Rape and the Islamic Doctrine That Allows It

Posted on April 18, 2013 by lburt

Historically and juridically, Islam sanctions FGM for Muslim females and rape and sexual slavery of non-Muslim females. Westerners determinedly avoid the topic altogether.

By Clare Lopez:

The first time that many Americans and others in the West became aware of the extent of the mistreatment of women in Muslim-majority countries was on February 11, 2011, the night that Hosni Mubarak’s government fell in Cairo and CBS News correspondent, Lara Logan, was brutally sexually assaulted in Tahrir Square.

Yet, those already familiar with the Egyptian street know that the brazen sexual harassment of women has been a feature of public life there for a long time. After all, this is an overwhelmingly Muslim country where statistics show more than 90 per cent of women undergo genital mutilation (Female Genital Mutilation-FGM), whose fundamental purpose is to destroy female sexuality—not only so that men may more easily control their own women but in an attempt to remove ostensible “provocation” from men who are raised from infancy in an environment of permissiveness to believe they are superior to women.

And while Western feminist groups determinedly avoid the topic altogether, international organizations charged with studying the treatment of women around the world typically take pains to avoid any insinuation that either FGM or rape of women and girls has anything to do with Islam. Unfortunately, both do. Doctrinally, historically and juridically, Islam sanctions FGM for Muslim females and the rape and sexual slavery of non-Muslim females.

The ‘Epidemic’ of Sexual Harassment—and Rape—in Morsi’s Egypt

Posted on February 15, 2013 by lburt

By Raymond Ibrahim:

Since the “Arab Spring” came to Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood assumed power, sexual harassment, abuse, and rape of women has skyrocketed. This graph, which shows an enormous jump in sexual harassment beginning around January 2011, when the Tahrir revolts began, certainly demonstrates as much. Its findings are supported by any number of reports appearing in both Arabic and Western media, and from both Egyptian and foreign women.

Hundreds of Egyptian women recently took to the streets of Tahrir Square to protest the nonstop harassment they must endure whenever they emerge from their homes and onto the streets. They held slogans like “Silence is unacceptable, my anger will be heard,” and “A safe square for all; Down with sexual harassment.” “Marchers also shouted chants against President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood group from which he hails,” wrote Al Ahram Online

The response? More sexual harassment and rapes.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Islam

Posted on January 2, 2013 by lburt

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Michael Coren interviews Ayaan Hirsi Ali:

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Responds to Questions at Ohio University:

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an outspoken defender of women’s rights in Islamic societies, was born in Mogadishu, Somalia. She escaped an arranged marriage by immigrating to the Netherlands in 1992 and served as a member of the Dutch parliament from 2003 to 2006. In parliament, she worked on furthering the integration of non-Western immigrants into Dutch society and defending the rights of women in Dutch Muslim society. In 2004, together with director Theo van Gogh, she made Submission, a film about the oppression of women in conservative Islamic cultures. The airing of the film on Dutch television resulted in the assassination of Mr. van Gogh by an Islamic extremist. At AEI, Ms. Hirsi Ali researches the relationship between the West and Islam, women’s rights in Islam, violence against women propagated by religious and cultural arguments, and Islam in Europe.

Bulletin of the Oppression of Women October 15 – November 19, 2012

Posted on November 20, 2012 by lburt

October 15, 2012 Mali A teenaged girl received 60 lashes in Timbuktu after Islamist extremists convicted her of speaking to men on the street.

October 16, 2012 UK (h/t to thereligionofpeace) A British Muslim, who married his second wife in a secret sharia ceremony, has been sentenced to life in jail for stabbing her to death in a ‘merciless’ attack. Siraj Arif, 31, knifed Saiba Khatoon – who was 19-weeks pregnant – with such ferocity that two of the three kitchen knives he used snapped under the force of the blows in the row over their unborn baby.

October 17, 2012 Egypt A teacher in southern Egypt punished two 12-year-old schoolgirls for not wearing the Muslim headscarf by cutting their hair, the father of one girl said Wednesday, in an incident that stokes concerns over personal rights following the rise of Islamist political movements. Afghanistan Afghan police have arrested four people who allegedly tried to force a woman into prostitution and beheaded her when she refused.

Britain An FGM study from the British International Journal of Obstetrics and gynecology journal BJOG reports that women who were forced to undergo genital cutting as young girls have a poorer sex life years later.

October 20, 2012 Malaysia Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek agreed today with a Wanita MCA leader’s view that PAS condones the raping of non-Muslim women, pointing out that the party’s spiritual leader Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat had made the opinion clear in a speech four years ago. Nik Aziz had said that women who do not “tutup aurat” (protect their modesty) “deserved to be raped”.

October 22, 2012 Afghanistan (h/t to JihadWatch) A man in a western Afghan city has confessed to stabbing his wife to death to prevent her from taking a job outside the home.

Sudan (h/t to JihadWatch) The head of Sudan’s main clerical authority, the Religious Scholars Committee (RSC), has publicly advocated girl child marriage, drawing the ire of women activists rights who called for an immediate ban against the practice.

October 23, 2012 Afghanistan (h/t to thereligionofpeace) A second teenage girl has been threatened with assassination in Pakistan following the Taliban’s failed attempt to murder Malala Yousafzai, an outspoken critic of Islamic extremism, earlier this month.

October 24, 2012 Britain (h/t to thereligionofpeace) 9 men have been charged in Manchester for sexual abuse of an underage girl. This case is different from the one early this year which dealt with child trafficking.

Afghanistan Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Wednesday said that it recorded 550 cases of violence against women in the last month, including beating, forced marriages, murder and rape, showing a remarkable increase from previous months.

November 1, 2012 Kashmir A mother and father killed their 15-year-old daughter by dousing her with acid after seeing her talking to a young man, police said Thursday.

November 3, 2012 Muslim World Nonie Darwish explains the role of the woman in the Islamic ideology and the laws that control her.

Pakistan (h/t to thereligionofpeace) The Pakistani Taliban’s battle to stop girls and women from getting an education includes acid thrown in their faces to scar them for life and deter others from following in their footsteps. They have distributed threatening pamphlets around the city warning local girls against going to school. “We will never allow the girls of this area to go and get a Western education,” said Qari Muhavia, the local Pakistani Taliban leader, when contacted by CNN by telephone.

November 4, 2012 Singapore The city’s Muslim marriage courses are under fire for teaching that male students are to beat wives who refuse to submit to sex, while female students are taught that if they refuse sex with their husbands angels of Allah would curse them.

November 5, 2012 Jordan Three brothers reportedly murdered their married sister to cleanse their family’s honor. She was stabbed 17 times.

Yemen (h/t to thereligionofpeace) A 10-year old Yemeni child claims her family forced her to marry a 30-year old man when she was nine. She escaped from her home with the help of an aunt and went to the courthouse where she waited for the judge to come out and told him her story. He sympathised with her case and issued a divorce judgment.

November 6, 2012 India Mumbai’s historic Haji Ali mausoleum inner tomb is banned to women.

November 7, 2012 USA An Iraqi mother was sentenced to two years’ probation after she was accused of beating her teenage daughter and burning her on her face and chest with a hot spoon because the girl refused to go along with an arranged marriage and was spotted talking a male student at her high school.

November 8, 2012 Saudi Arabia (h/t to thereligionofpeace) There have been 5,622 marriages where the bride is under the age of 14 in Saudi Arabia, said Ali Abdul Rahman Al Roumi, a social services academic at Imam Mohammad Bin Saud Islamic University, adding that specifying a legal age would not solve the problem, and may lead to “even bigger problems”.

November 11, 2012 Saudi Arabia (h/t JihadWatch) An prominent Saudi religious scholar tortured his five year old daughter to death with whips and electrical shocks.

November 13, 2012 USA Iraqi man pleaded not guilty to the honor killing of his wife, Shaima Alawadi.

November 15, 2012 Pakistan A man and his brother were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly setting the former’s wife and three daughters on fire.

November 16, 2012 Iran (h/t to thereligionofpeace) Lawmakers consider legislation that may drastically alter an adult woman’s ability to obtain a passport and travel outside the country.

November 17, 2012 Indonesia A Western woman gives her eye-witness account of over 200 young girls having their genitals cut so they “can control their sexual urges.”

November 19, 2012 Dubai (h/t to thereligionofpeace) Three rapists who demanded money from their Vietnamese victim, are sentenced to three years in jail.
Gates of Vienna has an informative short video explaining why honor killings are Islamic doctrine. Please take a few minutes and educate yourself on this travesty of gender rights.

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Bulletin of the Oppression of Women August 29 – October 14, 2012

Posted on October 16, 2012 by lburt

August 29, 2012 Zanzibar, Tanzania Despite ongoing efforts to minimize domestic violence, promote gender equality and empower women, new study in Zanzibar indicates that many women are still beaten and bullied by men including Muslim clerics!

Kurdistan (Iraq) The Kurdistan government passed a bill banning Female Genital Mutilation a year ago but has yet to implement the law.

August 30, 2012 Egypt (h/t to Frontpage Mag) Some in Egypt’s new government wants to include a new article in its constitution criminalizing sex slavery and the trafficking of women and children but the fundamentalist Islamists are grumbling about it.

Tunisia (h/t to JihadWatch) The head of a Tunisian Islamist organization called this week for his country to legalize polygamy as part of a post-revolution initiative to cancel all laws that contradict Islamic principles. Adel Elmi, head of the Tunisian Moderate Association for Awareness and Reform, formerly known as the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, said in a Wednesday radio statement that marriage laws ought to be modified.

Afghanistan A young girl was found hanging dead from the ceiling of her room in Shiberghan city. The Crime branch police chief said initial investigations showed the girl had committed suicide because she was not happy with her engagement. Maghfirat Samimi, human rights director for Jawzjan, Sar-i-Pul and Faryab, said suicide tendency among girls had increased. He said 20 cases of suicides and murder of women took place in the region this year, compared to last year’s 15 cases.

August 31, 2012 Pakistan (h/t to thereligionofpeace) Khalid Allah Ditta has been arrested for the honor killings of his mother and four sisters. He accused them of having illicit relations with some men in the neighbourhood.

Tunisia Yesterday, a group of Tunisian women affiliated with the leftist Nidaa Tounes – the Call of Tunisia party – reported that they were verbally and physically assaulted during a meeting held in the small town of Menzel Chakeur, located in the governorate of Sfax.

September 1, 2012 Pakistan An 18-year old girl was killed by her brother for possessing a cell phone and being in an illicit relationship police said.

September 3, 2012 Egypt Campaigners in Egypt say the problem of sexual harassment is reaching epidemic proportions, with a rise in such incidents over the past three months. For many Egyptian women, sexual harassment – which sometimes turns into violent mob-style attacks – is a daily fact of life, reports the BBC’s Bethany Bell in Cairo.

September 10, 2012 Saudi Arabia Saudi authorities have sentenced Najla Yehya Wafa, a 35-year-old Egyptian woman, to 500 lashes. Her family says she was arrested after a business dispute with a Saudi Princess. Leila Jamul, a 23-year-old Sudanese woman, was sentenced last July to death by stoning for adultery. She is being held in prison, meanwhile, with her six-month-old baby.

Britain (h/t to NewEnglishReview) Muslim cleric at the centre of an illegal marriage scandal has stepped down after he allegedly offered to marry a 12-year-old girl to a man in his 20s. Imam Mohamed Kassamali is said to have told an undercover reporter posing as a father that he could carry out a ceremony for his school-aged daughter. He allegedly told the Sunday Times journalist: ‘If it (the marriage) was not possible, I would have told you straight away… I would love the girl to go to her husband’s houses (sic) as soon as possible, the younger the better.

September 15, 2012 Afghanistan A 16-year old girl was lashed by local mullahs (clerics) in Jaghori district of Ghazni province on charges of what have been called illicit relations. This was carried out in the absence of legal and humanitarian institutions.

September 16, 2012 Saudi Arabia A Saudi scholar has played down an Islamic fatwa (ruling) that forbids women from logging in online without an escort. “The law for internet usage for men and women should be the same, even if the internet has useful and harmful websites,” said Sheikh Mohamed El-Aly, professor of Islamic law. In 2010, Sheikh Saad El-Ghamdi issued a fatwa banning women from logging in online without a chaperon sitting at her side.

Egypt A 20-year-old Egyptian woman was murdered earlier this month after being sexually assaulted. According to their statement on the incident in Upper Egypt’s Assuit, the young woman had been walking on a main street with a friend when a man began grabbing her body.

She then turned around and spit in his face and reportedly verbally lashed back, saying “I will get my rights back. I will get my rights back against your will.” The ECWR said that after she said the words, the man pushed her to the ground, kicking her before shooting her multiple times.

September 17, 2012 Egypt (h/t to thereligionofpeace) Egyptian security in the city of Suez reported that it arrested 22 men for sexually harassing high school students outside of two schools on the first day of classes, the al-Shorouk newspaper reported on Sunday. Earlier this month, the head of the National Council of Women (NCW) Mervat Tallawy said that Egyptian women are harassed, on average, “7 times every 200 meters.”

Indonesia (h/t to thereligionofpeace) A sixteen year old girl hanged herself after being arrested by the sharia police for being out in the early hours of the morning and accused of being a prostitute. More HERE.

September 19, 2012 Egypt An Egyptian women’s group is afraid that the new constitution will sanction the sharia law that allows marriage of sexually mature girls even if they are at the age of nine.

September 21, 2012 England (h/t to GatesofVienna) A teenage rape victim had to take medication after she was attacked amid fears she may have contracted HIV. Mawawe Ibrahim Karam was jailed for ten years yesterday for raping the 17-year-old.

September 22, 2012 Pakistan The daughter of a cleric was allegedly stripped and paraded naked in a village by young men seeking revenge for her brother’s ‘indiscretions’ on Wednesday in the area of Nawan Lahore police station.

September 24, 2012 Mali To avoid being whipped, mutilated, and jailed, women in Timbuktu now have to wear black veils and loose-fitting clothing. Radical Islamists, who took control of the city months ago, are laying down their law – Sharia law – and for the first time since they’ve arrived, they’re specifically targeting women.
Over the past few weeks, Islamists from two armed groups – Ansar Dine and Mujao, who took over northern Mali in April – have increasingly made use of corporal punishment against the local population. This includes whipping, amputations, and even stoning people to death who do not obey Sharia law. More HERE.

September 26, 2012 Egypt An Egyptian honor killing is caught on video. Viewer discretion advised.

Pakistan (h/t to GatesofVienna) A sixteen year old Christian girl was gang-raped for hours by young Muslim men.

September 28, 2012 Turkey A 15-year-old girl in the southern province of Adana is believed to have killed herself to escape her husband’s violence. According to neighbors Emrah E., who is eight years older than child bride Kübra Ulas, had kidnapped and raped the girl a year ago. Thereafter, Emrah E. threatened Ulas’s family and demanded they allow him to marry Ulas. Afraid, they agreed to the marriage.

September 29, 2012 Egypt A controversial Egyptian Islamic preacher warned the media that liberals were attempting to remove from the constitution restrictions on gender equality established by Islamic jurisprudence. “We do not support violence against women, but God allowed a certain form of beating,” said the preacher Borhamy, arguing that in Islam the husband is permitted to beat his wife as long as no physical damage or scar would result.

He also stated (see HERE) that “girls 14-years-old are permitted to have sexual relations under Islam and has proposed reducing the marriage age limit as a result. It is permissible for the girl at the age of 9 or 10 to marry . . .”

Saudi Arabia Female Muslim pilgrims from Nigeria who were not accompanied by male family members [per sharia law] were turned away from the hajji in Mecca, subjected to indignities and deported back to Nigeria.
September 30, 2012 Afghanistan (h/t to thereligionofpeace) Muzhgan Masoomi’s attacker stabbed her 14 times with a thick blade used to slaughter animals, tearing wide gashes in her flesh before leaving the government worker for dead on the outskirts of the Afghan capital. Women who pursue careers in ultra-conservative Afghanistan often face opposition in a society where often they are ostracised – or worse, brutalised – for mixing with men other than husbands or relatives.

October 1, 2012 Maldives Almost 90 percent of the people found guilty of “Zina” – fornication – and sentenced to flogging in 2011 were female, according to new statistics published by the Department of Judicial Administration last week. It takes four witnesses or a confession to prove the offence in court based on Islamic Sharia. The Maldives’ legal system consists of elements of both common law and Sharia.
October 2, 2012 Britain (h/t to thereligionofpeace) Police hunt for Mohammad Islam who is a suspected serial sex attacker in Southhampton. Islam was out on bail and has disappeared.

October 3, 2012 Tunsia (h/t to thereligionofpeace) Outraged Tunisians took to the streets by the hundreds Tuesday, angrily protesting the treatment of a woman who was allegedly raped by police officers — and then charged with public indecency when she filed a complaint.

Syria There also appears to be a cultural clash between non-Arab Muslims from Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Balkans and Chechnya on the one hand, and Arabs from Syria, Libya, Tunisia and Jordan on the other, over the exploitation of sex slaves.
Some Islamists consider these women to be spoils of war, especially the wives and daughters of regime supporters, but local fighters are more apprehensive about the issue. Dozens of women have reportedly been sexually assaulted.

October 4, 2012 Egypt (h/t to thereligionofpeace) Two bearded ultra-conservative men in Egypt attacked four elementary schoolgirls walking down a street eating ice popsicles. The men knocked the popsicles from the girls hands and began yelling at them. They told them to stop eating the popsicles and go home.
October 5, 2012 Pakistan A girl has been abducted while eight persons have been apprehended in connection of two vani [a child marriage, usually to pay off family debts] cases reported from separate localities of Mansehra.

Canada The mother of six had her throat slashed by her Afghani husband Peer Khairi, slit open to the spine and slowly suffocated in her own blood. She had stood up to her husband and allowed her children to be westernized.

October 7, 2012 Morocco Moroccan women (one in three) struggle against violence from their husbands. One woman said that if she didn’t do what he said or refused sex, he beat her and attacks her. “He then will force himself on me, but there is nothing I can do because it is isn’t illegal for him to force sex on me.”

October 8, 2012 Pakistan (h/t to thereligionofpeace) A woman has accused a man of the ruling party of selling her into marriage.

October 9, 2012 Balochistan (h/t to thereligionofpeace) 13 girls between the ages of four and sixteen were bartered to settle a blood tribal feud. More HERE.

October 10, 2012 Pakistan A Taliban member shot a 14-year-old Pakistani girl named Malala Yousufzai in the head and in the shoulder on a school bus because the teenager had dared to speak out in favor of education for women and against Muslim extremists. Update HERE.

Kuwait (h/t to thereligionofpeace) An unidentified Indonesian housemaid died inside the Jahra Hospital after suffering for 18 months. According to reliable sources the victim was brutally beaten by the son of her Saudi sponsor and since then had been admitted to the hospital.

October 11, 2012 Mali   (h/t to NewEnglishReview)  Islamists who have taken over northern Mali are “buying child soldiers”   from their families for £375 and compiling a “frightening” list   of unmarried women who are pregnant or had borne children, according to senior  UN official. More HERE.  And HERE.
October   12, 2012 Afghanistan   A vicious Taliban attack in a residential neighborhood of Ghazni city targeted   Muslim women. The attack resulted in the wounding of several innocent Muslim women and sent dozens of people running for their very lives.
October 14, 2012 Israel (h/t to thereligionofpeace)  Wife beating is being preached in fundamentalist mosques in Israel.

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Taliban Shoots 14-Year Old Human Rights Activist in Pakistan

Posted on October 16, 2012 by lburt

Radical Islam:

A teenaged peace activist and advocate for the education of girls in Pakistan was targeted by the Taliban Tuesday. Malala Yousufzai, 14, admired across Pakistan for exposing the reality of life under the Taliban, was shot in the neck and head while on her school bus. Another girl on the bus was also wounded. Both girls remain in critical condition.

Malala was the recipient of Pakistan’s first National Peace Prize last November, a prize instituted to award a child under 18 who contributes to peace and education.

As her school bus was ready to leave the private school run by Malala’s father, a bearded gunman approached the bus and asked which of the girls was Malala. One girl pointed to Malala, who denied her identity. The gunman proceeded to shoot them both.

Taking responsibility for the brutal attack, Taliban spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan said by telephone, “This was a new chapter of obscenity, and we have to finish this chapter,” as reported by the Associated Press.

Malala lives in the Swat Valley — nicknamed the Switzerland of Pakistan — which was once a popular, local tourist spot. Islamists began their takeover of the valley in 2007. The territory provided a safe haven for Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters since it is near the border of Afghanistan.

By 2008 and for the next two years, the valley fell completely into their hands. Strict Sharia “justice” was meted out – women were not permitted to go out shopping and those who were considered immoral were whipped; opponents were beheaded, girls schools (as well as some boy’s institutions) were closed and/or destroyed – a total of close to 200.

Even though the Pakistani military launched an attack against the Taliban to root them out of the valley, their efforts were only partially successful.

Malala began speaking out against the atrocities of the Taliban at the age of 11, when she wrote a blog for the BBC under the pseudonym of Gul Makai. In 2009, she began speaking out in favor of the education of girls.

Malala is well-known and loved across Pakistan. The attack provoked anger among Pakistani’s, long-suffering the Taliban’s history of violence toward women in their country. Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf condemned the attack and called Malala a daughter of Pakistan.

One of the girl’s cousins, Azizul Hasan said, “This attack cannot scare us, nor the courageous Malala. This cowardly act cannot deter Malala to give up her efforts.”

Kamila Hayat, a senior official of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, said Malala’s activism sent a global message that Pakistani girls could fight for their rights. But she is now concerned that the attack would prevent other parents from letting their children speak out against the Taliban.

“This is an attack to silence courage through a bullet,” Hayat said. “These are the forces who want to take us to the dark ages.”

Pakistani Girl Shot by Taliban Airlifted to England (radicalislam.org)
Pakistani Teen Shot by Taliban Becomes ‘Daughter of the Nation’ (foxnews.com)
Pakistan Sends Teen Shot By Taliban to UK for Care (foxnews.com)
Malala Yousafzai: Pakistani girl shot by Taliban to be treated in Birmingham (telegraph.co.uk)
Several people questioned at Pakistani girl’s hospital (foxnews.com)

Bulletin of the Oppression of Women

Posted on August 28, 2012 by lburt

Political Islam:

July 4, 2012 Egypt A student’s boyfriend was stabbed to death when Islamists found them in a public park together.

July 5, 2012 Egypt The first Egyptian satellite channel completely operated by women wearing the full face veil (niqab) is set to be launched 20 July, which will coincide with the first day of the holy month of Ramadan.

Egypt (h/t to RaymondIbrahim) What is being dubbed as Egypt’s “first sex-slave marriage” took place mere days after the Muslim Brotherhood’s Muhammad Morsi was made president. Before making the woman, who had a non-Egyptian accent, repeat the Koran’s Surat al-Ikhlas after him, instead of saying the customary “I marry myself to you,” the woman said “I enslave myself to you,” and kissed him in front of an applauding audience.

July 7, 2012 Afghanistan (ht/ to JihadWatch) A member of the Taliban shot dead a woman accused of adultery in front of a cheering crowd of men near Kabul.

July 13, 2012 India A predominantly Muslim village in India has banned “love marriages” in addition barring women under 40 from shopping alone and using cell phones in public
July 14, 2012 Britain A Sudanese asylum seeker who raped a 12-year-old girl has been allowed to remain in Britain – after a judge ruled it would breach his human rights to deport him.

July 16, 2012 Canada Canadian laws should be changed to require women to “cover themselves” to prevent sexual assaults, says an Islamic street preacher in Toronto.

July 18, 2012 Pakistan Farida Afridi, a 25-year-old women’s rights activist, left her parents’ home early on the morning of July 4, as she typically did. She was walking to her nonprofit organization’s office when two men with Kalashnikovs pulled alongside her on a motorcycle and shot her multiple times, killing her.

July 24, 2012 Sudan (hat tip to AtlasShrugs) Earlier this month a Sudanese woman was found guilty of adultery and sentenced to death by stoning by a court in the capital Khartoum, a regional women’s rights group said Monday.

July 25, 2012 Britain Laws against Female Genital Mutilation have been on the books for 80 years but there but there have been no prosecutions despite significant evidence that thousands of girls every year in the UK are at risk of this abusive practice.

Balochistan (h/t to Grendel) The militant Lashkar-i-Jhangvi has threatened to throw acid on the faces of women who venture to the bazaars in Mekran’s largest town of Turbat, according to a radio report.

Jordan (h/t to thereligionofpeace) A Jordanian man was charged on Wednesday with killing his divorced sister after stabbing her and driving his truck over her body several times because of her alleged “suspicious behavior,” police said.

July 26, 2012 Italy (h/t islamversuseurope ) Italian hotel agreed that a Muslim porter won’t have to take orders from a woman.

Pakistan (h/t thereligionofpeace) A woman was shot dead by her brother, a police constable, for not withdrawing a case registered against him in April for assault. He and her brothers had told her not to wear pants or ride a motorcycle.

July 27, 2012 UK A devout Muslim grandmother has been jailed for four years for kidnapping and drugging her own daughter after she refused to marry the man her family wanted her to.

Egypt (h/t to thereligionofpeace) A new report from George Washington University professor Michele Clark and Coptic rights activist Nada Ghaly has argued that thousands of young Coptic Christian girls in Egypt are the victim of kidnapping and forced servitude by Muslims in the North African country

July 29, 2012 India (h/t to AtlasShrugs) The failure to give birth to a son and the inability to fulfill her husband and in-laws’ demand for money cost a woman her life. She was burnt alive allegedly by her husband and in-laws in front of her minor daughters on Friday night.

Iran An Iranian Islamic cleric says, women should only ride bikes in their own backyards, where no stranger men can see them cycling!

July 30, 2012 Egypt Egyptian women fear for their future under Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood government.
August 6, 2012 Tanzania Police in Zanzibar have launched an investigation after a woman claimed she was beaten up by a group of men at Mwanakwerekwe Market for leaving her head uncovered during Ramadhan.

Pakistan (h/t to JihadWatch) A father along with his two sons axed his wife and daughters among four people to death in the name of honour and injured three others in Bahawalnagar, police said.

August 7, 2012 Pakistan   Six armed militants bullied shopkeepers selling women garments and cosmetics   in the Singair Bazaar in Hangu on Monday threatening them to remove curtains   from the doors of the shops or face action.
Sources said certain shopkeepers were whipped by the militants with the lashes   they were holding in their hands and they also vandalized the cosmetics shops.Eyewitness   reports said the militants remained in the market for more than 20 minutes and   then left on their motorbikes hurling threats at the merchants.
August 8, 2012 U.S.   (h/t to AtlasShrugs) A Florida Muslim man was sentenced to life imprisonment for setting his wife   on fire. Prosecutors played the recording at Wednesday’s sentencing for Khalid   Mohd, 41, who was convicted in June of setting his wife on fire because she   wanted his help staying in the United States. He was sentenced to life in prison.
August 9, 2012 Nepal (h/t to   AtlasShrugs) Nepal has banned women under the age of 30 from going to work in Middle Eastern   countries amid growing concerns that they are being exploited. Common complaints   include physical and sexual abuse, poor conditions and non-payment of salaries.

August 12, 2012 Tunsia Tunsian women are worried that changes to the nations’s constitution defining women’s place in society in terms of their relationship to men will bring back an inequality in gender.

August 13, 2012 Kashmir The women of Kashmir, renowned for their grace and beauty, have been warned by groups affiliated with al Qaeda to cover their faces or risk disfigurement and even death from acid attacks. The warning also extended to women using mobile phones in public.

August 14, 2012 U.S. (h/t to thereligionofpeace) Colorado Springs police arrested five Iraqi men Tuesday in connection with what they called a “rare” and “horrific” sexual assault on a woman early July 22. The arrests included one man who was a central character in an Army’s sergeant’s memoir of an Iraq deployment.
Sarmad Fadhi Mohammed and Jasim Mohammed Hasin Ramadon were taken into custody on suspicion of sexual assault. Mustafa Sataar Al Feraji, Ali Mohammed Hasan Al Juboori and Yasir Jabbar Jasim were arrested on suspicion of accessory to sexual assault. All are in their 20s. Police said the severity of the attack made it rare in the city, adding that the woman’s injuries could have been life-threatening.

August 16, 2012 Scandinavia Statistics on the numbers of rapes committed in Scandinavian countries, including Sweden, by ‘minority’ men. UK (h/t to thereligionofpeace) A judge has said the forced marriage of a Muslim woman with learning difficulties should be annulled and condemned the “insulated” families who arrange them.

August 18, 2012 Sweden A man and a woman have been remanded into custody by Attunda district court in Sollentuna on suspicion of having subjected their daughter to female genital mutilation (FGM).
August 19, 2012 Egypt Muslim women are worried about sexual attacks as the Eid holiday arrives.

August 20, 2012 Iran (h/t to Jaye) Female students in Iran have been barred from more than 70 university degree courses in an officially-approved act of sex-discrimination which critics say is aimed at defeating the fight for equal women’s rights.
August 24, 2012 Egypt Volunteer patrols of men are trying to help the rising tide of sexual harassment to women in public spaces.

Iran A new report from Iran has revealed a striking rise in the number of child brides under the age of 10-years-old. The Union for the Protection of Children’s Rights said that in 2010, at least 713 marriages of girls under 10-years-old were registered in the country, more than twice as many as registered in the three years before.

August 25, 2012 Egypt, Tunisia, Libya This summer, as the dust of the Arab Spring revolutions begins to settle, women – who stood shoulder to shoulder with men in defying tyranny – are finding themselves marginalised and excluded from decision-making.

UK Muslim woman in the UK was attacked by her siblings for kissing a white man during her 18th birthday celebrations. Shamima Akhtar, now a 19-yr-old, suffered a sickening assault which culminated in her sisters slapping and punching her and hacking off her waist-length hair.

August 26, 2012 The World The Taliban misogynist mentality is alive and well, and in fact it is thriving and mushrooming globally.

Australia (ht/t to Tundra Tabloids) Rape victim Alicia Gali is still traumatised three years after she was raped and jailed for adultery in United Arab Emirates.

Pakistan (h/t to thereligionofpeace) Rimsha, a fifteen year old girl, was picked up by two men on motorcycles and taken to an unknown location. She was kept in a room and subjected to rape for five consecutive days, the victim said in an FIR registered at the Gomel police station.

August 27, 2012 Pakistan (h/t to thereligionofpeace) A Christian girl was gang raped by five Muslim men.

India A girl was critically injured when a two youths threw acid on her face and body.

Germany (h/t to IslaminEurope for translation of German article) A Somali broke his wife’s fingers because she wanted to give food to their children during Ramadan.
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The Dangerous Lie Of The Hijab

Posted on August 22, 2012 by lburt

by Abigail R. Esman:

As the number of converts to Islam grows around the world, little is more surprising than the fact that the vast majority of those converts are women – by some counts, as many as four times the number of women in the United States as men. And over and over, as if reciting dogma, these women offer the same bizarre explanation: Islam, they say, with its “modest” dress code, frees them from the “oppression” of Western society and a culture that judges women on their looks alone. It is, in fact, as if they have bought into the religion not for its precepts, but for its costumes.

Perhaps you could even believe their reasoning if most of these women actually dressed in full chador or burqa. But they don’t. Rather, they simply cover their heads – and occasionally their bare necks – in hijabs, or headscarves, arguing – with flawed logic and misrepresentations of the principles supporting Western notions of equality and feminism – that even this is a sign of “liberation” as much as it is of their allegiance to a religion.

And evidently, more and more non-Muslims are buying it, especially as legal battles erupt in Europe — and in some American cities — over the right to wear a hijab in the public realm.

Latest among them, it seems, are the editors of the International Herald Tribune, who earlier this summer ran an op-ed by Ayesah Nusrat, a self-described “Indian Muslim,” defending her decision to don a hijab at the age of 23. (What the editors evidently failed to notice was that the pious young author of the piece lifted all of her ideas and a reasonable portion of her words directly from a previously-published essay by a Canadian Muslim, Naheed Mustafa, which is widely available online,)

Poorly written, speckled with faulty grammar and plagiarized clauses, Nusrat’s piece presents a downright bizarre depiction of Western media and public opinion (among other things, she describes Western feminism as being defined by “a skewed perception of women’s equality as the right to bare our breasts in public”). Nonetheless, her commentary places in full view of a wide public one of the biggest obstacles we face in combating the growth of Islam in the West, and, even more, of political, aggressively Islamist Islam as it masquerades as a faith – and a doctrine – based on justice and equal rights, slinking its deceitful, theocratic destructiveness into the secular humanism of the West.

And it is exactly that deceit which makes it all so dangerous, especially to young women struggling with their own body image and sexuality: what easier escape, what simpler coping mechanism, than to throw a sheet over your head before heading out in public, and convince yourself that no one either sees what you look like underneath, or cares? (Indeed, Dutch psychiatrist Carla Rus, who works closely with young Muslim women – including converts – notes that the ease of dress and discomfort with cultural emphases on appearance is behind much of the conversion of non-Muslims to Islam, and contributes to the radicalization of Muslim women in Western countries.)

But Islam is not about garments, any more than a hijab actually covers anything but a woman’s hair. In fact, to the contrary, a hijab-wearing woman in the West attracts attention to herself merely by the fact of the scarf itself, and to the political statement it really represents: “I am not-you. I am Muslim. I am other, and I reject what is not me.” It pronounces the “us” of “us and them” in a gesture of arrogance and isolationism, while ignoring the greater truth of any faith: that it exists in your heart and in your behavior, and no more.