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.

    A few years after Shariah courts were allowed in Britain Paul Cooper wrote:

 Beginning in 2007 the UK government said that Sharia courts operate as arbitration panels and their judgments are legally binding.

So what has a few years of Sharia given to the Brits? Well, for starters an article in Forbes Magazine this week pointed out that in 2008 the UK Independent did a study and found that there were around 17,000 honor attacks on young girls and women a year by Muslims holding up Sharia ideals. This �honor violence� included kidnappings for forced marriages (girls as young as 11), sexual abuse and murder.

�These girls often are raped by their much older husbands, who may also use the marriage to immigrate to Europe, continuing the abusive treatment of their brides there as well. Usually, too, the daughters of such couples are kept at home, forbidden to live the lives of Western women, and in turn, married off themselves�and so the chain continues. And these are often the luckier ones.� � Forbes

This type of treatment of young women is really a form of modern slavery. It is happening all over Europe and even in the United States in numbers far worse than we probably would imagine. A couple of human rights organizations in America recently did a studying showing 40% of Southeast Asian women in the Boston area have been abused by such �honor violence�.

    British endorsement of Shariah is not necessary for Shariah to be enforced.  When a Muslim woman married a Christian man her parents were terrorized by other Muslims.  From an Islamic perspective it's OK for a Muslim man to marry a Christian woman but not the other way around.  According to the Daily Mail:

The so-called 'honour' retribution has included  smashed windows at their Coventry home, vandalised cars and death threats.

< Mr Parvez says he has received numerous death threats and has spent hundreds of pounds installing security cameras around his house.
 

He has now stopped going to mosque and says he may be forced to flee the city with his wife Shameem Akhtar, 55, three sons Mohammed, 17, Haider, 28, Gulam, 30, and daughters Muqadas, 26 and Musarat, 19.

Mr Parvez says he has received numerous death threats and has spent hundreds of pounds installing security cameras around his house. ..he may be forced to flee the city with his wife Shameem Akhtar, 55, three sons Mohammed, 17, Haider, 28, Gulam, 30, and daughters Muqadas, 26 and Musarat, 19.

    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.  One would think that the Muslim attitude toward infidel women would depend on whether the women were pro or anti-Muslim.  Shockingly even women who are pro-Muslim and who support the Palestinian cause are victimized by Muslims.  Steve Plaut wrote:

The verbal and physical abuse of Western women at the hands of the Palestinian �freedom fighters� they came to support have been reported before. A series of articles in the left-wing pro-Palestinian Ha�aretz documented the rapes of Western solidarity supporters by the terrorists they came to serve. According to Haaretz: �One of the more prominent Umm Salmuna activists � a village south of Bethlehem, long entrenched in a battle against the West Bank separation fence � is suspected of the attempted rape of an American peace activist who had been residing in the village as part of her support of the local protest.�  Local Palestinians then tried to cover up the incident and threatened the victim.  A local terrorist named Omar Alladin (that is his real name) raped and molested a series of American women, including one who was a Muslim American.  Curiously, one of the few anti-Israel groups to report the incident was a blog run by Arab lesbians.

Numerous other leftist Western women who have come to the West Bank to protest Israel�s security fence and to confront Israeli soldiers and police have also been sexually abused and molested by the very Palestinians they came to support.  A leftist local blogger reports that these Western women are raped by the Palestinians �day after day, night after night.�

The embarrassing secrets of Palestinian molestations of their Western solidarity supporters are coming out of the closet.  The radical Left has been hiding the reports of sexual abuse, lest they blemish the terrorist cause. In a report published by one radical activist: �Roni Aloni Sedovnik, a feminist activist, penned an article in News1 � an independent website run by respected investigative reporter Yoav Yitzchak � under the heading �The Left�s Betrayal of Female Peace Activists Who were Sexually Assaulted.�  She goes on to describe the molestation as: �A dark secret that threatens to smash the basic ideological values upon which the demand to end the occupation of the Territories rests.�

Aloni Sedovnik stressed that these are not isolated incidents, but an ongoing general pattern of abusive behavior by Palestinians against the very Western women who have come to support them.  Sedovnik also accused radical Israeli feminists of sweeping the information about the abuses under the rug, lest it diminish world support for the Palestinian cause beloved by those feminists.

According to the local leftist blogger cited above:

It is not a matter of rape to satisfy lust. They are done systematically in order to impregnate the girl, and then to marry her, after she converts to Islam. Of course, we know about this method from girls who underwent a similar process inside Israel and escaped to Europe, but it is hard to escape from the [Palestinian] territories.  Sometimes these women, some of whom are already older women, are not allowed to leave their homes unaccompanied, in order to prevent their escape. If someone doubts my words�please, check the statistics for entries and departures, and you will discover that a large portion of female leftist activists did not leave the country. Everyone knows about it, but nobody dares to talk about it�I ran into a few Norwegian girls married to Palestinians. They are not happy. Their lives were destroyed. Their families have broken off contact with them. They have no place to return to. They are deep in the raising of children and wish to die.

Another Israeli blogger denounced the �thunderous silence� that conspired to hide the sexual abuse.

     On Dec 31, 2019 Muslim migrants raped a girl while praising Allah.  One victim of a Muslim rape gang in the UK said that her rapists would quote Quran to her, and believed their actions justified by Islam.  Religion preaches morality but Islam encourages rape.

In Iraq on Dec 2014,  Islamic State militants beheaded at least 150 women, some of them pregnant, for refusing to marry them according to Iraq�s Ministry of Human Rights.

IMaged 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.

    Phyllis Chesler wrote:

In 2009, I received an extraordinary report which documented honor killings in Pakistan. My Pakistani informant, of the SW Community Development Department, in Sind, Pakistan, sent me an unpublished paper in which he describes and explains a murderous Pakistani culture very carefully. He writes:

Women in Pakistan live in fear. They face death by shooting, burning or killing with axes if they are deemed to have brought shame on the family. They are killed for supposed �illicit� relationships, for marrying men of their choice, for divorcing abusive husbands. They are even murdered by their kin if they are raped. The truth of the suspicion does not matter � merely the allegation is enough to bring dishonor on the family and therefore justifies the slaying. The lives of millions of women in Pakistan are circumscribed by traditions which enforce extreme seclusion and submission to men. Male relatives virtually own them and punish disobedience with violence.

According to my informant, of all of the honor killings in Pakistan, most go unreported and even more go unpunished.

The isolation and fear of women living under such threats are compounded by state indifference to and complicity in women�s oppression. Police almost invariably take the man�s side in honor killings or domestic murders, and rarely prosecute the killers. Even when the men are convicted, the judiciary ensures that they usually receive a light sentence, reinforcing the view that men can kill their female relatives with virtual impunity. There are few women�s shelters, and any woman attempting to travel on her own is a target for abuse by police, strangers or male relatives hunting for her. For some women suicide appears the only means of escape.

He continues: �In [Pakistani] communities an �honor killing� is considered a just punishment, not a crime. This view is also shared by many Pakistanis who do not belong to tribal societies.�

In these communities:

Male control does not only extend to a woman�s body and her sexual behavior but all of her behavior, including her movements, her language and her actions. In any of these areas, defiance by women translates into undermining male honor and ultimately family and community honor. Severe punishments are reported for bringing food late, for talking back or for undertaking forbidden trips, etc. A man�s honor defiled by a woman�s alleged or real sexual misdemeanor or other defiance is only partly restored by killing her. He also has to kill the man allegedly involved. Since [the woman] is murdered first, the [man] often hears about it and flees, aided by the fact that unlike the woman, he is both familiar with the world outside the house and can move freely in it. But [men] who escape will not be able to return to normal life. Nobody will give such a man shelter; he remains on the run until he and his family are ready to negotiate with the victim, the man whose honour the [man] defiled. The balance is restored by negotiating compensation for damages.

 

    Raymond Ibrahim compiled a list of the atrocities committed against women in just one month in Pakistan.

 

 

    Eleven Christian staff nurses at the Civil Hospital in Karachi were poisoned (August 2012) as punishment for drinking tea in their hostel rooms during the daylight hours of Islam's Ramadan fast.

Three of the nurses were rushed to the hospital's ICU while the remaining eight were treated at its emergency ward.

    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. 

     Hena Ahkter's last words to her mother proclaimed her innocence but it was too late for the 14 year old girl.  Her fellow villagers in Bangladesh's Shariatpur district had already decided that she was guilty of an affair with a married man.  The imam from the local mosque ordered the punishment 101 lashes.  Hena dropped to the ground at 70 lashes and was taken to the hospital where she died a week later.

     The Bangladeshi government announced a National Women Development Policy in 2011 which expands women's rights in property and education.  Jihad watch reported that:

Fazlul Huq Amini, leader of a coalition of Islamic groups called the Islami Oikya Jote, asked his followers to take to the streets to protest the policy. Amini said the Quran defines how much property a woman should inherit, and the government should not allow women more than that.

"It's against the principle of the Quran, and we'll resist it at any cost," Amini said.

Thousands of students in madrassas, or Islamic schools, carried sticks and logs as they marched the streets. Protests also took place in the southern port city of Chittagong and several other areas. Business activities ceased, and schools remained closed because of fears of violence....

    A man from Bangladesh cut off his wife's fingers because she pursued higher education without his permission.

    Honor killings by Muslims occur in India well.  In one case two mothers killed their daughters for eloping with Hindus.  Some Hindus are guilty of abuses against women as well such as dowry killings in which women are burned to death so that dowry can be obtained from another bride.

    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

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

Beat your wives if they commit sinful acts; women are captives of their husbands�Sunaan ibn Majah, 3.1851

Seek refuge from a woman, a servant and cattle�they are evils�Sunaan ibn Majah , 3.1918

Women are your prisoners, treat them well, if necessary beat them but not severely�Tirmidhi, 104

    Lisa Daftari wrote:

Based on Sharia law, the worth of a woman is half that of a man; that is only in punitive damages, or blood money. In court, the worth of a woman is nothing. She cannot testify. She cannot serve as a witness. A young girl can be married off at the age of 9, although in marriage, a woman, in most cases, cannot initiate a divorce. Even when her husband files, she can never have custody of her children; nor will she receive any alimony. Likewise, when a father leaves his children inheritance, Islamic law demands that the share of a son be double that of a daughter. Even when a father insists on dividing his assets equally, an Islamic court will rule in favor of the son after his father�s death.

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. Robert Spencer in his book The Truth About Muhammad wrote:

 as many as 75 percent of the women in prison in Pakistan are, in fact, behind bars for the crime of being a victim of rape.  Several high-profile cases in Nigeria recently have also revolved around rape accusations being turned around by Islamic authorities into charges of fornication, resulting in death sentences that were only modified after international pressure.

The Malaysian Islamic reformist group Sisters in Islam has explained that:

In Pakistan, it is reported that three out of four women in prison under its Hudud laws [these are the laws of what it forbidden and permitted by Allah himself], are rape victims. Because rape is equated with zina [unlawful sexual intercourse] under Hudud law, rape victims are required to produce four pious male witnesses. It is of course nearly impossible for the rape victims to produce the four male witnesses required to prove their allegation. Therefore their police report of rape was taken as a confession of illicit sex on their part and they were duly found guilty.

     The Daily Mail reported in August 2011 that after his daughters were raped by Gadhafi's men in Libya a father killed them because of the shame of their rape.  Now that Libya has been "liberated" from Gadhafi with the misguided help of the Obama administration Al Qaeda and other radical Muslim groups have been liberated while women are losing their liberty.

This is an excerpt from an article by Asra Nomani on honor killings in the Wall Street Journal. 16-year-old Zahra al-Azzo was jailed for being raped. (That�s right, they jailed her.)

The prison is a sort of holding facility for girls like Zahra who are at risk of being murdered by their families in a so-called honor killing. Yet there is little to protect the young women once they leave.

�One of the girls came to me, crying, the other day,� the head social worker tells Ms. Zoepf. �She wanted to go home and it�s an honor crime situation. I told her, �Try to relax here for a while because they�re going to kill you anyway when you�re released.� It sounds cruel, but I needed to calm her down, to get her to behave sensibly.��

Zahra was eventually freed from the prison in order to marry a cousin. Shortly thereafter, she was hacked to death in her apartment by her own brother�with the blessing of their parents. Zahra�s crime: �losing her virginity out of wedlock.� Her brother believed he was �washing away the shame� to the family.

The day of her murder, Ms. Zoepf chronicles, the girl�s family threw a party.

    Kainat Soomro is a 17-year-old Pakistani girl who was raped and whose family would not kill her.  That has left her family fearing for their lives. The family's home in Karachi was attacked several times times.  According to Abdul Hai, a veteran field officer for the Human Rights Commission in Pakistan Kainat is lucky: "The woman or the girl usually gets killed and the man gets away," he said. "Over 70 percent of the murdered victims are women and only 30 percent of victims of honor killings are male."  In Karachi, Kainat and her family are now sharing one room in a run-down apartment block, and they have to rely on charities to help them pay for food.  "We go hungry many nights," said Kainat's older sister.  But their fight might never pay off. A local judge has already ruled against Kainat in the case. "There is no corroborative evidence available on record. The sole testimony of the alleged rape survivor is not sufficient," the judge said in a written decision.

After a Norwegian woman was raped in Dubai and jailed for 16 months Robert Spencer wrote:

We have seen a Muslim rape victim ostracized in India; the charging of a rape victim in Pakistan with adultery; Islamic clerics in Pakistan opposing attempts to end the equating of rape with adultery; a rape victim marrying her attacker in order to avoid being shunned; another rape victim converting to Islam in order to marry her attacker for the same reason; the sentencing of a victim of gang rape in Saudi Arabia to 200 lashes; the sentencing of another victim of gang-rape, a pregnant woman, to 100 lashes; the stoning of a rape victim in Somalia; nine-year-old rape victims in Iran rejected by their families and living on the streets; a Muslim rape victim in India ordered by Islamic clerics to leave her husband; a rape victim in Jordan murdered by her uncle to cleanse the family's honor; and on and on.

That arrest is not long after an Australian woman was jailed in Dubai for being raped.

    The Maldives government outlaws the practice of any religion besides Islam and holds blasphemy trials.  It is a country where a judge ruled that four men who gang raped a 14 year old would not be imprisoned because the girl had reached the age of puberty.  Daniel Greenfield wrote that in the Maldives:

not a single rape case was taken to court in four years despite numerous reports of rapes and gang rapes. But in one year alone, 146 women were flogged for the crime of premarital sex. The Sharia dominated system was unable to get around to convicting any rapists, but it managed to convict and flog over a hundred women.

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.

   Perhaps the above commandment explains the recent news item of a man in Marseille breaking his wifes jaw after she lifted her veil when it was too hot.

   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.�

Caliph Ali said: "men, never ever obey your women, Never let them advise you on any matter concerning your life."

Caliph Umar ordered Muslims to prevent women from learning to read and write and to resist "their capricious ways".  The Caliph Umar once rebuked his wife for interrupting his conversation syaing: "You are a toy, if you are needed, we will call you."

Muhammad taught that if a woman goes outside the "devil welcomes her."  Peter Hammond wrote:

Muhammad forbade women to talk except by the permission of their husbands.  Women were forbidden to use the middle of the road, to be greeted or to greet.  The "fire worshipper", the Jew, and the pig are listed alongside the woman as things that corrupt prayer, if a woman walks in front of a man while he is praying his prayer is not acceptable.  He then has to perform ablutions again and repeat his prayer. 

This may explain why Muslims murdered a Christian woman who walked in front of them while they were praying. 

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.�

    A girl from a Muslim school in Barbados said that:

 

"Hijab is compulsory on anyone who has reached the age of puberty. Reason being to hide one�s beauty so no unfortunate events occur. Eg, rape. It�s a form of protection."  

 

    What happens if you don't want to be protected by a Hijab from rape and don't wear one?  Than you are dishonoring your family and that is a very dangerous thing to do.  One of the girls said:

 

Beheading..chopping off your hands, severe beatings,etc. Are strict Islamic rules and these are the things that were done during our prophets time and are continued till this day to follow the tradition, there is nothing wrong in it. These things are done to teach lessons so they won�t commit the act ever again.

 

You better dress like these Barbados girls or else.

 

 

    In Nigeria, the Boko Haram who mostly attack Christians, also attacked a beauty parlor.  Stephen Tizhe, 35 said:

"Three gunmen with their faces covered with black cloth burst into my salon and started shooting at customers, chanting, 'God is great, God is great,'"

    To be fair the Boko Haram don't just attack beauty parlors.  Among their many murders of infidels they slit the throat of Shetu Haruna Malgwi, a 79 year old woman and left a note on her chest that said:

We will get you soon.

    That note was believed to be for her son, a pastor of a local church where Shetu sang in the choir.

 

    Lara Logan was raped in Tahrir square while covering the demonstration against Mubarak.  Frontpage Magazine reprinted Bill Warner's article about Islam and Rape because of its relevancy to the assault on her and it can be viewed by clicking here.  Nonie Darwish explained that this was not an isolate incident and wrote:

Egypt and many Muslim countries have a terrible record of sexual harassment. According to a survey conducted in 2008 by an Egyptian Women�s rights group, 83% of Egyptian women have been sexually harassed. The numbers for foreign women is a staggering 98%. Most of the men in the survey admitted they have harassed women and most of them blamed it on women for dressing provocatively. What is worse is that the majority of women in the survey believe that women who dress immodestly deserve the harassment...

    Egyptian women who were with men in tents in Tahrir square were arrested by the Egyptian army and subjected to virginity checks.

 

    Imam Ghazali (1050-1111) is considered the greatest and most influential theoretician of Islam.  Woman, according to Ghazali, is synonymous with the Satan

 

   Jeff Jacoby wrote that in 2007  more than 40 women were killed so wearing western style clothing and that the bodies are often left in garbage dumps with notes accusing the victims of "un-Islamic behavior."

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 prostitutes,� �advocates of vice,� �filthy secularists,� said the fundamentalist sheikhs.

    In Pakistan a woman was stoned to death for possessing a cell phone.  Women who speak out against human rights violations in Pakistan have wound up dead.

     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,�

    The woman below is covered from head to toe but might still be arrested because her eyes are exposed and could cause fitna (chaos sedition). 

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 months 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.

    Afghan jails are filled with women fleeing abusive marriages. Fleeing home carries with it a ten year jail sentence. The analogy to escaped slaves is as obvious and inescapable as a Muslim marriage. Adultery is the catch-all charge that can be leveled at a woman at any time, married or unmarried, a young girl or an elderly woman.

The European Union has blocked the release of a documentary on Afghan women who are in jail for so-called "moral crimes".

The EU says it decided to withdraw the film - which it commissioned and paid for - because of "very real concerns for the safety of the women portrayed".  A leaked email however indicates that they are concerned about their relationship with the Afghan Justice system as well. 

The documentary told the story of a 19-year-old prisoner called Gulnaz.

After she was raped, she was charged with adultery. Her baby girl, born following the rape, is serving her sentence with her.

"At first my sentence was two years," Gulnaz said, as her baby coughed in her arms. "When I appealed it became 12 years. I didn't do anything. Why should I be sentenced for so long?"  Once she gets out she most likely would be killed by her family for dishonoring them.  She can get out if she marries her attacker.  That would mean he would rape her for the rest of her life.  She said she would so that her child would continue to have a mother. 

Stories like hers are tragically typical, according to Heather Barr, of Human Rights Watch, who is carrying out research among Afghan female prisoners.

   Pamela Geller speaks about this case in the video below.

 

    After international uproar and her agreement to marry her attacker Afghan President Hamid Karzai ordered her released.

    Hundreds of Nepalese women who emigrate to Arab countries such as Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan in search of jobs as nurses and caregivers are forced into prostitution and slavery. The migrants who manage to return, show signs of physical exhaustion, injuries, psychological damage and are often infected with AIDS. ..In 2010, 242 women emigrated for work and were never heard of again.

    Islam condones slavery of infidels in fact an Islamic Kuwaiti woman, Salwa al-Mutairi who advocates slavery of infidel women, said that slave girls should cook, clean, take care of the kids and be the slave of the wife during the day and then if the wife is not in the mood have sex with the husband at night.  This is the Kuwait that America liberated from Saddam.

    For a discussion of Islamic commands to rape married infidel women and take them as sex slaves click here and for an Islamic State pamphlet on the subject click here.  Taking of female sex slaves was usually done after killing their husbands.  Can't have the husbands interfering you know.

    Between 1300 and 1600 Hindu women would commit mass suicide to avoid becoming sex slaves to Muslims.  In 2014 Nigerian Jihadists from Boko Haram which means "Western education is sinful"  abducted 100 school girls to be sex slaves. 

 

    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 fianc�, 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.

Acid attacks are increasingly popular among Islamic supremacists bent on controlling women and punishing them for getting out of line. "Pakistani Women Writers Denounce Islamic Clerics' Fatwas Against Women's Use Of Cell Phones And Access To Secular Education," from MEMRI, May 20 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Former Pakistani lawmaker and cleric Maulana Abdul Haleem recently issued a fatwa (Islamic degree) against secular education and justifying honor killings of women.[1]The fatwa was issued in a sermon during a weekly Friday prayer in Kohistan district in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Haleem also threatened that women from secular NGOs who visit Kohistan district may be married off forcibly to local men. In a similar incident, a cleric announced a fatwa in a mosque in Noshki town of Pakistan's Baluchistan province, justifying acid attacks on women who use cell phones.

   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.

   The Express Tribune of Pakistan wrote on Sept 18 how 7 women had been attacked with acid in the last 2 days.  One of the women was told that she �deserved for her face to be ruined because she had not covered her head�.  Another woman fled her husband Umar Hayat  after he beat her to stay with her parents and sisters and refused to come back home with him.  The Express Tribune reported that:

On Thursday night, Umar Hayat, along with two of his accomplices, forced entry into the house of his in-laws by breaking the door when the family were asleep. Hayat sprayed acid on his wife Nabila, sisters-in-law Shakila Munir and Razia, mother in-law Riaz Bibi and Nazia, the wife of his brother in-law. The victims sustained serious injuries to their face and bodies.

All the burnt victims have been admitted to the Gojra Civil Hospital and are reportedly in serious condition. Three of the victims have sustained over 80 percent burns and are in critical condition.

     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.

    Frank Crimi wrote in Frontpage that in 2012 in order to prevent their attendance at school, the Taliban poisoned nearly 150 Afghan schoolgirls, marking just the latest atrocity in a litany of barbaric acts the Islamist terror group continues to inflict upon the women and girls of Afghanistan.  After he wrote about that they poisoned 180 girls in a second attack and at least 97 in a third attack in May 2012.

The afflicted girls � all of whom suffered severe nausea, headaches, and dizziness � had become poisoned after drinking contaminated water from jugs in their classrooms at their high school in Afghanistan�s northern province of Takhar. Many of the students were taken to a local hospital where some were listed in critical condition. Afghan Education Ministry officials have stated that the Taliban was behind at least 17 poison-gas attacks on girls� schools in Afghanistan in 2010, six of which took place in the Afghan capital of Kabul.

Those 2010 attacks included poison spray being used on four girls� schools in Kanduz, attacks which hospitalized over fifty teenage girls; a gas poisoning of a girls� high school in Kabul which required the hospitalization of 46 students and nine teachers; and a poison spray attack on a girls� school in the northern province of Sar-e-Pul that hospitalized 20 students.

    ISIS women have disfigured other women with acid on because they weren't wearing a niqab.

    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.

    This does not only happen in the Middle East since Muslims are all over the world.  In one case the strict Muslim father and brother of "Harry Potter" actress Afshan Azad were charged with threatening to kill her because she had a boyfriend. The Daily Express reported that

Abdul Azad, 54, is accused of threatening to kill his daughter while Ashraf Azad, 28, is charged with threatening to kill his sister and of causing her actual bodily harm.

The charges follow an alleged �honour� argument in the Muslim family�s home about Afshan�s friendship with a Hindu man.

Her brother and father allegedly confronted her in her bedroom and demanded that she end the relationship.

When she refused it is claimed she was attacked and left �badly bruised�. Afshan, who is of Bangladeshi decent, moved to London to stay with friends immediately after the alleged incident at the house in Longsight, Manchester on May 21.

 

strict Muslim father and brother of "Harry Potter" actress Afshan Azad have been charged with threatening to kill her because she has a boyfriend.

Azad, 22, fled the suburban English home she shared with her father, Abdul, 54, mother, Nilofar, and three brothers after the bizarre incident on May 21, authorities said.

A spokesman for prosecutors said her brother Ashraf, 28, physically attacked her and both he and their father threatened to kill her because of her relationship with an unidentified Hindu man.

They confronted her in her bedroom and left her "badly bruised" when she refused to stop seeing the man, the Daily Express said.



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    An Iraqi mother living in Phoenix Arizona is accused of beating her teenage daughter along with her husband and other daughter for not going along with an arranged marriage to an older man.  Police said the beating involved burning the teen on her face and chest with a hot spoon.

    Medine Memi was a 16 year old girl who was buried alive in Turkey because she was friendly with boys. 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.

     Suicide bombing is seen as a way a woman can redeem the family honor.  Dr. Arieh Eldad said in an interview with the New English Review that:

 I was instrumental in establishing the Israeli National Skin Bank, which is
the largest in the world. The National Skin Bank stores skin for every day
needs as well as for war time or mass casualty situations. This skin bank is
hosted at the Hadassah Ein Kerem University hospital in Jerusalem where I
was the chairman of plastic surgery.

This is how I was asked to supply skin for an Arab woman from Gaza, who was hospitalized in Soroka Hospital in Beersheba after her family burned her.

Usually, such atrocities happen among Arab families when the women are suspected of having an affair. We supplied all the needed Homografts for her treatment. She was successfully treated by my friend and colleague Prof. Lior Rosenberg, and discharged to return to Gaza.

She was invited for regular follow up visits to the outpatient clinic in Beersheba. One day she was caught at a border crossing wearing a suicide belt. She meant to explode herself in the outpatient clinic of the hospital where they saved her life. It seems that her family promised her that if she did that, they would forgive her.

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).

A documentary about Banaz can be viewed by clicking here.

    Mr. Shafia was the picture of a successful and Westernized man he was wealthy and  owned a shopping mall in Laval and had contracted to build an upscale home.  The picture below is of Sahar Shafia, 15, his daughter who he, his second wife and his son, killed along with her two sisters, Zainab Shafia, 17 and Geeti Shafia, 13, and Rona Amir Mohammad, 53 his first wife.  He murdered his daughters because he was angry that they were dating and not living an Islamic life style.  Their bodies were found on the morning of June 30, 2009, in a Nissan Sentra submerged in the Kingston Mills locks, on the edge of the town of Kingston, Ontario.  

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    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."

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   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)

    The fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan did not mean the end of the Taliban.  Pakistani Taliban fighters cut the breasts of a woman who was breastfeeding her child and asked other women to eat the pieces in the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.  A report about this also said that women in camps were forced to have sex in exchange for food.

In Afghanistan, Ali Mohaqeq Nasab, editor of "Haqooq-i-Zen" ("Women's Rights") magazine, was imprisoned by the Karzai government for publishing "un-Islamic" articles criticizing stoning as a punishment for adultery."

Najiba, a 22 year old woman accused of adultery was gunned down by the Taliban as about 150 men perched on a nearby hillside in the Qimchok village in Parwan province, Afghanistan shouted their approval at the �mujahedeen,� yelling, �God is great.�  A video of the execution can be watched below:

 

 

  Parwan provincial governor Abdul Basir Salangi told CNN that two Taliban men �had some kind of relationship with the woman,� so they decided to accuse her of adultery to �save face.�  And while many cheered, some villagers vowed to get even.

�We will take revenge for this. Their brutality and such inhumane acts are why we hate the Taliban,�

said a 42-year-old shopkeeper in Charikar, provincial capital of Parwan.
 

 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.

   An apologist for Islam told me that Islam allows polygamy so that a barren woman won't be abandoned by her husband and so that he can have children by marrying someone else.  Muslim males however marry multiple women who can bare children.  Muhammad had multiple wives even though his first wife had given him several children.

   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) Impoverished families in countries such as Egypt give up their young daughters to rich Saudi men for sexual escapades under the guise of marriage.  Once the temporary marriage is over the girls are left to care for children Saudi men who fathered them will not and often give up the children to orphanages.  Egyptian law forbids the marriage of foreigners to children more than 10 years younger than them so parents and marriage brokers often forge birth certificates.

    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.

 

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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."

Hasan Mahmud a Muslim who is against Sharia wrote:

Rape requires four adult male Muslim witnesses for proof. Women�s testimony is not accepted � Pakistan�s Hudood ordinance 7 of 1979 amended by 8B of 1980. Literally thousands of raped women and girls in many countries have been punished for Zena (physical relations outside marriage) by Sharia courts for want of witness. Ayesha Duhulowa, a gang raped 13 year old girl, was stoned to death by orders of a Sharia court.

   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.

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In Stockholm in the summer of 2013 there  was an average of 5 rapes a day. Sweden now has the second highest number of rapes in the world, after South Africa. Statistics now suggest that 1 out of every 4 Swedish women will be raped.  Stockholm has gone from a Swedish city to a city that is one-third immigrant and is between a fifth and a quarter Muslim.  Daniel Greenfield wrote:

Sweden, like the rest of the West, will have to come to terms with the fact that it can either have female equality or Muslim immigration. It cannot have both.

 

  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.  In an article titled Islam vs Women's Breasts Phyllis Chesler wrote about the mutilation of women.  Even artificial women are unsafe.   Phyllis Chesler wrote:

Recently, a woman�s clothing store in Tehran featured female mannequins with their breasts clearly removed, hacked off or filed down, on �orders from the Vice police� as part of the current crackdown on �un-Islamic� or bad hijab practices.

Here is a picture of the mannequins.

 

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.

   In the United Kingdom The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre  said it had evidence of 230 gangs, mostly young men, were identifying and grooming children for systematic sexual abuse. Some groups were large enough to be considered organised crime enterprises that were supplying victims to be raped by paying clients.  An estimated 2000 child victims have been identified between 2008 and 2011.  The code word used for these gangs is Asian (i.e. Muslim).  The problem with using code words like that is it gets people to hate innocent Asians who are not Muslims.

"This is a horrific kind of crime," said Mr Davies. "It involves systematic, premeditated rape of children and needs to be understood in those stark terms. It needs to be brought out of the dark."
 

   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 Tabasum was 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.  A 14 year old girl who converted to Christianity was locked up in a room without food by her father as punishment.  Her younger brother said that when their father was away, he roasted bananas for his sister.

�I also dug a hole under the door, where I could pour water through,� he said. �My sister could drink the water using her tongue. But most days she could only feed on mud.�

She was 44 pounds when she was discovered.  As of August 2011 she still can't walk.
 

   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.  According to Fox News:

   Female homicide bombers are being fitted with exploding breast implants which are almost impossible to detect, British spies have reportedly discovered. The shocking new Al Qaeda tactic involves radical doctors inserting the explosives in women's breasts during plastic surgery � making them "virtually impossible to detect by the usual airport scanning machines." It is believed the doctors have been trained at some of Britain's leading teaching hospitals before returning to their own countries to perform the surgical procedures.

    Sohana Jawed said she was kidnapped on her way to school in Peshawar, and forced to wear a remotely-controlled suicide jacket. But she escaped her captors as they prepared to send her towards a paramilitary checkpoint.  She was only 9 years old.  Daniel Greenfield wrote:

    Boko Haram has increasingly employed women as suicide bombers, even as it has stepped up its abductions of girls across northeast Nigeria, including the kidnapping of more than 200 in the town of Chibok last April. Late last year, two women hit the Monday Market in suicide attacks, killing dozens, and in one week last summer four women carried out bombings in northern Nigeria�s biggest city, Kano...A girl perhaps no more than 10 years old detonated powerful explosives concealed under her veil at a crowded northern Nigeria market...Several witnesses said it appeared that the girl might not have been aware of her deadly burden. Bakura Bashir, a shopper who witnessed the explosion, said: �This girl may not necessarily know she was conveying a timed bomb. The girl was torn into two halves, and half of her body was thrown across buildings by the devastating blast.�

   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.

    The daughter of a Muslim man in Paris made the mistake of dating a Jewish boy.  He sprayed her with tear gas and poured petrol over her and pulled out a lighter.  She screamed and grabbed the lighter from his hands.  Passerby's heard the screams and her father fled. 

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.

  Roving male vigilante squads are menacing women in Chechnya for not wearing headscarves during Ramadan; they are attacking women verbally, punching them, spraying them with paintballs, and taunting them with automatic rifles (August 23, 2010).

 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 Veiled 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."

   According to an article in the Daily Mail:

Girls as young as 11 were groomed and raped by a child sex ring before being sold to abusers across Britain, a court heard yesterday.
Nine men, mostly of Asian heritage, befriended vulnerable girls with gifts of perfume, alcohol and drugs before subjecting them to a 'living hell' for eight years.
The six girls were subjected to 'extreme physical and sexual violence' while they were repeatedly raped by numerous abusers.

   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.�  [10] Why? So that they are free to become the concubines of their captors.

Lisa Beyer, in an article titled "The Women of Islam" Time magazine Nov 25 2001 wrote that:

In Iran the legal age for marriage is nine for girls, fourteen for boys.  The law has occasionally been exploited by pedophiles, who marry poor young girls from the provinces, use and then abandon them.   In 2000 the Iranian Parliament voted to raise the minimum age for girls to fourteen, but this year, a legislative oversight body dominated by traditional clerics vetoed the move.  An attempt by conservatives to abolish Yemen's legal minimum age of fifteen for girls failed, but local experts say it is rarely enforced anyway.  (The onset of puberty is considered an appropriate time for a marriage to be consummated.)

    Robert Spencer is his book The Truth About Muhammad wrote that by marrying Aisha so young Muhammad set an example that is followed to this day.  He wrote:

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reports that over half of the girls in Afghanistan and Bangladesh are married before they reach the age of eighteen.  In early 2002, researchers in refugee camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan found half the girls married by age thirteen.  In an Afghan refugee camp, more than two out of three second-grade girls were either married or engaged, and virtually all the girls who were beyond second grade were already married.  One ten year old was engaged to a man of sixty.

Daniel Greenfield wrote that in Iran:

According to official statistics, about one million children, even under age 10, are married. The statistics also show that 85% of these one million married children are girls � meaning that most of them are married to grown men.

 An undercover investigation with Imams in Iraq found that little girls are sold for sex in temporary �pleasure marriages� that can last as little as an hour.  An interviewed cleric said there was �no problem at all� in Islam with wedding a nine-year-old

  Muslims want to change British law so that they can bring their child brides to Britain and marry children there.

   There are many child brides in Britain.  Samina Shah was one who was forced to marry at the age of 5.  The Islamic ceremony effectively ended her childhood and paved the way for years of abuse.  She told the Sun that:

�When you are married at the age of five you no longer live like a normal child. I was deprived of my basic human rights. �There is no Islamic justification for forced marriage and doing it to a child of that age is not just wrong � it is criminal.�

Saminia is haunted by memories of beatings, brutality and repression.  Samina was raised to believe a woman�s place was at home and the more she suffered, the greater the reward in Paradise.

Samina remembers how she was not even allowed out into the garden.

She said:

�I missed the sunlight on my face. I used to look out at kids playing and feel an overwhelming sense of envy.�

According to the Sun:

On her 14th birthday a formal wedding ceremony was held, marking the bride�s transition from her parents� home to the home of the husband.

At six the next morning, terrified for her future, she was bundled on to a plane to Pakistan.  She was told she would return to England with her husband when she reached 16.  She used to dread evenings when she would have to tearfully face the advances of her husband.  The marriage was eventually consummated against her will after she suffered a horrific beating.  After three months it was decided she should live under lock and key back in England until she turned 16.

    Al Nahar, Lebanon, reported that an eight year old child bride died in Yemen on her wedding night after suffering internal injuries due to sexual trauma.

   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.  According to the Islamic legal manual 'Umdat al-Salik e4.3

"Circumcision is obligatory (for every male and female) (by cutting off the piece of skin on the glans of the penis of the male, but circumcision of the female is by cutting out the bazr 'clitoris' [this is called khufaadh 'female circumcision'])." -- Mark Durie, The Third Choice, p. 64

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.

    The parliament of Iraqi Kurdistan passed a bill against domestic violence and female genital mutilation.  An Imam reacted by blaming the Jews:

 (This bill is) to satisfy the Jews who in the conference of the Jews in Beijing discussed that female circumcision should be banned. You obey their orders and disregard the Sharia of Allah (...).
 

  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�.

The Daily Mail reported in Sept 20, 2013 that:

St George's hospital in Tooting has treated nearly 200 women a year (for FGM) since it started keeping records on the violent practice.

While most of the 1,546 victims treated in the hospital's specialist unit were born in Somalia, disturbing statistics show that at least 11 were born in the UK, where genital mutilation has been a crime since 1985.

FGM is a growing problem in the United States as well.

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

     Beauty queen Tara Fares was being murdered in Iraq.  Her picture is shown below.

 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.  Muslims have no problem with this.  Nonie Darwish wrote:

There is no age limit for marriage of girls under Sharia. A man can pay a dowry and sign a marriage contract with parents of a toddler girl and consummate the marriage at age 9. Recent cases in Yemen and Saudi Arabia exposed this tragedy when 8-year-old girls filed for divorce from their over 50-year-old husbands. Not one Muslim authority challenged the Saudi marriage high official, Dr. Ahmad Al Mubi, who stated in 2008, in an interview that aired on LBC TV: �There is no minimal age for entering marriage. The Prophet Muhammad is the model we follow.�

    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." 

    Katya Koren was a 19 year old girl who took part in a beauty contest in the Ukraine. 

She was found dead in a village in the Crimea region near her home.   According to the Daily Mail, May 31, 2011

Police have opened a murder investigation and are looking into claims that three Muslim youths killed her, claiming her death was justified under Islam.

One of the three - named as 16-year-old Bihal Gaziev - is under arrest and told police that Katya had 'violated the laws of Sharia'. Gaziev has said he has no regrets about her death.

Police have opened a murder investigation and are looking into claims that three Muslim youths killed her, claiming her death was justified under Islam. 

One of the three - named as 16-year-old Bihal Gaziev - is under arrest and told police that Katya had 'violated the laws of Sharia'. Gaziev has said he has no regrets about her death.

    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. 

    Daniel Greenfield in an article titled A Muslim Love Story wrote about a woman whose:

sister was killed for falling asleep on a train and coming home late, which convinced her family that she had run off with another man. His brother was killed for dating outside the clan. Together they are both on the run with a death sentence on their heads, which means that two siblings in each family were marked for honor killings...

Now just in time for Valentine�s Day, in Faisalbad, a city named after the Saudi king, two men were arrested for killing their sisters. In Punjab, a man killed his wife and sister and their mother, because he suspected his wife of talking on her cell phone to another man. In Toronto, a city not yet renamed after a Saudi king, a Muslim cook was sentenced to jail for strangling his wife. This comes on the heels of the conviction of the Shafias in Ontario for murdering their three daughters and Mohammed Shafia�s first wife...

Nine-year-old girls are being married off in Britain, in Sweden and in Canada. Forget �Little Mosque on the Prairie� and think of �Little Brides� instead.

     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."

Sexual Jihad

    Muslim women were encouraged by their Imam's to sexually service the jihadis in Syria.  Robert Spencer wrote:

The Arabic media has been full of interviews with some of the many Tunisian girls that went to the sex jihad in Syria. The other day Tunisian newspaper Al Sharaouk (�Sunrise) shed light on the horrific experiences of one of these girls.

Her name is Lamia, and she�s 19-years-old. While in Syria, she had sex with jihadis fighting to overthrow the secular Bashar Assad regime. Among other nationalities she recalls having slept with were Pakistanis, Afghanis, Libyans, Tunisians, Iraqis, Saudis, and Somalis, all in the context of the �sex jihad.� ...
Then, �Lamia became convinced that a woman may participate in the jihad to eliminate the enemies of Islam by making her body recreational for the men after each and every raid, so that her body became their possession.�

Back in May, reports of women saying similar things began to appear. For instance, Masrawy published a video interview with one �Aisha,� another Tunisian girl who said she had met a Muslim woman who spoke of the importance of piety, including wearing the hijab and traveling to Syria to help the jihadis �fight and kill infidels� and make Allah�s word supreme, adding that �women who die would do so in the way of Allah and become martyrs and enter paradise.� (According to mainstream Islamic teaching, dying in jihad is the only guaranteed way to avoid hell.)

At any rate, by the time war broke out in Syria, Lamia�s mind was �dough for the cleric to mold any which way he wanted.� He proceeded to send her to Benghazi, Libya, then to Turkey, and then to Aleppo, Syria...

Lamia confessed that she did not know how many men had sex with her and that all that she remembers is being abused, beaten, and forced to do things �that contradict all sense of human worth.� She also said that she met many Tunisian women including one who died while being tortured for trying to escape. (This, too, has precedents, including at the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.)

Finally, released back to Tunisia, Lamia has been to a doctor finding that she is five months pregnant. Both she and her unborn are carrying the aids virus.

Migration to Europe

    To prevent the overloaded boats from Tunisia and Libya headed for Lampedusa from capsizing, young males on board have been throwing the women overboard, most of whom apparently drowned. ...All exclusively young men, rather poor and rarely speaking, tell the same story.  As Tarek, 20, left there twenty days of Kairouan. "We were packed in 150 in a boat designed for 60, says the boy.  During the trip to Lampedusa, twelve girls were thrown into the sea.

     This is in sharp contrast to the behavior of Western men on the Titanic who sacrificed their lives so that the women and children would survive.  Feminists who don't appreciate Western men will soon learn how good they had it as Muslim men pour into Europe.

Islams Exploitation and Sexual Abuse of Boys

      This web page is about the exploitation and sexual abuse of women by Islam but Islam does the same to boys.  For an article about this see Afghanistan's Dancing Boys.

Further Reading:

Sex and Islam...and the decline of the West - American Thinker

Muhammad Then and Now

In Defense of Muslim Women

India: Muslim politician says women who are raped should be hanged

Joys of Muslim Women

Terrorizing Muslim Women by Nonie Darwish

The Violent Oppression of Women in Islam by Robert Spencer and Phyllis Chesler

It's Time to Take the Campus Back by Phyllis Chesler

Leave Islam (web site for people trying to leave Islam safely)

Stop Islamization of America

Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia

Punishing the Victims of Islamic Gender Apartheid

The Circle by Jafar Panahi

Price of Honor: Muslim Women lift the Veil of Silence on the Muslim World by Jan Goodwin

Honor Diaries

The most dangerous countries for women have large Muslim Immigration

Afghanistan: Directorate of Information and Culture says broadcasting women’s voices on radio ‘absolutely forbidden’  https://jihadwatch.org/2025/03/afghanistan-directorate-of-information-and-culture-says-broadcasting-womens-voices-on-radio-absolutely-forbidden?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=afghanistan-directorate-of-information-and-culture-says-broadcasting-womens-voices-on-radio-absolutely-forbidden

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