Islamic law forbids a man who is not married to a woman to see her unveiled. This is the source of the husband’s rage. He is demanding that the doctor, whether he is Muslim or not, behave in accord with Islamic norms. Of course, much of the non-Muslim world has agreed in other contexts that […]
American Islamic spokesman defends wife-beating as a right on the basis of Islamic law
A Houston-born lecturer on Islam, Daniel Haqiqatjou, brazenly defends the right to wife-beating in Islam. Watch as he attempts to make an absurd moral equivalence on the basis of the fact that there are also penalties and consequences for breaking laws in democracies. Beating one’s wife is a criminal act in the West because women […]
Afghan Refugees at Fort McCoy Charged With…Acting Like They’re Still in Afghanistan
My latest in PJ Media: They didn’t leave Afghanistan very long ago, and so it is understandable that Bahrullah Noori and Mohammad Haroon Imaad, two Afghan evacuees at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, would behave as if they were still there. The Justice Department announced Wednesday that a federal grand jury in Wisconsin charged Noori with “attempting […]
Wisconsin: Afghan evacuees accused of sex acts with a minor and spousal abuse
Child marriage has abundant attestation in Islamic tradition and law. Turkey’s directorate of religious affairs (Diyanet) said in January 2018 that under Islamic law, girls as young as nine can marry. “Islam has no age barrier in marriage and Muslims have no apology for those who refuse to accept this” — Ishaq Akintola, professor of Islamic Eschatology and […]
Afghanistan: Taliban replace women’s ministry with Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice
This is part of the systematic subjugation of women under the Taliban. Other forms of subjugation are more crude and abusive. The UK’s Sun describes the graphic truth about how the Taliban treats women as it continues to gain global legitimacy: WORSE THAN ISIS Inside Taliban’s horrifying medieval executions as women are beheaded & stoned […]
The Taliban’s Broken Promises On the Treatment of Women
As soon as it came to power, the Taliban assured the world that it had mellowed considerably since it last ruled Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001. Now, we were assured, the Taliban would uphold the rights of women. Girls would be allowed to go to school, even to university; women would be allowed to […]
Phyllis Chesler Discusses Women under the Taliban, Past and Present
Feminist Phyllis Chesler is Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies at City University of New York and author of over 20 books. The return of Taliban jihadists to power in Afghanistan has particular resonance for her, as in 1961 she endured five months of seclusion in Kabul, Afghanistan, under her new Afghan husband’s command, […]
Iran: Security guards sexually assaulted female International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors
The treatment of women in Islamic countries is dependent on the level of the country’s adherence to the Sharia. Iran, of course, is strict in its observance of Sharia. The Qur’an and Hadith are very clear about how women are to be treated. They are regarded as inferior to men (cf. Qur’an 4:34), even though […]
Afghanistan: Taliban storm home of female doctor, beat her and her family members
The doctor, Fahima Rahmati, is a woman. That is enough as a criterion for abuse by the Taliban, given its well-documented history. The Taliban has fashioned its interim government — “the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” — after the Iranian regime, with jihadists from Guantanamo in government. It has already gained legitimacy from the UN indirectly […]
Germany: Afghan Muslim migrant, 63, slashes throat of his wife, 28, in front of their children
There is, of course, domestic violence in all cultures. So to post this is just “Islamophobic,” right? Wrong: there is domestic violence in all cultures, but only in one does it have divine sanction. Islam doesn’t teach that man may kill his wife, but once you’ve allowed him to beat her, accidents will happen. The […]