In 2003. Dr. Aafia Siddiqui was kidnapped with her 3 young children. For five years. no one knew what had happened to them. They like many others in Pakistan just went missing.

In 2008 she was released from captivity in the Bagram Detention Center. She was then charged with the attempted assassination of an army personnel, who shot and injured her. He had no signs of injury. Regardless she was detained in the United States and has been sentenced to a jail term of 86 years.

No public trial. The main witnesses, contradicted each other. However, this highly educated brown Muslim lady was found guilty and has been subjected to indescribable levels of torture, her screams would haunt the CIA black site of Bagram, where through her tortured screams, she became known to all the other prisoners of war as “the ghost of Bagram”.

That wasn’t even the main absurdity, that was that this trial took place in America, the so called civilised West.

Imagine if a Muslim county had acted like this?

They would be completely demonised within the mainstream media in charge of a hate campaign against the whole country. But no, as it happened in America, with the victim not being white, they are silent as a mute.

Where are the people who advocate for women’s rights? Where are the feminists.? They are no where to be seen.

So once again, it must be Muslims who stand for justice in the West. In recent media appearances, Dr Aafia’s sister, Dr Fawzia suggested ways in which we can show support. She mentioned going onto the campaign’s social media accounts and following/ subscribing to them. She further mentioned that Aaafia’s case is being dealt with by Clive Stafford Smith, who although has agreed to take on the case pro bono, there are still costs that need to be covered, such as travel costs for Dr Fauzia to visit her sister Aafia. So anything we could donate to cover the costs would be a great source of relief to Aafia’s family.

Fawzia also mentioned that Aafia saw the Prophet Muhammad PBUH in a dream, where she asked him for what crime she was being tested for, he, PBUH replied and said it’s a test for the Ummah.

The question, I ask you is, what will you do for the most oppressed Muslim woman in the world?

Silence, in this case, is not befitting for a believer.