It does seem as if Ahamada Mmadi has spoken the word of Allah, as what led to his deportation was that he quoted “a verse about women in his sermon at the Saint-Chamond mosque in the Loire department.” The 5 Pillars UK story below says it was this one: “And stay in your houses. Do […]
Taliban Stop Pretending to be Nice, Order Women to Wear Burkas and Stay Home
After their takeover, the Taliban initially began pretending that they had a brand new attitude. What the Islamists were really after was cash. Billions in foreign aid and Afghanistan’s foreign holdings. They seem to have decided that they’re not getting them anyway and it’s time to stop pretending. Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on Saturday ordered all Afghan […]
Italy: Muslim migrant imam jailed for imprisoning his wife inside their home
Did the wife engage in unlawful sexual activity? “As for those of your women who are guilty of lewdness, call to witness four of you against them. And if they testify, then confine them to their houses until death takes them, or Allah finds another way for them.” (Qur’an 4:15) Or did she leave Islam? […]
Turkey: Women Murdered; Government Launches Lawsuit to Close Women’s Rights Organization
Femicide committed by those closest to women (including their husbands, ex-husbands, boyfriends, ex-boyfriends, fathers, brothers, or even their sons) has become a devastating epidemic in Turkey. On May 2, yet another Turkish woman was murdered by her fiancé for wanting to break up. Dilek Ceylan, 32, a mother of two, was murdered by her fiancé, […]
Muslim cleric quotes Muhammad saying even women in labor must have sex if husband wants it
A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “If a husband calls his wife to his bed [i.e. to have sexual relation] and she refuses and causes him to sleep in anger, the angels will curse her till morning” (Bukhari 4.54.460). And: “By him in Whose Hand lies my life, a woman can not carry out the right […]
Malaysia: Sharia court sentences MP to jail for saying Sharia discriminates against women
Islamic texts which are the foundation of Islamic jurisprudence assume the inferiority of women, mandating their full covering (Quran 24:31, 33:59), wife-beating (Quran 4:34, 38:44), child marriage (Quran 65:4, Sahih Muslim 3309), sex slavery (Quran 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30), female genital mutilation (cf. Reliance of the Traveller e4.3), lesser value for a woman’s testimony in […]
Al-Qaeda top dog Zawahiri says India’s hijab controversy has ’emboldened the spirit of jihad’
In India, Muslims some months ago began protesting over school uniforms that did not include the hijab. This demand for special accommodation has now become a pretext for a call to jihad against India from al-Qaeda chief Zawahiri, who, we were told, died in 2020. His death turns out to be yet another indication of […]
Bangladesh: Rape victims ostracized for being raped, often forced to marry their rapist
This UCA News article doesn’t dare explain why women are “socially ostracized when they become victims of rape.” The ostracism 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 […]
Pakistan: Muslim teen murders mother for talking to unknown men on mobile phone
Westerners tend to dismiss the human rights abuses and crimes against humanity that some Muslims commit in the name of Islam, because they have internalized the Judeo-Christian norm that a religion must be peaceful. There are countless peaceful Muslims, but those who are not constitute a significant threat, as jihadists, violent abusers of women, and […]
Iran: Town removes statue of woman with un-Islamic dress
What fun they’ll have in Europe. “Iranian town removes statue of woman for un-Islamic dress,” by Alijani Ershad, France 24, March 28, 2022 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): The latest target of Iran’s compulsory hijab law: a statue recently installed on a street in Gorgan, in the northeast of the country. On March 25, […]