MKenya. Jambo. Pole . I am so sorry to hear your pain and experience from the horrible oppression from your local jamaat. May this help you someway.
You and I will probably never meet. I hope my comment makes you feel someone cares, and for all those affected with similar experiences.
When I championed the successful war on FGM, and I realised the community is docile and passive, scared, lack of confidence, where they talk more than walk, and thats why kothar flies under the radar undetected , you should take pleasure such incidences of any abuse or excommunication were some inputs what helped build motivation to use overwhelming force.
Your pain though, not similar to the destruction a girl child goes through emotionally and physically when mutilated which by the way is irreversible, any oppression is unacceptable. The case was a standard of what is possible if we go with commitment.
If this makes you feel good claim some solace from what I say next. The $16000 they asked you was paid as $millions the kothar wasted in legal fees.
The verbal insult they expressed to you, is the shame they faced by having their abhorrent cases headlined in almost all major global media headlines.
The kitchen floor you were forced to do a wedding done on, is the cell their henchmen faced locked up waiting trial.
Pray SMS or kothar never do anything reckless and give me a reason to resurrect and make the next issue a personal problem.
Mkenya wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2020 3:52 pm
Salaam Sheikh_Sajjad_Husain: Baraat happened during my time in Kenya. And the simple reason I did not mention it was the wounds never healed. Outspoken that I was my reputation preceded me to Canada. My son's nikah was performed by a lowly mullah in the 'sehen' of the communal kitchen simply because my safai chitty had a footnote saying: "Bhai deen is bahot our che'. My sister's wedding was held up for hours while a confessional letter was drafted and signed under duress by me. My daughter's wedding was relegated to an alcohol-ridden party room in a large residential tower because I refused to sign a pledge to rid myself of all interest-bearing activities. I called it quits when an exhorbitant sum of $16,000 was demanded was past wajebaat, etc. I am still in Kothar's periscope. To summarise I paraphrase an urdu couplet: "Mein araam se so raha tha, na jane kisne pata bata diya".
