When he received his award, Rasoul Zarar Ibrahim was clearly considered a model of assimilation. But as this account notes, he still carried attitudes and assumptions from the Islamic culture of violence in his mental baggage. His daughter has paid the price. Will Swedish authorities try to protect women and girls in similar situations by working to eradicate such attitudes from Muslim migrants? Of course not. That would be “Islamophobic.”
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
An another hadith states: “Rifa`a divorced his wife whereupon `AbdurRahman bin Az-Zubair Al-Qurazi married her. `Aisha said that the lady (came), wearing a green veil (and complained to her (Aisha) of her husband and showed her a green spot on her skin caused by beating). It was the habit of ladies to support each other, so when Allah’s Messenger came, Aisha said, ‘I have not seen any woman suffering as much as the believing women. Look! Her skin is greener than her clothes!’” — Sahih Bukhari 7.77.5825
“Moderate Arab convicted of honor violence – received a medal by the king,” translated from “Moderat arab dömd för hedersvåld – fick medalj av kungen,” Fri Kurir, April 13, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
In 2014, Rasoul Zarar Ibrahim received a medal from His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf. His “sunshine history” in Sweden since 1990 earned him the New Builder of the Year award. Now, however, Ibrahim has been convicted of honor killing against his own daughter. This after almost 30 years in the country where he has, among other things, represented the Moderates in the municipal council.
It was 16 years ago that Ibrahim had children with a Swedish woman from Sundsbruk who was eleven years younger. In 2008, however, he began to focus on entrepreneurship, and later separated from his Swedish girlfriend.
Although Ibrahim has been in Sweden for around 30 years, he has still not gotten used to Swedish culture. His daughter has therefore experienced a significant share of honor culture from his home country. Among other things, he has banned her from using social media. The daughter’s Facebook account is now reduced to a picture of a patched teddy bear holding a bouquet of roses.
At the end of 2020, Ibrahim was therefore sentenced by Ångermanland District Court for harassment.
According to the verdict, it can be deduced that he:
“Screamed ‘shut up, fucking idiot’ and similar expressions, took her cell phone and read her private messages, hit her with the car door so that her cap and glasses went off her, and caused a red mark on her nose.”
It also appears that he took his daughter’s mobile phone and started scrolling through her messages while driving the car. He has angrily “told her to stop being on social media and questioned which friends she has.”
Judge Susanne Söderström Wallin sentenced Ibrahim to a fine of SEK 1,500 for his honor crime.
Despite the fact that Ibrahim runs Subway restaurants with a turnover of 25 million a year, the district court apparently considers that SEK 1,500 would constitute a “penalty” and leaves the state to cover his legal costs of SEK 60,000.
Wellington says
Sweden could very well be the dopiest country in all of Europe.
mortimer says
Swedes are living examples of a philosophy called Pelagianism which denies the view of original sin as well as the necessity of grace, while asserting that man is capable of achieving salvation by his own efforts. Islam, however, achieves salvation not through deeds of mercy, but by violence and repression.
That is what the dopey Swedes do not get.
IT’S THE IDEOLOGY, STUPID.
Wellington says
Well, mortimer, I don’t think the fault with Sweden is Pelagianism. Rather, it’s rooted in general stupidity and ignorance which Pelagius did not stand guilty of.
Actually, I have long admired Pelagius and think him correct (rather as with Aristotle) that wisdom and proper knowledge, accompanied by moral intelligence, is enough. Besides, original sin is one aspect of Christianity I have long not been a fan of. It delegates to the progeny the sin of the ancestor. Might as well hold a great-grandchild of an SS concentration guard culpable too—which I cannot and will not do.
No, I reject original sin. No decent legal system, for instance English Common Law or Roman Law, did this and I think the Christian tradition here, a tradition I generally admire, simply wrong.
william says
Wellington: Original sin was though up by the RC church as a way of guilting its followers, that way they could extract money from them for ‘forgiveness of sin’. It also opened up the denigration of the female sex for centuries. Much like Islam does today
Wellington says
william: On the specific matter of the female gender, though I am personally not religious, I would contend that Christianity from the get-go extended far more respect to females than Islam ever has.
The most honored human being in medieval Christianity and continued to this day by the Catholic Church and many other sects (e.g., Russian Orthodoxy) is a woman, Mary, the mother of Jesus. Also, you have nothing in Christianity like you do in Islam where the female is completely subordinated to the man, including having to have sex with a husband when he desires it. The very fact that polygamy exists in Islam but not Christianity is another indicator of a far more subordinated position for the female in Islam than in Christianity.
I am not saying that Christianity early on extended full rights to women across the board but the female gender was from the beginning of Christianity far better off than in Islam. And don’t forget that Mohammed himself said that he had visited Hell and most there were women, who also serve men in the Islamic afterlife.
gravenimage says
Good posts, Wellington.
THX 1138 says
“Your code begins by damning man as evil, then demands that he practice a good which it defines as impossible for him to practice. It demands, as his first proof of virtue, that he accept his own depravity without proof. It demands that he start, not with a standard of value, but with a standard of evil, which is himself, by means of which he is then to define the good: the good is that which he is not.
It does not matter who then becomes the profiteer on his renounced glory and tormented soul, a mystic God with some incomprehensible design or any passer-by whose rotting sores are held as some inexplicable claim upon him—it does not matter, the good is not for him to understand, his duty is to crawl through years of penance, atoning for the guilt of his existence to any stray collector of unintelligible debts, his only concept of a value is a zero: the good is that which is non-man.
The name of this monstrous absurdity is Original Sin.
A sin without volition is a slap at morality and an insolent contradiction in terms: that which is outside the possibility of choice is outside the province of morality. If man is evil by birth, he has no will, no power to change it; if he has no will, he can be neither good nor evil; a robot is amoral. To hold, as man’s sin, a fact not open to his choice is a mockery of morality. To hold man’s nature as his sin is a mockery of nature. To punish him for a crime he committed before he was born is a mockery of justice. To hold him guilty in a matter where no innocence exists is a mockery of reason. To destroy morality, nature, justice and reason by means of a single concept is a feat of evil hardly to be matched. Yet that is the root of your code.
Do not hide behind the cowardly evasion that man is born with free will, but with a “tendency” to evil. A free will saddled with a tendency is like a game with loaded dice. It forces man to struggle through the effort of playing, to bear responsibility and pay for the game, but the decision is weighted in favor of a tendency that he had no power to escape. If the tendency is of his choice, he cannot possess it at birth; if it is not of his choice, his will is not free.
What is the nature of the guilt that your teachers call his Original Sin? What are the evils man acquired when he fell from a state they consider perfection? Their myth declares that he ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge—he acquired a mind and became a rational being. It was the knowledge of good and evil—he became a moral being. He was sentenced to earn his bread by his labor—he became a productive being. He was sentenced to experience desire—he acquired the capacity of sexual enjoyment. The evils for which they damn him are reason, morality, creativeness, joy—all the cardinal values of his existence. It is not his vices that their myth of man’s fall is designed to explain and condemn, it is not his errors that they hold as his guilt, but the essence of his nature as man. Whatever he was—that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love—he was not man.
Man’s fall, according to your teachers, was that he gained the virtues required to live. These virtues, by their standard, are his Sin. His evil, they charge, is that he’s man. His guilt, they charge, is that he lives.
They call it a morality of mercy and a doctrine of love for man.” – Ayn Rand
James Lincoln says
THX 1138,
I know of no specific passage or verse in scripture speaks definitively to the concept of an inborn sin nature.
As far as I know, Jesus didn’t believe in original sin, and the disciples and the early church didn’t either.
If I am wrong about this, please let me know…
Wellington says
James: I believe you are correct. The concept of original sin I have never found in the New Testament. It was developed by the early Church, especially by St. Augustine (354-430 AD). Being the lawyer I am, the idea of bestowing guilt upon the progeny for what an ancestor did strikes me as terribly wrong and counter to anything found in any decent legal system. I generally respect Christianity but not its doctrine of original sin which is found in many Christian sects, including Roman Catholicism.
gravenimage says
Good exchange.
terry says
Save for some Eastern European and Baltic states, all of Western Europe and America has lost its mind!
born saturday says
sweedy arabia
mortimer says
Swedanistan … Berzerkistan.
BlackSabbath says
Sweden can save tons of future victims of rape and murder by simply banning islam.
Bev says
I think it’s a little late for that. They are the rape capital of Europe and evidently just decided that child marriage is okay as well. Whatever happened to the Viking spirit?
mortimer says
The Swedes have twisted their heads into a reverse position! They refuse to see the obvious misogyny in Islam, while promoting feminism in Sweden. They are blind to the evil deeds that are a direct result of Islam’s SYSTEMIC MISOGYNY that is SACRALIZED by hadiths, Koran, the Sira and canonical commentaries.
Misogyny is thus CANONICAL Islam, rather than an aberration.
It’s the IDEOLOGY, stupid.
born saturday says
those are the kings of the earth and the rulers of modern europe all have lost their head and lead us to the cultural and demographic suicide… what was europe once will not even be remembered in a few decades… the downgrade and complete erosion of anything that depicted european countries in the past.
the people of europe were fed hay that they ate and became the herd that has been led to the cliff…
Walter Sieruk says
Islam .as we all know or should know is a religion of brutal cruel malicious and murderous misogyny .
Even to the callous point of a Muslim father viciously murdering his very own daughter
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Such a despicable Muslim father is so deluded by his false religion of Islam that he actually views and calls that wicked action of malice-filled deadly violence an ‘honor killing. In reality there is no honor in that only complete and pure evil .
This shows how a man heart can hardened and cognation warped by the demonic false religion that is Islam.
This also shows that the Wisdom found in the Bible does apply to current times.
For the Bible in Isaiah 5:20. “Woe to those who call evil good .and good evil…” [N.K.J.V.]
Walter Sieruk says
Jesus taught “By their fruits you will know them.” Matthew 7:20. [N.K.J.V.]
born saturday says
we might as well replace the deceiving crosses from the flags with the cresent so as to depict the reality within the country, its laws , its customs and values…
tim gallagher says
You can’t trust any of these Muslims. Their entire value system is far too different, too alien, and this is just one more example of that fact. Some model of assimilation this scumbag has turned out to be. The only safe policy, to protect against this type of situation, is to shut Muslims out. They are always going to be seeking to impose barbaric Islam on everybody and who wants to live the primitive, totally barbaric lifestyle that islam imposes on people. Muslims need to be kept locked away in their own backward and hideous Muslim societies. The gullible Swedes who gave this piece of crap his award have been played for fools by this Muslim, who was, no doubt, lying to them as Muslims so often do in their dealings with the hated infidels. The Hungarians and other Visegrad bloc countries’ citizens don’t buy the bullshit from Muslims and have the right attitude by shutting Muslims out.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Perhaps ISIS Bride, Shamima Begum, who dreams of biting into a Subway meatball sandwich, could be his spokesperson in abstencia. They could pipe her into Swedish livingrooms from her ISIS detention camp. BTW- Does this guy insist on halal meat?
Andrew Blackadder says
I really wish somebody could explain to me what was wrong with the Old Sweden that brought them to this idea of building a New Sweden…
James Lincoln says
Andrew,
The “Old Sweden” was great:
1. Very safe and beautiful country.
2. Stunningly beautiful blue-eyed blonde Swedish women.
3. Delicious Swedish meatballs.
4. Fun cars like the Volvo P1800…
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
Sweden: Muslim migrant who received medal from king convicted of honor violence against his daughter
……………..
How many times have we seen *this* kind of thing–where Muslims lauded as “moderates” turned out to be *anything* but.
David Everitt says
I think that mentally the Swedes are following the lemmings when they begin their famous “suicide runs”, all to end up with the same fate.
Nikhil Manek says
Honor killings are rampant in pakistan.. what people in western countries dont understand that is the fact that they are sick people. They follow customs that are thousands of years old and if you go against these customs they kill you. That is called honor killing. They do all these things including rape and sexual exploitation of little children “bachabaazi”. Western countries should simply ban this sick, bigoted, regressive people from coming to their countries. Among all the people in the world, they are the worst..
OLD GUY says
Time after time these muslim migrants prove that they will not assimilate or follow the laws of their host countries. Yet our political leaders continue to shove these muslim migrants into our neighborhoods, which results in higher crime rates, lower property values and a general degrading of our lives.
Wake up CITIZENS the current political leadership is taking us down the road of destruction. We the people need to take control of our government by electing people who will close our borders and allow migration of people who will benefit our society not destroy it.