Islam
and Women
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Western
Muslim's Racist Race Spree (frontpagemag.com 12/27/05)
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Saira Liaqat, 26, at her home in Lahore, Pakistan,
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 holds a portrait of herself before being burned
with acid. When she was fifteen, Saira was married to a relative
who would later attack her with acid after insistently demanding her to
live with him. From
Under the Islamic Veil, Faces Disfigured by Acid by Phyllis Chesler |
 Which is more monstrous the lady
disfigured with acid on the left or the Darth Vader woman with the sign
for Shariah? From
Inviting Shariah to the UK |
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Hole where Medine Memi, a 16 year old girl, was buried alive for talking
to boys. |
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I
could not remain a Muslim because Islam hates women. I think I always
knew this, but as I got older that knowledge became more acute, Islam wants
women to cover themselves, to stay indoors, to obey men, however stupid those
men are. Islam says that women are inferior in every way. Islam
distorted my father’s feelings. He did not want us, his own daughters, to
be happy or fulfilled. He only wanted us to be good Muslims and for
daughters this means to be suffering Muslims. What sort of religion
forces fathers to make their daughters suffer? What sort of father thinks
that his daughter’s hair is shameful? What sort of father tells her she
cannot sing and dance when she is happy? A Muslim father.
This
is why I am not a Muslim. My children, boys and girls, will be able to
feel the wind in their hair. They will not be ashamed. They can
sing and dance as much as they like. Nothing they do will shame me, as
long as it is done with life and joy. Islam has no joy. Islam is a
cult of tears and death.
Testimony submitted to the web site of the Institute for the
Secularization of Islamic Society
A
man is never alone with a woman without Satan also being present.
Hadith Al-Albani, Sahih al-Jami,
vol. 1, p. 234.]
A
woman's rape is frequently the last act that precedes her execution.
This is explained by the rule in Iranian political prisons that the
sentence of execution cannot be carried out if the woman is a virgin.
Since there is a theological belief that if a woman dies a virgin she will go to
heaven,
the politically active virgin is forced to "marry" before her execution
and thus to insure she will go to hell.
She is forced to "marry" the hangman who will carry out her execution.
Le Nouvel Homme Islamiste: La Prison Politique en Iran
(The New Islamist Man: The Political Prison in Iran)
By Chahla Chafiq
The
fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute
property,
either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final
extinction of slavery
until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Sir Winston Churchill, The River War, Vol. II, pp. 248-50, London: Longman,
Green & Co., 1899)
A woman is nothing
but a shame
Her husband will cover up 1/10th of her shame and her grave will cover up the
rest of it.
Muhammad

Movie about the Violent Oppression of Women in Islam

Wafa Sultan about The Life of Women Under Islam
The Muslims who raped the Swedish victim
in the picture above probably believed they were carrying out their Islamic duty.
Kasem in an interview with Frontpage Magazine explained:
According to Islam, Muslims are at perpetual war with
the non-Muslims. Wherever, there is even a shred of Islam (even a single
Muslim) it is incumbent upon him to enforce Islam in whatever capacity. This
means, as per Islamic law (Sharia), infidel women, who do not comply with
the Islamic dress codes, are captives of the Muslims living in the infidel
territory. In Hedaya, the Hanafi law manual, we find that a Muslim living in
an infidel land is allowed to have unlimited sex with the non-Muslim women
without having the need to marry them. This should explain why, many Islamic
men in the infidel world are caught for raping the ‘slutty’ ‘bitchy’,
‘whores’; of the western countries. They deserve to be purified by Islamic
rape, as many such Muslim will say.
The Islamic hatred for western women who do not cover their bodies with
Islamic ‘tents’ knows no bound. In 2006, the Mufti of Australia, Sheikh
Hilali considered these western women as the ‘cat’s’ meat, that is: these
western women deserve to be eaten (sexually) by Muslim men who chance upon
them. We might not like what Mufti Hilali said, but he is absolutely
correct. Islam allows Muslim men to have forced sex upon non-Muslim women
who do not cover their ‘meat’. Here is the proof:
In verse 33:59. Allah says: O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters
and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks (veils) all over their
bodies (i.e. screen themselves completely except the eyes or one eye to see
the way). That will be better, that they should be known (as free
respectable women) so as not to be annoyed. And Allah is Ever of Forgiving,
Most Merciful...
In Islam, Muslim men are allowed to have unlimited
sexual intercourse with maidservants and/or sexual slaves. A Muslim man
commits rape if and only if he has sex with a Muslim woman out of wedlock.
Having forced sex with an infidel, uncovered woman does not at all
constitute rape, Islamically speaking.
The natural conclusion is that Muslim men are completely free to Islamically
rape these infidel women, if these whores fall in Muslim men's hands...
Gutmann is of the opinion that hijabisation of Muslim
women living in western countries is to prevent the infidel men from
touching/being intimate with them. This is a good observation. I would go
one step forward and state that this attitude is more prevalent among the
male of middle-eastern/Arab origin. Please note that these men have no qualm
sleeping/having sex with infidel women, but they will never tolerate infidel
men being intimate with Arab/middle-east women. There are instances when
Arab men have murdered infidel western men for having sex with hijabised/Arab
women. The message is very clear: hijabisation is to prevent the Muslim
women from mixing/ being intimate with infidel men. Thus, besides strictly
repressing the sexuality of a Muslim woman, hijab/niqab is also meant to
establish a permanent barrier between a Muslim woman and an infidel man.
Mentioned before, note again the double-standard: Muslim men are free to
have unfettered sex with infidel women, but the Muslim women cannot have the
same privilege.
Earlier I mentioned that Muhammad’s last instruction to Muslim men was to
beat women and treat them as domestic animals. A Muslim woman’s hijab/niqab
truly reflects this servitude of women to Muhammad’s command. A hijab/niqab
is a leash on a woman, much like a domesticated dog. A hijabised Muslim
woman is no better than a domestic dog.
Islamic apologists argue that the veil is
liberating however, when the French government denied citizenship to a Moroccan
man who forced his French wife to wear a head-to-toe veil, the man, who is a
member of a hard-line Islamic missionary group called the Tabligh,
said:
My wife will never be able to go out without the full
veil; I don’t believe in gender equality; women have inferior status; I will
not respect the principles of the secular society.
Muslims men seduce non-Muslim women as a way to force their conversion to
Islam and get paid for it by other Muslims. This has been happening in
England Egypt and India. In Egypt the recruiters would parade the
converted girl through the streets, playing music and waving flags, while
yelling “Allah Akbar” in order to humiliate the Christians, especially the men,
and dishonor their families in a country where the women are the family’s honor.
The most senior judge in
England declared that Islamic legal principles in Shariah law may be used within
Muslim communities in
Britain to settle marital arguments as long as it was consistent with
English law. Shariah is not consistent with English law.
If a Shariah court ruled in a certain way and it was in
violation of British law I doubt the victim of a Shariah ruling would risk doing
anything about it and British judges would be afraid to rule against the Shariah
ruling. If a Muslim woman appealed to British law to challenge a Shariah
ruling she'd be seen as an infidel who betrayed Islam and Islamic law requires
that those who leave Islam be killed. Cal Thomas in an
article in the Washington Times wrote:
Here are just some of the "benefits" British Muslim
women can look forward to if Shariah law replaces English law: The Muslim
woman cannot marry without parental approval, worsening the problem of
forced marriage; marriages can be conducted without the presence of a bride,
as long as the guardian consents, creating a climate for underage and early
marriage; Muslim women may only marry Muslim men.
It gets worse. A Muslim man can divorce his wife by repudiating her; he has
no obligation to support a former wife, or her children after the divorce;
women are prohibited from divorcing a husband without his consent; abuse is
not grounds for a woman to end a marriage; in matters of inheritance, sons
are entitled to twice as much of an estate as daughters.
Divorced women must remain single. If they remarry, they can lose custody of
their children. There is no similar requirement for a man. Child custody
often reverts to the father at a preset age, even if the father has been
abusive.
On this web page, I
discuss the Islamic attitude toward women. This attitude can be divided
into the Islamic attitude toward infidel women and the Islamic attitude toward
Islamic women. I start with what Islamic sources say and then give
examples of how this is being put into practice in modern times. It is
important to keep in mind that not all Muslims think alike, and that there are
Muslims who are respectful of both infidel and Moslem women.
Maged Thabet Al-Kholidy wrote in the
Yemen Times an article titled
There Must be Violence Against Women.
Maged complained that:
"Some
human rights organizations recently have attacked violent acts against
women, standing against any type of violence – even that between a father
and daughter – and citing the cases of some women as examples."
In a frontpagemagazine symposium (Gender
Apartheid and Islam, 12/30/04) Ali Sina argued with two apologists for Islam's
teachings on women, Ms. Julia Roach and Mohammad El Mallah. Mr. Sina
said:
Let us see what the Quran says about
women. It says “men have a degree (of advantage) over them” 2:228 ; that the witness of
woman is worth half of that of man 2:282; that
women inherit half of their male siblings, 4:11-12; that a man can marry two or three or four women 4:3; that if a women becomes captive in a war, her Muslim
master is allowed to rape her 33:50; that if a
woman is not totally submissive to her husband she will enter Hell 66:10; that women are “tilth” for their husbands (to
cultivate them) 2:223; that men are in
charge of women, as if women were imbeciles or minors who could not take care
of themselves; that they must be obedient to their husbands or be admonished
(verbally abused), banished from the bed (psychologically abused) and beaten
(physically abused) 4:34.
These verses define the station of women
in Islam...
Ms. Roach laments that Islam is not
practiced in all parts of the world by all Muslims to the standard prescribed
by Allah in the Qur’an.
For that we should give thanks to God.
Imagine if all Muslims were to stone or hang victims of rape or flog women for
minor offenses such as exposing a flock of hair. In fact, the countries that
practice Islam to its fullest are truly barbaric. Just think of the suffering
of the women in Afghanistan during the rule of the Taliban. Women were not
allowed to go out of their homes or work. Male doctors were not allowed to
visit female patients. So, when women became sick, there was no one to take
care of them and they died. The more a country becomes Islamic the more hellish
it gets.
Ms. Roach comforts herself by thinking
that after women die they can expect to be treated equally and says “Women's
souls have equal value to those of Men's”. In other words, what she is saying
is that while women live a life of slavery, abuse and deprivation in this world
they can rejoice because after they die they will be treated equally. Although
I find this a vacuous bargain, the truth is that even this promise is not true.
Women in Islam are not treated equally even in death.
Men are promised many virgins after they
die. What do women get? They get their old lousy husband to share with 72
voluptuous celestial virgins. With that many high-bosomed houries why would any
man want to spend a night with an old wife? Do women get also young celestial
studs to have orgies with? No they don’t. They have to maintain their “modesty”
even after their death. The truth is that in Islam men and women are not
treated equally even after their death.
In fact, according to Muhammad few women
ever make it to Paradise . The majority of them end up in Hell. Let us see what
the Prophet says in this regards. This is where he describes his hallucinatory
visit to hell and paradise:
"Then
I saw the (Hell) Fire, and I have never before, seen such a horrible sight as
that, and I saw that the majority of its dwellers were women." The people
asked, "O Allah's Apostle! What is the reason for that?" He replied,
"Because of their ungratefulness." It was said. "Do they
disbelieve in Allah (are they ungrateful to Allah)?" He replied,
"They are not thankful to their husbands and are ungrateful for the favors
done to them. Even if you do good to one of them all your life, when she seems
some harshness from you, she will say, "I have never seen any good from
you.' " Bukhari 7.62.125...
She [Ms. Roach] also claims that a Muslim
woman has the right to sexual satisfaction within her marriage and clarified
that “if a woman is unsatisfied she can obtain a divorce”. Is that true? Under
the Sharia women are not allowed to divorce even if their husband beats them.
The decision to divorce rest only on man's whims. Now imagine a women going to
a Judge demanding divorce accusing her husband of impotency. How can you
humiliate the gigantic ego of a Muslim man and expect to live after that? She
will be a dead woman the next day. If she survives and manages to divorce, she
will be seen as a whore by everyone. A divorced woman has nowhere to go in the
Islamic world. I do not know whether Ms. Roach has ever lived in an Islamic
country. Muslim women are not allowed to have any libido. It is not pious for
women to have sexual feelings. In fact the genital mutilation is designed to
take away any sexual pleasure from them. Women are not supposed to enjoy sex.
If they have any libido, there is a risk that they may fornicate and commit
sin. Women must only provide satisfaction to their husbands and deny all their
own sexual needs. According to a tradition:
Allah's Apostle said, "If a husband
calls his wife to his bed (i.e. to have sexual relation) and she refuses and
causes him to sleep in anger, the angels will curse her till
morning." Bukhari
4.54.450
It is hilarious to think that the angels
have nothing better to do than sit around and curse the poor woman all the
night for depriving them from watching the live porno show. If Allah must
punish woman for not satisfying the sexual needs of their husbands why does he
needs angels to lobby him for it? Isn’t it a waste of angel’s resources?
In one sense this is all truly very funny.
But in another, much larger sense, it is a tragedy...
I think it is worth mentioning that in
Saudi Arabia if a person has been killed or caused to die by another, the
latter has to pay blood money or compensation, as follows:
100,000 riyals if the victim is a Muslim man
50,000 riyals if a Muslim woman
50,000 riyals if a Christian man
25,000 riyals if a Christian woman
6,666 riyals if a Hindu man
3,333 riyals if a Hindu woman
Source: The Wall Street Journal, April 9,
2002
So as you see people's worth are not the
same in Islam. It depends on their gender and their religion.
The phenomenon of Muslim women defending
Islam is strange, Robert Spencer wrote an article about this titled
Covering Up the Plight of Muslim Women. After listing quotes in the
Koran that demonstrate Islam's negative attitude toward women Mr. Spencer wrote:
None of that is cultural; nor is it an historical
artifact. To take the case of wife-beating, for example, the Pakistan
Institute of Medical Sciences has determined that over ninety percent of
Pakistani wives have been struck, beaten, or abused sexually — for offenses
on the order of cooking an unsatisfactory meal. Others were punished for
failing to give birth to a male child. In Spring 2005, when the East African
nation of Chad tried to institute a new family law that would outlaw wife
beating, Muslim clerics led resistance to the measure as un-Islamic...the
situation of women in Islam will not improve until Muslim women are willing
to dare to speak about their plight, rather than to gloss over it and hope
no one will notice. Perhaps in this they can follow the example of
Muhammad’s wife Aisha, who once admonished him: “I have not seen any woman
suffering as much as the believing women.”
That’s the first step toward ending that suffering.
A recent example of such suffering was that ironically
of another girl named Aisha. Thirteen year old Aisha
Ibrahim Duhulow was stoned to death on Monday 27 October 2008, by a group of
50 men in a stadium in the southern port of Kismayu, in front of around
1,000 spectators. Her crime? Her family had reported that she
was raped by 3 men, She was then accused of adultery. None of
the men she accused were arrested. According to a BBC report,
while she begged for mercy, those stoning her said they
were doing the will of Allah. Inside the
stadium, militia members opened fire when some of the witnesses to the killing
attempted to save her life, and shooting a boy and killing him.
The Islamic historian Tabari
wrote that Muhammad in his last speech said:
“Now then, O
people, you have a right over your wives and they have a right over you. You
have [the right] that they should not cause anyone of whom you dislike to
tread your beds, and that they should not commit any open indecency (fahishah).
If they do, then God permits you to shut them in separate rooms and to
beat them, but not severely. If they abstain from [evil], they have the
right to their food and clothing in accordance with custom (bi’l-maruf).
Treat women well, for they are [like] domestic animals (‘awan) with you and
do not possess anything for themselves. You have taken them only as a trust
from God, and you have made the enjoyment of their persons lawful by the
word of God, so understand and listen to my words, O people. I have
conveyed the Message, and have left you with something which, if you hold
fast to it, you will never go astray:
Abul Kasem
listed the following ahadith about women for Frontpage Magazine.
Aisha complained that Muhammad’s followers made women
like dogs and asses…Sahih Muslim, 4.1039
If there is a bad luck in anything then it is horse, the abode and the
woman… Sahih Muslim, 26.5528, 5529
A prayer is annulled by a passing woman, a dog and a monkey...Sahih Bukhari,
1.9.490, 493,498
Women, houses and horses are evil omens...Sahih Bukhari, 7.62.30, 31, 32
An ass, a woman and a black dog annuls a prayer…Sunaan Nasai, 1.753
A menstruating woman and a dog cuts off a prayer...Sunaan Abu Dawud, 2.0703
Either a dog, an ass, a pig, a Jew, a Magian and a woman cuts off a
prayer...Sunaan Abu Dawud, 2.0704
Women, slaves and camels are the same; must seek Allah's refuge from all
these...Sunaan Abu Dawud, 11.2155
A house, a horse and a woman is an evil omen; a mat in a house is better
than a barren woman…Sunaan Abu Dawud, 3.29.3911
A black dog is satan; a black dog or a donkey or a woman cancels a prayer…Sunaan
ibn Majah, 2.952
Beat your wives if they commit sinful acts; women are captives of their
husbands…Sunaan ibn Majah, 3.1851
A woman is a property; a righteous woman is the best property…Sunaan ibn
Majah, 3.1855 (Please note: a pregnant camel during Muhammad’s time was the
best property)
Seek refuge from a woman, a servant and cattle—they are evils…Sunaan ibn
Majah , 3.1918
Muhammad’s final sermon—beat women…Sunaan ibn Majah , 4.3074
Women are your prisoners, treat them well, if necessary beat them but not
severely…Tirmidhi, 104
Abu Ala Maududi, the foremost Islamist ideologue in Pakistani
history, wrote a book Purdah and the Status of Women in Islam (1939).
In it one can
read in detail about why a woman’s eyes are an “erogenous zone” that can
lead to adultery. Perfume too. The same goes for her voice, which is “the
devil’s agent.” Also the sound of her heels. On his watch Pakistan
introduced the hadood laws. A woman who reports a rape must come up with
four honorable Muslim men to serve as witnesses to it. If she can’t, she will
herself be prosecuted for adultery – since she has herself, after all, admitted
to having had extramarital sex.
Raba Khaja is a woman from Kuwait told her
story of trying to divorce her husband to Jamie Glazov of Frontpage Magazine.
She said:
On the advice of friends and
relatives, including my lawyer (they said that so long as my husband does
not want to divorce, I do not have a case with Shari'a courts), I did not
file a case against him until recently, and resorted to solve the problem
peacefully. But he refused and insisted that he'd never divorce me. He
mocked me when I told him that I was going to sue him for divorce, saying
that Shari'a is a "man". And he was right.
Only three years back, when I lost all hope, I filed a case against him. And
guess what? I got convicted with Ta'a.
FP: What is Ta'a exactly?
Khaja: To understand Ta'a, you have to know that in the Islamic Shari'a,
(theoretically speaking), the wife has to be obedient to her husband; she
should not leave the marital house without his permission. If she does not
abide to those rules, the husband could get a court order to imprison her
within the confinement of the marital house. And Ta'a is that court order.
Even without the court order of Ta'a, husbands have the right to place their
wives' names at the borders, forbidding them from leaving the country.
Sometimes it's done officially, other times through the corrupted system
that is depleted with connections.
In the Koran (4.34) it is written:
Men
are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the
other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So
good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded.
As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds
apart; and scourge (beat) them. Then if they obey you, seek not a way against
them Lo! Allah is ever High Exalted, Great.
In addition to the Koran,
Mohammed's teachings are included in the Hadith. Next to the Koran, is is
the most important part of Islamic law, its teachings are just as
binding. The following quotes from the Hadith are from the "Sahih
Al-Bukhari". In volume 3:826 of Sahih Al-Bukhari Muhammed is quoted
as explaining why a witness of a woman is equal to half that of a man. He
said
This
is because of the deficiency of the woman's mind.
This argument was caught on
tape in Birmingham’s Green Lane Mosque.
“Allah
has created the woman – even if she gets a Ph.D. – deficient. Her intellect is
incomplete, deficient. She may be suffering from hormones that will make her
emotional. It takes two witnesses of a woman to equal the one witness of the
man.”
Pakistan’s President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1977-1988)
implemented the Hudood Ordinances in 1979. Hudood crimes are those considered
most serious in Islamic law. These laws returned the crime of rape to the realm
of Islamic law, making a rape victim liable to being prosecuted for adultery if
she could not produce four male Muslim witnesses who would testify that they had
actually witnessed the rape.
Robert Spencer explained in an interview with frontpage
magazine how these
laws originate from the Koran.
This law comes from the Qur’an. Accusations of adultery against
Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, and Muhammad’s desire to exonerate her
brought about the requirement that four male Muslim witnesses must be
produced in order to establish a crime of adultery or other sexual
indiscretions: “Why did they not produce four witnesses? Since they produce
not witnesses, they verily are liars in the sight of Allah” (Qur’an 24:13;
see also 24:4 and Bukhari, vol. 3, book 52, no. 2661).
Aisha’s own word counted for nothing to establish the falsity of the
accusations against her -- so to this day Islamic law restricts the validity
of a woman’s testimony, particularly in cases involving sexual immorality.
Says the Qur’an: “Call in two male witnesses from among you, but if two men
cannot be found, then one man and two women whom you judge fit to act as
witnesses; so that if either of them commit an error, the other will
remember” (2:282). And Islamic legal theorists have restricted women’s
testimony even farther, limiting it to, in the words of one Muslim legal
manual, “cases involving property, or transactions dealing with property,
such as sales” (‘Umdat al-Salik, o24.8). Otherwise only men can testify.
Consequently, it is even today virtually impossible to prove rape in lands
that follow these Sharia provisions. As long as men deny the charge and
there are no witnesses, they get off scot-free, because the victim’s account
is inadmissible. Even worse, if a woman cannot produce four male witnesses,
she may end up incriminating herself simply by making the charge: she has by
charging a man with rape made an admission of adultery. That accounts for
the grim fact that, according to the Muslim feminist group Sisters in Islam,
as many as seventy-five percent of the women in prison in Pakistan are, in
fact, behind bars for the crime of being a victim of rape.
Mohammed also quoted as saying that:
I
was shown the Hell-fire and the majority of its dwellers are women
1:28,301;2:161,7:124
and that:
I
have not left any affliction more harmful to men than women 7:33
The Koran commands men to beat women
who are disobedient.
Sura 4:34 of the Koran says,
“Men
are the managers of the affairs of women . . . Those women who are rebellious —
admonish them, banish them to their couches, and beat them.”
In Tirmzi P439 we find:
If
a woman's conduct is mischievous or immodest, the husband has the right to beat
her up (Tirmzi P439)
These religious commands of
Islam help us understand why Mohamed Kamal Mustafa, A prominent Muslim preacher
from Italy authored a book Women in Islam, in which he wrote that verbal
warnings followed by a period of sexual inactivity can be used to discipline a
disobedient wife. If that failed he said that according to Islamic law,
beatings could be then judiciously administered. "The blows should
be concentrated on the hands and feet using a rod that is thin and light so
that it does not leave scars or bruises on the body."
These commands also
help us understand a Muslim web site titled How To Beat A
Wife (5/1/05).
More Islamic commands in
regard to women are listed below.
It
is forbidden for a woman to be seen by any man except her husband when she is
made up or well-dressed. (Tirmzi P 430)
A woman is not a believer if she undertakes a journey which may last three
days or longer, unless she is accompanied by her husband, son, father
A woman must veil herself even in the presence of her husband's father,
brother and other male relations. (Tirmzi P 432)
She is forbidden to spend any money without the permission of her husband,
and it includes giving food to the needy or feast to friends. (Tirmzi P 265)
A wife is forbidden to perform extra prayers (NAFAL) or observe fasting
(other than RAMADAN) without the permission of her husband. (Tirmzi P 300)
If prostration were a legitimate act other than to God, woman should have
prostrated to her husband. (Tirmzi P 42
If a man is in a mood to have sexual intercourse the woman must come
immediately even if she is baking bread at a communal oven. (Tirmzi P 42
A woman who seeks KHULA i.e. divorce from her man, without a just cause,
shall not enter paradise. (Tirmzi P 440) A husband can divorce his wife at
will.
Majority of women would go to hell. (Muslim P 1431)
If a woman refuses to come to bed when invited by her husband, she becomes
the target of the curses of angels. Exactly the same happens if she deserts her
husband's bed. (Bukhari P 93)
A woman in many ways is deprived of
the possession of her own body. Even her milk belongs to her husband.
(Bukhari P 27) She is not allowed to practise birth control either.
In verse 33:59. Allah says:
O Prophet! Tell
your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their
cloaks (veils) all over their bodies (i.e. screen themselves completely
except the eyes or one eye to see the way). That will be better, that they
should be known (as free respectable women) so as not to be annoyed. And
Allah is Ever of Forgiving, Most Merciful.
If you don't wear a veil in Iraq you
could lose your life. Terri Judd in an article titled Women Are Being
Beheaded for Taking Their Veil Off
(Independent 4/20/08)
wrote:
In Basra alone, police acknowledge that 15 women a
month are murdered for breaching Islamic dress codes. Campaigners insist it
is a conservative figure.
Ibn Masud reported, "We
were fighting with the Messenger of Allah, and our wives were not with us. We
asked the Messenger of Allah, 'Should we castrate ourselves?' The Holy Prophet
forbade us from that, and then he allowed us Muta (temporary) marriage. So, we
all married wives for a fixed time (usually three days) for the dowry of a
piece of cloth." (Al Hadis, Vol. 2, p. 686)
Here Mohammed clearly tells the Muslims to forget about the
prostitutes they had purchased for a handful of dates back home and to have fun
with these new victims who come even cheaper. They can be bought and violated
for only a piece of cloth. Allah is truly merciful! Praise be to Allah!
For more quotes about women and
other aspects of Islam see The
Incredible Teachings of Muhammed.
The reasons that the beauty of
women needs to be suppressed are explained in A book [Document No. 47] published
by the Institute of Islamic and
Arabic Sciences in America, formerly an
outpost of the state-financed and controlled
Imam Muhammed Ibn Saud Islamic University in
Riyadh, copies of which were collected
from Al-Islam Mosque in Washington, D.C., which
states (Saudi
Publications on Hate Ideology Fill American Mosques):
“Among the more significant illustrations of
imitating (the unbelievers), and the most dangerous for Muslims, is the
enchantment of women. And this is among the traits of the unbelievers. The
intent of this is to bring (them) out of their nature, veil, and modesty so
that they could use it to tempt men…. Because women desire the glamour of the
materialistic life, they are inclined to imitate, accommodate, and exaggerate
in all of this, because women were built to seduce and beautify themselves for
men. And men were built to desire a woman when she exposes (herself), and not
to desire her when she is modest and covering.” [Document No. 47]
The book adds
that, if Muslim women unveil themselves, the whole Muslim community will be in
peril:
“If they (Muslim
women) leave the principle of modesty and cover, this will be the road and the
way to discord (fitna), and in most cases if the Muslim nation falls into this
trend it will lose its religion and worldly life.” [Document No. 47]
Australia’s most senior
Muslim cleric, Sheik Hilali in a
religious address on adultery to about 500 worshippers in Sydney said:
"If you take
out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in
the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it ...
whose fault is it, the cats or the uncovered meat?
"The
uncovered meat is the problem. If she was in her room, in her home, in
her hijab, no problem would have occurred."
He said women were "weapons" used
by "Satan" to control men.
"It is said
in the state of zina (adultery), the responsibility falls 90 per cent of the
time on the woman. Why? Because she possesses the weapon of enticement
(igraa)."
A lot of Australian Muslims
were outraged by his remarks. (The
Australian 10/26/06). Robert Spencer wrote in Frontpagemagazine that:
It
was also somewhat surprising that Al-Hilali’s remarks generated any uproar at
all. After all, the idea that a woman is responsible if she is raped did not
originate with him, and this was not the first time it has been enunciated in
the West. One notorious example occurred in September 2004 in Denmark, when the
mufti Shahid Mehdi of the Islamic Cultural Center in Copenhagen said on the Danish television
program Talk to Gode that women who venture outside without a hijab are
“asking for rape.”
Saudi columnist
Fatima Al-Faqih examined the question of discrimination against women. She wrote
in the Saudi daily Al-Watan:
"Are Saudi women actually deprived [of their rights]? [They] are
forbidden to drive, forbidden to travel without permission, forbidden to stay
alone at a hotel without permission, forbidden to name their own children
without [a man's] consent... forbidden to take out a passport without
permission... forbidden to leave their homes without permission... forbidden to
take a job without permission... forbidden to change the color of their abayas,
forbidden to go to school or to the university without permission... forbidden
to purchase shares or to open to a [bank] account in their children's name
without permission.
"[A woman] is not allowed to expose her face in some cities of the
kingdom... [She] is not allowed to marry without permission... not allowed to
stay married if [one of] her male relatives decides that her husband's [tribal]
lineage is inferior to hers... not allowed to sue for divorce without
apologizing and paying a fine, not allowed to keep her children after the
divorce, unless she gets permission... not allowed to hold a senior position in
the private or public sectors, not allowed to vote or run for office... not
allowed to travel alone with a chauffeur... not allowed to annoy her husband,
and finally, a woman's voice is considered [a form of] defilement, and she is
forbidden to speak in public, so that her affairs will remain shrouded in
secrecy.
"A researcher [studying the limitations on women] would [probably]
stop here, since the list is endless…
A 75 year old Saudi woman found out what happens
when one violates these rules. She was sentenced to
40 lashes and four months in prison for meeting with her nephew
and his friend who were bringing her bread without her husband being present.
She didn't have a husband to be present at the time. (Associated Press
3/10/09).
Laurent Murawiec wrote about Saudi women and driving in his book Princes
of Darkness as follows:
The unprecedented
boldness of forty-seven Saudi women from good families, who took it into their
heads, during the period when American troop strength in Saudi Arabia was
growing, before the active phase of the 1991 Gulf War, to take the wheel of a
car with the ubiquitous guardian in the passenger seat, were appropriately
punished. These sluts, as the Grand
Mufti, the priceless Bin Baz, called them, were arrested. The language used to denounce them was
eloquent: “Whores and prostittutes,” “advocates of vice,” “filthy secularists,”
said the fundamentalist sheikhs.
A former diplomat attached to the
Islamic Affairs Department at the Saudi embassy Washington, al-Munajid appears
regularly on Saudi television to discuss religious and ethical topics.
George Conger wrote that:
On Aug 10 [2008] he denounced the Beijing Olympics as the “bikini Olympics,”
saying the immodest dress of women athletes was “satanic” and earlier issued a
fatwa, or religious edict, against women’s participation in the Olympics as the
games were also “satanic”.
Al-Munajid’s aversion to sports is not new. In 2005 he denounced soccer, saying
the short pants worn by players “reveal nakedness.” He called for a ban on
women’s sports and public exercise as to do so would require them to don “tight
fitting, short” tunics that were offensive to Muslim decorum.
The Times online (2/7/08) reported how a 37-year-old American businesswoman
and married mother of three, Yara, was thrown in jail by Saudi Arabia's
religious police for sitting with a male colleague at a Starbucks coffee shop in
Riyadh. Her husband used his political contacts in Jeddah to track her and
secure her release. Yara said:
"I was lucky. I met other women in that prison who
don't have the connections I did,”
Columnist Dr. Maha
Al-Hujailan criticized the norms of Saudi society, where a woman must live in
constant fear that her husband may take another wife.
According to frontpagemag.com (8/12/04)
The
Arab-Islamic world represses and demonizes women and female sexuality – and myriad
other pleasures that come with life... The entire culture is based on
subjugating the individual, whereas America represents the exact opposite.
J.Lo,
Mariah Carey and Britney Spears doing what they do on American television is a
major threat to this culture. It is freedom, and freedom of the female on every
level. The Arab-Islamic world must wage war on the culture that produces this
temptation because it cannot allow itself to succumb to the love of life,
appreciation of pleasure and the allowance of women doing what they want with
their lives -- and with their sexuality. It cannot allow the exercise of free
will by individuals engaged in the pursuit of personal happiness.
Joel Mobray in an OPED called "Saudi
Slavery in America" (New York Post 2/10/03) wrote that:
As
part of its massive PR offensive, the House of Saud is trying to convince the
world that its treatment of women is improving. But a first hand witness
would see a far different reality: Women locked inside homes, paid little or nothing
as domestic servants, worked up to 20 hours per day, and verbally and
physically abused.
And
that's right here in America - in the homes of Saudis living in the United
States...
Notes
Keith Roiderick, president of the Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights,
who personally helped a woman escape a Saudi home: "When you meet these
women and hear their horror stories, it breaks your heart."
Joel Mobray also wrote that:
Tens
of thousands of women are abused in Saudi Arabia each year. The Saudi
government admits that some 19,000 domestic servants - almost exclusively
foreign women working in the kingdom as maids - escaped from Saudi homes in the
12 momths prior to March 2001. (The real figure is likely far higher...)
If you are a woman unfortunate enough
to have had children with a Saudi Muslim and he decides to leave with the kids
to Saudi Arabia, you have no rights when it comes to getting them back.
Pat Roush wrote a book about her experiences trying to bring her children back
to America called At Any Price.
A movie
was made from Betty Mahmoudy's book
both called "Not Without My Daughter" about her struggle to
get her children out of Saudi Arabia.
If a man and woman are
alone in a car together and are not married they will both be punished in Saudi
Arabia. Both
were sentenced to 90 lashes after committing that terrible crime.
Chaudhry Rashid, a
Pakistani immigrant living in Clayton County, Georgia, strangled his daughter to
death. In an article about that Robert Spencer wrote: (frontpage magazine
7/10/08)
Honor killings” are distressingly common throughout the
Muslim world. Phyllis Chesler reports that “in 1997, in Cairo Egypt,
twenty-five-year-old Nora Marzouk Ahmed’s honeymoon ended when her father
chopped off her head and carried it down the street. ‘Now,’ he said, ‘the
family has regained its honor.’ Nora’s crime? She had eloped.” And “in 2002,
in Tehran, an Iranian man cut off his seven-year-old daughter’s head after
suspecting she had been raped by her uncle. ‘The motive behind the killing
was to defend my honor, fame, and dignity.’ Some people called for this
man’s death under Islamic law, but ironically, only the father of the victim
can demand the death sentence.”
Chesler recounts many such killings. “In 1999, in Lahore, Pakistan, Samia
Imran was shot dead in her feminist lawyer’s office by a man whom her
parents had hired to kill her. Her crime? Seeking a divorce….In 2001, in
Gujar Khan, Pakistan, Zahida Perveen’s husband attacked her, gouged out both
her eyes, her nose, and her ears. He wrongly suspected her of adultery. He
was arrested, but male relatives shook his hand and men decided she ‘must
have deserved it’ and that a ‘husband has to do what a man has to do.’…In
2005, in Gaza, five masked members of Hamas…shot Yusra Azzumi, a
twenty-year-old Palestinian woman, to death, brutalized her corpse, and
savagely beat both her brother, Rami, and her fiancé, Ziad Zaranda, whom she
was to marry within days. This self-appointed Morality Squad wrongly
suspected Yusra (herself a Hamas member) of “immoral behavior.”
Sophia, a twenty two year old
Pakistani woman of Muslim origin decided to leave Islam. In her testimony
(printed in Leaving
Islam, she wrote:
My first
rebellion was against a culture that teaches me to be subservient, to accept
social sexual harassment, and even to be killed. I worked with an
organization in Pakistan where I witnessed acid being thrown over women because
they married men they chose or they left men they chose to leave. Women
were killed for disobeying, and thus dishonoring the family, beaten because
they raised their voice against a man. Yes, all these things are directly
related to religion. Islamic preachers will tell you all that is cultural
and that Islam has played no role in this. Coincidentally, this culture seems
to repeat itself in almost every Muslim country from Asia to Africa.
ANews.com.au reported that
Saira Nusrat Bibi was forced to marry a 45 year old when she was only nine, in
Pakistan. When she reached 17 years old girl she was successfully fighting
a legal battle to have her marriage annulled. As she left court in the Punjabi
city of Sahiwal, she was surrounded by a group of men reportedly sent by her
parents, and shot in front of police. This was after five women - among
them three teenage schoolgirls express the desire to marry men of their choice
in defiance of the wishes of tribal leaders.
When the fuming elders of the
Umrani tribe came to know about the intentions of
these girls, they picked them up from their homes
along with two of their elderly relatives," one
account said.
"The crying girls were pushed
into official cars and driven to a deserted area.
There they were pushed out of the cars, made to
stand in a queue, and volleys of shots fired at
them. As the bleeding girls fell to the sand, the
tribesmen dragged them into a nearby ditch and
levelled it with earth and stones.
"As the two shocked elderly
women tried to rescue the hapless girls, they too
were gunned down and buried in the same manner.
Erik Rush wrote that (wnd
8/1/2008)
Over the last few years, the phenomenon of acid attacks
upon women by men in Pakistan has gained increasing consideration in the
Western press. These attacks involve an individual dashing highly
concentrated, corrosive acid into the face of a woman – usually, a young
woman – with whom the man is vexed for some reason. Often, it is a spurned
suitor, although occasionally it is carried out by a woman's own family
member over a point of "honor," such as disobeying her husband. These
assaults invariably render the women aesthetic monstrosities.
Fox News reported
(11/14/2008) that Muslims squirted acid on three groups of female students
and teachers who were walking to school in Afghanistan. It is likely that
the Taliban were responsible because girls were banned from schools under the
Taliban, the hard-line Islamist regime that ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001.
Women were only allowed to leave the house wearing a body-hiding burqa and
accompanied by a male family member.
When Muslims immigrate to the West they
spray acid on there too. Muslims suspected a friend of a woman of being
her lover, put on protective clothing and threw acid in his face.
He has lost part of his tongue, been left
blind in one eye and has 50 per cent burns
and fractures to his face after being
attacked in Leytonstone, East London, on
July 2 2009.
Worldnetdaily
8/14/2008 reported that A Muslim father in Saudi Arabia cut out his
daughter's tongue and lit her on fire upon learning that she had become a
Christian.
The child became curious about Jesus Christ after she read Christian material
online, the Gulf News reported.
Her father read her Internet conversation, detached her tongue and burned her to
death "following a heated debate on religion," according to an
International Christian Concern report.
On August 20th 2006,
a Pakistani woman living in Italy was murdered by her Muslim father probably
because she had been promised in marriage to a cousin and refused to marry
him. (Murder
of Muslim girl rebel by her father shocks all Italy, The Independent, 8/20/2006)
On the evening of Monday 9 October, Kaihana Hussain, the teenage
daughter of Muslim immigrants, told her parents that she was converting from
Islam to Christianity. (Australia: Girl’s
Conversion Results in Mother’s Death, 10/13/2006) Her father responded with
unrestrained fury. Neighbours heard "blood curdling" and
"terrifying" screams and cries of "Help me, help me, they're
trying to kill me", but they were unsure which apartment the screams were
coming from, and the voices were unfamiliar.
After a short time, Kaihana came running out
of the family's apartment, dressed only in her underwear, her clothes torn off,
blood splattered over her severely scratched and cut body.
All that is known at this stage is that
after her father began to attack her, Kaihana's mother, Yasmin (41, and a
strict and devout Muslim), intervened to aid and protect her daughter.
What police found when they entered the
apartment was Yasmin bleeding severely from a fatal knife wound to the chest,
and her husband, Kaihana's father, Dr Muhammad Hussain (49) also bleeding from
a potentially fatal knife wound to the chest. Blood was splattered on walls,
floors and doorways throughout the three-bedroom luxury apartment. Yasmin died
at the scene and Dr Hussain is presently hospitalised in an induced coma, in a
critical condition. Police have confirmed that Kaihana is not a suspect in
their deaths.
A Muslim source said that:
"'From what
we understand the daughter decided to tell her father of her radical plan to
convert to Christianity which, in the eyes of most Muslims, is totally
unacceptable and to be honest, sadly, many would react as he has done,' said
the source.
"'It is the
Islamic way that if a son or daughter does or plans to do something that is
unacceptable or wrong for a Muslim then it is the mother who is automatically
at fault and will bear the brunt of the blame."'
Jeff Jacoby
wrote that:
Women and young girls
are set ablaze, strangled, shot at, clubbed,
stabbed, tortured, axed, or stoned to
death," a United Nations report noted in
2004. "Their bodies are found mutilated with
their throat slit, or they are chopped into
pieces and thrown in a ditch."
The report singled out
as especially horrifying the honor killing
in Pakistan of "a 16-year-old girl who was
reportedly electrocuted to death after being
drugged with sleeping pills and being tied
to a wooden bed with iron chains." Her
offense: marrying a boy from the wrong
community. Countless others have lost their
lives for refusing an arranged marriage,
wearing Western-style clothing, having a
boyfriend, or even being raped.
Turkey attempted to crack down on the
practice of honor killings.
The result has
been honor suicides. A woman's fate is usually determined by a family
council where the alleged dishonor is discussed and the penalty pronounced.
Woman ordered to take their own lives are usually locked in a room with a noose,
a gun or rat poison until the deed is done. Medine Memi was a 16 year old girl
who was
buried alive in Turkey because she was friendly with boys.
Muslims have brought honor killings to the West.
Phyllis Chesler wrote:
Known honor killings first arrived in North America in
1989, when Palestina Isa's father, an Abu Nidal Palestinian terrorist and
his wife, her mother, both slaughtered their hard-working and much-abused 16
year old daughter Palestina. Her crime? She was becoming too "American," too
independent, too academically ambitious--and she had a friend, a boy, who
was an African-American. Her mother held her down and her father butchered
her with tremendous animal ferocity.
In another article Phyllis Chesler wrote that gruesome overkill of family
members is indicative of an honor killing as opposed to domestic violence.
She gave two examples:
In 2000, in Chicago, Shapara Sayeed, aged 33, was
burned alive by her Pakistani husband, Mohammed Haroon. They had allegedly
been "fighting for a long time." It looks like another case of western-style
domestic violence/femicide except for the method of murder: Immolation,
which is associated with the Muslim honor killings both of intimate family
women and of women who are seen as not "covered" enough, too "western" by
the Taliban, etc.
In 2002, in Jersey City, New Jersey, another victim, aged 29, was Marlyn
Hassan, who refused to convert from Hinduism to Islam. Her husband, Alim
Hassan, a Guyanese Muslim, stabbed her to death while she was late in
pregnancy with his twin children--and he also stabbed her sister and her
mother. Again, gruesome overkill.
Banaz Mahmod shown in the picture below:

ran away from home
when she was a teenager but returned when her father sent her an audio tape in which
he warned he would kill her sisters, her mother and himself if she did not come
home, her sister said.
She was later
hospitalized after her brother attacked her, the sister told the court. The
brother said he had been paid by their father to finish her off but in the end
was unable to do it. Her father and his
brother accused the young woman of shaming her family by ending an abusive
arranged marriage, becoming too Westernized and falling in love with a man who
didn't come from their Iraqi village. She
was found stuffed in a suitcase that was buried in the back garden. Her death is the latest in an increasing
trend of such killings in Britain, home to some 1.8 million Muslims. More than
100 homicides are under investigation as potential "honor killings."
(fox news 6/11/07).
Pakistani-Canadian Aqsa
Parvez, 16, was strangled by her father in an honor murder Monday (12/10/07) in
the Toronto-area city of Mississauga. Her brother has
also been charged with murdering her. Refusing to wear the Islamic hijab, Parvez,
who was herself born in Pakistan, wanted to live the normal lifestyle of a
Canadian teenage girl, but ran into conflict with her strict, religious father.
One friend and schoolmate said the Canadian teenager was afraid of her father
and often came to school wearing bruises, the result of his violence.
“She was scared of her father; he was always controlling her,”
the friend told the
National Post, a Canadian national newspaper. “She wasn’t allowed to go out
or do anything.”
Nevertheless, the Grade 11 student, according to friends, would leave home
wearing the hijab but arrive at school in western-style clothes, having changed
on the way. This was part of her courageous desire to live her own life and
overcoming the fear in which she lived.
"Aqsa was honestly the brightest girl around,"
wrote one student inside a memory book. "She had the biggest smile and was the
happiest person in school. She loved to dance and take pictures." (CTV.ca)

Aqsa Parvez
Shortly after Aqsa
Parvez was killed in Canada Amina and Sarah Said were killed in the United
States.
Phyllis Chesler wrote (Intellectual Conservative 3/11/2008):
I am talking
to Gail Gartrell, the great-aunt of Amina and Sarah Said, who were honor
murdered by their father, Yasser Said, on New Year’s Day, 2008. (I have
written about this tragic case before for Pajamas Media.) As of this
writing, Yasser Said has not yet been captured.
The girls were murdered in Irving, Texas, an area with a large Muslim
population that is also known to some experts as a place where Hezbollah and
the Muslim Brotherhood may be active. Gail and the other female relatives
with whom I have spoken believe that Yasser Said is “possibly some kind of
terrorist. I was only recently told that Yasser always seemed to have a lot
of guns, machine guns — they’re illegal here — but handguns too.” Gail tells
me:
It’s another face of jihad. These men come here from Egypt, they marry
American women in order to become American citizens. The American wives
convert to Islam. Then, they have Muslim children who are natural-born
American citizens — but who are raised to hate America and to want to live
under shari’a law. Then, these men expect their teen-age American daughters
to marry much older Muslim men from Egypt in arranged marriages. I know that
Yasser wanted Amina to marry someone from Egypt...
Gail is proud
that her great-niece Amina refused to accept an arranged marriage, glad that
they were both brave enough to run away. Both girls had non-Muslim
boyfriends. Neither girl wanted to wear hijab. Clearly, these American-style
choices are all capital crimes to someone like Yasser Said.
Yasser
Said has not been caught.
In San Francisco,
a young Muslim woman was shot dead after she uncovered her hair and put on
makeup in order to be a maid of honor at a friend's wedding. (San Francisco
Chronicle 12/15/2000). In Georgia a Muslim man strangled his daughter (Atlanta
Journal Constitution 7/6/08) because she didn't want to marry the man
designated for her in an arranged marriage.
When a Muslim murders his family we don't always know if it is an honor killing
or not but there are indications.
Phyllis Chesler wrote that:
On Friday, August 7, 2009,
Mohamed Shojaeifard, a 49-year-old Iranian scientist, estranged from his
40-year-old Bangladeshi physician wife, Haleh Mohseni for more than a year,
shot her in the abdomen. Shojaeifard did not stop there. He also shot and
killed Mohseni’s 65-year-old mother, Batool Biraman—and his own 17 year-old
daughter, Mandana, who had just graduated from Roslyn High School and was
planning to attend SUNY at New Paltz.
In some ways it is a classic honor killing. Shojaiefard
was known to have “stalked” his daughter Mandana. “He did not allow her to
attend her prom.” According to a neighbor, Shojaiefard “was
really violent and kept the mother and daughter as prisoners. The
daughter was scared to go to school sometimes because she came covered in
bruises...
American-Pakistani born Nawaz Ahmed,... slit his wife’s
throat and for good measure, that of her father, sister, and sister’s young
child in Ohio in 1999, and Muzammil Hassan, ... beheaded his wife in New
York in 2009,
Vasko Kohlmayer
told the story of Samaira Nazir who spurned the offer of a
pre-arranged marriage to a man chosen for her in Pakistan,
and dated another man, a Muslim also.
Kohlmayer wrote (frontpagemag
6/28/07):
Seized upon in her family home, she was violently attacked by her
father, brother and cousin. Her screams alerted a neighbor who knocked on the door
only to be told that the young woman was "having a fit." Some moments
later, Nazir attempted to escape. She ran out of the house but her
family members caught up with her on the entrance porch and pulled her
back by the hair. As the door was being shut, witnesses outside saw her waving
her bloodstained arms desperately. When the police finally arrived, they found
her body slumped in a pool of blood with a scarf wound tightly around her neck
through which three deep cuts had been made. In addition, Nazir’s body bore
eighteen stab wounds inflicted with four different knives. The investigation
revealed that she was held down by her own mother as her male kin went about
their ghastly task. Nazir’s two cousins – girls aged two and four – were forced
to watch to teach them what happens to a woman under Muslim law who refuses to
abide by her family’s wishes.
Stephen Brown wrote in frontpage
magazine 7/9/07 that:
It is estimated that 30,000 women among Germany’s 3.2 million Muslim
population, of which 2.7 million are of Turkish origin, are subjected to forced
marriages every year. Hundreds of young Muslim girls disappear annually from
their German elementary and high schools to travel to their native Turkey and
other Muslim countries, never to return. Many are told they are going on
holidays and do not realize they are to be married until after their arrival,
after which their passports, jeans and freedom are taken away and replaced
with head scarves and confinement. Moreover, it is only on their wedding day
that some see their husbands for the first time…
In many cases, the new wives live a slave-like existence for years in
their new families, toiling long hours at housework under the rule of an
oppressive mother-in-law, while suffering extensive physical and emotional
abuse, sometimes from the day after their wedding, at the hands of their
husbands. It is estimated that thousands, if not tens of thousands, of Muslim
women in Germany endure daily such barbaric conditions.
Needless to say, freedom of movement, to come and go as they wish, also
does not exist for the female newlyweds. Even Muslim girls who grew up in
Germany and had enjoyed this basic right in their outwardly integrated families
are now confined to the home of their new husbands and may not leave unless
accompanied by a male… many of the abused wives are
threatened with death if they go to the police. And those who do flee are also
potential murder victims, since leaving a traditional, patriarchal Muslim home
carries a death sentence.
David Solway
wrote that:
The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) in Britain has calculated
that as many as 17,000 women of the Islamic persuasion are subjected to
“forced marriages, kidnappings, sexual assaults, beatings and even murder by
relatives intent on upholding the ‘honour’ of their family”—35 times higher
than the official figures (littlegreenfootballs.com, February 11, 2008).
Children as young as 11 are regularly repatriated to their “home countries”
to enroll in madrassas where they are indoctrinated in the fundamental
tenets of their faith or contracted to be married. Young women who object or
who eventually leave such loveless marriages are often in danger for their
lives. But Muslim spokespeople have consistently tried to shift the blame
away from their own culpable community onto society at large.
In December 2009
Mehmet Gordon was convicted in London of murdering his fifteen year old
daughter, Tulay. When her father discovered she was no longer a
virgin (she had told a friend she may even be pregnant), he and her family’s
male members regarded her as a “worthless commodity.” Tulay’s family also did
like the fact her boyfriend, Halil Unal, was from another branch of Islam. But
what apparently disturbed Tulay’s father the most was that he would not be
receiving any bride price money after his daughter had run away to live with
Hilal, also a Kurd from Turkey.
The wife testified at the trial her husband had sent her to demand a $10,000
bride price from Unal to cover the “shame” he had caused their family honor, but
she returned home empty handed. Hanim indicated her husband probably wanted the
money for gambling, testifying he was an avid gambler who would gamble away the
family’s social benefits in Turkish cafes. A week after Tulay’s
disappearance, Unal himself became the target of an honor murder. Mehmet Gornon
tried to kill him in an axe attack that put Unal in hospital with a serious neck
injury.
In Germany the problem of domestic
violence in Muslim homes is so bad that thirty per cent of the occupants in
women’s shelters in German cities are Muslim (frontpage
magazine 6/26/07). And even there, these unfortunate women are not safe.
Husbands and other male clan members, who can number up to 300, often set up
round the clock surveillance of the shelter, in which the woman has sought
refuge.
One young Muslim
woman, who fled a planned forced marriage and is now living what the police
term a ‘submarine existence’ (she is in hiding), said her father told her when
she was a child never to play with German girls because they were whores and
that he would kill her if he ever caught her playing with boys. This ‘man of
honor’, she says, has now threatened to pour gasoline over her and burn her to
death if he ever finds her.
A non-Muslim man who has sex with
a woman can be killed as well. Nineteen year old
Yvan Schneider was beaten to death with baseball bats by
Deniz Eroglu
for having sex with a
Muslim girl who unfortunately for Yvan became Deniz's girlfriend. In some
way Yvan was actually lucky. Deniz Eroglu told an innmate later that he
had only wanted to knock Schneider unconscious and then take him to a warehouse
his father was renting and torture him to death there.
Islamic honor killings occur
in Russia. An Azeri immigrant in Russia's northern
city of Saint Petersburg hired hit men to kill his 21-year-old daughter for
wearing a mini-skirt (news.com.au
April 13, 2009).
Ibn Warraq author of Why I
am not a Muslim has an online article called Islam's
Shame, Lifting the Veil of Tears, about the persecution of women under
Islam. Accidental Angel, an article in the March 2001 issue of Vogue
magazine tells how in the summer of 2000, the Taliban, the Islamic
Fundamentalist Government of Afghanistan arrested Mary MacKakin a 72 year old
American Grandmother who was helping the widows of Afghanistan by giving them
work. When the Taliban came to power they forbid women to work. One
result was starving widows who had no man to support them. When the
Taliban came to power they also banned girls from school. Women were
allowed outside the house only to run errands and even then they had to be
accompanied by a close male relative. If a woman's hand was visible she
risked a beating. If a member of the Taliban decided he wanted to marry a
woman, he could arrive at her house that day and announce his intention to
marry her. Resistance would not be an option. Mary criticized the
Taliban in the newsletter of her organization PARSA and believes that is why she
was arrested. Anna Mulrine in her article "Unveiled Threat"
U.S. News and World Report, Oct 5, 01, writes how:
In
the two years between the Taliban's takeover of her hometown of Kabul and the
death threat that forced her to flee her country, Laila watched women beaten
with bicycle chains for "walking too fast." She saw female
friends sell off cherished possessions item by item until they became beggars
and war widows forced into prostitution. "You can't watch your
children starve" she says, "So you leave your honor
behind." A former medical student Laila, 30, was confined to her
home by a Taliban edict forbidding women to seek schooling or to walk outside
without both a male escort and a burka, a head to toe covering broken only by
finely woven netting at the eyes. She began tutoring her neighbors'
daughters, also banned from seeking an education. It wasn't long before
some 45 children a day were knocking on her door-and only a little longer
before the Taliban discovered her underground school. "They beat me
in front of the children" she recalls from her new home in the United
States," and told me that if I did one more thing against the Taliban,
they would kill me." Then they turned to the girls, cowering in the
corners. "They told them they would be burned alive if they ever
returned to school again."

The above picture is of refugees
trying to escape the Northern Alliance assault on Kunduz on 11/22/01.
They were fired on as they fled along the roads and donkey paths - by their
former Taliban masters. (New York Post 11/23/01)
After the fall of the Taliban
their remnants burned down or blew up more than a dozen schools for girls
between late 2001 and 2003 (Rebuilt Girls School Burned Down Reuters
6/6/03). On January 4, 2006 they beheaded a teacher, Abdul Habib for
educating girls while forcing his wife and children to watch. (Taliban Behead
Teacher for Educating Girls, Fox News, 1/4/2006)
After the fall of the
Taliban the editor of an Afghan women's rights magazine was jailed after a
presidential adviser accused him of publishing un-Islamic material. He
wrote that leaving Islam was not a crime and criticized the practice of
punishing adultery with 100 lashes. (Afghan Editor
Arrested for 'Un-Islamic' Writing, FoxNews.com 10/4/05)
Islam doesn't only allow polygamy, it encourages
it.
Amir Taheri wrote in the New York Post 9/6/2008 that:
Women were the first to demonstrate against Khomeini's
regime with a mass rally in Tehran on March 8, 1979 - less than a month
after the mullahs had seized power. Over the next decade, the authorities
imprisoned hundreds of thousands of women for varying lengths of time, and
executed thousands.
But women continued to fight a regime that deemed them subhuman. Their
resistance prevented the mullahs from abrogating pre-revolutionary laws
limiting gender discrimination. Thus, women succeeded in keeping their right
to vote and win public office.
They also retained a veto, granted by the shah, on their husbands' Islamic
right to take up to four permanent wives and countless temporary concubines.
Last June, Ahmadinejad sought to remove that veto, launching a campaign with
quotations from the Prophet and the 12 Imams of Shiite Islam to prove that
men who took many wives would have a fast track to paradise.
To make polygamy practically impossible, a law predating the revolution
required men seeking added wives to prove that they're financially capable
of running more than one household. Since few can meet that condition, the
number of Iranian men with more than one wife had fallen to a few hundred
before the mullahs seized power.
And most of those polygamists were mullahs or wealthy bazaar merchants
associated with them.
Last month, Ahmadinejad presented a draft bill designed to "re-Islamicize"
the status of women. He claimed that the shah had used laws inspired by
"Zionist-Crusaders" to deal with women's issues.
His new law would restore men's Islamic right to divorce their wives without
even informing them. Men would also be absolved from paying alimony.
In exchange, they'd be required to pay a mahrieh (a severance payment, whose
amount is set in the marriage contract) to a wife they wish to divorce. But
the draft law also plans a hefty government tax on the mahrieh. So a
divorced woman left with no alimony and no resources except her mahrieh
could end up losing most of that to the government. "
The only explanation for taking away what
money divorced women have, is Islamic hostility to women, a hostility that stems
from hostile statements toward women in the Koran and the Hadiths.
Rage
Against the Veil is a scathing indictment of Islam's oppression of
women. It tells the story of Dr. Homa Darabi, the first Iranian ever to be
accepted into the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, who committed
suicide in a crowded public square in Tehran in 1994 in order to bring
awareness to the world of the slave conditions for women living in Iran.
A reviewer of the book for Amazon.com
wrote:
I
just read this book and wanted to write my review. Since I believe in God, I
think Dr. Homa Darabi's act was ordained by God to bring the plight of the
Muslim women to the world's attention. Growing up as a Muslim girl, my rights
were constantly violated by my father, brothers and male cousins. What Parvin
Darabi and Romin P. Thomson describe in Rage Against the Veil is a life lived
by many women in the Islamic world. I was told that my function in life as a
woman is to marry and bear children and to serve my husband and my children all
my life with no expectations for mine. This book is any Muslim woman's life.
This book is about my life, my female friends and relatives life. I am so
pleased that this book is written which tells the world what women like Dr.
Homa Darabi and so on have lived through. I am buying this book and
giving it as gifts and I ask others to do the same. Thank you Parvin Darabi and
Romin P. Thomson to tell others what we go through.
Another book The
Stoning of Soroya M. describes how in 1986 a woman in a small village in
Iran was buried up to her neck at the town square and the men of the village,
including her father, husband, and sons, threw stones and rocks at her until
she died. In the case of Soraya, a pious wife and mother, her abusive, criminal
husband wanted to get rid of her and marry his mistress. Iranian-born French
journalist Sahebjam, himself condemned to death by the Khomeini regime,
uncovered this horror while reporting undercover on his native land. A video of an Islamic stoning can be seen
here Download
Stoning Video.
Feminists in the Western world who love to view
themselves as victims of male oppression are silent in the face of these
stonings. David Horowitz, Robert Spencer and Janet Levy wrote an article
titled
Two Women Stoned: Feminists Mum about the lack of feminist protest to the
conviction of two sisters – Zohreh and Azar who
received 99 lashes for
"illegal relations. and then were tried again for the same crime, and convicted
of adultery on the evidence of videotape that showed them in the presence of
other men while their husbands were absent. The video does not show either of
them engaging in any sexual activity at all. They have been
sentenced to be stoned to
death.
Parvin Darabi wrote a testimony
about her experience with Islam titled An Iranian Girlhood and Islamic
Barbarism (Leaving
Islam, edited by Ibn Warraq). In her testimony she wrote:
It has been
reported that on August 15, 1991, the prosecutor general, Abolfazl
Musavi-Tabrizi, said that “anyone who rejects the principle of Hijab is an
apostate and the punishment for an apostate under Islamic law is death.”
Girls condemned
to death may not undergo the sentence as long as they are virgins. Thus,
they are systematically raped before the sentence is executed:
To rape women
prisoners, especially virgin girls, who are accused of being against the
regime, is a normal and daily practice in the Islamic Republic’s prisons, and
by doing so, the clergies declare that they adhere to the merits of the Islamic
principles and laws, preventing a virgin girl to go to Heaven. Mullahs
believe that these are ungodly creatures and they did not deserve it, therefore
they are raped to be sure they will be sent to hell.
Roya Tolouee, 40, a democracy
activist, was beaten up by Iranian intelligence agents and subjected to a
horrific sexual assault when she refused to sign forced confessions. It was
only when they threatened to burn her two children to death in front of her
that she agreed to put her name to the documents. (Child
Abuse, Mullah Style, frontpagemag.com 5/30/07)
There are as many as 300,000 runaway girls in
Iran, some as young as 9. It’s estimated that 86% of the runaways were rejected
by their families after they were raped. In Prophet-land, rape is shameful –
for the victim. (frontpagemag.com
10/31/06)
It takes tremendous courage for
a woman to speak up against what is being done against them in Arab
countries. To view one who has had the courage to do so click here.
Donna Hughes in an article
titled "Sex Slave
Jihad" (Frontpagemag.com 1/27/04) wrote that:
In
Tehran, there are an estimated 84,000 women and girls in prostitution, many of
them are on the streets, others are in the 250 brothels that reportedly operate
in the city...
The
exposure of sex slave networks in Iran has shown that many mullahs and
officials are involved in the sexual exploitation and trade of women and
girls... There are reports of police locating young women for sex for the
wealthy and powerful mullahs...Drug addiction is epidemic throughout Iran, and
some addicted parents sell their children to support their habits. ..
following the recent earthquake in Bam, orphaned girls have been kidnapped and
taken to a known slave market in Tehran where Iranian and foreign traders meet.
Popular destinations for victims of the slave trade are the Arab countries
in the Persian Gulf. ..
According to an article titled Iran's Sex
Slaves (frontpagemag.com 6/11/04)
Many
of the girls come from impoverished rural areas. Drug addiction is epidemic throughout
Iran, and some addicted parents sell their children to support their habits.
High unemployment -- 28 percent for youth 15 to 29 years of age, and 43 percent
for women 15 to 20 years of age -- is a serious factor in driving restless
youth to accept risky offers for work. Slave traders take advantage of any
opportunity in which women and children are vulnerable. For example, following
the recent earthquake in Bam, orphaned girls have been kidnapped and taken to a
known slave market in Tehran where Iranian and foreign traders meet.
Since Muslims can marry and then divorce just
by saying I divorce you three times, this means that Muslims can effectively
marry and divorce as many women as they want. This creates a religiously
justified form of prostitution in which old men with money marry teenagers,
have sex with them and leave them. (One Minor
Girl, Many Arabs, by Mohammed Wajihuddin, frontpagemag.com 9/9/05)
Stephen Brown in an article titled
Child Bride in Yemen Confronts Shariah (4/18/2008) wrote:
Born in the
year 2000, Nujood Ali was married two-and-a-half months ago to a man
twenty years her senior after she was made to sign a marriage
contract, arranged between her father and her “suitor.” The
contract, a strictly commercial transaction which usually involves
the groom paying a “bride price,” was supposed to allow Nujood to
reside with her parents until she was 18. However, only a few days
later, those same parents forced their daughter to move in with her
new "husband."...
“Always, when
I wanted to play in the garden, he hit me and said I should go with
him into the bedroom,” Ali told the Yemen Times, adding that she
would then run from room to room to escape him, but in vain. “In the
end, he always got me.”
Phylis Chesler wrote how “Shaikha,”
a 16-year-old Saudi girl, drank bleach in an attempt to
kill herself because her father was forcing her to marry a 75-year-old man.
And why? So that Shaikha’s father could himself marry the elderly man’s
13-year-old daughter! Shaikha begged and pleaded not to be forced into this
marriage–even her mother supported her plea; all to no avail...And, a
Pakistani mother and son unit in England imported a “slave bride” from
Pakistan whom the son, “egged on by his mother,” violently beat and
tormented daily. (Oedipus and Jocasta can’t hold a candle to this merged
pair).Their fiendish plan was to turn the first wife into the family’s
“slave” and to procure a second wife with whom to have children. The man,
Haroon Ahktar, violently beat 20 year-old Sania Bibi twice a day, sometimes
more. She was forced to work 17 hours a day. Her mother-in-law, Zafia Bibi,
kept threatening to have her “shot in the head.” A sister-in-law threatened
to have her put in an asylum and “given electric shocks.” Haroon Ahktar
threw her down the stairs, smashed her into windows, dragged her by the
hair, cursed her constantly. According to Tamara Cohen in the Daily Mail:
“(Ahktar) said ‘You are not good enough for me’ and he would get married a
second time and he would have children through his second marriage and I
would have to take care of these children.’
The jury of seven men and five women heard that when the teenager arrived in
the UK her clothes and shoes and jewelry were immediately taken from her by
her mother-in-law. She was forced to wear pajamas for her housework, and
banned from answering the door, or using the telephone.”
When Sania Bibi escaped and went to relatives for refuge, they turned their
back on her. They told her that family “honor” demanded that she stay with
her husband’s family.
According to the
LastCrusade.org
A gala event has occurred in Gaza.
Hamas sponsored a mass wedding for four hundred and fifty couples. Most of
the grooms were in their mid to late twenties; most of brides were under
ten.
Muslim dignitaries including Mahmud Zahar, a leader of Hamas, were on hand
to congratulate the couples who took part in the carefully staged
celebration.
“We
are saying to the world and to America that you cannot deny us joy and
happiness,” Zahar told the grooms, all of whom were dressed in identical
black suits and hailed from the nearby Jabalia refugee camp.
Each groom received a gift of 500 dollars from Hamas.
The pre-pubescent girls, dressed in white gowns and adorned with garish
make-up, received bridal bouquets.
“We
are presenting this wedding as a gift to our people who stood firm in the
face of the siege and the war,” local Hamas strongman Ibrahim Salaf said in
a speech.
The wedding photos tell the rest of the sordid tale.

The International Center for Research on Women now estimates that there are
51 million child brides now living on planet earth and almost all in Muslim
countries.
Twenty-nine percent of these child brides are regularly beaten and molested
by their husbands in Egypt; twenty six percent receive similar abuse in
Jordan.
Every year, three million Muslim girls are subjected to genital mutilation,
according to UNICEF. This practice has not been outlawed in many parts of
America.
Julie Bindel wrote an article titled Mothers of Prevention about how
Muslim men force British girls into prostitution in the Sunday Times of London
9/30/07. She wrote how older Muslims pay younger
Muslims to stalk young girls at malls and start relationships with them. Bindel
wrote:
After embarking on a sexual
relationship with them, the abusers begin to control them with threats and
brutality, before selling them to other men for sex... Pimping is lucrative. According to the Metropolitan
Police Vice Squad, a pimp can make £300,000 to £400,000 a year selling a
16-year-old girl. There is, appallingly, no shortage of men who wish to buy
them.
Terri Judd
in an article in the
Independent wrote about the situation of women in Iraq. He wrote how 19
year old Shawbo Ali Rauf was murdered because she had an unknown number in
her cell phone. A 17-year-old girl, Rand Abdel-Qader, was stabbed to death
by her father for becoming infatuated with a British soldier. Du'a Khalil
Aswad, 17, from Nineveh, was executed by stoning in front of mob of 2,000 men
for falling in love with a boy outside her Yazidi tribe. 11-year-old Sara Jaffar
Nimat was found in Khanaqin, Kurdistan, after she had been stoned and burnt to
death.
The Bush administration believes that
liberating Muslims will bring peace happiness and harmony yet the result of
liberating Iraqi Muslims was anything but. Houzan
Mahmoud, has had a fatwa on her head since raising a petition against the
introduction of sharia law in Kurdistan.
She said:
"If before there was one dictator persecuting people,
now almost everyone is persecuting women.
Jack Kelly listed some outrageous
Islamic behavior to women in the New York Post (9/13/02) He wrote that:
In
Tehran on Sept. 8, a man beheaded his 7 year old daughter because he suspected
she had been raped by her uncle. An autopsy revealed the little girl was
still a virgin.
Also
on Sept 8, the governor of a Nigerian state refused to overturn the verdict of
a religious court that sentenced a woman to death by stoning for adultery.
(Her lover, who is married - she is not - has not been punished.)
In
Baghdad on Aug. 27, a mob beheaded a 70-year-old nun. In Denmark in July,
a Turkish immigrant murdered his daughter because she wanted to choose her own
husband.
Similarly the BBC had an
article about an Iranian girl sentenced to 100 lashes who filed a complaint
against two men for kidnapping and raping her. The judge explained:
The
girl was sentenced to 100 lashes because her accusations of rape and kidnap
could have landed her partners a death penalty. (BBC News, Iran girl gets 100
lashes for sex, 2/25/05)
An Iranian girl who stabbed a
man who was trying to rape her was sentenced to death by an Iranian court on
January 10, 2006. Another girl sixteen year old Atefeh Rajabi who was
forced into adultery, was sentenced to death for having committed "acts
incompatible with chastity".(Iran
Focus-Iran to hang teenage girl attacked by rapists, 1/7/2006)
When a 19 year
old married girl was gang
raped in Saudi Arabia, a court sentenced HER to 90 lashes. After she complained
to the media, it was increased to 200. (My
Harrowing Story)
Stephen Brown
wrote in Frontpage
Magazine how Nazanin Fateh a 17 year old Iranian woman was in a Tehran park
with her fifteen-year-old niece and two boyfriends in March, 2005, when three
men approached and pushed the two girls to the ground to rape them.
The
brave boyfriends, meanwhile, fled on their motorcycles, leaving the two females
to fend for themselves.
In self-defense, Fateh pulled a knife and stabbed
one of the assailants in the arm. The Iranian teenagers then tried to flee when
Fateh stabbed another would-be rapist in the chest, killing the repulsive
jackal. The young Iranian woman, it was reported, then waited for the police
and gave them the knife.
But
despite her honesty and rightful claim to have acted in self-defense to protect
both her and her niece’s honor, a criminal court in the Islamic theocracy
sentenced her to death in January, 2006…
Ironically, even if Fateh had
allowed herself to be raped, the legal result would probably have been the same.
In order to understand the logic
of killing a daughter for being raped we need to understand that according to
Islamic law intercourse outside of marriage is a crime, Period. Serge
Trifkovic in his outstanding book, The
Sword of the Prophet wrote that according to the New York Times (May 17,
2002)
a
judge in Pakistan sentenced a young woman to death for "adultery" by
stoning because she had been raped by her husband's brother. The judge
defended his action by saying that he had merely followed the Kuran based law
that mandated this punishment. The fact the woman, Zafran Bibi, was raped
was of no consequence. The woman had accused her brother in law of raping
her and this was a confession to her crime of "having intercourse outside
of marriage." The Times noted that this case fit "a familiar
pattern."
According to a report by the
United Nations Population Fund, in Turkey: (Beattie, M., Woman Forced to
Wed Rapists or Die, The Scotsman 11/22/05)
"When
a girl is raped by a man, since she is no longer a virgin, it is usually
believed that the best way to solve the problem is to get them married,
especially if the man is not already married. If the man is already
married and the raped girl is pregnant, this creates a more complicated
situation and usually ends in the girl's murder." The report
suggests that the practice of forcing rape victims to marry their attackers had
been partly reinforced by an earlier, but now obsolete, Turkish penal code.
This stipulated that if a rapist married his victim, his penalty would be
suspended and if he stayed married to her for five years, it would be cancelled
completely. The UN report, which is based on interviews with more than 250
people in Istanbul and other cities with large Kurdish populations, details
several such cases. One involved the rape of a mentally challenged girl.
"The brothers of the girl offered her in marriage to the man and said that
they would pay all wedding costs, all in an effort to avoid gossip," the
report says. "In the end, they shot the man dead. Later, they threw the
girl into a water channel. "Somehow the girl was not hurt; she was saved
and then she was sent to another place through [social] organisations. However,
the family is still after her."
The following excerpt is from an article about Muslim
thinking about infidel women in Pakistan and how that thinking has been exported
by immigrants to Australia (Lapkin, S., Muslim Gang
Rapes and the Aussie Riots, 12/15/05)
In
some parts of Pakistan, sexual assault – including gang rape – is officially
sanctified as a legitimate form of enforcing the social value system.
One village council recently ordered that five young girls should be “abducted,
raped or murdered” for refusing to be treated as chattel. The girls were aged
between six and thirteen when they were married without their knowledge, to pay
a family debt.
And when Mukhtar Mai’s 12-year-old brother was alleged to have committed an
offence in a small Pakistani farming village, the village council ordered that
his sister be gang-raped. So, she was taken to a hut where four men repeatedly
assaulted her.
According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan there were 804 cases of
such officially orchestrated sexual assault in 2000, and 434 of these were gang
rapes. And if that isn’t bad enough, the victims of these atrocities are then
expected to commit suicide because rape victims bring irreparable shame upon
their families.
The following excerpt reveals the European
Muslim's attitude toward women. (Immigrant
Rape Wave in Sweden frontpagemag.com 12/15/05, )
The
number of rape charges in Sweden has tripled in the last twenty years.
Rape cases involving children under the age of 15 are six - 6 - times as common
today as they were a generation ago. Most other kinds of violent crime have
rapidly increased, too. Resident aliens from Algeria, Libya, Morocco and
Tunisia dominate the group of rape suspects... Lawyer Ann Christine Hjelm, who
has investigated violent crimes in Svea high court, found that 85 per cent of
the convicted rapists were born on foreign soil or by foreign parents.
Some
Muslim immigrants admit their bias quite openly. An Islamic Mufti in Copenhagen
sparked a political outcry after publicly declaring that women who refuse to
wear headscarves are "asking for rape." Apparently, he's not the only
one thinking this way. “It is not as wrong raping a Swedish girl as raping an
Arab girl,” says Hamid. “The Swedish girl gets a lot of help afterwards, and
she had probably fucked before, anyway. But the Arab girl will get problems
with her family. For her, being raped is a source of shame. It is important
that she retains her virginity until she marries.” It was no coincidence that
it was a Swedish girl that was gang raped in Rissne – this becomes obvious from
the discussion with Ali, Hamid, Abdallah and Richard. All four have disparaging
views on Swedish girls, and think this attitude is common among young men with
immigrant background. “It is far too easy to get a Swedish whore…… girl, I
mean;” says Hamid, and laughs over his own choice of words. “Many immigrant
boys have Swedish girlfriends when they are teenagers. But when they get
married, they get a proper woman from their own culture who has never been with
a boy. That’s what I am going to do. I don’t have too much respect for Swedish
girls. I guess you can say they get fucked to pieces.”
The number of rapes committed by Muslim immigrants in Western nations are so
extremely high that it is difficult to view them only as random acts of
individuals. It resembles warfare. Muhammad himself had forced sex (rape) with
several of his slave girls/concubines. This is perfectly allowed, both in the
sunna and in the Koran. If you postulate that many of the Muslims in Europe
view themselves as a conquering army and that European women are simply war
booty, it all makes perfect sense and is in full accordance with Islamic law.
Western women are not so much regarded by most Muslims as individuals, but as
"their women," the women who "belong" to hostile Infidels.
They are booty, to be taken, just as the land of the Infidels someday will
drop, it is believed, into Muslim hand. This is not mere crime, but
ideologically-justified crime or rather, in Muslim eyes, attacks on Infidels
scarcely qualify as crime. Western women are cheap and offensive. We Muslims
are here, here to stay, and we have a right to take advantage of this
situation. It is our view of the matter that should prevail. Western goods,
like the land on which we now live, belong to Allah and to the best of men --
his Believers. Western women, too, essentially belong to us -- our future
booty.
If a woman doesn't wear a headscarf
that is seen as justification by some Muslims to rape her. Sharon Lapkin,
in an article titled Western
Muslims Racist Rape Spree wrote:
In
Australia's New South Wales Supreme Court in December 2005, a visiting
Pakistani rapist testified that his victims had no right to say no, because
they were not wearing a headscarf.
And earlier this year Australians were outraged when Lebanese Sheik Faiz
Mohammed gave a lecture in Sydney where he informed his audience that rape
victims had no one to blame but themselves. Women, he said, who wore skimpy
clothing, invited men to rape them.
A few months earlier, in Copenhagen, Islamic mufti and scholar, Shahid Mehdi
created uproar when – like his peer in Australia – he stated that women who did
not wear a headscarf were asking to be raped.
And with haunting synchronicity in 2004, the London Telegraph reported that
visiting Egyptian scholar Sheik Yusaf al-Qaradawi claimed female rape victims
should be punished if they were dressed immodestly when they were raped. He
added, “For her to be absolved from guilt, a raped woman must have shown good
conduct.”
Gang rape and even mutilation of women is
carried out against the infidels.
Robert Spencer wrote:
And in the most horrific instance of Muslim persecution
of Christians in Indonesia, in October 2005, three Islamic jihadists
beheaded three Christian girls and severely wounded a fourth as they walked
to school near the city of Poso.
Lapkin wrote:
In
Sweden, according to translator for Jihad Watch, Ali Dashti, “Gang rapes,
usually involving Muslim immigrant males and native Swedish girls, have become
commonplace.” A few weeks ago she said, “Five Kurds brutally raped a 13-year-old
Swedish girl.”
In France, Samira Bellil broke her silence – after enduring years of repeated
gang rapes in one of the Muslim populated public housing projects – and wrote a
book, In the hell of the tournantes, that shocked France. Describing how gang rape
is rampant in the banlieues, she explained to Time that, “any neighborhood girl
who smokes, uses makeup or wears attractive clothes is a whore.”
Unfortunately, Western women are not the only victims in this epidemic. In
Indonesia, in 1998, human rights groups documented the testimony of over 100
Chinese women who were gang raped during the riots that preceded the fall of
President Suharto. Many of them were told: “You must be raped, because you are
Chinese and non-Muslim.”
Christian Solidarity Worldwide reported that in April 2005, a 9-year-old
Pakistani girl was raped, beaten with a cricket bat, hanged upside down from
the ceiling, had spoonfuls of chillies poured into her mouth, and repeatedly
bashed while handcuffed. Her Muslim neighbours told her they were taking
revenge for the American bombing of Iraqi children and informed her they were
doing it because she was an “infidel and a Christian.”
In Sudan – where Arab Muslims slaughter black Muslim and Christian Sudanese in
an ongoing genocide – former Sudanese slave and now a human rights’ activist
Simon Deng says he witnessed girls and women being raped and that the Arab
regime of Khartoum sends its soldiers to the field to rape and murder. In other
reports, women who are captured by government forces are asked; “Are you
Christian or Muslim?” and those who answer Christian, are gang raped before
having their breasts cut off.
I (the author of this web site)
once read a story about the discovery of a dead girl locked up in a closet in a
kitchen in Smyrna after the Muslim Turks wiped out the Christian Armenian
population there. Her breasts had been cut off. I was shocked by
the brutality and hatred that would have motivated such a crime and started
doubting it ever happened but the above reports from Khartoum lend credibility
to the account.
Phyllis Chesler and Nancy Kobrin wrote an article about how Muslims
target women. They wrote:
The
Islamist "Doctor's
Plot" in the UK was fiendish, but one particularly horrific aspect of
it has received insufficient attention: it was specifically aimed at
women. Buried deep in the New York
Times article on the subject was this fact: The Tiger Tiger nightclub in London
was targeted in part because last Thursday was “ladies night.” (Christopher
Hitchens, writing in Slate, is among the few so far who focused on
this fact.)Nor is it the first time that Islamists have directly targeted
women. British security expert Sajjan M. Gohel remembers a 2004 conspiracy in
which "British-born bombers said they wanted to attract women at a
nightclub, whom they viewed as promiscuous, in conversations monitored by the
police."…
Often, a suicide bomber will purposely stand right
next to a mother with a young child.
A Dutch filmmaker, Theo van
Gogh, wrote columns about Islam that were published on his Web site, www.theovangogh.nl, and in the Dutch
newspaper Metro. He also made a film titled "Submission" with
Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a member of the Dutch parliament who had renounced
the Islamic faith of her birth.( My Way News
11/2/04) It told the fictional story of a Muslim woman forced into a
violent marriage, raped by a relative and brutally punished for adultery. This
film enraged the Muslims of the Netherlands even though similar stories have
occurred in real life. On Nov 2, 2004, a man with a long beard, wearing
Islamic garb shot him several times, then stabbed him repeatedly and slit his throat
with a butcher knife. The murderer left a note on his body.
According to an article in frontpagemag.com (Death of a
Blasphemer, Robert Spencer, 11/3/04) the note contained verses from the
Qu'ran. According to the NRC Handelsblad newspaper the note called for
an Islamic holy war. According to scotsman.com
(11/8/04) a five-page letter addressed to Ayaan, was pinned to his body
with a knife. Here is some of the text of the note (Netherlands
Braces For Jihad, frontpagemag.com 11/11/04)
"Death,
Ms. Hirsi Ali, is the common theme of all that exists. You and the rest of the
cosmos cannot escape this truth."
"There
will come a day when one soul cannot help another soul. A day that goes paired
with terrible tortures, ... when the unjust will press horrible screams from
their lungs.
"Screams,
Ms. Hirsi Ali, that will cause chills to run down a person's back, and make the
hairs on their heads stand straight up. People will be drunk with fear, while
they are not drunken. Fear will fill the air on the Great Day,"
"I
know definitely that you, Oh America, will go down. I know definitely that you,
Oh Europe, will go down. I know definitely that you, Oh Netherlands, will go
down. I know definitely that you, Oh Hirsi Ali, will go down."
According to Robert
Spencer the note said (frontpagemag.com Europe
Confronts Racism):
hair-
raising screams will be squeezed from the lungs of the non-believers.
After the murder, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, received a
death threat saying: "You are next." She has been living for months
surrounded by government bodyguards 24 hours a day. Pim Fortuyn is
another Dutch politician who was murdered because of his opinions regarding
Islam. Robert Spencer wrote about other Islamic murders to silence free
speech. He wrote:
In
1947, the Iranian lawyer Ahmad Kasravi was murdered in court by Islamic
radicals; Kasravi was there to defend himself against charges that he had
attacked Islam. Four years later, members of the same radical Muslim group,
Fadayan-e Islam, assassinated Iranian Prime Minister Haji-Ali Razmara after a
group of Muslim clerics issued a fatwa calling for his death. In 1992, the
Egyptian writer Faraj Foda was murdered by Muslims enraged at his “apostasy”
from Islam — another offense for which traditional Islamic law prescribes the
death penalty. Foda’s countryman, the Nobel Prizewinning novelist Naguib
Mahfouz, was stabbed in 1994 after accusations of blasphemy. Under
Pakistan’s
blasphemy laws, many non-Muslims have been arrested, tortured, and sentenced to
die on the slimmest of evidence. And of course, there is the Ayatollah
Khomeini’s notorious death fatwa against Salman Rushdie.
Wendy McElroy wrote an article
about the plight of
women under the Taliban regime for Foxnews.com 9/18/01. The Taliban
are extreme even by Iranian standards who as of October 9, 01 are helping the
Northern Alliance rebels against the Taliban. The Iranians say the
Taliban's version of Islam is an affront to the faith and hypocritical, because
they profit from drug smuggling. Still, the Iranians came out against the U.S.
attack on the Taliban. (New York Post October 9, 2001)
On May 19, 2002, the New York Times
reported that a woman named Zafran Bibi who had been raped in Pakistan faced
death by stoning.
Thumping
a fat red statute book, the white-bearded judge who convicted her, Anwar Ali
Khan, said he had simply followed the letter of the Koran-based law, known as
hudood, that mandates punishments.
"The
illegitimate child is not disowned by her and therefore is proof of zina,"
he said, referring to laws that forbid any sexual contact outside marriage.
Furthermore, he said, in accusing her brother-in-law of raping her, Zafran had
confessed to her crime.
The case raised an outcry
in Pakistan but according to Rukhshanda Naz, who heads the local branch of a
women's rights group called Aurat, even if the case returns to a more typical
course, she is likely to spend 10 to 15 years in prison, said. As many as
80 percent of all women in Pakistani jails have been convicted under laws that
ban extramarital sex, according to Aurat.
Human rights groups say abuse of
women is endemic in Pakistan. Often, they are locked inside their homes where
they are subjected to beatings, acid attacks, burning and rape. Every year
there are hundreds of "honor killings," in which a woman is murdered
for perceived breaches of modesty (New York Times 5/19/02).
Women may also be killed if they
refuse to marry a husband that is arranged for them. In 2003, three young
men with axes hacked to death their two sisters for spurning their family's
attempts to force them into arranged marriages (Killing
Women for Honor by Ted Lapkin 1/28/04).
If you are a Christian woman in
Pakistan you are a target of Muslims just for being an infidel. In one
case a Christian girl named Tabasumwas also a target because her parents
reported a Muslim brothel to the police. One night she went out late to
buy some loaves of bread and was reportedly abducted by her former neighbors
and two other men. According to the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance, APMA,
"They put a piece of cloth soaked in some intoxicant on her mouth, after
which she fainted." When Tabasum regained consciousness three men raped
her. She was told that she could be "saved" if she embraced
Islam and married one of the Muslims. According to APMA, "On
refusing, Sara was beaten badly during captivity and shifted to another house
... where five persons raped her. She was repeatedly asked to embrace Islam and
recite (the) Islamic creed to save herself from the misery but refused.
(worldnetdaily 16
Muslims Reportedly Rape Christian Girl, WorldnetDaily.com 10/2/05)
Suzanne Fields wrote an article in Sept 2005
that: (Fields, S., Making
the Muslims Love Us, Townhall.com 9/29/05)
Turkish
women who have thrown off their chadors in Germany and gone secular in dress
and dating habits have paid the full price for their rebellion. In recent
months, at least six Muslim women have been murdered in "honor
killings"; a women's organization documents more than 40 honor killings in
less than a decade. Their killers have been brothers, husbands and fathers, and
are generally revered as heroes in their insulated communities.
Phyllis
Chesler wrote
Two days ago, on June 24, 2009, in Germany, a Turkish
father, Mehmet O, a kebab shop owner, repeatedly knifed his fifteen-year-old
daughter, Bursa, while she was sleeping. Despite the fact that Bursa, her
mother, and her sister all wore hijab, Mehmet O. still felt Bursa was too
“westernized,” and that she did not want her “strict Muslim father to
control her life.”
Bursa’s friends described her as a “fun-loving girl, (who) loved hip hop
music….But that is no reason to kill someone.” This is certainly not
the first honor killing in Germany or in Europe by a Muslim father or
brother.
This very June, in Norway, an Iraqi woman, Vian Bakir Fatah, who had
divorced her violent husband, converted to Christianity, and was dating a
Norwegian man, was stabbed to death by her ex-husband and by her violent
16-year-old son.
Earlier this year, on March 4, 2009, a Turkish brother strangled his
20-year-old twin-sister, Gulsum Semin, because she allegedly had an
abortion. Her father has been arrested as an accessory to this murder.
On May 15, 2008, Ahmad-Sobair Obeidi, a twenty-four-year old Afghan,
brutalized his 16-year-old sister, Morsal for months—then stabbed her twenty
three times in a parking lot. He was ashamed of his sister for wearing
“inappropriate clothing”
Inspite of all this oppression
of women, Muslim men are very offended if anyone says that they do. Ayaan
Hirsi Ali, a Dutch Muslim woman, had to flee the Netherlands because she said
that Muslim men oppressed Muslim women, a vile idea that so outraged Muslim men
that they issued death threats against her. (Salman Rushdie, New York Times,
11/27/02)
The New York Post reported on
7/4/02 how a boy was punished who walked unchaperoned with a girl from a different
tribe. The Mastoi tribe demanded punishment after the teenager's brother
was seen walking unchaperoned with a Mastoi girl in a deserted part of the
village. The brother and sister are from the Gujar tribe, which is considered
to be lower-class. The boy's father, Ghulam Farid, 54, said he pleaded
for clemency, telling the council the Mastoi girl was safe with his son because
he was too young to have sex. Farid said.
I
told the tribal jury that my son is ready to marry [the girl], if they think
she had been molested, But Mastoi tribesmen rejected this proposal, saying how
could they give their daughter to me, a low-caste tribal.
A Pakistani council ordered that his sister
be gang raped to shame his family as a punishment. Four members of the
council then gang raped her. The young woman told The Associated Press on
the previous day
I
said I taught the holy Koran to children in the village, therefore don't punish
me for a crime which was not committed by me. But they tore my clothes and raped
me one by one.
Worldnetdaily reported that (Christian Girl
Abducted by Muslims 1/22/04) Shamim Kausor, of the district of Toba Tek Singh
in Punjab province, was abducted from her home Dec. 31, 2003 by men who pulled
up in a jeep.
International
Christian Concern said young Christian girls in Pakistan often are abducted
and raped and forced to marry Muslim men but generally have no rights or
recourse for the crimes committed against them.
According to worldnetdaily:
This
was the second abduction of Kausor, and several neighbors recognized a man who
kidnapped her several months ago.
At
that time, Kausor's father, Afzal Masih, employed the help of police to rescue
his daughter. He tried to initiate legal proceedings against the man but was
strongly dissuaded by Muslim village leaders.
The
kidnapper taunted and threatened the girl after the first abduction, ICC
reported.
At
one point he said, "A beautiful girl like you should not remain Christian.
I will make you Muslim and you will bear a Muslim child."
The
police are not interested in helping Masih this time, however, ICC said.
The
confessions of a former kidnapper can be viewed online. The kidnapper succeeded in getting a woman
to convert to Islam and wrote what happened then:
After five weeks of achieving this victory for Islam and receiving my
financial reward, I decided that I did not want to keep this faithless whore as
my wife. She was cheap to me and was merely an object for sensual
pleasure. How could I have a son with her who has in him the blood of
those Christian infidels? I reasoned. I ordered her to have an abortion
and I used my legitimate right to beat her. I also obliged her to work for her
food. I told her she had to serve her Muslim masters who put a roof over her
head and she had to be grateful that I married her and saved her from her
shame.
Parvisha Masih,
18, and Sanam Masih, 14, two girls in Pakistan, reported that three Muslim
men kidnapped them, drugged them, forced them to convert to Islam and sexually
assaulted them over a period of two weeks in captivity. More stories of kidnapped girls can
be viewed here. It's important to note that not all
Pakistanis behave this way.
According to the Jubilee Campaign, which records
incidences of Christian persecution: [A Christian woman named Suhir] was
kidnapped on February 25th [1999] by a group of Muslims who forced her to marry
a Muslim man, Saed Sadek Mahmoud. After Suhir failed to return home from
school, her distraught father rushed to Abu-Tisht police station to report the
incident, but instead of assisting him, a police officer began assaulting
Suhir’s father…beating and cursing him. Three days later, Suhir’s father and
brother returned to the police station to ask for help and they were subjected
to the same abuse, as a result of which the father had to be admitted to
hospital for
treatment. Suhir herself managed to escape, but was recaptured “and beaten
for running away and is currently under heavy guard.” Her Muslim “husband”
accompanied a mob to her father’s house where they threatened to kill all the
Christian men in Suhir’s home village, and carry off all the women, if her
family took legal action. (Muslim
Persecution of Christians by Robert Spencer)
There are many honor killings of women by Palestinian
Arabs. In a story for World and I magazine, James Emery quoted a
Palestinian Arab merchant as saying
A
woman shamed is like rotting flesh, If it is not cut away, it will
consume the body. What I mean is the whole family will be tainted if she is not
killed.
Emery says the reasons for honor
killings include allegations of premarital or extramarital sex, for refusing an
arranged marriage or attempting to obtain a divorce, or simply for talking with
a man. The murders are carried out by fathers, husbands, brothers, uncles,
cousins or sons.
Among Palestinians, all sexual
encounters, including rape and incest, are blamed on the woman. (WorldnetDaily 5/6/03)
Phyllis Chesler wrote in an
article in FrontpageMagazine.com (Forced
Female Suicide 1/21/04) that Palestinian Arabs have created a new form of
honor killing in which they coerce a woman who has dishonored her family into
redeeming her honor by committing a suicide bombing of Jews.
For
some time now, reports have reached my desk about Palestinian girls and
women being recruited, seduced, and trapped, by older male terrorists in
very woman-specific ways.
For
example, I have been told that in one instance, the chosen Palestinian
girl was unmarried and pregnant. She was offered the chance to
"cleanse" her honor by blowing herself and Jews up. Her family
spirited her out of the West Bank to safety in Europe. I have also been told
that some Palestinian masters of mass murder have themselves had affairs
with vulnerable young Palestinian girls in order to compromise their
"honor" and to season them, pimp-style, for martyrdom. Hard
facts are hard to come by, anecdotes abound.
Reem al-Riyashi a mother of two
who was married to a Hamas terrorist is alleged to have had an affair with
another one. Phyllis Chesler wrote that
Allegedly,
al-Riyashi's husband was a Hamas activist and her lover was a Hamas operative
who had carried out the love affair with the express purpose of recruiting her.
According to the British Sunday Times, al-Riyashi's husband himself drove her
to the border crossing.
Mrs. al-Riyashi was given an
option, redeem the family honor by blowing herself up and killing lots of
non-believing Jews and most likely get subsidies from Islamic charities for her
children that she left behind or be killed in disgrace without subsidies for
her children. Phyllis wrote regarding her being seduced into suicide:
This
is unbelievable--and tragic. Had these men threatened to kill her children if
she refused this mission? I would not be surprised.
It is interesting that in the
video made by Ms. Riyashi she said that "she loved her children so
much". Would someone who loved their children kill themselves and
leave their children without a mother? Or would she kill herself in order
to protect them?
The
only Palestinian women who extremist Palestinian men appear to respect are the
ones who martyr themselves. Doesn’t do
the women much good when they’re dead.
Women may differ from men in rights but they do not differ from men in
duties according to Hamas member of the Palestinian Parliament Yunis Al-Astal. Those duties include Jihad.
Some religions portray women are
as sources of evil temptation. This has led to rules forcing women to
cover themselves. Olivier Guitta in an article titled Veiled
Threat (frontpagemag.com 4/4/05) wrote:
Most
Muslim French women who wear the hijab are forced to do so by their family or
because of pressure from the community. In many testimonies young women have
stated that they were wearing it not to be "bothered" by the men in
their community. There were multiple cases in the suburbs of Paris of gang
rapes of women who were too "Westernized".
Olivier Guitta wrote: (Leaving No
French Islamist Behind, The Weekly Standard (5/20/05)
An official report dealing with religious expression
in French schools has become a must read for anyone interested in the
Islamization of France. Written under the auspices of the top national
education official, Jean-Pierre Obin, the report was not initially released by
the Ministry of Education. But it was leaked on the Internet in March and now
can be found in its entirety at www.proche-orient.info and other websites...
The
biggest social change entailed by this Islamization, Obin reports, is a
deterioration in the position of females. Teenage girls are forbidden to play
sports and are constantly watched by an informal religious police made up of
young men, sometimes their own younger brothers. Makeup, skirts, and
form-fitting dresses are forbidden; dark, loose trousers are the strongly
recommended attire. To go to the blackboard in front of a class, some Muslim
girls put on long coats. Often, they are forced to wear the headscarf, or
hijab, and forbidden to frequent coed movie theaters, community centers, and
gyms, or even to go out at all on weekends...
Inevitably,
the report records rampant "Judeophobia," to use the term in vogue in
France. Among even the youngest students, the term "Jew" has become
the all-purpose insult. .. Even more serious is the increase in assaults on
Jews or those presumed to be Jewish. Usually the assailants are Muslim
students. Sometimes the victims are, too: One Turkish high-school girl was
relentlessly harassed and bullied at school because her country is an ally of
Israel...
As
for history, Muslim students object to its Judeo-Christian bias and blatant
falsehood. They loudly protest the Crusades, and commonly deny the Holocaust.
Under the circumstances, many teachers censor their own material, often
skipping entire topics, like the history of Israel or of Christianity. The
report cites one teacher who keeps a Koran on his desk for reference whenever a
thorny issue arises. It cites Muslim students who refuse to use the plus sign
in mathematics because it looks like a cross. Field trips, especially to
churches, cathedrals, and monasteries, are boycotted...
Summing
up, Obin explains his disturbing findings as the result primarily of
indoctrination orchestrated over years by international Muslim organizations.
From an early age, students are taught what to think, what to believe, and to
regard their school teachers as liars. The goal of the radical groups seeking
to segregate Muslim communities and denouncing integration as oppression, Obin
writes, is to take the Muslim residents of France out of the French nation and
make them think of themselves as part of the international Muslim community.
USA Today reported on September 14, 01
that a Muslim rebel group in Kashmir, Lashkar-e-Jabar, has threatened to shoot
women if they do not wear veils. Lashkar-e-Jabar sprayed acid on
two unveiled women in the month prior to making the threat. Adriana
Stuijt in her article "International Terrorist
Support Groups Thrive in Belgium and Netherlands" (Monday, Sept. 24, 2001 Newsmax.com) writes how:
Moslem
gangs in Holland organize attacks against non-Muslims in shopping centers and
at sporting and cultural events. During these organized attacks, in which
youths spray people with insecticide and beat them with batons, the youths
specially target ethno-European girls and women, demanding that they wear head
scarves and start obeying the strict Muslim shari'a laws which require total
subservience to males.
Kafir, a pseudonym for the
founder of anti-Jihad
wrote in an email on July 28, 02 that:
Muslim
immigrants are causing a lot of trouble here in Sweden, just like they are
causing trouble around the world. In order to protect the family's
"honor", many have killed their daughters/sisters because they
"behave like whores", i.e. like western women...They have gang-raped
Swedish girls (who they consider "whores"), when our Liberal Party
held a demonstration against anti-semitism they were attacked by Moslems who
took their placards and used them to beat up the people who had protested
against anti-semitism.
Muslims have imported honor
killings into the rest of Europe and even into the United States. Olivier
Guitta in his article Veield Threat wrote:
the
number of "honor crimes" - where women are attacked by relatives for
"shaming" the family name -- has increased alarmingly in Europe in
the past year. For instance, according to the German TV Station ARD, ten
"honor crimes" have been committed in Germany since summer 2004.
A horrible recent one has scandalized German opinion. A Turkish Muslim
woman, a 23-year-old mother of one, was gunned down at a Berlin bus stop. The
presumed culprits are three of her brothers who repeatedly threatened her. For
them, she led an "un-Islamic" life because she had stopped wearing
the hijab and was outgoing. On top of this horrific murder, the reactions among
some Turks living in Germany are disgusting. For instance, a male student of
Turkish origin at a high school located near the scene of the crime, said,
"She deserved what she got -- the whore lived like a German."
Another
country where "honor crimes" have been rising and publicized is the
Netherlands. In the past weeks, three "honor crimes" have been
committed. A Dutch politician of Somali descent, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, has been very
vocal on the issue. Hirsi Ali co-wrote with Theo Van Gogh the documentary
critical of Islam, over which Van Gogh was brutally murdered by a Moroccan
Islamist. She now lives in hiding, protected by bodyguards because of the
numerous death treats she received, including one from Van Gogh's killer. She
explains that most times the killers in honor crimes are the youngest males in
the family, often minors. Indeed because they face a lesser jail sentence, it
is quite convenient for the family. Therefore, Hirsi Ali suggests that the
whole family be judged for the crime, at least for complicity. Also according
to her, "honor crimes" should be included in a new Dutch
anti-terrorist law.
Do
not think for a moment this only happens in Europe. In April 2004, in
Scottsville, NY, a Turkish immigrant savagely murdered his wife and nearly
killed his daughters because they had been molested by his brother. He
allegedly told investigators that: "I was concerned that my family's honor
was taken".
Bishop Dolli, an Episcopal
bishop from Sudan was in Washington in the week of Oct 15-19 2001 at the
invitation of the Institute on Religion and Democracy. He attempted to warn
Congress and anyone else who would listen of the dangers to his country and the
United States posed by Islam, especially in its militant form. He said
that in the Sudan, all women, whether Muslim or not, are forced to wear the
black chador and veil.
Dennis Bennett, executive
director of Seattle-based Servant's
Heart told WorldNetDaily (3/4/02) about the oppression of non-Muslim women
in the Sudan. He said:
Villagers
in several areas of the northeast Upper Nile region say that when women are
captured by government forces they are asked: "Are you Christian or
Muslim?"
Women
who answer "Muslim" are set free, but typically soldiers gang-rape
those who answer "Christian" then cut off their breasts and leave
them to die as an example for others.
According to WorldnetDaily (Islamists
Rape 100 Women in Attack, 3/20/04)
Arab
militias backed by Khartoum's radical Muslim regime raped more than 100 women
in an attack in western Sudan.
Mukesh
Kapila, the United Nations coordinator for Sudan, told the BBC 75 people were
killed in the attack on the village of Tawila two weeks ago.
"All
houses as well as a market and a health center were completely looted and the
market burnt," he said. "Over 100 women were raped, six in front of
their fathers who were later killed."
The
attack, in which a further 150 women and 200 children were abducted, was one of
many as village after village was razed by the militias, Kapila said.
Sudan's
cleric-backed National Islamic Front regime in the Arab and Muslim north
declared a jihad on the mostly Christian and animist south in 1989. Since 1983,
an estimated 2 million people have died from war and related famine. About 5
million have become refugees.
As
WorldNetDaily reported, Khartoum government forces also are alleged to have
gang-raped women, sometimes forcing them to deny their Christian faith or be
killed.
According to an Amnesty
International Report of July 19, 2004, Arab militias in Sudan are gang-raping
and abducting girls as young as eight and women as old as 80, systematically
killing, torturing, or using them as sex slaves.
"When
we tried to escape they shot more children," one woman identified only as
A. told Amnesty researchers.
"They
raped women, I saw many cases of Janjaweed raping women and girls. They are
happy when they rape. They sing when they rape and they tell us that we are
just slaves and that they can do with us how they wish."
Phylis Chesler wrote an article
(Feminism's
Deafening Silence, Frontpagemag.com 7/26/04) about the horrific abuses of
Islam in the Sudan. Islamic law allows such behavior toward women
captured in Jihad. (see Who
Was Muhammad). Botros, a man labeled as Islam's enemy number 1
when asked
about Muhammad's sex life replied:
In short, according to Islam’s scriptures, Muhammad
was, well, a pervert: he used to suck on the tongues of young boys and
girls; he dressed in women’s clothing (and received “revelations” in this
state); he had at least 66 “wives”; Allah supposedly sent him special
“revelations” allowing him to have sex with his step-daughter-in-law, Zainab,
and to have more wives than the rest of Muslims; he constantly dwelt and
obsessed over sex—his first question to a “talking donkey” was if the latter
“liked sex”—and he painted a very lurid and lusty picture of paradise,
where, according to some top Muslim interpreters, Muslims will be “busy
deflowering virgins” all day; and he had sex with a dead woman. There is
more, but why dwell on such shameful things? Again, I stress, it is not I
who maintains this but rather Islam’s own books—much, of course, not known
to non-Arabic readers, as they have never been translated (except, as I
understand, by some heroes at a website called Jihad Watch).
When asked to pinpoint some
scriptures Botros replied:
According to the Koran alone (33:37), Allah made it
legitimate for Muhammad to marry his own daughter-in-law, whom he lusted
after. A few verses later (33:50), Allah made it legitimate for Muhammad to
have sex with any woman who “offered” herself to him—a privilege which was
allowed for Muhammad alone. Indeed, these “revelations” which granted
Muhammad all his sexual desires were so frequent that his child-wife, Aisha,
would often say to Muhammad, “My, your Lord is always quick to fulfill your
desires!” And to his faithful followers, Muhammad permitted all the infidel
woman that they could capture, as concubines (Koran 4:3). All this is from
the Koran alone; it would take several hours just to go over the hadiths and
sira accounts dealing with the sexual perversions of Muhammad. In fact, I
have devoted numerous episodes dealing specifically with Muhammad’s sexual
depravities—including his sleeping with a dead woman, have a fetish for the
smell of menstruation blood, dressing in women’s clothing, and so forth.
(Jihad Watch has translated many of these.)
Robert Spencer in an article
titled Muslim
Target (frontpagemag.com 6/14/05) wrote:
The
Qur’an permits Muslim men to have intercourse with their wives and their slave
girls: “Forbidden to you are ... married women, except those whom you own as
slaves” (Sura 4:23 -24). The slave girls are understood to be the wives of men
slain in battle by the warriors of jihad. The Islamic legal manual ‘Umdat
al-Salik, which carries the endorsement of Al-Azhar University, the most
respected authority in Sunni Islam, stipulates: “When a child or a woman is
taken captive, they become slaves by the fact of capture, and the woman’s
previous marriage is immediately annulled.”
Why? So that
they are free to become the concubines of their captors.
England's Telegraph Group Ltd.
wrote a report (March 15, 2002) that quotes Saudi newspapers to the effect that
scuffles broke out between firemen and members of the Commission for the
Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice when the latter tried to keep the
girls inside a burning school in Mecca. Fifteen girls were killed as they
stampeded to escape from the blazing building in the holy Muslim city.
The Telegraph reported that a civil defense officer said that he saw three
members of the religious police "beating young girls to prevent them from
leaving the school because they were not wearing the abaya."
According to Jonathan Foreman of the New York Post 3/25/02 the religious police
refused to allow firemen into the burning school either because that would have
amounted to impermissible mixing of the sexes. This story was also
reported by the BBC online on March 15, 02.
Islam brainwashes women into
believing that they deserve to be beaten. According to a survey carried
out by the Anatolia News Agency. According to Turkishpress.com
10/22/04
39
percent of women in Turkey believe their husbands are right to beat them for at
least one of the following reasons: burning the meal, disputing the opinion of
their husbands, spending money unnecessarily, neglecting the children or
refusing to have sex.
In
rural areas, 57 percent of women said their spouses had a right to batter them
in at least one of the above circumstances.
Arguing
with the husband topped the list of justified reasons for domestic violence,
followed by too much spending and the negligence of children.
The following story about Ms.
Kola Boof is from WorldnetDaily.com. To view the original article click here.
On Sept 26, after Kola Boof wrote a book called Long
Train to the Redeeming Sin: Stories About African Women Sudanese diplomat
Gamal Ibrahim issued a fatwa. calling for Kola Boof to be beheaded, after a
Shariah court in London's Islamic community declared her guilty of
"deliberately and maliciously bearing false witness against religious
sentiment and of willing treason against her Arab Muslim father's people and
against her nation, the Sudan."
Kola Boof was born in Omdurman,
which is part of north Khartoum, in the Sudan. She was about 10 to 12
years of age – there are no records of her birth – when her Egyptian father and
Somali mother were slaughtered in their backyard in 1978 by Arab Murahleen
bandits for speaking out too openly about the coming Arab regime.
She said she is familiar with
the kind of atrocities recounted by ex-slave Frances Bok, who stood with
President Bush as he signed the Sudan Peace Act on Oct. 21.
I
witnessed the kind of raids he's talking about, where Arab men will come in on
horses in the little villages, and they'll shoot all the men in the head, and
then they'll kidnap the children and women, and you never see those people
again.
The Khartoum government is paying for these
militia she maintains, "no matter what they say. Everybody there
knows."
As a child, she said she
witnessed a woman with six daughters who could not bear a son be rolled up in
her dowry carpet and burned alive after gasoline was poured on her.
After the fatwa was issued
against her Kola Boof said:
As
a black African woman, I cannot and will not be silent as black men in Arab
nations are chained up like dogs to the back doors of Muslim households and
fed, literally, from doggie bowls. I will not be silent as African women
are raped, mutilated and mentally demeaned by sadistic human beings calling
themselves children of Allah. I will not be silent as the number of little
black boys who are sodomized by their Arab masters continues to soar, while
even worse atrocities attend the lives of little black girls.
According to the National Review
Dec 23, 02, Osama Bin Laden told Kola Boof in a 1988 telephone conversation:
If
I had the time to waste, I would slit your throat myself.
On Thursday Nov. 7 02, a handful of
demonstrators gathered on Boof's behalf in front of the Sudanese Embassy in
Washington, D.C., and outside the United Nations building in New York City.
Publicists for the event included Sudan
activist Maria Sliwa, who said only about a dozen showed up.
Intimidation by the Sudanese
Embassy and by people claiming to be members of Louis Farrakhan's Nation of
Islam scared away others who wanted to protest
Another demonstration, in Los
Angeles, had to be canceled, Boof said, "because the organizer was so
terrified about Farrakhan's people calling her that she pulled out."
The belief that women are
sources of evil temptation has encouraged the widespread practice of female
circumcision. Once
every 15 seconds another woman has surgery performed on her clitoris
so that she won't be able to be sexually aroused and so will be less likely to
commit adultery or premarital sex. David Horowitz gave a
lecture at the University of California Santa Barbara said:
“One hundred forty
million Muslim girls in Muslim countries have their genitals sliced off
every year so they can’t enjoy sex,”
According to the shafi school of Islamic law,
which is followed by Somalis (among others), it is an
obligation to “circumcise” girls. In an article titled Islam's
Hatred of the Clitoris (FrontPageMag.com
October 19, 2001) Jamie Glazov wrote:
The
Muslims are the principal religious group that practice female circumcision. In
Egypt, for instance, 97 percent of women are circumcised. Their clitorises are
amputated. In countries like Sudan, meanwhile, the women-haters are not so
kind: all the women’s external genital organs are completely removed. In a
savagery called infibulation, the clitoris, the two major outer lips (labia
majora) and the two minor inner lips (labia minora) are amputated.
Nawal
El Saadawi has documented these horrifying realities in The
Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World. She demonstrates
how the violence of female circumcision is performed on girls anywhere from the
ages of one month to puberty. Usually, it is done around the age of seven or
eight. Anesthetics are never used. The child is pinned down by several women,
while one of them attacks.
In England
approximately 500 girls a year have their genitals mutilated (frontpage
magazine 3/20/09). Jamie Glazov wrote:
The reality: five hundred girls’ genitals are mutilated
every year in Britain. Not one arrest. Not one incarceration.
You think protecting little girls’ genitals is more important nowadays
than protecting oneself from the charge of being Islamophobic? Think again.
Islamic women haters, therefore, are reigning free in Britain. Enraged
at even the thought of female sexuality, the self-appointed guardians of
Islamic purity make sure to obliterate the clitorises of little girls before
the girls begin to get the concept of their own human agency and the magic
of love. In a fascistic effort to deny women even the possibility of
personal happiness, individuality and sexual satisfaction, these mutilators
start cutting girls at the age of seven or eight—before their menstrual
periods begin—so that their sexuality will be amputated forever.
According to
Inez Laufer:
At least 40% of the migrant
girls whose parents come from mutilating ethnic countries and groups are
submitted to FGM. Here in Europe. They are sent to the countries of origin
for that purpose, especially during holidays, or get their genitalia cut off
at their homes by imported mutilators.
Within the high-risk groups, for instance Muslim immigrants from Somalia, it
is still worse: The average of mutilated girls here in Europe ranges as high
as 70 to 80%. Hege Storhaug from the Norwegian organisation “Human Rights
Services,” who managed to gain deeper insight to what is going on in the
Somali communities in Norway, brings it to the point by stating that we have
to deal with “a new dimension of organized crime”.
Islamic tradition,
for instance, records the Prophet Muhammad emphasizing that circumcising girls
is “a preservation of honor for women.” A legal manual of the Shafi'i school of
Islamic jurisprudence, 'Umdat al-Salik, which is endorsed by Al-Azhar
University of Cairo -- the oldest and most prestigious university in the Islamic
world -- states that circumcision is obligatory for both boys and girls. (‘Umdat al-Salik,
e4.3). Sheikh Al-Azhar
[Grand Sheikh Sayyad Tantawi]
president of the largest and oldest
Islamic University in the world has
said, according to Geneive Abdo, author of No God But God: Egypt and the Triumph
of Islam, that female circumcision is “a laudable practice that [does] honor to
women.” When David Littman denounced female genital mutilation, the
penalty of stoning for adultery and child marriage as sanctioned by Islamic law,
Egypt, Pakistan and Iran
angrily protested.
Council President Doru-Romulus Costea cooperated by banning
discussion of religion from debates by the UN Human Rights council. (Spencer
6/25/08) So much for women's rights.
In another article Sexual Amputation
and Silence (frontpagemag.com
12/2/04) Jamie Glazov explained the motivation for female circumcision as
follows:
The
impulse behind this savagery is clear: the hatred of women and the
terrifying fear of their sexuality. Demonizing female sexual desire and
pleasure -- and annihilating it -- becomes the priority. To successfully
achieve female genital mutilation, therefore, the mutilators have to legitimize
and institutionalize it. As a result, they socially construct the pathological
ideology that a girl’s genital area is “dirty” and, therefore, unacceptable. In
Egypt,
an uncircumcised girl is considered nigsa (unclean). The way she becomes
non-nigsa is to have her clitoris sliced off. In Sudan, the term used for getting
rid of the clitoris is tahur -- which means “cleansing” or “purification.”..
female
genital mutilation produces the oxygen that Islamic fundamentalism needs
to breathe. It helps militant Islam keep intact the foundation on which its
life depends: the subjugation and enslavement of women under a rigid system of
gender apartheid...
Any
hint of opposition to mutilation is consistently met with furious
resistance from Islamic clerics, who fervently emphasize that female genital
mutilation is Allah’s will and point to the Prophet’s sanctioning of
female circumcision in the hadiths to prove it. Umdat al-Salik, e4.3,
therefore, a manual of Shafi'i Islamic law, which is endorsed by
Al-Azhar University of Cairo, Egypt (the oldest and most prestigious university
in the Islamic world), states that circumcision is obligatory for both men
and women.
The
prominent Egyptian Sheikh Mustafa Al-Azhari is one of the heroes of the
pro-mutilation movement. He has led the way by insisting, among other things,
that the attempt to stop female genital mutilation is a Western conspiracy
designed to spread promiscuity among Muslims. For him, the Egyptian media’s
attempt to stop female circumcision is a “crime.” Surgical specialist at
Al-Azhar University, Dr. Muhammad Rif'at Al-Bawwab, meanwhile, puts it more
simply: the pleasure that women derive from the clitoris is simply just
unnatural and abnormal -- and leads to moral degradation.
In Denmark, Imam Mustafa
Abdullahi Aden said that female circumcision was a religious duty. The
New York Sun writes that (11/14/02):
He
said:"It is good for girls to be circumcised. It is a sign that they
are true Muslims." He recommended a method which involves the
removal of both the clitoris and labia.
Robert Spencer wrote that two
million women a year die of sepsis or loss of blood because of circumcision.(Muslim
Target, Frontpagemag.com 6/14/05)
Ironically Islamic theology which
preaches that women are trouble, makes women into an evil temptation to kill
the infidel, by preaching that men who die in Jihad or holy war will have
virgins in heaven. In the terror guide used by the hijackers who crashed
planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, the following
was written:
Also, do not seem confused or show signs of nervous
tension. Be happy, optimistic calm because you are heading for a deed that God
loves and will accept [as a good deed]. It will be the day, God willing, you
spend with the women of paradise...Know that the gardens of paradise are
waiting for you in all their beauty, and the women of paradise are waiting,
calling out, "Come hither, friend of God." They have dressed in their
most beautiful clothing.
In a memo in Mohammed
Atta's luggage (the pilot of the first plane that hit the World Trade
Center (New York Post Oct 3, 01 p38)) the following was written:
Apply the rules of the prisoners of war. Take
them prisoner and kill them as God said. The nymphs are calling out to
you, come over here, companion of Allah.
I'm not sure if the terror guide and the Memo are one
and the same as I got these quotes from different papers. Since there
were differences in the text given by the two papers I have listed both of
them.
This use of sex
by Islam to incite violence was understood by Thomas Aquinas who in Summa
Contra Gentiles, described Islam as a false and dangerous religion, which
combines truths with "fables," twists the Old and New Testaments into
a "fabrication" of Mohammed's own, and seduces "people by
promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh urges
us."
Yet Muslims see
themselves as moral and the West as corrupt when it comes to women. One
example of this outlook was the reaction of Muslims to a newspaper article
about an upcoming Miss World pageant to be held Dec. 7 02 in the Nigerian
capital, Abuja. Muslim groups say beauty pageants promotes sexual
promiscuity and indecency. A journalist, Isioma Daniel tried to defend
the pageant and wrote in the article:
What would (the prophet) Muhammad think? In all
honesty, he would probably have chosen a wife from among them (the
contestants).
Come to think of
it he probably would have chosen all of them to be part of his harem but Isioma
didn't write that, I did. It's lucky I'm not a reporter in Nigeria.
In response to Isioma's article, violent demonstrators in the northern city of
Kaduna burned churches and rampaged through the streets. Angry Muslims
shouting "Down with Beauty" and "Allahu Akbar", rioted and
stabbed and set fire to bystanders. About 175 people were killed
and injured. This continued until hundreds of soldiers were
deployed to restore calm and enforce a dusk-to-dawn curfew. (fresnoBee.com
World News 11/22/02) The pageant then moved to London after which
some Muslims in Britain also called for the event to be canceled. Sajjad
Khan, of the Islamic Liberation Party in Britain, told British Broadcasting
Corp. radio on 11/23/02.(New York Post 11/24/02)
It is wrong that it should happen in Britain, in
Nigeria or in any country. I think the whole idea of having a beauty
contest anywhere would be against many forward-thinking people of whatever
faith and whatever ideology.
On 11/27/02 the deputy
governor of a largely Islamic state in Nigeria, Mahamoud Shinkafi
announced that Muslims had permission to kill Isioma. He said:
The
blood of Isioma Daniel can be shed
Part of the irony of all of this is
that the Koran describes Muhammad as having more than a dozen wives and
concubines and as having sex with a slave and of marrying a 9 year old girl by
the name of Aisha.
Tragically the feminist left who should be
defending the rights of women to show of their beautify is opposed to that.
Perhaps many of these women are unattractive and jealous of attractive women.
Jamie Glazov in his book United in Hate wrote about radical feminists who
despise
the idea of women's bodies being appreciated in any way
by males. Males' arousal by, and adoration of, the female physique is
seen only negatively: as the objectification, exploitation, oppression, and
devaluation of women.
Glazov wrote:
At the "International Day of Emergency Protest" in San
Francisco on June 5, 2004, for instance, some female antiwar protesters
veiled themselves like Muslim women, while others dressed as terrorists.
A beauty pageant was held
in Baghdad on April 9 2006. Silva Shahakian, an Iraqi Christian, received
the title of Miss Iraq when the initial winner stepped down after receiving
death threats and two other runners-up also bowed out, a person familiar with
the event said.
Since receiving the crown, Shahakian has been lying low,
fearing she will be targeted, he said. The pageant was held April 9 in a
Baghdad social club and the initial winner, Tamar Goregian, gave back the crown
four days later, he said.
According to an article titled Hating a
Woman's Face, (Washington Times 10/18/04) in Baghdad
Islamist
extremists are targeting the city's universities by threatening and even attacking
female students who wear Western-style fashions, setting off bombs on campuses
and demanding that classes be segregated by sex....
Pamphlets
found on campus declared: "If the boy students don't separate from the
girl students, we will explode the college. Any girl student who does not wear
a veil, we will burn her face with chemicals."
Since
Muhammad had sex with a 9 year old Muslims think that's OK. Age, or lack
thereof, is no hindrance to marriage under Islam, according to Ahmad Al-Mu'bi,
an officiant for marriages from Saudi Arabia who says sex at 9 is fine.
According to a video of the Saudi official recorded and
translated by MEMRI, the Middle East Media Research Institute, Al-Mu'bi has
confirmed that marriage contracts are appropriate for girls as young as age 1.
And he said the model for marriage continues to be Muhammad, who married one of
his wives when she was but 6.
The video comes from a
broadcast on LBC Television on June 19, according to the MEMRI report.
The
book Saudi Arabia Exposed exposes some of the bizarreness of Muslim
morality. According to the book:
“When they lived in Florida preparing their attack,
some of the Saudi hijackers had draped a cloth over a framed print of a woman
in their room, their Wahhabi upbringing making them despise this image of the
human form. They also frequently hung out on the balcony overlooking
their apartment pool, eyeing up the sunbathing girls in bikinis.
Other of the hijackers frequented strip clubs in Boston, made phone calls to
escort services, and paid prostitutes for sex...”
Young Saudis are given to saying that screwing
Western women is not religiously forbidden in Islam, because, since they are
"infidels," they do not come into the moral scheme of things.
The Muslim world
is so insane that although it engages in horrific oppression of women, King of
Saudi Arabia fired the minister of information because a cartoon passed the
censors in which Mickey Mouse gave Minnie a little peck. (Serge Trifkovic, The
Sword and the Prophet).
Beauty is not the only thing
that enrages Jihadists. Love does as well. Walid Phares in an
article titled Valentine's
Day Enrages Jihadists (Frontpagemagazine.com 2/14/04) wrote:
"Al
Gharam mamn’uh, al Gharam kufr," screamed the self-declared cleric in al
Ansar’s chat room this Friday. “Love is forbidden, love is infidel” -- said the
online Fatwa about the “legitimacy of loving and being in love.”
A weekend before Valentine's Day, Jihadi souls
were not questioning the “commercialization” of romance, but inquiring about
the ban on “being in love.” The “scholars” said human love is evil. The simple
feeling of being attracted to or in love with someone is a terrifying sin if it
is committed outside of dogma. And it warrants serious punishment.
“Al Hub” (basic love) -- said one of the scholars online -- “is not
permissible outside commitment to Jihad.” The subject was new, overwhelming to
the al Qaida sympathizers who were dodging the “decadent feeling.”
There is hope though. Walid Phares writes:
On
the Internet, Arab, Persian, Kurdish, Aramaic and other love and music chat
rooms attract ten times fold the Ansar-crowded rooms. There, you read and hear
quality love discussions; not decadence, but the early stages of a romantic
revolution.
Lebanon’s TV has taken the freedom for love to sophisticated artistic
expressions. With shows seen by millions, the LBCI has been shaking off the
fundamentalist quarters of the region. On al Jazeera, clerics are
horrified by the scenes. It is a nightmare to see young Saudi men singing the
beauty of human love when their Jihadi counterparts were assassinating Iraqi
young women in Falluja for not wearing the Hijab...
Valentine's may be infidel in the eyes of the
Jihadists, but it has many more faithful followers among the peoples of this unlucky
region. The terrorists are not intimidated by death, but they are terrorized by
love.
In an article titled Saudi Arabia bans
Valentine's Day, Deborah Weiss wrote: (frontpagemag
2/15/2008)
America’s “friend” in the War on Terror, Saudi Arabia, banned Valentine’s
Day. The Commission on the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice,
otherwise known as the Religious Police, even banned the color red on
February 14th because of its association with the holiday.
Buying, selling, wearing, or displaying anything red including red roses,
clothes, wrapping paper, teddy bears and gift boxes were all illegal on this
holiday for those in love. A few days prior to Valentine’s Day, flower shops
and other stores were warned that they must remove all red items from their
shelves. The Religious Police made it clear that they were going to monitor
the stores on Valentine’s Day to ensure they were not shelving anything
displaying the forbidden color. The holiday is illegal because it is
considered “un-Islamic”. Government authorities let it be known that they
were not going to tolerate any public displays of affection on February
14th. Though they claimed that Valentine’s Day promotes prohibited relations
between unmarried men and women, public expressions of affection between
married couples on that date was equally prohibited.
Jamie Glazov in an article titled Hating Valentines wrote:
the Saudis have announced that,
starting the week of Valentine’s and until February 15 (2010), it will
be illegal for a merchant to sell any item that is red, or that in any
way hints of being connected to Valentine’s Day... Iran’s “morality” police
order shops to remove heart-and-flower decorations and images of couples
embracing on this day — and anytime around this day. In Pakistan, the
student wing of the fundamentalist Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami has called
for a complete ban on Valentine’s Day celebrations. Khalid Waqas Chamkani, a
leader in the party, calls it a “shameful day.”
Jamie Glazov in his book United in Hate wrote:
The Muslim world reacts violently on each and every
Valentine's Day. On February 10 2006, for instance, activists of the
radical Kashmiri Islamic group Dukhtaran-e-Millat (Daughters of the
Community) went on a rampage in Srinagar, the main city of the Indian
portion of Kashmir. Some two dozen black-veiled Muslim women stormed
gift and stationery shops, burning Valentine's Day cards and posters showing
couples together...The Iranian despotism, meanwhile, has ordered shops to
remove heart and flower decorations and images of couples embracing.
In Pakistan, the student wing of the fundamentalist Islamic party
Jammat-e-Islami has called for a ban on Valentine's Day celebrations.
Khalid Waqas Chamkani, a leader in the party, calls it a "shameful day."
Valentine's Day is a "shameful day" for these Muslims because female
sexuality and the female herself are considered shameful.
Uncontrolled love is considered sinful.
The Daily News reported on April 14, 2009 that:
A Taliban firing squad killed a couple for trying to elope, shooting them
with AK-47s in front of a crowd in a militant-controlled region. The
two had hoped to travel to Iran, which borders their home province of Nimroz,
but their parents sent villagers to bring them home, said Sadiq Chakhansori,
the chief of the provincial council. Once they were back home in the remote
district of Khash Rod, riflemen shot them Monday.
It's hard to understand why they thought things would be any better in Iran.
Maybe they
thought the Iranians wouldn't know they eloped.
Perhaps the greatest abuse of Islam towards women is turning them into
extremist suicide bombers. According to Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir,
who has interviewed bin Laden, there is a ready supply of female jihadists in
his country alone who would be thrilled to help al Qaeda. (Veiled
Threat)
"Our women are more extremist than the
men," he said in a recent magazine interview. "There are hundreds
here."
An Egyptian Lawyer Nagla Al-Imam Suggested that
Arab Men Should Sexually Harass Israeli Women and said:
"leave the land so we won't rape you. These two things
are equal."
Further Reading:
The
Violent Oppression of Women in Islam by Robert Spencer and Phyllis Chesler
It's Time to Take the Campus Back by Phyllis Chesler
started 3/21/04
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