New Delhi: India's two prominent Islamic helplines are discouraging young callers, especially women, from creating profiles and posting pictures on popular social networking websites Facebook and Twitter on the ground that it is unIslamic.
The heads of the two popular Lucknow-based helplines, run for Shia and Sunni Muslims, have been flooded with phone calls asking if virtual profiles are Islamic.
"You can't see someone's face on Facebook and decide that you want to be friends. Look for 'pyar aur mohabbat' (love) in real life. Virtual relationships are not 'faydaymand' (profitable)," Sunni Mufti Abul Irfan Naimul Halim Firagni Mahli said.
The Mufti wants youngsters to bond in the real and not the virtual world. Of the over 1,000 calls that the Mufti fields in a month on his popular helpline, more than 50 per cent questions are about Internet usage.

"If one is on Facebook for business purposes or for constructive purposes, then the account is justifiable," he said.
However, the Mufti is not pleased about women being on Facebook to make friends and is definitely against them uploading pictures on the social networking site. "Women should not post pictures on Facebook or anywhere else on the Internet. This is unIslamic," he said.
A Maulana from the minority Shia sect too endorsed the Mufti's views. "Women are not allowed to show their faces to anyone apart from their 'mehram' (male kin like father and brothers). So posting pictures on Facebook is 'haraam' (banned)," Maulana Saif Abbas Naqvi said.
"We are liberal. We are not Taliban-minded. When youngsters ask us if they can have a Facebook or Twitter profile, we allow that. But the Shariah (Islamic law) does not allow women to post pictures," Naqvi contended.
"Islam has prescribed hijab for women. They have been asked to hide their faces in public, so how can this be allowed on the Internet," he asked.
"We have seen so many relationships that blossomed on the Internet going sour in the real world. 'Dokha aur fareb se bachna chahiye' (We should save ourselves from deceit and fraud)," said the Mufti, who belongs to the famous Ulama-e-Farangi Mahal family of Lucknow.
The number of calls to the Shia and Sunni helplines more than doubled during the just-concluded holy month of Ramzan. Often the questions were about: Is it allowed to log into Facebook during the fast?
"There is a hadith (a saying of Prophet Mohammed) that when the world is nearing its end, Satan will spread lies within minutes. We've seen rumours being circulated on the Internet in no time. It is best to stay away from the virtual world," the Mufti said.
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The most integral aspect in the context of rape cases and others cases of sexual violence against women is to change mindsets for the majority of society including people in the law enforcement agencies and police and other community stakeholders take on the ‘blame the victim’ stand. There have been many instances where the reasons for rape has been given as arising out of what clothes women wear, where they are going, who they were/are with and ‘their behaviour’. One political leader went so far as to say that eating chowmein encouraged men to rape women while another likeminded enlightened one held the belief that women should not go out of their homes after sunset. In Manipur, a political leader who is described as an astute statesman and someone who is aware of the finer details of legal systems went on record to say that women should carry sharp scissors to ward off men who would try to violate their modesty. He went so far as to distribute the scissors to some women and in so doing like many others like him, putting the sole responsibility upon women to take care that they are not sexually attacked or violated. It is this attitude of women being foisted upon the sole responsibility of taking care of their own safety and being the recipient of the blame game on the behavior and morality of women that indirectly contributes in a very major way towards men getting the leeway in the circumstances. Reading between the lines of what decision makers have to say on the matter of rape, the inference is that men will be men and that women will have to stay ‘within their limits’ to ensure that they stay safe.

Historically too, rape has been used in the aftermath of war in almost all parts of the world. In recognition of this serious after effect, the United Nations has gone on record that rape is war crime. Rape as a tool to demean a particular society or community or nation defeated in war is a reality since women are still seen as the custodian of a society’s honour and self esteem. The stigma that is attached to rape and sexual violence is such that there have been many instances where families of affected women have looked at the option of rapists marrying the victims. One other common complaint is that police are not pro-active when it comes to taking action on cases of rape and sexual violence, starting from delay in taking down complaints. Validating this is the findings that emerged from an investigation by a National news magazine, which found that prejudice against rape victims is alarmingly common among policemen in Delhi. The report linked this unhelpful attitude of the police to the low rate of conviction in rape cases in the city (34.6%) . The alleged highhandedness of the police personnel of Mayang Imphal police station who were approached by two women to lodge a case of gang rape is proof that many still lack the sensitivity and pro-activeness that is needed to take up cases of sexual violence.  Meanwhile, a not so touched upon aspect of sexual violence is that though it is rare, men also face rape and other forms of sexual violence. Another reality is that transgenders are vulnerable to be raped but fear to call attention to what happens with them since their very existence in society is filled with stigma.

Pate ni tawh kitawn in tuni in Panei lai te in Pate tungah thupha ih dawh ding kisam mahmah hi.
Nu leh Pa ih cih pen I Leitung Pasian, thupha hongpia thei, hong samsia thei, Nu le Pa hi a, Na Pa na khasia sak hiam? Alungkimna ding in thupha na bawl hiam? Tuni in Napa thumang lo in nisim nungta in amah hongsawl loh lamlam, hong deihsak lo lamlam sem in na omkha hiam? Tuni in Mawhmai na ngei in la Napa lungkim sak in.

Na Pa khualgam la ah om a hih leh hopih inla Pa aw hong it ing. Kamawhna hong maisak in cinin. Alungkimna dingin thupha bawl in na itna lakkhia in, Kamtawh maw, natawh maw, Na pa na itna lak khia in. Na pa lungkim in thupha hong pia leh leitung ah na dau pai ding hi.

Joseph Nuntakna en a Pa lungkim sak ahih manin thupha ngah hi. LST sung ah ih muh mah bangin A PA bang mah hilo zumkham in aom lai takin atangguak in om ahih manin nuihsan in, zahpih in, a ompa Kisam sia a, Itna leh deihsakn atawh puan avasin te thupha ngah uh hi.
Tuni in Christian ih hihna sung ah LST ih et takciangin Pathu mang te Anah lawhpek na ih mu hi. Tampi om in genzo kei ni tuni in Napa tung ah thupha dawh in, lungkimsak in tua hi leh thupha na ngah ding hi

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