My latest in PJ Media:
Netflix’s Cuties, which glamorizes pedophilia under the guise of providing what it calls “a critical look on pressure society puts on young girls to act sexual,” has been roundly denounced. But now the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has added a new twist. Besides criticizing the series for its “hyper-sexualization of children,” the Islamic group is enraged over the series for something virtually no one else has noticed: It portrays Islam negatively.
According to Media Play News, CAIR’s objections to the film started out reasonably enough. CAIR’s co-founder and longtime executive director Nihad Awad declared: “We join other Americans in calling on Netflix to remove this disturbing film from its platform. Although the filmmakers behind Cuties have argued that the film is meant to criticize the hyper-sexualization of children, a film cannot criticize the abuse of children while abusing children.”
On that, CAIR and I agree at last: The film is a disgusting illustration of how degenerate popular culture has become. It’s the kind of decadent display we have seen in declining civilizations of the past, and that is not a good sign.
But CAIR had more to say than just that. The film “demeans the Islamic religion,” according to CAIR, because it portrays the father of one of the characters as a polygamist, and “her mother as oppressed.” It apparently also “features a scene in which her family conducts an exorcism, leading the young girl to gyrate and ‘twerk’ while wearing revealing clothing, all as an Arabic recitation plays in the background.”
“None of this should be acceptable in American society, especially the sexual objectification of children,” Awad thundered. “Netflix should immediately remove the film and apologize to the public.”
Why, yes, Nihad, yes. But wait a minute. CAIR is upset because the film depicts the Muslim girl’s father as a polygamist? But Islam allows for polygamy. The Qur’an says that a man can have up to four wives (4:24). Muhammad himself had multiple wives, and polygamy is still approved in Islamic law to this day.
Last January in India, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board stated, in response to a legal challenge to polygamy, that the practice was justified in the Qur’an and Sunnah, and therefore non-Muslims had no right to challenge it. There is no record of CAIR criticizing the All India Muslim Personal Law Board for misunderstanding Islam. And in October 2019 in Malaysia, a survey revealed that seventy percent of Muslim women had no problem with the concept of polygamy, although only thirty-two percent said they would be okay with their husbands practicing it.
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