 and 7-year-old daughters complained of abdominal pain.
After examining the girls, the midwife Farida found they had injuries consistent with sexual assault, and reported this to the district prosecutor’s office.
According to HRW, the next two months, the girls were sent three times for so-called “virginity examinations” – invasive procedures Afghan government doctors perform, purportedly to determine whether a woman or girl is a “virgin.” In reality, these tests have no scientific validity and can constitute sexual assault.
The World Health Organization has called them degrading and urges health workers not to perform them. For the girls Farida tried to help, the trauma and humiliation of repeated examinations compounded the initial abuse. When the girls’ parents brought them to a clinic for the third time, they sobbed and begged not to be tested again.
HRW says the girls’ attacker – a 17-year-old boy – was ultimately convicted of sexual assault.
But because the “virginity test” could not prove that penetration had occurred, the judge threatened the midwife, saying, “I could sentence you to imprisonment for false reporting [of rape], but I forgive you this time, as you are a woman, but be careful in the future.”
Every time I look at Islamic countries and I think that they’ve reached the bottom of the civilisation barrel I find that this is never the case. With Islam there always seems to be some greater horror some greater abuse of humanity than I found before. These ‘virginity tests’ are yet another horror inflicted on the world by the disgusting ideology of Islam. In Afghanistan not even the child victims of rape are safe from a fake medical procedure that proves nothing and achieves nothing apart from humiliating the victims even more than they have been humiliated already.
