“Islam to me is the most feminist religion. We got equal rights well before the Europeans. We don’t take our husbands’ last names because we ain’t their property,” claimed a screaming Yassmin Abdel-Magied, a Sudanese-born engineer and social advocate, on Australian TV recently. American politicians Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib do not get tired of listing the benefits for women in Islam, either.
But all the claims of these Sharia enthusiasts in Western countries fell flat when the world witnessed the treatment of women in Sharia-compliant Afghanistan.
It is amusing that Abdel-Magied is convinced that Muslim women are not their husband’s property because they “don’t take the husband’s last name,” but the champions of Islam, Islamic clerics, don’t seem to approve of the activist’s fantasies about the Sharia or Islam.
Canadian Muslim scholar Shabbir Ally, in a video that went viral last year but can be traced back to 2016, stated that the prime duty of Muslim women in a marriage is to cater to their husband’s sexual needs. He cites his extensive Islamic knowledge and education to support his theory that a man can demand sex from his wife and the wife has no right to refuse him.
“The husband can compel his wife to please him and the wife must not refuse because it is the husband’s right.” Alluding to various interpreters of the Quran, Ally asserts that marital rape is acceptable in Islam. Discounting the issue, he says that it is an ideal situation, but the woman should become cooperative in such situations.
To bring his claims home, quoting Islam’s Prophet Mohammed, Ally said that “woman is like a slave to her man,” and though Islam permits a man to have only four wives, a man can also keep countless concubines; this supports the concept of sex slavery. This “unconditional admission” is the basis of the Nikah (Islamic marriage), according to Ally.
That a Muslim man can divorce his wife by uttering the word “Divorce” thrice, while the wife is denied the right to initiate a divorce, is common knowledge.
There is more about the idea of the “perfect woman” in Islam that scholars of Islam from India have been bringing to the fore recently. The unconstrained sexualization and objectification of the woman body by some Islamic clerics is appalling and disgraceful.
Describing the nature of the afterlife in order to lure Muslim men further into the Islamic ideology, Maulana EP Abubakar Qasmi, a Muslim cleric in Kerala, stated in speeches delivered in Malayalam that the “hoors” in Paradise are gifted with big breasts. They don’t pass feces or urinate. The Muslim men who will go to this Paradise in the afterlife will get to sit in the laps of these well-endowed women and enjoy sexual relations with them. The Maulana didn’t shed much light on whether the angelic women in Islamic paradise would pass gas or not, his distasteful representation of the ultimate woman stripped of basic bodily functions led to protests after his video went viral. Nevertheless, his base depiction of women in his speeches remains popular among Muslim men in his area.
In another fine example of feminism, the 27-year-old Maulana Swalih Bathery, while justifying a 2011 rape case, declared that women that go out at night after 9 PM are all prostitutes and deserve to be killed.
Hussain Salafi, another Islamic scholar, also from Kerala, commanded Muslims to steer clear of shopping malls because “Allah doesn’t like malls,” as Muslim women in malls may visit beauty parlors. This, according to many flagbearers of Islam, would be un-Islamic. Women at the shopping mall may also look at other men and people of different cultures wearing various kinds of clothes. These are all “children of the devil,” said Salafi. Islamic seminaries have issued numerous fatwas against women who are simply minding their own business. In July 2018, the Deoband-based Darul Uloom published with a fatwa against waxing, stating that it was against Islamic culture and not permissible under the Sharia. Multiple fatwas have been issued by Islamic clerics at various times against Indian Muslim tennis star Sania Mirza because the length of the skirts she wore while playing was too small for Islamic modesty. Back in 2017, a Muslim yoga instructor received a fatwa for practicing and teaching Yoga (a Hindu form of exercise) despite being a Muslim.
While Muslim politicians in the West create an illusion of feminism thriving in their one true religion under Sharia, the derogatory anti-women sermons routinely preached by Islamic clerics who are specialists in Sharia attest otherwise.
Infidel says
That islam is not a feminist religion is already obvious by any reading of quran and sunnah. Residual question is whether muslims are feminist despite such rulings, and the overwhelming evidence worldwide is an emphatic No!
bill says
The most important word in confronting Islam is CHOICE. It is like sunshine to a vampire in the vampire movies. There is no choice in ISLAM. Most Muslims are not Muslims by choice but by birth. Like calves they are branded Muslim at birth and cannot choose otherwise on pain of death, often at the hands of their own family. As said above a woman has not a choice about receiving sex from the husband and he can also easily divorce her. She cannot choose to keep the children she bore and raised, That again is the right of the father. When a woman is raped it is always her fault. There are many more examples and it is utter nonsense to claim that Islam is feminist
Jim says
This would be like Himmler saying Nazism is not anti-Semitic. Dd slaves have last names in the South? Do slaves under Islam today have last names?
ryukidn says
“Did slaves have last names in the South?”
Slavery wasn’t just in the south.
tim gallagher says
These Muslim women who spend their time going on with such utter bullshit as saying that Islam, that most misogynistic of ideologies, is feminist, are a disgrace. They are complicit in the appalling oppression of women in islam. They are lying propagandists.They should be calling for Islam to reform itself instead of lying about how “feminist” islam is. Not that islam ever will reform itself. Women really need to leave the misogynistic ideology behind. It is funny for these lying Muslim women to be out there lying about how “feminist” Islam is, because, as women, they are still going to be seen as second rate creatures by Muslims because all women are seen that way by primitive Islam. That’s basic islam.
PRCS says
“Women really need to leave the misogynistic ideology behind.”
Yes, those who can really should.
I do pity those Muslim women in Muslim majority nations who would like to do so but simply cannot.
To those, primarily in the West, who keep asking what WE can do about the loss of women’s rights in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan I say, not a damned thing.
Straying a bit, here, to those who whine about China’s mistreatment of their Muslims (the Uighurs) I ask, which deserves your support more: a godless government that wants to rule the world or the followers of a religion with the same goal?
tim gallagher says
You’re right about how difficult it would be for any woman to try to escape from Islam’s clutches in any Muslim country, PRCS. They could obviously end up dead for trying to break free. I sympathise with their plight. These Muslim women, like the propagandist in this report, annoy me for bullshitting about how islam is just fine for women. I loathe both the Chinese regime and I loathe islam. I believe only in liberal democratic countries and the decent way of life they provide for their citizens. I have not been able to get worked up about the Uyghurs although I consider it is pretty appalling what this evil Chinese regime is doing to them. I think the Chinese regime treats all people who step out of line appallingly. I guess, when it came to the Uyghurs, I thought that they had probably done the usual Muslim things – carried out terrorist attacks, etc and so they are being hammered by the Chinese regime. Since I live in Australia, I have to say that this stinking, evil Chinese regime is our biggest threat. I loathe barbaric islam, but I’d say that China, this very powerful bully, is a bigger threat to Australians than islam. As you say, they both want to take over and impose their crap on all of us. I definitely loathe them both. Neither of them have any redeeming features at all.
PRCS says
“Since I live in Australia, I have to say that this stinking, evil Chinese regime is our biggest threat.”
China Rising (SkyNews Australia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St9IxZO1VGs
tim gallagher says
Thanks for that, PRCS. I saw the ads for that program on Sky News, which I do watch quite a bit. I didn’t watch it. I have already made my mind up about what a danger China is. The way I see it, China has been waiting for ages to really throw its weight around and dominate the world and now it sees its chance to do so. It is an evil regime that treats its own people appallingly, so it is going to be terrible for the whole world when China does begin to thuggishly beat up on various countries. China is building up its military power to a huge degree. I heard some commentator say, quite a while back, that Mao had dragged China back by eliminating many of the best and brightest during the Cultural Revolution, so China wasn’t able to become the big world power that it can be now. Australians are very worried about China along with Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and so on. Every country in this area of the world is very concerned about China and its aims.There are troubled times ahead. I guess taking over Taiwan will preoccupy China for a while.
Keith O says
Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a conceited, self entitled bitch. She insulted the memory of our diggers on ANZAC day then played the victim when she ran to the UK to avoid the backlash over her comments. Even the local Mullahs condemned her.
Her claims about Sharia were openly disparaged on social media and even now 6 years later, she won’t come back to Australia.
tim gallagher says
I couldn’t remember who this woman was. I lose track of all these Muslim scum. So thanks for what you said there, Keith O. I realised who she was from what you said. I vaguely remember what she looked like after reading your comment. Of course, I think the ABC used to love her, as they do anyone who wants to join them in putting shit on Australia. I remember how she decided to go to the UK. Good riddance. I’m glad to hear she is still there although, of course, she should really be living in some Muslim country where, as she says, the fuckwit, that women are treated so well. Seriously, the lies these Muslims tell are off the chart for dishonesty. Islam treats women well. Such utter bullshit.
Keith O says
Got this bitches name, lying face and BS remarks are ingrained in my mind.
As far as I’m concerned she can go back to whatever mudslime shit hole she crawled out of and get turned into a baby machine by a wife beater.
tim gallagher says
I’m in total agreement, Keith O. And, of course, she should want to dash off to some Muslim country because, as she says herself, women are treated wonderfully in Islam. The sooner she goes the better. She won’t go because she knows that she is lying about how islam treats women well.