My latest in PJ Media:
The facts at hand presumably speak for themselves, but a trifle more vulgarly, I suspect, than facts even usually do. On Thursday evening in the Indian city of Muzaffarnagar, Hazra, the second wife of the Muslim cleric Maulvi Vakil Ahmad, pleaded with him not to take a third wife. The good Maulvi refused her pleas and went to sleep, whereupon, according to India Today, “Hazra cut off his manhood with a sharp-edged kitchen knife, due to which he ‘bled to death.’”
What a shame. Hazra will no doubt now face the full measure of the law, yet while her action cannot be excused, it can be understood. Polygamy destroys romance, and dehumanizes women, reducing them to the status of commodities. Is she the one, the only one, who has captured your heart, delighted your eyes, put a spring in your step and filled your heart with joy? No, she is just one in a series, and can be changed once you grow tired of her. The Qur’an tells Muslim men to “marry those that please you of women, two or three or four. But if you fear that you will not be just, then one.…” (Qur’an 4:3).
It seems fair: A man who cannot be just with multiple wives should restrict himself to just one, but in such matters, what constitutes just behavior is all too subjective and elusive. Islamic authorities have generally understood this to mean equal economic support and equal time in the beds of each.
Yet even if all this were scrupulously managed, an equal distribution of affection wouldn’t be possible. Islamic tradition records that even Muhammad favored his child bride Aisha over all of his other wives. A hadith has a Muslim making bold to ask him, “Who is the most beloved person to you?” Muhammad answered with one word: Aisha. (Bukhari 5.62.3662) What might his other wives have thought of this?
In contrast to this, the human heart longs to love and be loved uniquely, and this desire cannot be extinguished. In Constantinople: City of the World’s Desire, 1453–1924, Philip Mansel’s elegantly written history of Constantinople after the Muslim conquest, he offers a moving case in point involving the daughter of the sultan of the Ottoman Empire:
Yet even these most powerful and privileged of Ottoman society might be tortured by jealousy. Adile Sultan, daughter of the great nineteenth-century reformer Mahmud II, married an army officer, Mehmed Ali Pasha. They were in love. One day at the fashionable meeting-place in the Golden Horn called the Sweet Waters of Europe, she attracted his attention. Since she was thickly veiled, he did not know who she was. He dropped a scented handkerchief at her feet. That night the Pasha found the handkerchief on the pillow beside his sleeping wife.
One day, Adile Sultan traveled to a mosque far from her home. Taking advantage of the celebrated Oriental hospitality, she stopped for a rest at a mansion that was on the way. While enjoying coffee and sherbet set out by her hostess, she was astonished to find that her hostess, too, was the wife of Mehmed Ali Pasha.
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gravenimage says
Muslim Cleric Dies After Being Castrated by One of His Wives for Planning to Marry Again
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Yet, as I have observed before, we are constantly being told that Muslim women actually love polygamy…
william says
gravenimage.
As Muslim wives are forbidden to refuse their husband sex whenever he wants it, does that make Muslim men serial rapists?
Thinker1 says
Now, for the cuttin’
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Cut his balls off. Ouch. But it’s just in a sense, given the millions of young girls who had their clitorises lopped.
As Muslim wives are forbidden to refuse their husband sex whenever he wants it, does that make Muslim men serial rapists?
Yes. But we must define rapist. For example, is a full-time abortionist a serial murder, or merely a women’s healthcare provider.
Honest Ali says
I have always said that if Muslim women truly wanted to be free, they just have to wait until their abusers sleep, and get the scissors.
If they did it en masse on Eid, the entire Muslims world would be freed overnight.
Women have a lot more power than they think.
gravenimage says
Many Muslim women are also devout Muslims–with all that that implies.
Infidel says
Why have a pig ? when all she wanted was the sausage ?? ?
Ade Fegan says
Sell the sizzle, not the sausage !
Proud Kafir says
You are right Infidel, with a nice sense of humour
Felix Katz says
Female genital mutilation……………???
Ade Fegan says
Brilliant !
Otis says
If Muslim women can open up their eyes and decide to abandon Islam enmasse,the world would be a better place.I don’t celebrate someone’s death,but whatever can make any jihadi leave this world I’ll appreciate that 100%.
Ade Fegan says
Nice to see feminism doing some good for a change
European pagan says
I hope all Muslim men learned something from this story, what can happen if they want to marry more than one woman ?✂️
Infidel says
Hopefully all muslim men learn to boycott all women, so that islam goes demographically extinct
One can dream….
somehistory says
There have been other “cultures” and belief systems that allow males to have more than one wife at a time.
Long ago, I read a book called “Hanta Yo.” It was written by one who had researched one of the 500 Nations. In the book, the main character is an American Indian woman who marries the man she loves. She is very happy as he expresses his great love for her. Later on, true to their culture and tradition, he finds it necessary to take another, younger, woman as a second wife. The book goes in-depth about the feelings of the older wife, but she can not protest and the story explains why she cannot.
Still later, the man is called upon to give what he values most to another…and he gives the younger wife. The older wife struggles with the conflict…she gets to stay with the man she loves, but he has put more value on the younger wife.
It is understandable that this mozlum wanted to be the ‘last’ wife and when her husband refused to accede to her wishes, took matters into her own hands. It’s too bad that such a “culture” exists and that so many are made to be so unhappy for so long.
Jesus said that God created ‘one man and one woman and brought them together as husband and wife.’ Since God created the heart, the mind, the emotions, He knows best what is best for humans; how best to spend their lives. It’s best if one man marries one **woman** “till death do them part,”….death, not murder to achieve that end.
And this account reminds of the U.S. wife, L. Bobbitt, although, the husband survived.
Ben Kennedy says
I rather enjoyed this news story, principally because it proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that contrary to the Mohammedan military-religious culture, some in the rank and file can think independently. While this may terrorize the all-powerful dictators in the sect, it must cause them to consider the loss of blind stupid obedience, which they demand of their serfs and peasants.