The Skeleton Girl
by Being a human is lot more than a blob of meat and bones walking around the face of the earth boasting about the qualities he has and thinking himself superior than the rest of the species. Humanity is by conduct and is a state of action rather possessing the ability to walk upright without a tail.
What more to say, there were books on childcare and development and an encyclopedia of children’s nutrition in the bedroom of the parents. And the most amazing part of all this is that Khyra’s mother denies charges of cruelty while her step dad admits them, both deny murder.
For me, there are several concerning aspects to this happening. The prime most is how can a mother witness her young daughter die of starvation when she has access to food and how can a human let it happen to a child? What scale of measurement should be used to measure the depth of this act of cruelty and the mother claims innocent!
The second aspect that concerns me is that both of the parents were Muslims. And the step father, Abu Hamza, turns out to be a new Muslim convert while the mother had split up from her first husband. Both of them were, probably, living in partnership and not in a marital relationship.
I would like to ask Abu Hamza that what aspects of Islam had influenced him to become a Muslim. The teachings of Islam clearly speak about human rights as their foremost priority. And then they stop you from lustful behaviours.
So how did Islam influence Abu Hamza? Why did he convert? What change did it bring in him after he converted or if there was no change then why the need to convert? Just by saying that there is no God but Allah is not the thing that is desired by a Muslim.
According to saying of the Prophet Muhammad, a Muslim is not a Muslim until the time he likes for his brother (don’t take the word brother in its implied meaning) the same as he desires for himself.
And further Muhammad says, a Muslims is not a Muslim until his brother is not safe from (the evil of) his hands and his tongue. And on a girl child the teachings of Muhammad peace be upon him says, who so ever raises two girl child to their age of marriage with full care and with discrimination shall be in the heavens alongside Muhammad.
Did Abu Hamza not read these before or after he converted? Is the mother not aware of all this, not just as the mother of the child but also as a Muslim?
I am grieved, grieved at the thought of thinking the state of Khyra when she could see food but could not fill her appetite and the other young children in the house as well. I fail to comprehend the logic behind this “target killing”.
If the father was the initiator of the cruelty, as he has confessed to it, what was the mother doing? Could she not do anything to stop his cruelty and how does she have the guts to plead innocent?
As the trial continues to establish the blame and responsibility, I would like to hear that the punishment given to these humans should reciprocate the torment they have inflicted upon the young Khyra.
Is it a human right to be starved in a nation where millions of tons of food is just thrown away as expired?
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