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dition of the superstitious Hindu faith. In the year 2001 a 35 year old
jogini called Ashama escaped from the temple where she was forced in-
to prostitution. She explained her ordeal since her childhood as follows:

Since the day of the initiation, I have not lived with dignity. I became avail-
able for all the men who inhabited Karni. They would ask me for sexual
favours and I, as a jogini, was expected to please them. My trauma began even
when I had not attained puberty. 65
Nationalist and extremist Hindu groups are campaigning for the
official reintroduction of the outlawed devadasi system. This moral de-
generation has an even more frightening aspect: countries like India,
where child prostitution is rampant, are promoted as fantastic tourism
destinations and millions of perverted people travel to these places with
sex in mind; these countries become a haven for sex tourists. Prostitution

is a gross immorality and a great sin forbidden by Allah. He says in the
Qur’an: “And do not go near to fornication. It is an indecent act, an evil
way.” (Surat al-Isra’: 32)
Those who do not call on any other god together with Allah and do
not kill anyone Allah has made inviolate, except with the right to do
so, and do not fornicate; anyone who does that will receive an evil
punishment. (Surat al-Furqan: 68)
Those who have kept this immoral perversion intact through the
ages share the responsibility for this degeneracy with those who created
the false Hindu faith in the first place.
However, it must not be forgotten that those who encourage this
immorality need to be saved from their untenable situation. These peo-
ple either consider, filth, immorality and perversion as acceptable be-
cause it is the tradition of their forefathers, such as in the case of India,
or simply because of the general spread of decadence worldwide. In a
society in which Islamic morality dominates, people are always encour-

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)