Yesterday Jihad Watch reported that Muslim hardliners had attacked Women’s Day marchers in Pakistan. It is not surprising that this has happened in other Muslim countries as well: “While the world…celebrated International Women’s Day with joyful events and colourful initiatives, women’s marches were attacked in Muslim-majority Asian countries, namely Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and Turkey. In some cases, police dispersed assembled crowds with tear gas; in others, groups of Islamic radicals armed with bars and sticks attacked participants.”
In normative Islamic law, women are inferior, but not every Muslim leader will admit this, for reasons of expedience. Take, for instance, the words of Sheikh Abdullah Makwinja, who wrote an article that was provided by “the Embassy of Iran” to The Herald in Zimbabwe:
Islam declares gender equality to be an intrinsic part of the Islamic faith….. “Women in Islam” is among topics that have been approached by mixed attitudes, from some Muslims who whitewash their local/cultural discriminative practices against women under the label of Islam, to the non-Muslim outsiders who don’t bother to analyse and distinguish different cultural and religious elements in the various Muslim societies.
While Sheikh Abdullah Makwinja thumbs his nose at “non-Muslim outsiders,” the Quran, Hadith and Islamic law present a different picture: a woman’s testimony in court is worth half that of a man, child brides and the sex slavery of infidel women are permitted, and female genital mutilation (FGM) is a requirement (Umdat al-Salik e4.3). The same inferior status applies to women in matters of inheritance and, for that matter, everything else. The ultimate dictate of a woman’s worth is the Qur’anic command for women to cover up, despite pervasive misinformation that the veil is merely a cultural practice (Quran 24:31, 33:59). Unfortunately, “dialogue” often consists of deceptions about Islam, and any questions raised that get too close to illuminating the truth are deemed to be “Islamophobic” by mainstream Muslim groups, thus indicating that they have no genuine interest whatsoever in “dialogue.”
So while the world celebrated International Women’s Day “with joyful events and colourful initiatives”, the expected happened in these three countries: women’s marches were attacked. But there has not been much discussion among feminists about such incidents, or about the Islamic texts that render women inferior, nor about the plight of women in Islamic states. Instead, Sharia-inspired abuses are all swept under the carpet in efforts to stop “Islamophobia.”
Last year, Pakistani lawmakers stated that women’s marches were anti-Islam.
“Marchers attacked on International Women’s Day in Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and Turkey,” Asia News, March 9, 2020:
Islamabad (AsiaNews/Agencies) – While the world yesterday celebrated International Women’s Day with joyful events and colourful initiatives, women’s marches were attacked in Muslim-majority Asian countries, namely Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and Turkey. In some cases, police dispersed assembled crowds with tear gas; in others, groups of Islamic radicals armed with bars and sticks attacked participants.
Yesterday people took to the streets around the world to celebrate women, focusing on certain issues, such as domestic violence, child marriage, and so-called honour killings. Marchers stressed the principle of equal pay for equal work, women’s solidarity, equality between men and women, and respect and mutual understanding within couples.
In Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, a group of masked men attacked the 8 March rally that had brought together scores of women to protest against domestic abuse and “bride kidnapping,” a widespread but unspoken practice.
By the time police arrived the assailants had fled, but the agents had the time to arrest protesters, at least 70, for illegal gathering and breaking the ban on assemblies purportedly to prevent the coronavirus from spreading. So far, no case of the Covid-19 has been reported in the Central Asian country.
In Istanbul (Turkey), police used tear gas to disperse a few hundred women protesting at the edge of Taksim Square. Agents stopped women from entering Istiklal Street, the district’s main pedestrian avenue. Istanbul’s governor Ali Yerlikaya also closed down Taksim metro station and parts of nearby Sishane station.
The authorities said that protesters did not have a permit to hold a protest at their chosen location. This is not the first time that women’s rallies are forcibly ended.
In Pakistan, the day was marked by some peaceful events, but others that ended in violence….
Martin says
BISHKEK – MARCH 8 – -at 0:34 on the video – the Muslim fanatics are those wearing a white hat — and then just past the 1:11 mark, the women are getting arrested by the Khirghiz police !!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeEaiDslHMU
Martin says
BISHKEK – MARCH 8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujXBFPcmJAI
Sherry Duplessis says
THIS is one of the MAIN reasons we do not trust Muslims, except for those we know to be really GOOD people, not like those pathetics!
Paul J says
So how do you know who the really GOOD muslims are? Out of necessity you can’t trust ANY. Your “friendly” muslim neighbour who smiles at you could just be (highly likely) engaging in a little bit deception( divinely sanctioned) to lull you into a false sense of security. “I smile to your face and curse you in my heart” comes to mind.
Martin says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fqcCmcTh2Q
Powell says
Leave the Women of the World ALONE!! They have every RIGHT to speak up against these BARBARIC PRIMATIVE A$$E$ that HURT them!!
Walter Sieruk says
Of the many heinously evils outcome s of that Islamic “revolution” is the extremely cruel, brutal and demonic misogyny of this hideous Islamic regime. Not only against women but even young girls. As explained by a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard member who defected to the West and how now lives in America his book also informs the reader about the malicious and murderous affront girls in Iran’s Evin prison which reads that those in power ,the “paraded teenage girls in front in front of me as they led them to their deaths. These girls were barely out of their childhood, barely old enough to think of themselves, much less form thoughts against the state. They knew nothing about the machinations of politics. They were innocent in every sense of the word and certainty innocent of trumped –up charges that led to their imprisonment. Yet they suffered fates too brutal for even the most vicious criminal. ..Their few remaining moments of life had been filled with the level of abuse that few can imagine…The author further states “They tortured and killed young girls, in God’s name and before their execution they raped them because they believed that if a girl dies virgin, she will go to heaven, and they wanted to deny them this reward.” [1] This is as malice -filled and viciously wicked as can possibly be. This, very much, reflects the Wisdom found in the Bible which in Proverbs 15:15. For it reads “All the days of the oppressed are wretched. “ and likewise Proverbs 29:2. Which teaches “When the wicked rule, the people groan. “ [N.I.V.]
[1] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili. Pages 2,3. 117.
mortimer says
ISLAM IS FEMINIST ?? HUH?
Women’s Day marchers in Kyrgyzstan and Turkey were attacked with tear gas, bars and sticks.
So how feminist do pious Muslims get? I think that is our answer.
Mobuyus says
These are the people that obama said he stood with, over the American People.
Ray Jarman says
Maybe Obama should encourage Michelle to participate in one of these feminist protests in Pakistan or Iran.
Walter Sieruk says
What a despicable ruthless affront to the human rights of women in the religion of Islam .
For example with Sunni Islam the brutal ,cruel vicious and murderous actions of Islamic misogyny which is so inappropriately called “honor killing.” This heinously wicked misogynists Islamic tradition reaches such n demonic extent of evil and madness that in number of Muslim nations ,as Kyrgyzstan Pakistan and Turkey ,
So terrible so that if a girl or woman is raped she then might undergo being murdered in an “honor killing.” This is worse that a terrible miscarriage it’s an outright outrageous affront to all that is decent, good right as well as sane. To actual punish the victim of raped and not the rapists is most hideous, vile and wrong. very wrong. The Bible teaches in Proverbs 17:15. “The Lord hates two things, punishing the innocent and letting the guilty go free.” [E.R.V.]
Another example of the vicious misogyny of Sunni Islam is the extremely malicious against female rights may be seen in the Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a kingdom of callous brutal misogyny of the most heinously heartless kind there is. Be it the vicious, malicious and murderous Islamic practice of what is so very inappropriately called in the Islamic world “honor killing” and also the brutal cruel , savage Islamic tradition so unfittingly called “female circumcision “ which is reality of female genital mutilation. And other Islamic evils
An example, on March 11, 2002 in Saudi Arabia a girls dorm caught of fire, the girls naturally rushed out of that dorm that was on fire . In their hast to escape the flames they forgot to take and put on their face veils. Those Islamic state police of Saudi Arabia with this totally unreasonable and heartless Islamic mindset forced all the girls back into the dorm that was on fire. Only because they didn’t have their face veils. So all those girls did a horrible painful death .This is worse than tragic and sad, this is the murderous misogyny of the Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Walter Sieruk says
As for Shi- ite Islam ,the type of Islam of the mullah tyranny” of Iran, the misogyny is most heinous.
For that ruthless cruel brutal heinous l regime of Iran that is so unfittingly has the word “Republic” in its title ,for its called “ The Islamic Republic of Iran” [ I R I]. On the topic of this Islamic tyranny a former Muslim revealed that “The IRI system recognizes women as dependent upon men and incomplete human beings who need to be supervised and controlled by men and the State. This author further exposed that “Women are created for the purposes of giving pleasure to men and child bearing – functions that confine them to the home”
This is a male Chauvinistic as can possibly be. In addition this writer further makes it known that “The IRI legal system still retains traditional patriarchal bias that can be described as nothing but systemic subordination of women , which is undoubtedly a human rights violation .” This author further reveals that “Iran is of what Islamic fundamentalists desire, an Islamic State, and the consequence of achieving it “State Terror. Instead of utopia, Iran is an Islamic totalitarian nightmare…” and “the Islamic Republic of Iran exists and operates as what every Islamic fundamentalist dreams of, an Islamic state ruled by Sharia …What followed its establishment was the inevitable consequence and inexorable logic of its Islamic premises; state terrorism, a merciless tyranny.” [1]
This heinous Islamic misogyny has been also exposed by another author who was born and lived in a Middle Eastern nation for many years. She wrote “Female freedom and independence is one of the greatest sins in Islam…” and “Women in Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.” [2]
All this is wicked, unjust and misogynistic to the extreme. Islam had not regard for human life, regardless of what the apologists for this religion will claim.
Another example of misogynistic evil of Sht-ite Islam in Iran with its harsh brutal oppression of girls and women in this tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran has ,many times, becomes even worse the forcing females to wear hijab against their will . As this following example reveals.
That heinously cruel and deadly s Islamic tyranny of Iran is very much stinking with brutal vicious and murderous violence against the Iranian people. Especially regarding females. Both girls and women. For example a teenage girl in Iran was talking to her boyfriend on the phone and then the Islamic state “police” walked over to her and shot her dead. They did that wicked and malicious thing to her because she was talking to her boyfriend and they also didn’t like her clothing. [3] That was a clear cut case of murder and vicious Islamic madness by Iran’s Islamic state “ police”, who call themselves the “Revolutionary Guards”, they got away with their hideous and malice –filled evil because the mullahs as well as other villains in power in that tyrannical Islamic regime .
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM BY Ibn Warraq. pages 345-347.
[2] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel pages 62, 172
[3] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili page 240
OLD GUY says
No surprise that they would stop anything that uplifted women and girls in their society. Where is the outrage from the media female hosts and the women lib. groups. This kind of behavior by islam seems to go unnoticed, if Europe or American police had done anything to interfere with a women’s march holy hell would have broke out from the media and women’s groups. Why the silence when islam is involved ?