This is a welcome response, but it’s strange coming from the Canadian government, which has often wielded the “Islamophobia” battering ram. The former Conservative government, to which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has referred as “Islamophobic,” passed the “Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act.” However, following the Trudeau win in 2015, the Senate approved a bill to remove mention of “barbaric cultural practices” because this was deemed to be “insulting to cultures in Canada,” according to Liberal Senator Mobina Jaffer.
This implied that referring to forced marriage, female genital mutilation (FGM), honor murder, virginity tests and the like as barbaric was “insulting to cultures in Canada,” which is ludicrous. Aside from Jaffer’s patronizing and absurd political correctness, which harmed women, the “cultures in Canada” to which she was referring was really Islamic culture only. No other religion or culture sanctions such abuses. But to point this out is deemed to be Islamophobic in Canada. The National Council of Canadian Muslims (formerly CAIR-CAN) provided a definition of Islamophobia as follows: “fear, prejudice, hatred or dislike directed against Islam or Muslims, or towards Islamic politics or culture.” The Liberal government has fully enshrined the word “Islamophobia” in its program, basing numerous policies on the anti-Islamophobia Motion M-103. That Motion was followed up by a 23-million-dollar initiative to “monitor citizens for compliance,” among other disquieting measures. I myself was fired by the government of Canada for criticizing the very elements of Islamic politics and culture which are contrary to human rights.
So now it is being reported that “Canadian immigration authorities want to deport a female doctor who ran ‘virginity tests’ on women in Afghanistan, arguing that her actions are a crime against humanity….Saida Ahmadi worked at a hospital in northern Afghanistan before coming to Canada in 2017 and making a refugee claim.”
In Afghanistan, virginity tests may be used as evidence in court when prosecuting females for having sex before marriage, a crime known as zina.
Although the National Post article points out that “according to the World Health Organization, virginity testing has no scientific or clinical basis,” that same organization published guidelines on “Hymen care for unmarried Muslim females: role of the forensic consultant in gynaecology interventions.” This showed the WHO’s recognition of what virginity means in Islam. Back as 2008, the New York Times ran an article investigating the “debate over Islam and virginity.” The article was about a private clinic that “restored” the virginity of Muslim women. The reason couldn’t have been explained any better than it was by one student who opted for the restoration surgery: “In my culture, not to be a virgin is to be dirt,” she said. She went on to say: “Right now, virginity is more important to me than life.”
The importance of virginity in Islam is backed up by both religion and culture. The greatest level that any Muslim can achieve in Islam is martyrdom, and the reward for it is 72 virgins. No better deed. No better reward.
The Messenger of Allah said: ‘There are six things with Allah for the martyr… he is married to seventy-two wives among Al-Huril-‘Ayn [virgins] of Paradise…”. (Jami’ At-Tirmidhi, Vol. 3, No. 1663, p. 410).
This hadith attributes the teaching about 72 virgins as a reward for martyrdom to Muhammad himself. Verses that back up killing and being killed in the way of Allah (that is, Islamic martyrdom) as the highest calling for any Muslim include these:
The Prophet said, “Nobody who dies and finds good from Allah (in the Hereafter) would wish to come back to this world even if he were given the whole world and whatever is in it, except the martyr who, on seeing the superiority of martyrdom, would like to come back to the world and get killed again (in Allah’s Cause).” (Bukhari Book 52, Hadith 53)
A man came to Allah’s Apostle and said, “Instruct me as to such a deed as equals Jihad (in reward).” He replied, “I do not find such a deed. (Bukhari Book 52, Hadith 44)
“Let those fight in the way of Allah who sell the life of this world for the other. Whoso fighteth in the way of Allah, be he slain or be he victorious, on him We shall bestow a vast reward.” (Quran 4:74)
So now the government of Canada is now being “Islamophobic” by its own definition of the word. The barbaric practice of virginity tests is no different from FGM, child brides, honor murder, etc. Will the Liberal Government of Canada now — for starters — take serious action against such practices such as FGM, which according to the Ontario Human Rights Commission is a big problem in Canada and a violation of human rights?
“Canadian government battles refugee board to deport doctor who conducted ‘virginity tests’ in Afghanistan,” National Post, April 11, 2020:
Canadian immigration authorities want to deport a female doctor who ran “virginity tests” on women in Afghanistan, arguing that her actions are a crime against humanity.
Global News reports that Saida Ahmadi worked at a hospital in northern Afghanistan before coming to Canada in 2017 and making a refugee claim.
In Afghanistan, virginity tests may be used as evidence in court when prosecuting females for having sex before marriage, a crime known as zina.
In interviews with Canadian immigration officials, Ahmadi said that “virginity exams were part of her duties, though they were not routine.”
According to the World Health Organization, virginity testing has no scientific or clinical basis.
A virginity test is a manual inspection of the female genitalia to indicate whether the hymen has “broken.”
Officials have accused Ahmadi of performing virginity tests at the “request of the state” and testifying on the results in court. The Canadian government said that aiding such prosecutions are a crime against humanity.
Ahmadi had said she believed that the tests were performed with consent from the women and that she would not have done the tests had she known they would be used in an Afghan court.
In August 2016, Ahmadi examined a woman named Soraya, who was accused of zina. Ahmadi said she signed a report stating her opinion that Soraya was not a virgin. Ahmadi testified in court, later saying that her testimony was limited to confirming her signature on the virginity test report. Soraya was sentenced to seven years imprisonment.
Ahmadi said she left Afghanistan after getting threatening calls from Soraya’s family. According to a Canadian immigration report, Ahmadi arrived to Canada from the U.S. in 2017.
The Immigration and Refugee Board ruled that although the tests were “part of the systematic oppression of women in Afghanistan,” they were not a crime against humanity. The IRB’s Immigration Appeal Division ruled that Ahmadi did not make a significant contribution to “the systems in Afghanistan which oppress women.”….
Captnhook says
Just do it! Don’t be afraid to deport this vermin.
Chris D says
WOW! This so called Doctor testified that a woman wasn’t a virgin, and the woman (her patient ) was imprisoned for 7 years! What a Scoundrel! She should have stayed where she was.
I has never seen this definition of Islamophobia before!
Islamophobia: “….dislike directed against Islam… towards Islamic culture.”
So by this definition we ALL have to LIKE Honor Killings, Virginity Checks, Female Genital Mutilation, Forced Marriages.
That’s so damn ridiculous!
By this definition – no rational thinking Canadian would pass this test (I Hope!)
People who believe in this definition – really need to just leave the West and to back to live in backwards countries like Pakistan or I ran or Syria or someplace like that. And stay there.
Trudeau – if he had any sense, would stand up and declare this a ridiculous standard that stands against the Canadian way of life.
Terry Gain says
If dislike of objectively evil practises is Islamophobia then more Canadians should claim the Virtuous Badge of Islamophobia. So anyone who is uncertain about my virtue, please call me an Islamophobe. Thank you.
Inter alia, I oppose FGM and Honour Killings. I am a proud iPhobe.
mortimer says
Trudeau is retreating from his previous support for Islamic barbarism. His picture (in blackface) is next to the definition of “HYPOCRITE” in the encyclopedia.
Terry Gain says
Mortimer,
I’ve seen no evidence of Trudeau retreating from his refusal to confront Islamic barbarism. If you have some examples I would appreciated if you would post some links. Thank you.
I don’t think Trudeau meant anything by wearing black face. I think it’s a phoney.issue. When I was in grade 5 I took a couple of large cooking apples from one of our backyard trees and dressed up as a girl for Halloween and I have never not liked, I mean not loved girls and women.
Sharon Shumard says
Yes I’m with you!
Henry Mansfield says
As a young man decades ago I read that in the course of a normal life (for Western women at least), a girl’s hymen could rupture due to riding bicycles, playing sports, etc,
That advice was probably given so that after promises of monogamy/virginity were made and at a suitable time a less than intact hymen was found, no domestic violence or abandonment would occur.
In many parts of the world, especially Muslim-majority countries, I’d imagine a young female’s whereabouts and activities are monitored from birth until her marriage night, and then every day after. These tests seem a bit redundant.
gravenimage says
Even in girls who are not physically active and don’t use tampons the hymen can be stretched, partial, or even completely missing in a small number of cases. While an intact hymen is proof of virginity, it absence is *not* proof of sexual activity.
Niemoller says
“Fearing” “Islamic politics” is considered Islamophobia? Is there Republiphobia or Democratiphobia in the United States? Islamists are attempting to pathologize dissent from the Islamist agenda, and it’s not going to work.
At the end of the day, “there is no there, there” in Islam, and there never was. It’s just a racket of irrational emptiness kept alive through childhood indoctrination, fear, threats and manipulation. Islam is for people who can’t or won’t think intelligently about the nature and quality of their beliefs.
James Lincoln says
Niemoller says,
“Islamists are attempting to pathologize dissent from the Islamist agenda…”
Exactly!
Case in point, the nonsensical term “islamophobe.”
And yet fear/hatred of the ideology of islam is perfectly rational – and a correct analysis – for a clear thinking individual.
The muslim brotherhood took their playbook, ironically, from gays, i.e., “homophobe,” which actually IS an irrational fear/hatred.
b.a. freeman says
“Islamists are attempting to pathologize dissent from the Islamist agenda, and it’s not going to work.”
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umm-m-m … i beg to differ, Niemoller; it definitely *D*O*E*S* work, in all of EUrabia, in canadastan, and in amrikistan! the f***ing liars working for the nazi “press” are doing their best to ensure that anybody who has any success getting people to actually learn about the s**thole death cult of islam loses his job, loses his credit rating, loses his home, loses his car, and has to take up residence under the nearest bridge (unless they can dox him so that antifa can find and kill him). it takes real courage to do what mr. spencer, mr. fitzgerald, ms. douglass-williams, et al. are doing. and soon enough, it will take even more courage, because the nazis will be rounding *all* of us loudmouths up for a 9 mm. “re-education.”
before it gets to that “re-education,” however, it behooves *all* free people to stand up to the real fascists and expose their lies, whatever the cost.
Terry Gain says
Although the situation in Canada vis-à-vis the advance of Islam may be considered as grim, we are not completely without hope as there are still pockets of resistance. Here is a link to an article concerning the revocation of charitable status for a major Islamic charity.
Of course there are also cases where Jewish charities have had their charitable status revoked because of their support for Israel. I haven’t taken the time to attempt to compare one with the other.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4490892/cra-suspends-fines-major-islamic-charity-over-concerns-it-may-have-provided-resources-to-armed-militants/
James Lincoln says
Finally, Terry:
A chink in the armor…
gravenimage says
Good to hear, Terry.
mortimer says
Jihadi Justin touts himself (and dresses himself) as a friend of communities that don’t get along (to say the least) and that want to exterminate one another.
Nowhere are his contradictions more evident than in his simultaneous support for LGTB and Islam and his simultaneous support for Muslims and feminism. He showed up in a segregated mosque and drew attention to the ‘Sisters in the gallery’ (where they were invisible to the men below).
Most Canadians are childish and obtuse and can’t understand that such philosophical contradictions are important. Such contradictions reveal that the Lib-Jihad Party of Canuckistan has no real ethical principles at all, beside the pursuit of power and money for their friends.
It is fascinating that the Lib-Jihad Party is forced to choose between feminism and jihadism … which will they support? They cannot have it both ways in the matter of women’s rights.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, it is not the case that feminists or gays want to exterminate Muslims.
You are about Muslims often murderous animus for women and homosexuals, though.
gravenimage says
Canadian immigration authorities want to deport Muslim doctor who ran “virginity tests” on women in Afghanistan
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Well, this is good to hear–he *should* be deported.
Not only are virginity tests pseudo-science–there are indicators, but no sure way to determine virginity one way or another, save in cases with a fully intact hymen–but they are not merely intrusive as they would be in the West, but can lead to broken engagements, imprisonment, “Honor Killings”, and stoning to death in the Muslim world.
Ren says
Don’t say it. Do it. Deport.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Yeah, that’s not gonna stick for long. Turdeau’s always a hypocrite.
jca reid says
This business with this doctor will, in all probability, drag on for years & the lawyers on BOTH sides will be rubbing their hands in glee at this moneyspinner that has landed in their laps! By the time it’s sorted out to deport him, the doctor will have died of old age!
ET says
Groups that do well under migration: : lawyers, real estate, social workers, churches, EGOs….yes it is BIG business. Oh well, who cares?
E T says
All this talk of deportation, too bad Canadians have no clue the numbers of migrants Justin e is bringing into Canada –staggering numbers of questionable groups, Nigerian Black Axe, Somalis, all are welcome to deteriorating Canada.
Paula says
Unless I misread this, I believe Dr. Ahmadi is a female. She should be deported!