Islam's Assault Upon Women And Decency

Growing up in America, young boys become aware at one point of the existence of girls. Oh, we always knew they existed but one day, almost without warning, we really knew they existed.

Before that period they were baseball buddies, everyday companions and the softer side, sometimes anyway, of our friend relationships. We all knew ‘tomboys’ who could run and catch and slide into second base with the best of us.

Suddenly, we noticed the differences and the pleasing aspects we had been almost blind to before. Winning the attention and affection of them became a focus for us. In school anyone who was ‘normal’ had a girlfriend, or two. And those curious beings that had once been just another kid on the baseball team or soccer squad suddenly became valuable and wonderfully different.

In America girls and women play a prominent role in the culture, almost an esteemed one. Often placed upon pedestals they define beauty for many of us. Their very presence softens our tough exterior and life is never the same after that realization, and we would not have it any other way. The female half of our society rarely gets the credit for being the treasure they were always designed and created to be.

Across the world there are varied cultures that are never blessed to see women in that way. For centuries they have been seen as possessions, less intelligent and inherently inferior to the men who almost always run those societies. As this global world becomes smaller and the associations between countries become more commonplace, those differences become glaring.

The things we used to abhor, if we were cognizant of them at all, always took place on the other side of the world, in dark mysterious lands with cultures we knew little of. The world is different know. The atrocities that happen over seas now end up on our TVs and certainly our computer screens less than an hour later. As the world shrinks the global community that is mankind is enormously affected by every violent act as soon as it happens.

The face of America is changing, some say for the better, though I have my doubts. The violence against women now not only happens in backward societies on the other side of the globe, it is being imported into our country. Certainly there has always been violence against women here, but not condoned by a system of government that not only allows it but condones and defends it boldly before the rest of the gasping world.

With the increase of Islamic infiltration into our society we are being met with challenges we have never had to face. Islamic Sharia Law as practiced in Islamic countries today, calls for the stoning of women who report being raped because it takes four witnesses to prove she was a victim and that is highly unlike to be the case in rape.

So the victim of the rape also becomes the victim of the judicial system that sees her as one who has shamed her family and dishonored the morals of Islam. As such her torment continues even after the horrendous rape stops.

Rape in Muslim countries is almost a constant. Muslim clerics accuse women who improperly expose a lock of hair on their forehead, an ankle or a wrist as sending an invitation to be raped. It is as if Muslim men are powerless to resist an inch of flesh. Of course, to blame women is absurd in such cases but in the Islamic society, run by men without conscious, it is a daily occurrence.

Raped women are tried for adultery if they are married or for improper sexual conduct if single. The bias against women in the law extends to even being seen in public talking to a man they are not married to and God help them if this conversation takes places in a more private setting.

Beatings of women, some publicly done are commonplace. Honor killings to “restore the family honor” happen often in Islamic societies.

A Jordanian man confessed to killing his 16-year-old niece to save his family’s ‘honor’ after she was sexually assaulted, according to a judicial official. She had been sexually assaulted by a man currently being tried for the crime but somehow she is seen not as a victim but as guilty and deserving punishment. Her uncle saw his duty as to kill her and did so with a machine gun, firing 30 rounds in her direction.

Murder in Jordan can carry the death sentence but if it is proven to be a justified killing, the court can reduce the sentence or commute it altogether. Such is Sharia justice for women.

In Afghanistan, a country we are trying to free of oppression and terrorism, the effects sometimes seem insignificant. There, Bibi Sanubar, a pregnant Afghan widow, was publicly given 200 lashes for “alleged adultery” by Taliban religious leaders. Following her savage beating she was shot in the head three times for her “crime”.

According to the UK Mirror, insurgent commander Mullah Daoud said the woman was whipped, then shot in front of locals after he and two other Taliban chiefs passed sentence. Daoud said: “We gave this decision so in future no one should have these illegal affairs. We whipped her in front of all the local people, to show them an example. Then we shot her.”

Muslim men can however feed their sexual desire in several ways. It is permissible to have up to four wives and Muslim men have the ability to enter into a “nikah mut’a, or temporary marriage which can be simply overnight, a few days or longer if he chooses. The man pays a fee for this ‘right’ and once they agree on a time frame and it is completed, the deal is done and they walk away.

This arrangement sounds much more like legalized prostitution than a ‘marriage’ as is basically a way to get around that taboo. Women, by the way, do not control such arrangements just as they are not in control of a marriage, a divorce nor are they permitted to have four husbands even though Muslim men can legally have up to four wives.

A Muslim man can verbally say, “I divorce you” three times and they are legally divorced. A woman cannot however divorce so easily. Women’s rights are almost non-existent in Islam although Islamic apologists say that women are “protected and honored”. One Muslim woman even described herself as a Muslim wife as being one of liberation. I have great difficulty with that idea.

Abdullah Aal Mahmoud, a Middle Eastern Muslim Cleric instructs on the specifics of a man’s permissible treatment of his wife when he states, "If the husband wants to use beatings to control his wife" he "must not cause bleeding or bruises to her body," and "breaking bones is not allowed." Beating one's wife is acceptable, but taking it to the point of serious physical injury "violates the laws of Allah," he proclaimed.

The ancient act of stoning is alive and well in Islamic countries today. An estimated 40-50 women are in prison awaiting stoning for adultery charges in Iran at this present time. Stoning in Islam is designed to be cruel. Stones are chosen that are not too small as the will cause little pain. And they cannot be so large as to kill immediately, but are chosen with the idea that they are large enough to cause pain and when enough of them are thrown, it will eventually cause death. It is designed to be a torturous event.

Doesn’t that make you wonder why Muhammad so often said things like “Allah, the merciful and kind” and “Allah knows best”?

In Tehran, there are an estimated 84,000 women and girls involved in prostitution, many on street corners while others work out of the 250 brothels that reportedly operate in the city. The trade is also international as thousands of Iranian women and young girls have been sold into sexual slavery abroad. They have even been discovered in America.

The taking of slaves is ingrained in Islam. Muhammad himself had many slaves and wrote extensively of the allowing of Muslim men to rapes women slaves. Muhammad claimed his favorite sex slave was a white woman he acquired. If Muhammad did it, no Muslim will ever claim it is wrong. Disrespect for Muhammad is a killing offense in Islam.

Women have always been treated as property to do with as Muslim men please. The dualism of Islam says do not beat your women, but if you do, try not to hit them in the face. A wife who does not please her husband can be barred for the bed and forced to sleep in another room (not sure why that is considered punishment) but if that doesn’t straighten her out, the husband can beat her “lightly”.

Any culture that not only makes allowances for the beating of women, not to mention the stoning and murder of them as punishment for trumpeted-up charges, has no place in a civilized world and will always be seen as evil by any decent society. Such practices were allowed in early America but a sign of a progressive society is that it makes changes over time. Slavery was eventually abolished in America, but Islam still holds onto the right to enslave, rape and beat both men and women.

Islam allows for no evolution of its philosophy and rules but it does allow for “appearing” to change while they are small in number and until they can take control of a society. Muslims can lie and deceive to advance Islam as long as their heart knows the real truth. This makes believability on the part of kafirs (non-Muslims) suspect. Finding that line between deception and out-right lies difficult to find.

Sadly, this problem has crept into our country as traditional beliefs are brought here by Muslims who adhere to such strict interpretation of their law. And this is why an alarm must be sounded.

The Sharia Academy of America has online courses and branches in Detroit, Houston, Montreal Canada, and Tampa, Florida with the goal of spreading acceptance of Sharia Law here in the United States. Sharia is completely incompatible with the Constitution of the United States, not to mention incompatible with humanity as a whole.

Some sections of this country already are imposing Sharia “Light” upon its citizens. Dearborn, Michigan saw the arrest of four Christian men who were peaceably (as proven by video evidence) passing out the Gospel of John written in Arabic to Muslims on the street outside of an Arab Festival. Proselytizing for any religion other than Islam is forbidden in Islamic countries, and is also forbidden in some places here it seems.

With Sharia compliance comes permission to restrict freedom of speech and religion, subjugate women and impose an ideology foreign to the decency of the American way of life. This must be guarded against vigilantly.

It is our blind allegiance to Political Correctness that keeps us from confronting the dangers that are present in Islamic culture. As we strive to not be “culturally insensitive” we foolishly welcome ideals which oppose American virtues.

A New Jersey judge yields to the insanity of Islam when he claims a wife was not raped because in Islam a wife cannot refuse sex to her husband. This took place in an America courtroom, remember.

The judge stated, “This court does not feel that, under the circumstances, that this defendant had a criminal desire to or intent to sexually assault or to sexually contact the plaintiff when he did. The court believes that he was operating under his belief that it is, as the husband, his desire to have sex when and whether he wanted to, was something that was consistent with his practices and it was something that was not prohibited.”

So since when does an American judicial system excuse rape on the ground of “religious rights”? An appellant court overturned his ruling, but how long before such madness is eventually upheld in our attempt not to be seen as “Culturally insensitive”.

I believe it is time for a little cultural insensitivity in the name of humanity and simple right and wrong, before we lose our very soul.

Islam will never see women as the treasure they are and our deferring to their ideology will never bring reform, if reform is even possible. They will continue to be treated as inferior, less intelligent second class citizens by a religion of 1.5 billion people.

This insanity must not be condoned by the United States nor by decent people anywhere. Refusal to take a stand will result in the advancement of a cultural philosophy that will return us to the medieval attitudes that Islam still embraces today.