Pro-government Islamic sect leader advocates 'burying girls alive'

A Turkish pro-government Islamic cult leader advocates the 'old' custom of burying female infants alive and says naked arms of mothers seduce sons, showing Islamists' misogynist stance towards female individuals
Tuesday, 27 February 2018 20:22

Müslim Gündüz, the leader of Islamist cult of 'Aczmendi', said that males could become sexually seduced if they see the naked arms and legs of their mothers and sisters. Gündüz argued that female students of Islamic imam-hatip schools do not cover enough and wear seductive dresses even though they wear headscarves.

ISLAMIST CULT LEADER: MOTHER'S NAKED ARMS SEDUCE HER SON

"I don’t condemn the father but his conservation [with his daughters] is an illegitimate deed. His daughter dresses as she wishes so that she will not be isolated at the school. A mother cannot stand as bare-breast in front of her son. She cannot walk around with transparent clothes in presence of her adolescent son and daughter. Arms, legs, hips, breasts… These seduce lust," the religious cult leader said.

Referring to the so-called "age of ignorance", the pre-Islamic era in Arabia, Islamist Gündüz legitimated female infanticide, an implementation through which female infants had been buried alive since they had been "innately sinful" just because they had been born as females.

"Today's conditions were present at that time, too. So, this girl would definitely carry out illegitimate deeds before your eyes. It is impossible to rescue this girl. I wish they had not buried but routinized killing somehow. I wish they had been beheaded," Gündüz said.

Müslüm Gündüz was an actor of a national scandal in late 1996. Gündüz was the devoted anti-secularist leader of the Aczmendi community, a self-proclaimed Islamic order. He was arrested by the police in December 1996 in a house where he was found with Fadime Şahin, a 22-year-old female student, which led to an investigation in which it was alleged that she was being shared sexually among the leaders of the community.

AKP GOV'T ATTEMPTS TO CRIMINALIZE ADULTERY

Erdoğan talked about a law motion on February 20 regarding the increasing rate of child abuses and criminalizing adultery at his party’s parliamentary group meeting in Ankara. The AKP government seems to cover its role in an attempt to melt adultery and sexual abuse of children in the same pot.

However, the rate of sexual crimes, sexual assaults, harassments and child sexual abuses has extremely increased during the rule of Erdoğan's AKP government as a result of reactionary and misogynist policies.

The rate of child abuse in Turkey increased by 700 percent in the last ten years in Turkey, according to a report on child abuse prepared by Prevention of Violence and Rehabilitation Organization.