The most populated Muslim country in the world, Indonesia, is being pressured by human rights groups to stop the degrading practice of “virginity tests” on women applying to the military. Dr Meghan Campbell, deputy director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub recommended that “as the UK seeks to position itself as a global leader it should protect the human rights of women all over the world”. So, the UK is being urged “to make aid and increased trade with Indonesia conditional on an end to degrading ‘virginity tests’.”
Women are regarded as inferiors according to Islamic doctrine where wife beating, marital rape, rape of infidels are permitted among a range of other practices which are abusive and degrading to women; so to demand sanctions against Indonesia for the “gross violation” of military ‘virginity tests’ would be futile without addressing the rest of such human rights violations across Islamic states.
The world at large refuses to recognize the barbarity perpetrated by Islamic doctrine because the sharia inspired “Islamophobia” battering rams are promptly wielded by Islamic supremacists to beat down critics.
A few religious examples:
- If a husband calls his wife to his bed and she refuses and causes him to sleep in anger, the angels will curse her till morning.” (Book 59, Hadith 58)
- We went out with Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) on the expedition to the Bi’l-Mustaliq and took captive some excellent Arab women; and we desired them, for we were suffering from the absence of our wives, (but at the same time) we also desired ransom for them. So we decided to have sexual intercourse with them but by observing ‘azl (Withdrawing the male sexual organ before emission of semen to avoid-conception). But we said: We are doing an act whereas Allah’s Messenger is amongst us; why not ask him? So we asked Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him), and he said: It does not matter(Book 8, Hadith 3371)
- Treat women well, for they are [like] domestic animals with you and do not possess anything for themselves. (Tabari 9:1754) — From Muhammad’s ‘Farewell Sermon’.
- Your wives are as a tilth unto you; so approach your tilth when or how ye will. (Quran 2:223)
- Maybe, his Lord, if he divorce you, will give him in your place wives better than you, submissive, faithful, obedient, penitent, adorers, fasters, widows and virgins. (Quran 66:5)
And tell the believing women to reduce of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers, their brothers’ sons, their sisters’ sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects of women. And let them not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment. And turn to Allah in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed.(Quran 24:31)If a woman does not cover, she is fair game to be assaulted…. O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused.(Quran 33:59)
“A gross violation’: UK must demand an end to Indonesian military’s invasive virginity testing, say experts” Nicola Smith&Sarah Newey, Telegraph, May 29, 2019:
he UK government has been urged by human rights campaigners to make aid and increased trade with Indonesia conditional on an end to degrading “virginity tests”.
For decades, women applying to Indonesia’s military have been subjected to the invasive practice in the belief that it will establish whether they are sexually active – and therefore if they are “moral” and “worthy of office”.
The “two finger test”, in which medics check whether a woman’s hymen is still intact, has no basis in science and is used as a humiliating threat to keep women from progressing in the country’s security apparatus.
The issue is being raised as the UK Department for International Development (Dfid) and the Department of Trade move to expand relations with the fast growing south east Asian state.
Dr Meghan Campbell, deputy director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub and law lecturer at Birmingham University, told The Telegraph that the UK should “strenuously advocate” for an end to the practice.
“Virginity testing is a gross violation of a woman’s right to equality,” she said. “It reinforces stereotypes that a woman’s moral worth is exclusively connected to sexual activity… and excludes them from positions of power.
“As the UK seeks to position itself as a global leader it should protect the human rights of women all over the world,” Dr Campbell added.
“In interactions with the Indonesian government, be it trade, the Department for International Development or any other context, the UK should strenuously advocate for the removal of the test. It can put conditionalities on aid and trade that should require the removal of virginity testing,” she said.
Just last week, Indonesia deployed thousands of police and military officers to the streets of the capital, Jakarta, to quell violent protests over disputed presidential election results. The absence of female officers was stark.
Andreas Harsono, Indonesia researcher for Human Rights Watch (HRW), who has researched the issue for decades, claimed the practice was impacting the military’s performance at home and abroad.
Last June, Indonesia was selected as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, and has since faced calls to improve its poor record on female participation in peacekeeping missions.
“There are many studies that women are doing a better job in peacekeeping than men,” said Mr Harsono. “Meanwhile back home [Indonesia] is deterring women to join the armed forces.”
But last week the Indonesian defence ministry continued to defend the continued use of “virginity tests” when recruiting female officers as a question of “character”.
Iroth Sonny Edhie, a chief aide and head of protocol for the Indonesian defence minister, told The Telegraph that virginity tests were a central aspect of recruitment….
Ragdoll says
Aid? What the hell are we giving them aid for in the first place??
Eur says
Isolate them. Let muslims living in their shit holes but we must ban muslims into the west. Barbarians.
Ragdoll says
Exactly. No amount of aid has improved any Muslim country and they’re clearly immune to the civilising influence of living in the West, so just keep them where they belong
BVC says
Agreed
gravenimage says
True–the civilized world should cut off all aid to Dar-al-Islam.
William A Carr says
The UK has a poor record of protecting the human rights of women in UK itself, and especially the Muslim women and children
Watto35 says
A virginity test? It’s surprising they don’t test their morals by doing a dance round a dead chicken. That’s about their level of intelligence.
PRCS says
” doing a dance round a dead”
Heh!
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
“Virginity testing … reinforces stereotypes that a woman’s moral worth is exclusively connected to sexual activity.”
Does anyone in the world believe this “exclusively” stereotype? Not even the most avid fatwa writer believes that a woman can sin only sexually.
gravenimage says
UK pressured to intervene in Indonesia to stop “gross violation” of military virginity tests
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Disgusting but unsurprising. I hope the UK does lean on them.
Carolyne says
If a woman is a virgin before the test, I doubt she is one when she leaves.
PRCS says
This is not a new problem there:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/nov/19/virginity-test-indonesia-video
Brian hoff says
It than bad idear for the UK to tell than other nation or culture what to stop or do. First with the. britexit the UK isnot that strong economic compare to Indonesia economic. The Blackhawk down was than supid operation on the US part. First that warlord was popular with the local population and have than loyal military who was willing to fight and die we suffer than defeat which it was. We withdraw a short time later. Like China invasion of Vietnam in either 1979 or 1980 when 60 to 70 year old retire Vietnamese ex military defeat 25 elite chinese divisions that China has to declare victory and go home. Out of 2400 tanks 1200 where destory and the chinese advance into Vietnam was halt over 25% of the chinese where kill. While Italian in that formerly colony of their did than better job than we did by cooperation with the local warlord to maintain peace and order.
Brian hoff says
The chinese retreat after 2 week.
gravenimage says
The appalling “Brian hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–wrote:
It than bad idear for the UK to tell than other nation or culture what to stop or do.
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In other words, this Muslim thug doesn’t want his barbaric coreligionists to stop abusing women. And note–“DefenderofIslam” has said that when there are Muslims of sufficient numbers in the US that they will destroy the Constitution and impose brutal Shari’ah law on all of us.
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First with the. britexit the UK isnot that strong economic compare to Indonesia economic.
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Just ludicrous. British per capita gdp in 2017 was USD $42,514–Indonesia was USD $4,130–less than a tenth of the UK.
Also, the idea that Britain has financial problems because it is trying to stop violent, sponging Muslims from flooding the country is absurd.
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The Blackhawk down was than supid operation on the US part.
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We were trying to stabilize things enough in Somalia so that international aid agencies could bring in food–especially to starving children. “Supid” indeed, indeed, in such a heavily Muslim country…
And under Italy Somaliland was considered one of the most advanced parts of colonial Africa, but the Muslims there soon destroyed everything the Italians had built.