[ April 19, 2024 ]
How many women have I heard from — abused, scared, desperate — who married Muslim men?
Laura Silvia Battaglia is asking women to enter into a union that could end with their being abused, abandoned, or enslaved, with their children taken from them. There are so very many such stories. Her anecdotal experience does not negate the plight of those women.
“‘I Married a Muslim’: Italian Women Share Hashtag Against Prejudice and Islamophobia,” by Sofia Lotto Persio, Newsweek, June 8, 2017:
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The hashtags launched by a woman celebrating her marriage to a Muslim man has gone viral in Italy, created in response to an article warning European women against such unions.
Journalist Laura Silvia Battaglia has been married for four years to her Yemeni husband who she met in his home country. She created the hashtags “I married a Muslim” and “Muslim husband rocks” to protest an article published after the third London attacker was identified as the son of an Italian woman and a Moroccan man.
Italian newspaper Libero led its front page on Wednesday with the headline “The Italian bastard” to refer to the attacker. Also on the front page, an op-ed titled “Dear European women, to marry an Islamic [man] is a dangerous folly.”
The article discussed cases of violence against women and girls at the hands of men said to be Muslim who were also their husbands or fathers, and said that was evidence of the danger Islam represents for Western women.
The article ignored the numerous the cases of violence against women and girls in Italy committed regardless of the faith of the perpetrator _ the Italian news agency Ansa reported that there were 120 femicides in 2016 _ and framed gender-based violence as a religious issue.
Battaglia said she wanted to address the language of the article directly. “Nowadays [in Italy] the term ‘Muslim’ and/or the awful ‘Islamic’ are no longer used to refer to a religious community, but to a whole ethnicity, a ‘race.’ This is why we used the hashtag ‘I married a Muslim,’ even though the underlying concept is ‘I married a person.’”
Battaglia wanted to increase visibility for the thousands of mixed unions that are successful. “Let them know we exist, that there are Muslim men who love us, who respect their wives, who educate their children and who never forced us to do anything,” she tells Newsweek. “Let them know that love and respect exist, especially if you are good people, and if you focus on the human being above any other category.”
Within a few hours of Battaglia posting a picture of herself with the caption “We have news: unfortunately for you, we’re happy” on Twitter and Facebook, hundreds of women followed, sharing images of themselves, their families, and their stories.
Like one from Giada Frana, who met her Tunisian husband at university in 2009. “When I say that no, he does not beat me and no, he did not change when we were living in Tunisia for two years (I was moving around the country by myself, I wore what I liked, I went out with friend, sometimes people tell me ‘yes, but he’s different’. Different from whom?” she wrote as a caption to the post shared on Facebook.
Another woman shared the “I married a Muslim” hashtag and joked: “He got the short hand of the deal, with an Italian wife”.
Battaglia says she was surprised by the number of responses. “I did not expect the campaign to become so viral and that many couples decided to bare their faces, together with their children. This sign is more than positive,” she says….
As a mixed couple, Battaglia says they have encountered discrimination, although this is rarely explicitly stated. “We both have found people who would label us as ‘the terrorist’s wife’ or ‘the infidel’s husband,’ but we let it slide,” she says. “Smiles and kindness are the best weapons. If they don’t believe us, we invite them for dinner. If they turn us down, we wish them well.”…
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51 Comments
6 years ago
Her husband could be a great guy, but he’s the exception that proves the rule.
6 years ago
Reply to
ahem
If all women followed her example there would no longer be an Italy with Italians. I would say she is a POS. Her parents might say the same.
She doesn’t want children like herself, she wants little Arab hybrids.
6 years ago
According to a friend there are constantly hijabed women lined up at the American embassy in SA trying to escape the lives they were tricked into by their Arabian husbands. He said they are typically turned away. I guess they just don’t know what they are getting into
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6 years ago
Just wait until the kids grow up, and start exhibiting their craziness. Seen it happen in my old city.
4 years isn’t long enough to judge the marriage, usually such marriages end in divorce and the woman is worse off than before.
6 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
I won’t pry for specifics but is it a city in the Middle East? My understanding is the male usually initiates the divorce in these cultures? Not surprised that the women are left worse off, women according to the Quran are worth half that of a man
6 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
Not to mention the ho has now ended thousands of years of Italian ancestry. Her particular branch in her family tree will now branch off into the sands of the Middle East.
6 years ago
Reply to
Gina Alveretti
thats their goal, to impregnate as many as they can! To rob a country of its culture and destroy it from within!
6 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
She may not be the person who suffers.She seems quite strong and is having excellent contacts everywhere.At times,the husbands turn out to be quite decent and we,sadly,are proved wrong.
6 years ago
Marrying a muslims like marrying the devil.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Marry someone like you would require a weed wacker for your back hair.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Marrying a muslime is like pissing on a spark plug with the engine running.
6 years ago
Italy, France, Germany, the U.K., Ireland Sweden, Nirway etc all doomed by Islam. Those Europeans will blame the Jews first, then want the United States to help them. I say FU.
Even country of England to stupid eith leader who calls for early rake tigon than loses majority. A bunch of dopes.
P.S. DEnmark, Sweden, etc. just send us your hot model type women. They will be free and well taken care of in America.
6 years ago
White slut! Whites aren’t good enough foy you, hey?
6 years ago
Reply to
Trump Blue Me
You don’t know my dick, boy. I’m not used to play with sissies like you, boy. Only play with big tits white conservatives, boy.
6 years ago
Reply to
Trump Blue Me
You must be talking to your fake prophet. Get a life and leave straight men alone. No time for you, muzzrat.
6 years ago
There has always been white trash so ignorant that they astound you. But travel around the world and you find that it is not limited to whites as all races and colours have their human trash. What she does not realize is that she will be treated like trash and IMO thoroughly deserves it.
6 years ago
Reply to
Michelle
Yes, for some reason, conversion rates to Islam among young white females are quite high, especially in Britain.
6 years ago
Anything is better than an American woman. Italian women are slim and well-dressed. American women are fat and rude.
6 years ago
Reply to
AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
I won’t open that.
The only thing I’d open for you is my zipper.
6 years ago
Reply to
Trump Blue Me
There you go you do not know Italian women at all. Basically when they marry they become very fat. And go to the local supermarket in Italy and find out how rude Italians are. Just saying from Naples (not Florida).
6 years ago
That’s her choice.
6 years ago
Did she get her clit removed?
6 years ago
I bet she looks good in a burka. Keep us posted collaborator.
6 years ago
Just another stupid female hominid.
6 years ago
He will love you til your honorable DEATH !!!
6 years ago
It’s called taqiyya, it means theyre allowed to deceive, or practice dception to further the Islamic cause!!
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6 years ago
True there maybe ‘good’ Muslim men but there are also the other kind who behave well at first and then change
maybe at the urging of their friends into the other type or become more more ‘devout’ and require their wives and children to be devout also. It is a lottery in which losing has very dire consequences.
6 years ago
Oh, puhlease! Just another faker. Look at her features. Can’t hide inbreeding. Muslim through and through.
6 years ago
With any degree of luck these women will emerge from divorce court alive with the clothes on their backs and scars or injuries that can either be hidden or expected to heal.
6 years ago
Whoever marries a muslim bombie must be a 1st class idiot for sure neighbor.
6 years ago
This could be the tip of the iceberg.Many American,German,Russian,French,British and Swiss women travel to the Middle East and Turkey to marry men there.They go there as tourists and stay back or come home and go back.This cu;t is terribly lucky to get deeply entrenched in the western society like this.
In Switzerland,I saw many men belonging to Turkey hand in hand with local girls.When this happens,what can be done?
6 years ago
Love is blind, they say.
6 years ago
How many Italian women, including nuns, have been abducted into the slave markets of Islam over the last 1400 years? How many plucked from their lovely seaside villages by savage raiders and forced to stand naked in a slave auction? I’m sure, some of them ended up with a rich and kind buyer. Most of them, though, were subjected to horrible abuse after being sold for very cheap to loutish and poor Mohammedan men (just like in ISIS – it looked just like that). There were so many! No one lived on the coast if they didn’t have to. But some Italians have to fish for a living. Their villages got raided incessantly. Their daughters got abducted and raped. But now, modern Italian women can swoon over their fantasy of being taken by “The Sheik”. Perhaps their Muslim husbands are kind and considerate but many women report that their marriage to a Mohammedan was very nice until they went back to his country.
6 years ago
Here we go again. It’s another of the leftist loons favourite games, the awareness ploy. They figure that if we got to know Muslims, we’d not be afraid of them. What humbug that is! It isn’t Muslims but Islam that is the problem. I feel sorry for Muslims because their religion oppresses them so.
No doubt about it, these liberals are like a foolish rabbit who thinks all he has to do is convince foxes to become vegetarians and the world will be put right. The tragic truth is that carnivores will always be carnivores. Islam is ALWAYS Islam and that’s all there’s to it.
6 years ago
I thought Italian women were generally supposed to be strong, independent-minded, proud. To see them reduced to this state is very saddening.
6 years ago
I can name two stories off the top of my head where marriages between a western woman and a Muslim have gone sour. 1) Phyllis Cheslera big liberal femenist thought she was marrying a modern muslim but after moving to Afghanistan became his property. Documented in her book ‘An American Bride in Kabul’.
2) The book and movie ‘Not Without My Daughter’ gives the details of a mother and daughters escape from Iran from an abusive husband.
