“Allah permits you to shut women in separate rooms and to beat them, but not severely. If they abstain, they have the right to food and clothing. Treat women well for they are like domestic animals and they possess nothing themselves. Allah has made the enjoyment of their bodies lawful in his Qur’an.”
- Tabari IX:113
When it comes to tyrannizing females, Muslim men have big shoes to fill – after all, it was none other than prophet Muhammad who started the centuries-long legacy of Islam’s mistreatment of women. Muslims will deny this, of course. When they can’t deny, they’ll try to justify it. But, fortunately for those who seek the truth, Mohammad’s crimes cannot be censored. In order to successfully do that Muslims would have to destroy the Qur’an and his multiple biographies in their entirety – for those texts are chockfull with evidence of what a rotten, murderous, misogynist animal he truly was.
After massacring entire towns, Mohammad would bid his men to take any woman they so desired as their sex slave. He never failed to take one for himself as well… Or two. Or three. Or a dozen. The tears those women had cried for their murdered husbands had still not dried on their faces when he raped them. Oh, he and his men had a moral dilemma with it all right! Their dilemma, however, was not whether or not they should rape these women, but whether or not they should do coitus interruptus with them. No one ever questioned rape in Mohammadland. No one ever considered it wrong, or tried to hide the fact of having done it.
This hasn’t changed. Muslims believe that rape is a man’s God-given right, and do not hesitate to proclaim so repeatedly, and defend and practice it without qualms or fear of legal prosecution.
The most disturbing thing is that Islamic oppression of women and violence against them are no longer limited to the Middle East. The forces of this new and improved Nazi regime are moving, and these days they commit their atrocities in our own backyard. What’s even scarier? Instead of prosecuting them like the murderers and the rapists that they are, the powers than be appease them.
Muslims will tell you that everything you hear about Islam’s abuse and oppression of women is lies and propaganda; that in reality, Muslim women are shown much respect and have equal rights with Muslim men. They will claim that women are protected and revered above all in Islam.
Was it protection and reverence that Nazanin Fatehi felt when she was sentenced to death after she fought back and stabbed one of the three men who attempted to rape her and her 15-year-old niece in Tehran? Was it the need to protect and revere that caused Muhammad Parvez to murder his 16-year-old daughter, Aqsa Parvez, for her refusal to wear the veil? Was it the need to protect and revere that drove Yaser Abdel Said to shoot his two teenage daughters for dating non-Muslim men, and then leave them to die in front of a Dallas, TX hotel? Do words “protection” and “reverence” even remotely cross one’s mind when one hears about a Palestinian woman Yusra Azzami being shot dead for “immoral behavior”, which entailed her enjoying a day out with her fiancée? Was it in the least protective or reverent of Saudi judges to sentence the 19-year-old “Qatif girl” to 200 lashes and six months in jail for the “crime” of being violently gang-raped 14 times? Was it protection and reverence of their husbands that Afghani women from Herat feel when they choose to burn themselves to death because their only other option is a life of sexual slavery?
Now and then you’ll see some Muslim woman speaking in defense of her faith, claiming that she is not oppressed, and that following Islam and wearing the hijab is her choice. I have no doubt that some of these women speak genuinely… Although what choice is it when you’re brainwashed and indoctrinated from day one, and know nothing of what life is like outside that doctrine? That, however, is not the question. The question is, what happens to the women who choose the opposite? What happens to women who, after years of wearing the hijab, decide to take it off?
You don’t hear those Muslim women mention things like that, do you? Neither do they ever mention Muslim women who speak against Islam. Of course not. Mentioning it it would amount to admitting to their own lies and hypocrisy. “I was forbidden to do anything except breathe oxygen,” says Ariell Choy in her narrative. “I was a prisoner inside my own body and mind.”
Oh, but according to Muslims, the former are just cases of “isolated extremism”, and women like Ariell Choy are “brainwashed” or “on western payroll”. Nevermind that many times these women risk their lives by speaking against Islam. Nevermind that there’s plenty of material in the world, from written to audio to visual, to prove these Muslim liars and apologists wrong.
This curious video, designed to promote the wonders of being a Muslim woman, suggests that beauty and intelligence are mutually exclusive. That fashion and modesty are mutually exclusive. That confidence and self-respect are mutually exclusive. That self-expression and monogamy are mutually exclusive. In a Muslim’s warped mindset, a woman cannot possibly be intelligent if she’s got lipstick on, cannot possibly have self-worth if she’s posing for a billboard, cannot possibly be faithful to her husband if she walks around in a short skirt, and definitely cannot be a decent person if she’s comfortable with expressing her feminity and sexuality through her choices in clothing, hairstyle, make-up and so on. “We wear it because the mind is what matters,” says a Muslim woman in her comment to the aforementioned video. I can’t even begin to describe how contradictory and illogical that statement is. If mind is truly what matters in a woman above all else, then what difference does it make what she wears? An intelligent, creative woman will retain those traits regardless of what she’s wearing. Wearing a short skirt of bright red lipstick does not automatically lower your IQ. A woman who has a sense of self-respect and decency will not suddenly loose those qualities when she takes off her body-covering shapeless robe and puts on a little black dress and high heels instead. Not only that, she will channel that self-respect through her every word and movement. A lewd woman will remain lewd no matter how much black fabric you swathe her in. Meanwhile, you can dress a virgin into a bikini and she’ll still be pure.
Alas, it seems Muslims are not able to recognize this simple fact. If you really think about it, what does that say about Muslim men? Is it not, basically, an admission that a Muslim male is unwilling (or, more likely, incapable) of looking past a woman’s physical appearance and seeing the mind and soul underneath? Is it not, basically, an admission that a Muslim male sees a woman as nothing more than a sex toy and a slave?
Another woman from the same video claims that the existence of single mothers and children out of wedlock is a sign of deteriorating society. Having two closest friends who were raised by single mothers, I find that statement not only ignorant and erroneous, but downright insulting. My friends are smart, successful, wonderful people, and so are their mothers. The very notion that a single mother is incapable of treating her children with as much love and care as a married one is insane. So is the idea that children born out of wedlock are somehow of inferior quality as persons than those born to married couples. A marriage license is neither a guarantee of, nor a booster for, a woman’s good performance as a mother.
Muslims are incapable of understanding this, or accepting it. They seem incapable of realizing that how a woman dresses has absolutely nothing to do with sex, or that wearing a yard of fabric on your head doesn’t make you a better woman or a better person than those who do not wear it. They’re dead serious when they claim there is no such thing as a monogamous non-Muslim man. When you point out to them that you have been happily married to your husband for X number of years, they assure you that the only reason you think that is because your husband hasn’t been caught cheating yet.
In Islam, exposure of skin and sex are synonymous (even though nakedness does not always lead to sex). In Islam, a woman’s worth and decency are directly proportional to her ability to keep her body covered and her mouth shut, and to her willingness to follow a man’s orders quickly and efficiently.
Even farmers treat their cows better.
Despite all of the evidence to the contrary, Muslims continue to rave on about how “Islam does not endorse abuse of women” and that it “respects women above all”. I don’t know what sort of a mental patient would equate the above Tabari quote with “respect”. If Islam truly respects women, why do horrific crimes against them seem to happen primarily in Islamic countries and, not to mention, are never prosecuted? If Islam truly respects women, why doesn’t anyone try to stop and prosecute these crimes against them?
Muslim men are the most despicable creatures on Earth. They are utter savages and cowards who terrorize their mothers, wives, sisters, daughters, and every woman they come across in the name of their twisted religion. Not only do they not apologize for abusing those who can’t fight back, they take great pride in it.
Just as in the case of child abuse, Islam has no ground to stand on. Regardless of how much Muslims choose to deny it, the evidence of Islam’s crimes against women is overwhelming. It is everywhere. It’s in the scripture they follow, it’s in their videos, it’s in their press, it’s in their own words. “Women’s rights have no legitimacy in Islam”, claims this rabid misogynist a-la Islam.
The above article begins with the following statement: “Had Islam and Muslim men been the real oppressors of women, the feminist movement would have arisen from within the Islamic societies.” I think this ludicrous proclamation is best answered by a Muslim woman. “Our fear is stronger than our will to be free,” an (understandably) unnamed Algerian girl once said in an interview to Frontpage Magazine.
Kinda sums it all up, doesn’t it?
