Religious NGO Jamiyyathul Salaf has sent a letter to the UN Resident Coordinator in the Maldives, alleging that a call from UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay for a moratorium on flogging was “inhumane and disrespectful.”
In the open letter written in Dhivehi, sent to media today, Salaf claimed that Pillay had challenged the constitution and Islamic Sharia.
Salaf claimed the UN Resident Coordinator was obliged to write an incident report to the concerned person at the UN, “to take action against Pillay and seek a binding agreement that nothing like this will repeated by the UN in the future.”
‘’As the UN is a protected organisation in this muslim nation, it is something you should do to be sincere to the official religion of this nation and to respect the Muslims that serve in the UN,’’ Salaf said in the letter. ‘’If not, Maldivians will be forced to believe that the UN is conducting activities in this country with a hidden agenda to disrupt the peace, disrupt the religion of Islam and to influence civil unrest.’’
Salaf said Pillay’s comments “might change citizens’ perspective of the UN and its services to the Maldives”. The Maldives had a right to inform other Muslim nations of how ‘’dangerous’’ and ‘’scary’’ Pillay is, Salaf said.
‘’Let it be known, be it UN or an international organisation or a powerful country, if anyone acted as Pillay acted and criticised the religion of Islam, we cannot wait without denying it,’’ Salaf’s letter said.
Salaf further accused Pillay of denying the existence of the Maldivian constitution, although a recording of her relevant comment in Thursday’s press conference indicates that this was widely misreported in the Maldivian media. Pillay was responding to the phrasing of a question by Miadhu Editor Gabbe Latheef, and said “I don’t believe you have a constitution, you have a constitution”.
In parliament, Pillay called for a moratorium and debate on flogging as a punishment for fornication, describing it as a form of punishment “that is cruel and demeaning to women, and should have no place in the legal framework of a democratic country.”
She also described the 100 percent Muslim provision in the Maldivian constitution as “discriminatory, and does not comply with international standards.”
In its letter, Salaf claimed that if Pillay was allowed to get away with her statements, this would be “torture of Maldivians”, and warned that the NGO “would be watching” the UN.
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The beards are displaying their ignorance.
OMG OMG LOL!
Salaf and followers, please speak for your self only. Not all "Maldivians" are as insecure in their faith and as petty minded as you all are!
Thank You Mariyam, Please Salaf, not in our names please.
"Inhumane"? Really? Some people really define things differently to the rest of us!
Does Salaf even know what United Nations mean?
That is an admirable goal!
"Human rights" and their advocates are a disease, and the masses must vomit them from their midst.
Speak for yourself, salaf. Not for us.
And while you are about how about asking yiour congegartion to take daily showers, the stink of your bearded men and women in hijaab is intolerable. or are you going to tell us that is what the SUNNATH says?
@ Dhivehi Hanguraama
You are all over this website with your ignorant views like a skin rash. What future is there for Maldives with madrassa educated fundamentalists like you? Do you have a henna beard, skull cap and those silly three quarter length pyjamas? I bet your wife is nine years old too. I sincerely hope you do not have children. Passing your sicko genes on to the next generation is nothing short of criminal. You need locking up mate.
Mrs Pillay is a graduate of Harvard Law School and an eminent laywer. She is equal to one hundred Salafs both in intelligence and stature. The UN will take Salaf's letter and put it in its rightful place, the dustbin.
"The Maldives had a right to inform other Muslim nations of how ‘’dangerous’’ and ‘’scary’’ Pillay is, Salaf said..."
Salaf and AP = idiots... can the Maldives please exterminate these rodents?
The statement by Salaf is in line with former US Ambassador John R Boltons call for the reform of the UN
I don't even know what to say about this pity primitive pack.
I agree what Pillay said is sensitive to us. Yes but it does not offend me deeply. Our own politicians say more anti-religious things and are openly looting the wealth of the country dry. This is simply another trick to keep the clueless masses pre-occupied with religion while they yet again hatch another scheme to steal more millions with a paper-thin veil.
Do not mess up with the UN. Do you know the role and scope of UN?? If you create trouble, the country will suffer and the rest of the world will be against you.Therefore BE CALM.
If freedom of religion is not good for you, then why not stand against freedom of speech and expression. both do give rights for speaking against allah & refusing islam..:S...hypocrites !! all u want is to rule..political agenda ONLY !!
A big question comes into my mind..that ( WHY HAVE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE CANT TOLERATE ISLAM AND 100% MUSLIMS NATIONS LEGISLATION & THEIR RULINGS.? AND IF THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHT'S IS SOMETHING ISLAM CONFIRMS THAN THEY WANT CHANGE EXISTING LAW AT MALDIVES? IF THIS IS SAME CANT THEY KEEP THIS N STOP THIS NEW PROPAGANDA? ASK EVERYONE FOR YOUR SELF WHY CANT WE TOLERATE ISLAM, SINCE THIS IS 100% MUSLIM LAND FROM VERY FIRST..WHERE IS TOLERANCE?
every body has the right to speak or protest. Salaf has done only that. they are protesting what they feel is right or wrong. let them. pillay used her right to speak annd its salaf's turn.what say u all
hahaha please salaf, the world is changing, people want freedom, give us what we want, the change is coming !!!
i say you shut the hell up zeenat.
pillay had the courtesy to speak her piece behind closed doors. i urge salaf to do the same and not spoil the sleep of my children with their frenzied goatscreams.
WTF! Calling for stopping violence against women is inhumane. I think I'm gonna crash on to my wall. Nop!!! Not a dream!!!
What is wrong with you folks? When Pilley aired her hot airs its freedom of expression. When Salaf politely sent a protest letter to UN all the hell broke loose.. What's wrong with you ppl?
i call UN to correct these things and make no mistakes in future.... otherwise as salaf's said they have to face the consequences... i believe that still 99 percents of Maldivians love islam
Was living in Villinghilli, came across a boat full of the most beautiful, innocent chidren. They were being taken to some Island to be educated by some social worker type ppl. One of them was shrieking for her Mother, she had to be held down by force
Who were these children, I enquired.
They were nobody, outcasts, I was informed. Because, being born out of wedlock, they had not even all been registered, and would find it difficult to be accepted in the mainstream schools or to ever get a passport, as, a child has to have two married parents to be registered easily. Because, no one wants to take their child into the registry who had that child out of wedlock for being accussed of adultery, outcast, and flogged!
Their suffering is innocent, Salaf, Maldivians who support this flogging, you are to blame for the pain of these innocent children! When Justice is served in the Day of Qiyamath, in the Akhira, you will be flogged by the Divine scourge yourself for the suffering your Mercliless attitude has caused these children.
To me, these children are not nobody. They are the most beautiful kids in the world, and Allah loves them more than you could imagine, because Allah is Most Merciful to the Fatherless, to the oppressed, to life's nobodies, to those without an identity or an ancestry, to those without a culture. I believe, these children are, to use a well known expression which even Gandhi used to describe India's untouchable cast, I believe that these Children are the "Children of God" and will inherit the ultimate Kingdom before you all.
@ deweled chikan
"frenzied goatscreams" hahaha wat a perfect way to describe those idiots
@Ben
You could not have seen so many of those innocent children if we have enforce Sharia. The whole society will fail if we did not do something about this problem. I wish every mother and father understands that their child needs both of them not one.
This salaf must be a band of rather insecure people, whose faith is so easily shaken and jolted by the comments of a passing visitor.
To the point they lose all rational thought, make a public nuisance of themselves and cause disturbances in our community, waking our children and depriving the sleep of the sick, the elderly and the honest working Maldivian.
Is this the sum total of their Muslim-ness?
What a sad bunch of insecure men these are.
I condemn our government for not garroting this woman on the spot!
There is none more heinous than she!