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Illegal mini-brothels the scourge of Bangladesh's flesh trade by
Saleema
06/13/01 at 15:42:28
I am so upset. How could a Muslims country do this? Sometimes I wonder if there is any hope at all of getting out of the mess that the Ummah is in. Sometimes I wonder why shold I care? I really need to stop taking other people's and countries problems as my own. Why does it seem to personal? I think I am going to go have a ice cream. The UN had made some new rules and one of them was that prostitutes will no longer be reffered to as prostitutes but as sex workers. I see that it is being slowly implemented. And that in the coming years, prostitution will be made legal and all countries wishing to join the world community will have to implement these laws. And I was so hurt to see Saudi Arabi sign this legislation. :( ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TUE JUN 12 2001 12:06 P.M. G.M.T. Illegal mini-brothels the scourge of Bangladesh's flesh trade by Nadeem Qadir DHAKA, June 12 (AFP) - After more than a decade closing down big red light districts, Bangladesh authorities are faced with a growing number of illegal mini-brothels, many of which are registered as family homes. "These mini-brothels operate... in residential areas, where a couple with several girls rents a house in the guise of a family," Rebecca Sultana, an official with the Bangladesh National Women's Lawyers Association (BNWLA), told AFP. Sultana said the "parents" of the establishment then started the business without anybody realising that the girls staying there were sex workers and not the daughters in the supposed family. Other rights activists said the number of these mini-brothels had mushroomed, along with those operating in hotels or on the streets, after authorities started closing down major red light districts in the late 1970s. The crackdown on big brothels had continued since that time, with two major red light areas shut in the port town of Naryanganj last year. Experts at a seminar organised by Bangladesh AIDS Prevention Society and the United Nations Family Planning Association said here this week that the underground mini-brothels increased the risk of the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. "Evictions of large brothels ... in recent years created huge numbers of hotel-based sex workers in major cities of the country, of whome 85 per cent were ignorant about STDs and AIDS," one expert said. Only 30 percent of these hotel sex workers, aged about 17 years old on average, were willing to get medical help, the seminar was told. Sultana said forcing the women into underground mini-brothels made it easier for them to be abused. She said the BNWLA had rescued girls from hotels with the help of police and had filed charges under the Women and Child Repression Law, which carried the maximum death penalty for some offences. However, she said the courts had yet to rule on these cases. Sultana said her organisation tried to help prostitutes get out of the business, but poverty and crime had enslaved many of them. "We give psychological treatment and counselling as well as vocational training to the ones who are eager to give up prostitution," Sultana said. But many of the prostitutes were forced into the profession either after being sold or kidnapped, she said. And others who would otherwise be able to quit felt they could not return home because of social taboos. According to BNWLA there are 18 brothels legally operating in Bangladesh with 2,500 registered prostitutes. The High Court in predominantly Muslim Bangladesh in a landmark verdict two years ago declared that prostitution could not be outlawed. "Prostitution is not illegal since they do it to earn a living and they could only be rehabilitated if they desired," the High Court judges ruled. "The right to livelihood of sex workers is enforceable as a fundamental right," they said. The court's ruling came despite the Bangladesh constitution saying: "The state shall adopt effective measures to prevent prostitution and gambling." But the judges said: "The right to life, as guaranteed by the Constitution under article 31, could be treated as the right to livelihood, which is a fundamental right that cannot be taken away except in accordance with due process of law." Women's rights groups greeted the verdict with jubilation but many brothels were forced to shut anyway, mainly at the hands of Islamic militants who were often backed by politicians, allowing the underground flesh trade to flourish. Copyright (c) 2001, AFP

Re: Illegal mini-brothels the scourge of Bangladesh's flesh trade by
nehar
06/13/01 at 21:57:32
[slm] sis this really angers me, i suppose these countries r muslim by name and not nature. [wlm]

Re: Illegal mini-brothels the scourge of Bangladesh's flesh trade by
NewJehad
06/14/01 at 10:04:07
the people who run the muslim world have no conection with islam. they have been educated in the west. we have schools here like Etton and Harrow. rich people all over the world send their kids there. the kids grow up with no access to islam, and only seeing a pretty picture of the west. a picture of the lives of the very rich. they go back to their countries and become rulers. they carry on loving the west, and remain ashamed of islam. they then make up laws that are more unislamic then the western countries they love so much. brothels are illigal here in briton, but ligal in many Muslim countries, in the name of becoming western and modern.

Re: Illegal mini-brothels the scourge of Bangladesh's flesh trade by
BroHanif
06/15/01 at 07:32:03
A.W.W. Sis Saleema, where did you get the name Muslim country for Bangladesh..???. It is a country that is in major problems from top to bottom. Another thing is a problemn is the commander in chief is a woman. And with dodgy fatwas given by the clerics, there is only one solution to their problem. That is the azazb of Allah will soon downpour on them i.e masss floods. What Bro Jehad said sadly is very true, that is the nature of our leaders, but our leaders are chosen by the peoples amals. If the people are good the leader is good. If the people are wonky donkeys then the leader is a wonky donkey.

Re: Illegal mini-brothels the scourge of Bangladesh's flesh trade by
Haniff
06/15/01 at 09:52:44
Assalamu Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh There are more than 55 so called Muslim countries in the world today, Saleema, but unfortunately, none of them can come anywhere close to the [color=Red] JUST [/color] rule established by our beloved Prophet [saw] and continued by his rightly-guided Caliphs. This is the tragi-comedy of the present day Ummah. Unless we go back to the Qur'an and Sunnah, we will never be able to reach the pinnancle of success which is promised to the believers by Allah Almighty. I can understand your frustration and anguish. [wlm] Haniff
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