Forget Women’s Lib, Let’s All Just Convert to Islam
In the course of Googling what is going on now with the immigration debate, I came across this article in the American Thinker. It has nothing to do with immigration, but deals with something that the Gray Lady and the rest of our MSM and entertainment media seem to be fairly silent on.
James M. Arlandson, however, did write about, [t]he truth about Muslim-Christian marriages: Some Friendly Advice to Christians.
Having witnessed a trend among European women to gravitate towards Arab men, and American Blacks to gravitate to Islam, I had often wondered what the draw was.
Evidently, this self-proclaimed Religion of Peace has in its provisions a total abrogation of any concept of Women’s Lib and many advantages for menfolk:
Men can marry up to four women (and additional slave girls don’t count) ; divorce is as easy as pointing at your recalcitrant female, (or just overweight and lesser-attractive) and saying I divorce you three times. There is no Western-style messy child support, child custody or alimony concern, as the woman is simply out in the cold. I guess this has been the rule from the time Mohammed walked the Earth, right up to the present.
It gets even better, beatings by husbands are freely allowed, but there is no provision for a woman’s use of force in self-defense. Her testimony is worth only half that of a man, due to the Islamic belief that women suffer from a mental incapacity, and she is only entitled to half the inheritance of her similarly-situated male counterparts.
Rape victims are often stoned to death for their troubles, a strung-out affair, lasting sometimes half an hour.
Even those women who have not run afoul of Islamic law, particularly in Islamic Africa, must undergo infibulation in order to be considered marriageable.
Have I been missing something? Or has Hollywood not lectured us lately, through the medium of hit movie films, of what life for women is like under Islam?
Have I missed the extensive news reporting about this, or have I just been distracted by the endless reporting of the still-dead Anna Nicole Smith, the missing Natalie Holoway, the tearful incarcerated Paris Hilton and the crotch-flashing party girls Lindsey and Britney?
Top ten rules in the Quran that oppress and insult women
On or around April 7, 2007… Du’a Khalil Aswad, a 17 year old Kurdish girl was murdered by public stoning after running away from home for a so-called honour crime. Du’a was a member of Iraq’s Yezidi religious minority from the village of Bahzan in northern Iraq. She was killed by a group of men and in the presence of a large noisy crowd in the town of Bashika, near the city of Mosul. Some of her relatives may have participated in her stoning.
Amnesty International reported that Du’a Khalil Aswad’s murder is said to have been committed by relatives and other Yezidi men because she had engaged in a relationship with a Sunni Muslim boy and had been absent from her home for one night. Some reports suggested that she had converted to Islam, but others deny this. Initially, she was reportedly given shelter in the house of a Yezidi tribal leader in Bashika, but her killers stormed the house, took her outside and stoned her to death. Her death by stoning, lasted for some 30 minutes.
Stoning to Death in Iran [WARNING: Graphic]
Laws Against Women in Pakistan
14-year old girl sentenced to death by stoning
Two Iranian women facing death by stoning and execution
Personally, I can understand somewhat the exhortations of Saint Bernard, in assisting the founding of the Knights Templar, when he wrote the following:
The knight of Christ, I say, kills with tranquil conscience and dies even more tranquilly. In dying he benefits himself, in killing he benefits Christ. For he bears not a sword without cause; he is the minister of God for the punishment of evil and the exaltation of good. When he kills a malefactor, it is not homicide but, so to say, “malecide”; and he is clearly considered the avenger of Christ in the case of those who do evil, and the defender of Christians.
-- Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, De laude novae militiae, in Migne, (1128-1131)
Patrologia Latina, vol. 182, col. 924.
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