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Harry Potter

Professor William Shakespeare

Freshman Writing Intensive Seminar

September 7, 2022

Essay Title Here: Should be Original and Intriguing

The world's most vulnerable human class is women, especially Muslim women.

Currently, women in India, Pakistan, Syria, and many more countries suffer maltreatment and

systematic discrimination from Muslim men and the government. According to Arundhati

Roy's insight from his journal, The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of

Caste, the Debate Between B.R. Ambedkar and M.K. Gandhi, the injustice towards Muslim

women is considered a norm, as it is legitimate for women to be inferior to men in Hindu

tradition. In the journal, as Roy criticizes the evil and injustice in the caste system, he

mentions a tragedic story of an Indian woman named Surekha. Surekha and her husband

bought land in an outside village but are unwelcomed and even discriminated against by the

village's neighbors. Their neighbors did not let Surekha's family use electricity, irrigate the

land, or use water for agriculture because they thought Surekha's class Dalit or the

Untouchable, as inferior to themselves. Surekha filed the police multiple times, but the

villagers brutally killed her and her sons and daughters with their bodies thrown away. Even

though the Dalit committee sued for a law conference about the issue, the government

dismissed the case, confirming it as a 'revenge' of the villagers for what Surekha's family had

done to them.

Considering the statistics presented by the National Crime Records Bureau in India, "every

day, more than four Untouchable women are raped by Touchables" (21). However, the

government should not only deal with this by aiding and protecting the rights of Untouchable

Muslim women. Instead, we should try to change the whole structure of society's beliefs,
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traditions, and conventions, to make the act of protection sustainable even after a long period.

Also, international forums should pay attention to the hidden nuances of discrimination inside

religion, as they are hard to be seen but ironically have the most significant impact on the

order of society. For example, the Caste system in India has been considered with Hinduism

for a long time; therefore, when people raised the abolishment of sexism and racism multiple

times in the international forum, caste was considered a domestic, religious issue.

However, as the Caste system mainly hinders Muslim women's rights and makes

discrimination against them justifiable, the global society should raise its attention to it.

However, the most urgent thing needed to enhance women's lives, especially Muslim

women's lives, is to have an interest and investigate what hardships they are going through. In

Landays: Poetry of Afghan Women, the author visits the village to meet Muska's family, who

burned herself to protest the deprivation of Afghan women's rights to read and write poetry.

After visiting the town, the author writes an article about Afghan women's sufferings and

presents some of their landays, which are short poems containing the unfairness of society.

As such, when more and more people are interested in Muslim women worldwide and try to

notify their sufferings through the international press, the world will be a better place for

women worldwide.