Acid attacks of this kind happen all too often to women in Pakistan and Afghanistan. They are a manifestation of the culture of violence that is created by the divine sanction Islam gives to beating disobedient women (cf. Qur’an 4:34). Celebrate diversity! “Muslim Throws Acid on Young Christian Woman in Pakistan,” Morning Star News, February […]
France: Muslim beats wife, tells daughter ‘Dad has the right to hit mom to educate her’
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 […]
India: Muslim assaults and threatens to kill wife to force her to marry and divorce his father so he can remarry her
Nikah halala is one of the most bizarre and revolting aspects of Islamic law. It is a temporary marriage that allows a woman to return to her previous husband after a divorce. If her husband says “I divorce you” to her three times, she can’t return to him unless and until she marries another man, […]
Iran: Teen faces execution on charge of ‘waging war against Allah’ for ‘protecting women’
Iran is following Qur’anic texts in enforcing its ill treatment of women. Women have few rights in Islam and are considered inferiors to men. While the lie persists that it is not a religious requirement for women to accept the ultimate insult and cover themselves, it is dictated in the Qur’an. Those who fight it, […]
World Hijab Day Celebrates Islamic Rape Culture
“If she was in her room, in her home, in her Hijab, no problem would have occurred.” Yesterday, February 1, was World Hijab Day. The annual Islamic event commemorates the return of the Ayatollah Khomeini and the beginning of the mandatory ‘Hijabization’ of women in Iran. While women in Iran are risking their lives to […]
France: Man converts to Islam, beats his former partner into a coma because the Qur’an allows him to do so
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 […]
Islamic Republic of Iran: Man gets eight years prison for beheading his teen wife
No, Islamic law does not permit a man to murder his wife. The Qur’an does, however, say “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (47:4) Sajjad Heidarnava may have considered his wife Mona Heidari to have become an unbeliever by rejecting something he considered Islamic. “And it is not fitting for a believing man […]
Afghan shopkeepers defy Taliban’s orders to behead women mannequins
Good news from Afghanistan for a change. The Taliban had ordered the decapitation of female mannequins. But then, faced with shopkeeper resistance for economic reasons, the heads were ordered covered instead. Still, as previously stated on Jihad Watch: “They look like murder victims. In a certain sense, that’s what they are.” The Taliban move was not […]
Austria: Muslim migrant on trial for stabbing wife in neck tells court expert ‘You don’t know oriental culture’
It’s a canny statement for this fellow to make, as “diversity” and “multiculturalism” are his best chances of escaping prison on this attempted murder charge. “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4) He may have considered his wife to have become an unbeliever by rejecting something he considered Islamic. If he thought […]
Afghanistan: Taliban orders mannequins to be hooded and masked
They look like murder victims. In a certain sense, that’s what they are. “Kabul’s mannequins, hooded and masked under Taliban rules,” by Ebrahim Noroozi, Associated Press, January 16, 2023: KABUL, Afghanistan — Under the Taliban, the mannequins in women’s dress shops across the Afghan capital of Kabul are a haunting sight, their heads cloaked in […]