This kind of magical thinking lends itself to fanaticism. If one assumes that Allah is withholding rain because women aren’t wearing hijab (which must also be why it never, ever rains in non-Muslim countries), then one may also assume that one suffers any misfortune or setback in life because of disobedience to Allah. Someone who […]
UN calls on Islamic Republic of Pakistan to halt forced conversions, forced marriages and child marriages
The Qur’an says “There is no compulsion in religion” (2:256). However, what constitutes “compulsion” is in the eye of the beholder. The institutionalized subjugation of the dhimma, with its regular humiliation and harassment, from which one can be freed for the simple price of converting to Islam, is not considered compulsion. Remember Steve Centanni and […]
Afghanistan: Taliban education minister says ban on girls’ education is based on culture and Islam
It would be illuminating if Muslim clerics who agreed with the Taliban’s policies regarding women held a public debate with Muslim clerics who disagreed with those policies. But that will never happen, likely because Muslim clerics in the West are generally disinclined to draw undue attention to the misogyny of so many core Islamic texts. […]
France: Muslim migrant suspected of killing his wife threatens cops with a gun while screaming ‘Allahu akbar’
Celebrate diversity! “Seine-Saint-Denis: a man arrested after the death of his wife in the Var,” translated from “Seine-Saint-Denis : un homme arrêté après le décès de son épouse dans le Var,” Le Parisien, January 8, 2023 (thanks to Medforth): The arrest was violent. The husband of a young woman found dead in Saint-Raphaël (Var) on […]
Iranian chess player who competed without hijab arrives in Spain after being warned not to return home
If she had returned to Iran, she would likely have been arrested, imprisoned, and possibly even tortured or killed. Her family’s home might have been demolished, and still could be. The Islamic Republic operates according to this principle: “Make ready for them all that you can of force and of warhorses, so that by them […]
A Child Bride in Afghanistan
CNN’s relentlessly favorable coverage of Islam is well known. It is useful to recall, however, that this has not always been uniformly the case. The fact was little noted at the time, but just over one year ago, there came a welcome surprise: CNN inadvertently helped to undo a nine-year-old Afghan girl’s marriage to a […]
Pakistan: Rapist released from jail on condition that he marries his victim
This all stems from Islamic assumptions derived from the hijab imperative: women must cover in order to remove temptation from men. If a man is tempted, whether the woman is covered or not, the fault lies with the woman, for not removing the temptation. If she is raped, the rape is therefore her fault. But […]
Afghanistan: Four top international aid groups suspend operations after Taliban bars women from NGO work
These clowns are apparently only now realizing that the Taliban oppress women. They’ve all imbibed the fiction that Islam teaches peace and tolerance, and that Muhammad was the first feminist, so it’s really no surprise. “Four top international aid groups suspend Afghanistan operations after Taliban bars women from NGO work,” Associated Press, December 27, 2022: […]
Taliban: Don’t Come and Give Us Money Unless You Wear a Hijab
The cash will keep on coming anyway. After some initial wariness, the kinder gentler Taliban have determined that Biden is just as serious about asking them to respect human rights as Bill Clinton was. And so the Taliban have openly dived into Sharia punishments, banned women from getting an education and even threatened foreign female aid […]
Afghanistan: Taliban governor rapes two young girls and then beheads them in front of their families
They were charged with adultery, although it’s unclear from the report below whether that referred to the rape (which is in Islam the woman’s fault for not preventing the man from being tempted) or to previous incidents. “Two girls raped, beheaded by Taliban Fighters in Samangan Province,” South Asia Terrorism Portal, December 25, 2022 (thanks […]