Mayor Khaled Jarrah of the Arab town of Jatt near Haifa “canceled a play about violence against women in the Arab sector on the same day that a 26-year-old mother of three was seriously injured in a shooting in Lod, reportedly in connection to the divorce process she was in.”
The reason for the cancellation was that the play, in Jarrah’s view, was “a rebellion against the traditional family roles and violates Islamic law.”
Domestic violence is a crime in Western cultures, but not in Islamic law, in which wife-beating and honor killings are permitted. Jarrah is correct in stating that the play “violates Islamic law.”
The inconvenient truth that the West avoids discussing is that to fully obey Islamic law, which far too many people do, is to accept various human rights abuses.
“Anti-domestic violence play canceled for ‘violating’ Islamic tradition,” by Eliav Breuer, Jerusalem Post, February 6, 2022:
The mayor of the Arab town of Jatt near Haifa canceled a play about violence against women in the Arab sector on the same day that a 26-year-old mother of three was seriously injured in a shooting in Lod, reportedly in connection to the divorce process she was in.
The show in question, called “Voices” (“Kolot”), documents a collection of stories and situations from the lives of women, girls, and youth in romantic relationships, describing the cycle of violence they experience, which culminates in murder.
The mayor, Khaled Jarrah, argued that the show essentially calls for a rebellion against the traditional family roles and violates Islamic law.
Directed by Hisham Suleiman (Fauda, Baghdad Central, Al Medinah), the artistic director of the Nazareth Fringe Theater, and promoted by women’s rights NGO Na’amat, the play premiered in June and has been performed over 70 times since, including in the November “IsraDrama” festival, held by the Hanoch Levin Institute of Israeli Drama in Tel Aviv.
The play became popular very quickly, Suleiman said in a conversation with The Jerusalem Post. It has been performed in dozens of Arab cities and towns that often appear in the news due to gun violence.
For Suleiman, however, the more interesting part of the play is the discussion panel that the cast decided to hold immediately after it.
“For me, the real play begins after the staged show ends,” he said to the Post. “Unfortunately, the media did not notice until the extreme scenario happened – which shows that in Israel the extremes take over the daily discourse.”
The idea that Suleiman is trying to push across is that the violence against women is something that is a part of society – and is part of what boys see and learn from a young age. He wishes to draw a distinction between tradition that safeguards and anchors society, versus tradition that serves part of society and is used a weapon – in this case, quite literally…..
Michael Copeland says
Islamic “family values” include the right to behead your unwilling wife.
gravenimage says
Exactly, Michael.
Keith O says
I wonder what the mayor’s wife thinks about this, as opposed to what her slave master tells her she is allowed to think?
I make no apologies for this, but I believe that violence against women and children is a great reason to bring back Solomon’s laws. An eye for an eye etc.
Any male, (they are not men) who harms a woman or child should have the same violence done to them by men.
I have witnessed a punishment under tribal lore handed out in the top end of Australia.
The guilty party had raped a child. All the women of the clan lined up and he was forced to walk between them as he was flogged with nulla nulla’s (clubs) then at the end the men took him and from all accounts he was never seen or heard from again.
Brings a warm glow to the heart whenever I think about it.
Barbara says
Not all justice occurs in the court room.
gravenimage says
Israel: Mayor of Arab town cancels domestic violence play for violating Islamic law
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And the mayor of Jatt is not alone–many attempts in the Muslim world to curb violence against women has been shut down as “un-Islamic”–because Islam does indeed teach wife beating, rape and marital rape, and “Honor Killing”.
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The reason for the cancellation was that the play, in Jarrah’s view, was “a rebellion against the traditional family roles and violates Islamic law.
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Keep this in mind next time your hear Muslims talking about the “traditional family” in Islam–what it means if the abuse and murder of women.
God, I hate Islam.