When will Western feminists begin to notice that their supposedly cherished principles don’t actually line up very well with Sharia?
The Qur’an teaches that men are superior to women and should beat those from whom they “fear disobedience”: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.” — Qur’an 4:34
Muhammad’s child bride, Aisha, says in a hadith that Muhammad “struck me on the chest which caused me pain, and then said: ‘Did you think that Allah and His Apostle would deal unjustly with you?’” — Sahih Muslim 2127
The Qur’an likens a woman to a field (tilth), to be used by a man as he wills: “Your women are a tilth for you, so go to your tilth as you will” — Qur’an 2:223
It declares that a woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man: “Get two witnesses, out of your own men, and if there are not two men, then a man and two women, such as you choose, for witnesses, so that if one of them errs, the other can remind her” — Qur’an 2:282
It allows men to marry up to four wives, and have sex with slave girls also: “If you fear that you shall not be able to deal justly with the orphans, marry women of your choice, two or three or four; but if you fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly, then only one, or one that your right hands possess, that will be more suitable, to prevent you from doing injustice” — Qur’an 4:3
It rules that a son’s inheritance should be twice the size of that of a daughter: “Allah directs you as regards your children’s inheritance: to the male, a portion equal to that of two females” — Qur’an 4:11
It allows for marriage to pre-pubescent girls, stipulating that Islamic divorce procedures “shall apply to those who have not yet menstruated” — Qur’an 65:4
Islamic law stipulates that a man’s prayer is annulled if a dog or a woman passes in front of him as he is praying. “Narrated ‘Aisha: The things which annul the prayers were mentioned before me. They said, “Prayer is annulled by a dog, a donkey and a woman (if they pass in front of the praying people).” I said, ‘You have made us (i.e. women) dogs.’ I saw the Prophet praying while I used to lie in my bed between him and the Qibla. Whenever I was in need of something, I would slip away. for I disliked to face him.” — Sahih Bukhari 1.9.490
Another hadith depicts Muhammad saying that the majority of the inhabitants of hell are women:
“I looked into Paradise and I saw that the majority of its people were the poor. And I looked into Hell and I saw that the majority of its people are women.” — Sahih Bukhari 3241; Sahih Muslim 2737
When asked about this, he explained:
“I was shown Hell and I have never seen anything more terrifying than it. And I saw that the majority of its people are women.” They said, “Why, O Messenger of Allah?” He said, “Because of their ingratitude (kufr).” It was said, “Are they ungrateful to Allah?” He said, “They are ungrateful to their companions (husbands) and ungrateful for good treatment. If you are kind to one of them for a lifetime then she sees one (undesirable) thing in you, she will say, ‘I have never had anything good from you.’” — Sahih Bukhari 1052
And in another hadith:
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) went out to the musalla (prayer place) on the day of Eid al-Adha or Eid al-Fitr. He passed by the women and said, ‘O women! Give charity, for I have seen that you form the majority of the people of Hell.’ They asked, ‘Why is that, O Messenger of Allah?’ He replied, ‘You curse frequently and are ungrateful to your husbands. I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religious commitment than you. A cautious sensible man could be led astray by some of you.’ The women asked, ‘O Messenger of Allah, what is deficient in our intelligence and religious commitment?’ He said, ‘Is not the testimony of two women equal to the testimony of one man?’ They said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘This is the deficiency in her intelligence. Is it not true that a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menses?’ The women said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘This is the deficiency in her religious commitment.’” — Sahih Bukhari 304
Another statement attributed to Muhammad: “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.” — Sahih Bukhari 4.54.460
“Women’s Day: Pakistanis denigrate ‘Aurat March’ protestors, label them as vulgar, un-Islamic,” OpIndia, March 8, 2021:
On Monday, the annual Aurat Azadi March was held in several cities of Pakistan, including Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi on the occasion of International Women’s Day….
However, ahead of the historic ‘Aurat Azadi March’, Pakistani men have been spewing venom against the women’s movement. From labelling it as ‘vulgar’, ‘un-Islamic’ to comparing women with vegetables and animals, Pakistanis did not leave any stone unturned to tarnish the fight of women for justice and equal rights. M Saad Arslan Sadiq, who claims to be an entrepreneur, wrote, “Both men and women have special rights in Islam but to do Aurat March and giving slogan mera jism meri marzi [“my body, my choice”] should not be promoted. It is totally against our moral values.”
It must be pointed out that regressive Pakistanis had been deliberately misinterpreting the slogan ‘mera jism meri marzi‘ to suggest that the women participating in Aurat March want to have physical relations with several men. While the objective behind the slogan was to emphasise women’s choice and liberty, Islamists have been using the said slogan to cast aspersions on the feminist movement….
Twitter user Syed Aoun Ali wrote, “Some liberals have destroyed the real cause of Women’s Day and their genuine rights. They are connecting their own personal filthy desires with this. May Allah protect our women from these vulgar ones.”
Reiterating the same narrative, one user tweeted, “They people who are participating in Aurat march are not liberals but belongs to vulgar, corrupt, dishonest and agents of enemies of Islam and Pakistan.”…
In a tweet on February 26, Aurat Azadi March Islamabad had explained that their protest is not un-Islamic. The official Twitter handle of the movement wrote, “The mainstream narrative about Aurat March is that it’s un-Islamic. This idea has been hammered into us that our norms & cultural values are at stake at the hands of these movements.” To break the stigma attached to it, they had also shared an animation explaining the concept of women’s freedom.
“Is demanding for social and financial equality and justice, un-Islamic? Is it against Islam to speak about education for women? Is it unIslamic to raise voice against the atrocities committed against women? Is it unislamic to speak against child abuse, acid attacks and killing women in the name of honour? If all of it is against Islam, then what is your Islam? Calling ‘Aurat March’ un-Islamic is akin to insulting the religion.”
“We are not against Islam or any religion. The majority of those connected with our movement practice their Faith in private. Feminism is not against Islam, Christianity or any other religion. We are against all such archaic practices that have been traditionally used to oppress women,” the video concluded….
PRCS says
“When will Western feminists begin to notice that their supposedly cherished principles don’t actually line up very well with Sharia?”
Possible, maybe, if some of the 1.9 billion $ Corona Virus Bill could be used to send Jen, Jill and those of their ilk to live in Pakistan for a few weeks.
Or, hey, maybe after Joe gets to meet Asia Bibi.
PRCS says
Ooops!
$1.9 Trillion.
mortimer says
Islam and feminism ??? Surely, you jest! Tell it to the Afghan women.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4vIBijzg4w
PRCS says
True.
gravenimage says
Grimly funny, Mortimer.
william carr says
PRCS I am sure the so called feminists know very well how women are treated in Islam, after all there are enough cases happening in USA alone. They can hardly plead ignorance. However they are more concerned with appealing PC, liberal and of course non racist to say or do anything about it. A lot of them are also simply hypocrites
william carr says
Typo appearing of course
PRCS says
Until they are publicly challenged to explain their thinking, we won’t know for sure..
gravenimage says
Actually, I know quite a few feminists in denial about the threat of Islam to women.
Irena says
Most of western women are aware of it but they are also aware that it is not possible to help Muslim women without a serious shift in their own perception of woman’s role in the society, which until now was dictated by mysogynistic males. They should start from challenging their husbands, sons and male relatives. It is a slow process and I can’t blame them for the reluctance, because new ideas come with the danger to their lives.
None of you here, criticising women, have balls to stand up against someone much stronger physically with the right to strike you whenever he wishes without any consequences to him, and yet you push women for the open confrontation.
gravenimage says
Irena, so long as it is safe, the least that people can do is to openly say that evil is wrong. Western feminists who understand that Islam is misogynist can say so, even if they are not in a position to do anything else.
By the way, I am female myself–and no, I don’t want to put any woman or anyone elss into further danger. But pretending that Islam is not abusive to women does not make any of us safer.
PRCS says
An older picture, but:
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/06/28/saudi-arabian-womens-conference-picture_n_3515062.html
Keith O says
But I did notice that most of them were wearing dresses!
It was just them getting in touch with their inner feminine side.
PRCS says
Well, uh, er, maybe.
gravenimage says
Yep.
jca reid says
Yep, Mohammed & Islam know how to treat women. That should be a question in various social Studies type classes: ” does Mohammed & Islam know how to treat women? Discuss. All of these Apologists ought to go tou youtube & type in the Searchbox: Muslim cuts off wife’s nose. That will bring up a litany of stories & video clips of Muslim women with their noses, ears, lips cut off by their beloved Islamic husbands. Oh, by the way, the husbands don’t even spend 1 night in a Police Cell, let alone a Criminal Court.
tim gallagher says
Well, since Islam is a load of backward, primitive and just downright evil garbage from the way people used to live their lives way back in 7th century Arabia, enlightened ideas such as women actually having rights is definitely very much “un-islamic”. Anything that is slightly civilised and enlightened is bound to be “un-islamic”. Islam is a load of absolute crap, a throwback to mankind’s primitive days, and it should not be still fouling up the human race in this modern world, where most of mankind has progressed somewhat. Islam should have gone the way of the old Aztec religious ideology centuries ago. In the report up above, the bit where women are called “vegetables” is very much orthodox Islam. Western feminists should wake the hell up to the nature of Islam and attack the disgusting ideology mercilessly. Attacking genuinely misogynistic Islam would give the feminists enough work to last a lifetime.
Peter Buckley says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FSBnG3K8QE
PRCS says
Informative video.
tgusa says
IWD is a socialist\communist construct. Research the origin and progression of IWD. It proclaims to be a celebration of equal rights and world peace and as we all know nothing spells equality and world peace like communism/socialism. I’m surprised that the red /green alliance is experiencing friction over this day.
Wellington says
Western feminists en masse are enablers of evil. They refuse to criticize the Islamic world’s numerous misogynistic elements (e.g., Mo stating when he visited Hell most of the people there were women; 72 virgins servicing men in the silly Islamic afterlife; and the burden being placed upon women, thus the reason for the hijab and other misogynistic clothing, to not excite the male libido) all the while indicting Western males again and again for being too male, never mind the Western male world has accorded to women far, far more rights than any other civilization in history.
Islam is evil and stupid and Western feminism is a giant hypocrite and stupid. Each is an enabler of highly backward thinking. There is no longer any good reason to be an adult, willing Muslim and there is no longer any reason to be an adult, willing Western feminist. No exceptions.
tgusa says
It is really quite eye opening to find that so many mass murdering male dictators emerged in the wake of women’s rights movements around the world. In those places they marched for equality and then everyone began to see their individual human rights disappear with lots of pain and suffering to follow. Is it coincidence, bad luck, or do mass murdering male dictators see it as a way forward to their totalitarian power urges?
Considering all that it is easy to understand why so many western feminists are marching for islam. Same old same old.
mortimer says
Western Feminists are more Marxist than they are feminist.
tgusa says
Sure are mortimer and it is a sad reflection on them. I have always viewed the women in my circle of life as equals but that is because I know can depend on them to use reason and not shy away from accountability. If feminists are whining about me and my views of women they will probably get the man they deserve and it wont be me.
As Doris Day sang,
Que sera, sera
Whatever will be, will be
The future’s not ours to see
Que sera, sera
Have your fun while you can western femmies.
Rarely says
Although Western democracies are entitled to the moral high ground when it comes to women’s rights it was not as high as we are inclined to claim until relatively recently. Until the Woman’s Lib Movement of the 1970s (totally unlike today’s movement of the same name) women were very much second class citizens both under the law and in practice. In fact they’ve only had the vote for +/-100 years. Many would fairly argue that we haven’t gone far enough yet.
Of course neither honour killings nor FGM were ever permitted but we should be careful not to break our arms patting ourselves on the back. Perhaps we should be concentrating on enforcing our laws regarding women’s rights on all those living in our countries.
RS appears to be highlighting the abuse of women in the muslim religion and its application in muslim majority countries to impress upon the left generally and the new women’s lib movement specifically that they take care with whom and with which causes they align themselves.
PRCS says
“RS appears to be highlighting the abuse of women in the muslim religion and its application in muslim majority countries to impress upon the left generally and the new women’s lib movement specifically that they take care with whom and with which causes they align themselves.”
Not just in Muslim majority countries, but within Muslim communities here, too.
Wellington says
Rarely: As far back as ancient Sparta, women could choose who they slept with and In ancient Rome women had divorce and property rights that were virtually unknown anywhere else in the ancient world.
Within the medieval Christian world no human being was more honored than a woman—Mary, the mother of Jesus. And in the game of chess, by the end of the medieval world the most powerful piece on the board was no longer the chief minister of the king but his replacement—the queen.
Moving to more recent times, states like Wyoming and Utah in the 19th century gave women the right to vote before ANY European country did and most before certainly any non-Western nation did.
As for not “patting ourselves on the back” here in the West for not ever sanctioning honor killings and FGM, why the Hell not?
The West developed very early on ideas of liberty which are flexible and expansive such as no other civilization remotely has. There is nowhere in history for a woman to be better placed than in the West and this is what should be looked upon as of paramount importance rather the continued self-flagellation, self-loathing and the standard relativistic thinking.
Rarely says
Wellington.
Medieval Christianity’s ethics are hardly worth bragging about. Even if one were to ignore the various Inquisitions and witch burnings the Middle Ages were hardly an enlightened time.
Boasting that the West never sanctioned honor killings and FGM is like boasting that you never robbed a bank — it’s not to your credit but rather to the shame of those who do rob banks.
Nevertheless, my point is that in many ways our laws and practices vis-a-vie women are not as far removed from being abusive and domineering as we would like to believe. Enlightenment really began getting a grip in the 1970s although its origins can be traced back to the suffragettes and WWII’s Rosie the Riveter– not so very long ago. Although we have come a long way there are many who would reasonably argue that there is still a long way to go.
gravenimage says
RS appears to be highlighting the abuse of women in the muslim religion and its application in muslim majority countries to impress upon the left generally and the new women’s lib movement specifically that they take care with whom and with which causes they align themselves.
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Robert Spencer may also believe that the abuse of women is wrong.
Rarely says
GI.
True but it isn’t the point he is making.
gravenimage says
Rarely, there are hundreds of stories here at Jihad Watch condemning the abuse of women. Trying to make a case for Robert Spencer’s not caring about Islam’s misogyny seems very odd.
PRCS says
“Twitter user Syed Aoun Ali wrote, “Some liberals have destroyed the real cause of Women’s Day and their genuine rights. They are connecting their own personal filthy desires with this. May Allah protect our women from these vulgar ones.”
It’s the 21st century, Bunky. They’re not “your women”.
Rarely says
They didn’t get the memo.
gravenimage says
+1
Walter Sieruk says
Truly those Pakistan Muslims are plainly declaring the reality, like it or not about the International Woman‘s day march as a movement that is un-Islamic. Totally un- Islamic.
This is because the religion of Islam gives little to no regard to female rights. As revealed by Brigitte Gabriel in her book entitled THEY MUST BE STOPPED on page i71 under the subtitle of “ISLAN AND THE MISTREATENENT OF WOMEN it reads “Control and disregard for human life are key elements in Islamic ideology .” Further on the every next page the reader is also informed that “Woman is Islam are considered unclean deemed inferior even to dirt.”
To give on one example, out of many of the cruel extreme misogyny of Islam is a necessary reiteration of a tragic and horrible event.
Which is that 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.
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Muslims denounce International Women’s Day March as ‘un-Islamic’
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Well, they aren’t wrong. I just wish more in the West would notice.
sidney penny says
Why was Pakistan created out of India in 1947?
Was religion involved?
Which one?
Hadrian says
They will notice once we suicidal kafirs discard the utterly stupid label iSlAmOpHoBiA.