Women have been falling victims throughout the history, by extremist families, tribes or regimes, for being labeled committing different crimes, such as attending school, going to bazaar, wearing no burqa, presenting in social places. Now, just for the sake of using modern technologies, they suffer from deadly punishments by conservative figures.

The modern technology fuels the fire of violence against women. It was common that women were deprived of their rights, deemed inferior or fell victim of rape; however, being punished to death for the mere cause of using technology is strange. Now the fierce rage caused by using technology is swallowing women mercilessly. Of course, moral values are none of technology’s business, and it can do no more than providing physical comfort. Nonetheless, mental discomfort, technical punishment and moral corruptions are on rise. In short, it is not only surprising but also painful to say that people are sentenced to death for using technologies.  

Safia, a 22-year-old girl who lives in Karachi Pakistan, did not know that using social network, in Kabul Jan, was a crime. Last month Safia was punished seriously by her mother for using the network, Bokhdi News reports. According to Human Rights Asian Commission, a Pakistani woman was sentenced to death based on a tribal court verdict. She was stoned to death for having a cell phone. Pakistani media says that Arifa, a Pakistani young woman, was stoned by her cousin and other kin on July 11th for having a cell phone. She was buried far from her hometown and nobody even her two sons were allowed to attend her funeral, the report adds.

The advancement of modern technology is to the contrary of traditional mind. It is very surprising for me that the extremist groups are using technical objects against technology. Using modern weapons and contacting one another by modern networks are not illegal for themselves but when one, excluded their groups, is using technologies will be labeled infidel and sentenced to death. It is highly against reasonable logics that one, who is involved in inhuman acts, advises others not to commit evils.

Such incidents remind one of the age of ignorance, the pre-Islamic age in Arab Peninsula. The cruelty and barbarity of tribal nations and their violence against women were to its highest point. Women were used as tools for satiating carnal desires, fulfilling drudgeries and were captured and sold into slavery. When husbands were given the news of daughters’ birth in their families, their faces were turning black with rage and shame. Then they were burying alive their girls in their infancy. In short, being girl was an inexcusable crime.

Now, the same actions being done to women by the traditionalists show that they are retrogressing to the same age. Their conservative frames of mind show great tendency toward the very age of violence, bloodshed, tribalism, and patriarchal society. The present traditional societies are also furiously wolfing down women and shamelessly demonstrating the violent and evil instinct of human. When considering such evil acts, one easily believes the idea of a prominent European sociologist who says that human is the wolf of human. This sociologist believes that whenever a society dominates another society or a nation gains more power over another nation, they certainly show their basic instinct which is replete with evil and violence. Now, this idea is being shown practically in patriarchal societies even in this modern age.

It is crystal clear that when Islam emerged in Arab Peninsula, it broke the chain of slavery from women’s feet. Islam held high respect and dignity for women and announced her right equal to men. Islam denounced her slavery and denied her inferiority by serious tone. This religion prevented men from burying alive their innocent daughters and asked them, seriously, to stop violence against women. Islam never stopped women from taking part in social activities or from getting education. As a result our Prophet (PBUH) says that getting education is an obligation on men and women.   

It is undeniable fact that those who think men superior to women, the belief which is against Islamic laws, are traditional people with traditional minds. I emphasize again that Islam never says that women have no right to get education, present in social places or play social or political roles in a society. It is believed that closing the door of schools to women or murdering them for social or political activities is a big sin in Islam. Attacking Malalah, a teenage Pakistani girl who survived a terrorist act last month for the cause of defending women and their educational rights, and many other girls like her is not only against Islam and moral values but also against a sound mind.

Contrary to Islamic laws, conservatism and traditionalism are on rise in Islamic countries and women are one of the victims who are burning in furnace of this fire. The boiling rage of the extremists is victimizing women in one way or another. Every century uses its violence against women doesn’t matter whether it is an advanced or primitive age. It is a matter of surprise for me that the more a society approaches advancement and technology, the more technical and advanced punishments are enforced on them or at least technology and advancement become a better pretext for men to use violence against women rather than being a reason for stopping it. As it was already mentioned, our time witnesses that women suffer punishment for being modern or using modern technology. This ridiculous reason for killing women is highly shameful and great injustice.

Abusing Islamic laws and acting violently under the name of Islam is very painful. The pure Islamic rules and regulations are being metamorphosed to their ugliest figures which force a torturing pain in one’s heart. Indeed, the terrorist acts and evil deeds of radical Islamic groups are seriously excruciating. In short, the pain caused by brutal and barbaric acts of radicals is too hard to put in words.