Terrorizing Muslim Women
By Nonie Darwish
July 12, 2010
There is an article floating all over the Internet, “Joys of Muslim Women,” which discusses the horrific truth about how Islam legally treats women. The article claims to have been written by me, but that is false: I am not the author. Let me use this occasion, however, to set a few matters straight:
The silence is deafening around the world in regards to the inhumanity and brutality of Sharia towards women. Most of the activism against stoning, flogging and abuse of women under Sharia is heard from former Muslim women, like myself, and a few others in the West who dare to expose the truth.
Muslim women have no choice but to abide by Sharia, since rejecting it is grounds for the charge of apostasy, punishable by death. Having been exposed to Sharia for centuries, Muslim women have learned convoluted coping mechanisms to avoid Sharia’s wrath. Engaging in their own form of Stockholm Syndrome, most Muslim women publicly defend the very laws that enslave them. Even Obama’s advisor on Islamic affairs, Dalia Mujahed, stated that Sharia is “misunderstood.” Muslim women end up as the guardians of their own jails. It is women who often report younger girls who refuse to wear the head cover, and some wives cover up for the honor killing of a daughter by their husband or son. Many have accepted their inferior status and wear it as a badge of honor.
That is why there is no significant grass-roots feminist movement in the Muslim world today. Muslim feminists are routinely accused of apostasy — with its death penalty hanging over their heads. The only feminist movements to speak of in the Muslim world occurred during British colonial rule and, on a smaller scale, when the French conquered Egypt in 1798. By the end of the British rule, feminism ended inside the Muslim world.
Many Muslims claim that “Islam honors women” just as they claim that Islam is a “Religion of Peace.” The truth however, is just the opposite. Islam does not honor women, but rather holds their very lives in absolute bondage.
America must outlaw Sharia from ever being practiced by anyone on American soil. If we fail to do this, if we permit Sharia to creep into our legal system, we might as well say goodbye to our freedom. Here are just a few examples of what Muslim women must live under:
[1] There is no age limit for marriage of girls under Sharia. A man can pay a dowry and sign a marriage contract with parents of a toddler girl and consummate the marriage at age 9. Recent cases in Yemen and Saudi Arabia exposed this tragedy when 8-year-old girls filed for divorce from their over 50-year-old husbands. Not one Muslim authority challenged the Saudi marriage high official, Dr. Ahmad Al Mubi, who stated in 2008, in an interview that aired on LBC TV: “There is no minimal age for entering marriage. The Prophet Muhammad is the model we follow.”
[2] Islamic law states: “a Muslim will not be punished for killing an adulterer.” Islam, therefore, encourages honor killing of women. Since men have more sexual rights than women in Islam, it becomes harder to catch a man committing adultery. Thus women become more susceptible to becoming the victims of the above law, which allows vigilante street justice against adulterous women. I have never heard a Friday sermon stating that honor killing is forbidden in no uncertain terms.
[3] A rebellious wife is one who “answers her husband coldly” or refuses to go to bed with him. Rebelliousness on the part of the wife nullifies the husband’s obligation to support her and gives him permission to beat her (Shafi Law m10 and m11 p. 541-2). The Prophet said: “A man will not be asked as to why he beat his wife”.–Sunaan Abu Dawud, 11.2142
[4] Divorce is only in the hands of the husband and is as easy as verbally saying “I divorce you.” Thus the wife is divorced whether the husband had the intention to do it or not. Law n3.2 p 559.
[5] There is no community property between husband and wife in Islam. A Muslim wife would be lucky to inherit 20% from her husband. A man’s property after his death is not given to his wife, but is divided among many members of the family such as his parents, other wives; sons take double what daughters get.
[6] A man has the right to have up to 4 wives. Polygamy is not just a right, but loyalty to one wife is discouraged. Mohammed said: “The best Muslims had the largest number of wives,” Bukhari 7.62.7. A Muslim man does not vow loyalty to his bride in the marriage ceremony and the bride must not expect it. In the Muslim marriage contract itself, the husband is asked to give name and address of wife number 1, 2 and 3 if any. (See a copy of the Muslim marriage contract in my book, chapter 2 of Cruel and Usual Punishment.)
[7] Mutaa or pleasure marriage gives the right to a man to marry a woman for a fixed amount of time, from a few hours to several years. That takes away any holiness in the concept of marriage. The only condition is that the man must pay the woman money (dowry) in exchange for sexual rights over her body. This is simply legalized prostitution, exploiting needy and poor women. This form of marriage is not registered or regulated by the State.
Urfi marriage is another form of marriage that is usually kept as a secret. Sharia has not forgotten the traveling man and gave him “Misyar” marriage allowing him “wives” in different cities. Sharia satisfies men’s urges at the expense of women’s dignity and humanity with total disregard to limitations and wholesome standards for men to live by for the benefit of a healthy family life.
[8] The Qur’an often uses the word “nikah,” which literally means sexual intercourse, to mean marriage. The dowry is called “ugur” in the Qur’an, meaning wage. It is payment for owning a woman’s private parts to be used by the husband as he wishes. “The dowry is given in exchange for the woman’s sexual organs.” (Ibn Kathir)
[9] A man is allowed to have sex with slave women and women captured in battle, and if they are married their marriage is annulled. Qur’an 4:24: “All married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom your right hands possess.” Sharia never abolished slavery and highly regulates it, that is, makes it “regular.” Saudi Arabia officially abolished slavery only as late as 1962 after pressure from the “infidel” Western Judeo-Christian culture. To this day, the Muslim leadership in Egypt and Saudi Arabia refuses to annul slave sexual rights for men in Sharia books.
[10] The testimony of a woman in court is half the value of a man, law o24.7. You can guess who usually wins if a man and woman face each other in court.
[11] Revered Muslim theologian Imam Ghazali (1058-1111) defined marriage [2] for generations of Muslims without apology as: “Marriage [3] is a form of slavery. The woman is man’s slave and her duty therefore is absolute obedience to the husband in all that he asks of her person.”
[12] For a Muslim woman to prove rape, she must have 4 male witnesses. “Proof of adultery and rape will be either confession of accused or eye-witness of four male adult Muslims.” Hudood ordinance #7 of 1989 amended by #8B of 20 of 1990.
[13] A rapist may only be required to pay the bride-money (dowry) without marrying.” law m.8.10, page 535. This law tells the man that all he has to do to rectify a rape is to pay a dowry to the rape victim. Rape is almost always blamed on the girl who must come up with 4 male witnesses, especially if she was not covered up the Islamic way. A Muslim preacher in Australia blamed rape by Muslim men on Australian women whom he described as “uncovered meat.”
[14] The Prophet said, “I looked at Hell [4] and saw that the majority of its inhabitants were women.” Bukhari 4:464. There is a book sold in British mosques entitled: “Women Who Deserve to Go to Hell” by Mansoor Abul Hakim.
[15] A Muslim woman must cover every inch of her body since Islam regards every part of a woman’s body as “Awrah,” a sexual organ. Some sects of Islam demand the covering of the face and others don’t. This kind of extreme cover of even the face deepens the feeling of isolation, gender segregation and becomes the symbol of Islamic submission and presence in the West.
[16] Muslim scriptures describe women as deficient in intellect and faith, toys, crooked, half devils, harmful and detrimental to men. Also the prophet stated: “After me I have not left any affliction more harmful to men than women.” Bukhari V 7, B 62/33. “A woman’s jihad is to please her husband” is taught by some Muslim women websites such as Takva.com, posted on 11-2-2008.
This article is dedicated to Sakine Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian woman in jail who is awaiting death by stoning for alleged adultery. Under international pressure, Iran just announced that her stoning is “postponed.” [5] But the regime still plans to execute her.
This article was originally published here, Click here to see the original footnotes.
Nonie Darwish is the author of “Cruel and Usual Punishment” and “Now They Call Me Infidel” and president of FormerMuslimsUnited.org.
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how psychotic and digusting muslims are. i can only be extremely grateful that i wasn't born in one of those shitholes,taking my anger, misery, ignorance and above all, jealously out on women or big daddy west. as for the women, it's very difficult to feel bad for people who don't feel bad for themselves, as is prominent in victims with stockholm syndrome... but what's the worst that can happen, they'll beat/torture/humiliate/hate/fear you more than they already do? don't be so pathetic; this life is too short to be a (willing) slave.
The Word of God says ... you shall know the truth and the truth will make you free!
Jesus came to set us free, from bondage and slavery. Islam is about control and slavery ... do not be deceived! ... open your eyes ... do not be ignorant!!
I think people are confusing sharia which are rules in Islamic countries and the religion Islam. The sharia rules are based on old practice - traditions and cannot be compared to the modern Islam. Islam has all basics that any other religion teaches - peace, kindness and tolerance. Unfortunately most muslims are mentally stuck with their old traditions that are wrong and do not apply to today's world.
There are so many sects of Islam eg. Ismailism which do not follow any of there sharia laws. Their women live a life like any other person, are highly educated and respected. Extremist muslims call Ismailis as not being muslims. The truth is Islam as a religion is similar to other religions and does not condemn women. It is the people who created the laws that humiliate women. Do not confuse a religion and what people in muslim countries practice as their laws.
I have read the article and the comments - One conclsion, I have passed here by mistake - I feel the hate and the ignorance - the author of the article has deliberately coverred most of the truth for intentions inside her that I should not venture into - however it is easy to assume a certain hate for herself or a faith she is not following - Stonning is equally the punishment of both man and woman whom are in a marriage equally with the same number of witnesses to prove it - in other words, it is almost impossible to come up with 4 witnesses of fornication and in this GOD has sent is mercy upon us. The severity of the punishment is to remind married men and women what an ugly crime it is to cheat in marriage and how distructive it is for any society - The rape point the author mentioned is a lie and a woman is not asked to provide 4 witnesses to prove rape - examination of the woman body for bruises and a thorough investigation - it is also slow concluding law so that women cannot for the simple act evil or ill intention accuse any male with sexual harrassement an issue our western society has suffered from the millions of women in the work force who take personal revenge upon successful men by accusing them of sexual harrassement. The punishment of rape is 100 lashes for male and jail while in the TORAH it is 50 shekel "or pieces of silver" another lie the author creeps in and brings forth from the BIBLE - yes "I divorce you" ends the marriage which does two things 1- it reminds the male that marriage is a huge responsibility and anger would only make him lose his wife therefore a Muslim should not get angry nor use this power losely 2 - unlike Cristianity where a woman has to be the property of the husband forever no matter what goes on in the marriage ISLAM allowed divorce so that if life is a living nightmare both can find peace else where while in Christianity only adultry warrants a divorce. This means that men literally own their wives no matter what - 3- a divorced woman must stay in her home for three months after divorce and the husband should pay her a monthly salary to his financial ability and this is so that people are not destroyed as in our society where a man always brought to his knees by the system when divorcing losing his kids, most of his income, his home and all he built entangled in a bitter legal dispute that destroys everything and makes only the lawyers rich - this also leads to the enslavement of men in the west by women and its evident lok around watch TV and see what the western male has been reduced to - an absolute pathetic being so weak it is disgusting and thats why he makes his date split the dinner bill every time cause he knows hey dont expect my generosity and be above me as well - get up go to work lady and pay the bills
- now the pleasure marriage is only with a small sect called the shiat and the west love the shiat and thats an enough comment cause just like Christians the shiat gave GOD a family daughters mothers and believe in the mediums idol worship - "aurfy" and "misyaar" marriage is a marriage of choice if a divorced woman older in age with children who wishes not to be ina full marriage she can marry a man who can fullfill her but leave her her space with her kids unlike in the west as soon as a divorced woman gets married she ignores her kids to alcohol, drugs, and step parent abuse and when things get difficult she drawns her kids in the river and claim that a black man did it :-) Further marrying a 9 year old girl - in Saudi Arabia alone there are over 1.8 million females above the age of thirty who cannot find a husband dear so please tell me how come they were not wed in their infancy or do you just take a a few beduines from the desert who still do that and make a full law - may I ask u how old was MOTHER OF GOD MARY when she was wed ? do you know or need me to remind you? and further how old was her husband? do you know or need me to remind you? Islam is a progressive faith and marrying younger girls is permitted only when they reach pupirty and that was 1400 years ago which was the case even in europe except in Europe there was no marriage but constant rape and killing of women in the dark ages and need me remind you of how many women burned by your Church? you can never reach the status of women in ISLAM - it was the first religion that gave women the right to vote, the right for inheritance, and equality with men 1400 years ago while women started to get their rights from what you call judo-christian world in the late 1920's - a Muslim woman is not obligated to work, her husband is obligated to pay all her bills, look after her, and she is not even obligated to clean his home and if she wishes he must bring her a maid that do everything - all a Muslim woman is obligated to do is bare children and have sex with her husband so he would not go out and seek it in the street whle your women work like dogs and as they age start to look as rough as men and when divorced later in life are discarded alone living with a cat or a dog or in a retirement home like a reject whle any Muslim woman lives wth her children grandchildren and die serrounded by family friends and endless love - regarding captured women in battle and sex it was ordained and brought forth by the TORAH in the bible please read detrochomy in your own bible and see how a captured woman in battle is put in the house, shaves her head and allowed to mourn her brother and father and then becomes his sex slave dear - in islam they take them as wives and look after all their needs and while in the TORAH all non virgin women are put to death only virgin ones are kept islam makes no distinction between a virgin and non - and finally your reference to how the Quran describes women as deficient in intellect and faith it means 1- in faith cause during their period they dont pray nor fast while men are not to enjoy such breaks in worship and in intellect because as they are about to receieve their period they tend to have physical pains and anger - I think you can attest to that and during menapause they go insane for a while - I saw my ant, and my mother with their flashes and screams and just complete insanity - I see my wife how she starts screaming a day before her period comes so hey blame GOD dont blame me - what else do you have in your empty pocket oh marrriage and slavery - please please isnt marriage a form of slavery - i mean come on both man and woman have to come home daily to the same partner no matter what sharing obligations - can a man go out and do what he pleases whenever he pleases or can a woman do that ?? please marriage is the ultimate form of slavery and you know if the man is obligated to pay all the bills and provide all the comforts and bring forth a maid for his wife then please point me to one woman who wouldnt want to be a slave - something you sure will never ever come to know and enjoy the little puppy you will buy when every one leaves you alone barking with your feminist ordeals and madness for equality that by the mouths of million of western women they hate and they still want us to open the door, buy a flower and be nice - please from today, you open the door for me, you buy me a flower and you pay my dinner and when men jump me please you defend me and you protect me and I want to take 2 year sabatical and during 7 days every month I wont offer you any sex and when I cry please comfort me and listen and understand and be there for me emotionally and and and and and - I ask god to help us with your article lies and twisted truth
Yea, you're from the West, THAT'S how you're able to describe our lives sooo accurately. Even if it were EVER that horrible here, or 100x times worse than your jihadist sheep herders brainwash you into thinking, it'd still fail in comparison to your subhuman medieval shithole. We all understand you're miserable wannabes; you don't hate us, you hate yourselves. And with good reason.
Wow! You've got it all wrong - you've truly distorted Christianity!! Guess what? No one owns anyone, we are only temples of the Lord, therefore our perfect and LOVING GOD owns us - not man, neither gender. You belong to yourself and are accountable to the Holy Spirit, who is God above and knows all your whereabouts and what you're about. What goes around comes around in the nature of spirit, thus whatever rotten things anyone does to another - whether the victim be female or male - it will come right back to the accuser or attacker and he shall rot and burn in hell, ultimately. God is love, not hate or violence, so those who commit violence, maime, or kill another (female or male) is EVIL and is following the devil, Satan, the Spirit of Darkness, whatever name you want to call him it's all the same - the same black spirit of death - where life is absent, void, null. When one knows the true spirit of God (through the truth), then one definitely SEES and feels the difference between life and death (or rather, between life and just existing, like walking dead). Men who murder or abuse or torture women, girls, animals, another male, etc. are simply evil, plain and simple! Such men have no place waiting for them in heaven in the afterlife, nor in this life, for that matter. They may have material and superficial amusements at present, but they have no genuine joy and peace, and they will not have it when they pass on (die)in spirit from this life, either....unless they change, make a 180 degree turn around and repent for their sins, their horrific, evil mistakes of trespassing on others (females, whom God made and loves). Without change and repentance, ALL of those men mentioned above are doomed to hell....and they're living a hell of a life right now, no doubt, cause whatever spirit of mind one exudes, one attracts to them! Living under a dark and oppressive cloud of devils can't be fun! We all only live here once and we ALL die, we will all go to an afterlife (at least many of us beleive), and the way you live and treat others here and now will determine where you'll go later or even how your life fares here, now. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you, as Jesus says. There are spiritial reasons for this (laws of nature)!!! Noni said Mohammad mentioned he saw many women in hell when he visualized hell, well he forgot to mention all the evil men he saw there, too, apparently. So where are their berkas and face coverings? Mohammad was a very disturbed man and hated women. Not everyone is disturbed nor as hateful as he and does not have to be...don't ruin your life by forcing yourself to hate and condemn others blindly, unjustly. Just love, as our God of truth does. Someone mentioned on these blogs that Mohammad plagerized the Holy Bible (the Christian bible, which came before Mohammad's time). So, that was easy for him, to write all the beautiful things of peace he found in the bible but then added his own disturbed, distorted version of God by instilling hate, murder, jihad, torture, death to all people but people like himself. Isn't that narcisistic?
Even after seeing the movie Obsession, I still do not trust any muslim. The qur'an does tell it's followers to kill anyone who is an infidel, to stone women, and that it is ok to have sex with children. Amongst other things. mohammad was an evil man who did horrible things and if a person follows him, they are just as insane as he was.
To those morons who blame Obama for everything under the sun, he is president of the United States of America not the local police, sheriff or other law enforcement officer. Do you really believe that the Fright Wing of the GOP is any different. Do you not remember George W. Bush holding hands with his Muslim buddies and kissing them? You have short memories. The people who created Ground Zero were Saudis and a couple of Palestinians. Who did W attack? Republicans are so eager to blast the left they deliberately forget the sins of Shrub.
It has nothing to do with republicans or democrats, it has to do with power and greed. obama is not to be trusted. obama has done nothing but spend us into oblivion, he doesn't call a terrorist a terrorist and he needs to take a stand against the proposed building of a mosque 2 blocks from Ground Zero. If he doesn't then he is on the side of the terrorists. That is worse than George Bush. The proposed mosque is being funded by a terrorist group. Why isn't mayor bloomturd investigating where this imam is getting the money for it? People need to wake up before it's too late. We have the Nazis all over again with a different face, islam.
The lib apologists for islam continually state tha "it's just a small faction" of jihadists who outrage our sensabilities.
A small percentage out of one plus billion muslims leaves an extraordinary number who are embracing modernity. Well, where is the outcry, We're waiting. Since 9/11/01 have you heard many "moderate muslims" out of a billion, voice their rejection of that atrocity?
To answer your question - have I heard any moderate Muslims reject the atrocity of 9/11 - yes, I have. I know many Muslims who found that event horrible and not in keeping with their beliefs. I hope this helps answer your query.
i think that there are too many times when governments cover up "honour killing" not to hurt feelings of "muslim" community. this is very sad, because i believe this makes people feel more trapped. they come from countries where it is normal and watch our coldness with horror. we supposedly have feminist movements, but they are so busy with anti-Semitic activities that they forgot all the ideas of feminism. sharia makes its way into our everyday lives by us being quiet about family abuse (or it's called multiculturalism), sharia courts (not fully legal, but advisory), sharia loans (offered practically in every bank), emirates buying all our sporting events and some of the banks and press not caring (or maybe not daring) to tell the truth. sad to see this abuse happening right under our noses........impossible to understand why so many people can just watch it and find excuses for them.......... are the money and possible votes are more important than our souls? for this is the price for our silence...........
I sould be OK with the death penalty for an adulterous woman... on one condition. Simple biology dictates she perform her adultery with another, a male. He must also die. Every time. By the same hands and in the same way she would.
But, given how islam denigrates women at every turn, this will not happen.
One more example of the superiority of this "religion of peace". I am thankful for one thing: none of these perversions of humanity were ever tought in any course during the whole of my education here in the US... including six years of university. Nor have I ever seen any of this sort of thing in today's common media. No, the ugly truth of islam has been carefully hidden from western man. Part of their intentional deceit. I am glad to find resources that expose the filth for what it is.
These things are not "hidden" in the west. They are minimized by left wing governments like the Obama administration. I'm tired of hearing that "these terrorists are a small minority, most muslims are peaceful." This is pure nonsense.
This sort of blatant human rights violation is not committed in ignorance of Islam, but because of Islam.
Of course these crimes are side-lined, minimalized, or ignored by the Obama administration. Any overly leftist government that rides roughshod over individual rights in this country, as Obama's has, isn't going to be too concerned about crimes against women in that multitude of "separate but equal" cultures in the Mideast. Islam is the culprit, its followers the abettors and sanctioners. Obama doesn't care. He's worried more about his golf swing, and how next to stick it to the America he hates.
Sharia law as explained above is evil and straight from satan himself. If muhammed made these laws i.e. sharia then this is proof he was possessed by the devil!
I 100% agree! ... the so called prophet muhammod (note with small m) is satan himself!
It is about time Christians woke up and the churches pray and intercede rather than have cups of coffee's and activities. We have to pray pray pray!
Stop procrastinating - get on your knees and cry out to the one true God. Jesus is the answer ... He is The Way The Truth and The Life, no one can come to the Father except through Him.
I agree.
What's in the article is horrible. but to suggest all of Islam is like that is like suggesting all of Christianity is currently burning witches and holding inquisitions. As an agnostic there are things in all the religions that are shocking to me. Extremists of every faith are always appalling in practice.
Frankly, I feel that the only reason the Christian church has a good human rights standing at the moment is that that lack political power. sure they preach tolerance, cause they have to now. Remove the barrier from church and state and you'll never see evolutions in school again and they'll be burning witches in 2 seconds.
All religions are very, very dangerous things.