Khatera, a thousand girls like me
I was born a human.
But I made a factory.
I have ten children.
I am still carrying my eleventh one.
My bearded husband has four wives.
My daughters are his victims.
When I am pregnant,
He raped my daughter.
She is pregnant.
When she is pregnant,
He raped my other daughter.
When she is pregnant,
He raped my other daughter.
He keeps on raping my daughters.
They are his daughters too.
They are his blood too.
They are his flesh too.
I am confused about my daughters\' relationship with their father.
I am confused about my relationship with my daughters.
I am confused about my relationship with my beard husband
When my daughters deliver children,
I am confused about my relationship with my grandchildren.
They are calling me Aunty.
They are calling me grandmother.
They are calling him \"Father.\"
They are calling him grandfather
I am confused about his relationship with his daughters and their children.
Our Sharia Court is silent.
Our tribal elders are silent.
Our police are silent.
Our Mullah said this is our way of life.
So don’t worry about him.
He is eyeing my other daughters.
The court ordered a DNA test.
We tried, but Sharia rejected our DNA test.
They said it was not rape but consent since it is our culture.
They brought blasphemy against questioning their laws.
According to Sharia, I am a violator of my Quran.
I was put to death by my Sharia court.
I am Afghan.
This is my status in Afghanistan.
This is my status in my migratory country.
My status is not changing.
They are not allowing change.
Politically correct ideologies are not allowing change.
I am a Middle Eastern and North African woman.
This is our status in the MENA region.
Our human relations are dehumanized.
Our humanity is dehumanized.
Our human status is dehumanized for their lustful eyes.
They want small girls.
They want their own blood.
They want virgin girls.
They found it in their blood and flesh.
It is omnipresence and omnipotence in our religion.
This is our way of life.
This is our ideology.
We don’t change.
We want change.
I want change.
But how when I have normalized my ideology?
Dedicated to Afghan woman Khatera, who has been raped by her father for 13 years and has delivered a baby. There are tens of millions of Khateras in Muslim families. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=334241770689061
Dr. Suryaraju Mattimalla, Author of \"Why I Am Not Indian: The Untouchable Rejecting India\'s Citizenship\" (https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Suryaraju-Mattimalla-ebook/dp/B09MDXFTY2/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1637756966&qsid=261-0591308-5553230&refinements=p_27%3ASuryaraju+Mattimalla&s=digital-text&sr=1-2&sres=B09MDZM1Q2%2CB09MDXFTY2&text=Suryaraju+Mattimalla)
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