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
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
“Taliban’s MPVPV officials assault two women in Sar-e-Pul Province,” South Asia Terrorism Portal, September 4, 2024 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Following the recent implementation of the Taliban’s new law on the propagation of virtue and prevention of vice, officials from the Taliban Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (MPVPV) severely assaulted two women for visiting the city market in Sar-e-Pul Province on September 2…
Keys says
Oh Muslim, ponder that photo!
This is what Allah desires for a woman?
Rarely says
“And on the 8th day G’d created clothes to protect a woman’s modesty”.
I don’t think so.
It is somewhat possible that clothes were developed to protect people from the elements and not the lecherous eyes of the opposite sex. A woman’s “modesty” must only be protected from very morally weak (and/or mentally sick) people.
But, of course, every civilized person knows this.
Walter Sieruk says
Some time back a Taliban spokesman answered a question asked of him about the basic human rights of females, both girls and women, he declared” We guarantee all their rights within the limits of Islam.”
All aware people who understand Islam know that the last four words of that statement has an obvious meaning.
Which is that with Islam the rights of females are very limited. As in within the Islamic view, they have little to no rights at all. .
As this has been so well explained by Brigitte Gabriel in her book, entitled THEY MUST BE STOPPED in Chapter 9 of the title “Islam’s Contempt for Women” which informs its reader on page 171 “Control of behavior and disregard for human life are key elements in Islamic ideology.”
In addition, on the next page it further reads” Women in Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.”
The tragic and sad reality is that Islam is a religion of brutal, cruel, harsh and even, at times, murderous misogyny.
Walter Sieruk says
The Taliban have banned women from the university because the Islam is a religion of oppressive misogyny and their regime in Afghanistan is based on Islam with its Sharia.
The Taliban want the women trapped in Afghanistan to under the darkness tyranny and oppression of Sharia. Therefore, they ban them from receiving an education.
As Thomas Jefferson had, so wisely, declared “Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppression of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.”
JS says
The women should find a way to get birth control. All of them!
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Why is the Quran so sloppily written? Consider what an editor would do with Quran 4:34:
“Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other [Which “one” (sex?) did Allah make superior to which other one?], and because they spend their wealth to maintain them [pronoun problem: Who spends whose wealth to maintain whom?] . Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them [What are these “unseen parts” of good women? And what has Allah guarded? Good women, or good women’s unseen parts?]. As for those [What is the antecedent of “those”? Good women? Women in general?] from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart [apart from what? from you? from each other?] and beat them [What are “them”? Women from whom you fear disobedience, or the mattresses of their apart beds, to make them fluffy and comfortable?].”