“Pakistani man asks how many fellow Muslims have been raped or sexually abused by a Maulvi. Hundreds of responses will shock you”, Opindia, April 4, 2024:
“On 2nd April, a Pakistani man, Faisal Rafi, asked people on X (formerly Twitter) if they were raped or sexually abused by a Maulvi (Islamic priest/religious teacher). The question went viral quickly, and the number of people, irrespective of gender, who said yes was shocking. Faisal himself said yes to the question. He said the incident happened to him not at a madrasa but at his home.
Replying to him, a writer named Iqra said, “Same. And I barely know a girl who hasn’t been.”
An X user, Khurram Qureshi, said, “I’m so sorry to hear that Faisal sahib… my brother & I used to receive regular beatings from our Maulvi who used to come to our house…he told us never to tell our parents…I was 8 & my brother was 5…we were scared… Amma walked in one time he was hitting me and threw him out.” To which Faisal replied, “Same, hitting plus groping and fondling, I was like 10, luckily our cook saw it and told my father, that was the end of maulvis in our home, it was terrifying and soul destroying, took me a very long time to recover from that sh*t……”
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