No shit. I mean Allahu Akhbar!
A recent sexual abuse case involving a madrasa student and a high-profile religious leader in Pakistain's eastern city of Lahore rocked the country.
The case involved Mufti Aziz ur Rehman and his student Sabir Shah, who told DW that the holy man sexually abused him for more than a year.
Rehman belonged to Jamaat Ulema Islam, the organization of religious scholars that believes in an extremely conservative interpretation of Islam.
It was not an isolated incident. Shortly after, a video of child sexual abuse involving a Shiite holy man emerged. In May 2017, a nine-year-old boy was raped by a holy man in Pak Pattan; in 2018 a Lahore-based holy man was booked for raping a minor; and in 2019, a 13-year old disabled girl was sexually assaulted by a holy man in Multan
...Home of the Multan Sultans...The cases have given rise to calls for accountability in Pakistain. Many are blaming religious seminaries. But holy mans vehemently reject that their educational institutions are at fault.
"If Allah didn't want us to have access and use of young nubile boys and girls, they'd be born as adults, amirite? Ulululu!"
More than 2.2 million children study in over 36,000 registered and unregistered madrasas in the South Asian country. An overwhelming majority of the students are from impoverished parts of Pakistain's northwestern, western and eastern provinces.