Mariwan Halabjaee
| Mariwan Halabjaee | |
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| Born |
1 August 1963 Iraqi Kurdistan |
| Occupation | Journalist, Essayist, Author |
| Nationality | Iraqi Kurdistan |
| Ethnicity | Kurdish |
| Subject | Islam, Women's Rights in Islam, Women's rights, Women's rights in Iraq |
| Notable works | Sharia and Women in the History of Islam (alternate title: , Legislation and Women in Islamic History) |
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Mariwan Halabjaee (Kurdish: مەریوان ھەڵەبجەیی, Herêmî Kurdistan) (born 1 August 1963) is the Iraqi Kurdish author of the book Sex, Sharia and Women in the History of Islam (alternate title: Sex, Legislation and Women in Islamic History). The book is about how Islam and Sharia are allegedly used to oppress Muslim women. "I wanted to prove how oppressed women are in Islam and that they have no rights," said Halabjaee. Halabjaee asserted the book was, "based on Islamic sources such as the Holy Quran, Muslim and Bukhari books and many more."
Halabjaee was reportedly forced to flee from Iraqi Kurdistan to Norway because the Islamic League of Kurdistan issued a "conditional" fatwa to kill him if he did not repent and apologize for writing his book. Halabjaee reported, "the mullahs and scholars said if I go to them and apologize they will give me 80 lashes and then refer me to the fatwa committee to decide if I am to be beheaded. They might forgive me, they might not."
Halabjaee allegedly received telephone calls saying, "Now, in 10 years or 15 years, we will kill you." Another time, Halabjaee reported, "the Islamists said once from the radio, if they found out where I was, they would blow themselves up with me." "With that book I wanted to defend women but the first thing I did was hurt my wife," said Halabjaee. As a result, Halabjaee went into hiding with his pregnant wife and three children.
Halabjaee fled Iraqi Kurdistan after the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) allegedly refused to offer him any protection or to arrest those who threatened his life. "The Kurdish authorities have not provided any protection from threats and fatwas," said Halabjaee, "any moment I am expecting a bullet or a hand grenade to be thrown into where I live."
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