[ April 24, 2024 ]
I wrote recently about Yunique Saafir, a teenage immigrant from Jamaica living in Brooklyn, who recently converted to Islam. She recalled feeling the pull to convert when she learned about “Islam’s emphasis on racial and gender equality.” I offered evidence, from both the hadith and from many different Islamic scholars, of what can only be described as the crudest racism expressed by some of the most important figures in Islam. I also discussed the scope, and duration, of the Arab Slave Trade in Africa, the number of its victims, their treatment, their rates of mortality, and how that trade was finally ended — where it was ended — not by Muslims themselves, but by the Western world.
Now I would like to address her other curious belief, about Islam’s “emphasis on gender equality.” Wherever could she have gotten such an idea? In Islam, under the Sharia, a daughter inherits half that of a son. (2:11) A woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man. (2:282) A husband can take up to four wives, while a woman is limited to one husband. Polygyny cheapens a woman’s worth. If a man wants to divorce his wife, he need only repeat the word “talaq” three times, and need give no reason for wanting the divorce. This triple-talaq is, under Islamic law, quite enough. But if a wife wishes to divorce her husband, she is required to return her dowry (mahr) to the husband and, furthermore, she must offer a legitimate reason for seeking the divorce.
Furthermore, by Qur’an 4:34, the husband may beat his wife if she is disobedient. Some Muslim scholars claim he can only beat her “lightly,” while others do not endorse this mitigating adverb, but surely what matters the most is that the Qur’an explicitly gives the man the right “to beat” his wife (or wives). One wonders what Yunique Saafir would make of this information?
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The Prophet Muhammad himself said, explaining why a woman’s testimony was worth only half that of a man, that “This is because of the deficiency of the woman’s mind.” (Bukhari Vol. 3:826) This same statement is quoted in several other hadith in the most authoritative collection, that by Bukhari.
Then there is the whole matter of female genital mutilation, that is, the cutting of the clitoris, of girls in order to curb their sexual desire and preserve their sexual honor before marriage. The practice, prevalent in some majority Muslim countries, has a tremendous cost: many girls bleed to death or die of infection. Most are traumatized. It is true that there is no specific Qur’anic verse that commands or justifies this practice, but there are several hadiths that show Muhammad approving of it. Yet non-Muslims also practice it, in areas where Muslims are the majority. In Egypt, for example, where 97% of the girls undergo this operation, not just Muslim girls but also Coptic girls take part. Yet Muslims in the villages perceive this practice to be connected to, and legitimized by, Islam. It does fit with the view, in Islam, of dangerous female sexuality that has to be curbed. The requirement of cover, from hijab to niqab, has to do with protecting men from the seductiveness, the sexuality, of women.
Honor killings have no specific Islamic religious sanction, but fit with the view, in Islam, that the behavior of a girl or woman can reflect on a family’s honor, and she may be punished, or even killed, by her father, brother, or other male relative, in order to preserve that honor. The most celebrated case in North America has been that of Aqsa Parvez, a Muslim girl in Canada who was murdered by her brother (with the approval of her father) because she refused to wear a hijab. That refusal was deemed to damage the family’s honor; she had to be punished — in this case killed — to regain that honor. Honor killings are found throughout the Muslim world, and very often the punishment for them is either slight or even nonexistent.
Robert Spencer notes that “Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. A manual of Islamic law certified as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy by Al-Azhar, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, says that ‘retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right.’ However, ‘not subject to retaliation’ is ‘a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring’s offspring.’ (‘Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2). In other words, someone who kills his child incurs no legal penalty under Islamic law.
The punishment for honor killings is often slight or nonexistent. Spencer summarizes the situation thus: “The Palestinian Authority gives pardons or suspended sentences for honor murders. Iraqi women have asked for tougher sentences for Islamic honor murderers, who get off lightly now. Syria in 2009 scrapped a law limiting the length of sentences for honor killings, but ‘the new law says a man can still benefit from extenuating circumstances in crimes of passion or honor “provided he serves a prison term of no less than two years in the case of killing.”‘ And in 2003 the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that ‘Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values.’”
In summary: Muslim women can inherit half as much as men (Qur’an 4:11); their testimony is worth half that of a man (2:282); polygamy is licit (Muhammad, the Perfect Man, allowed himself twelve or fourteen wives, depending on whether or not one sex slave is counted as a wife) and so are female slaves, “those whom your right hand possesses”; a Muslim man is allowed to beat his disobedient wife; a Muslim man need only pronounce the triple-talaq to divorce his wife. Women are described in the Qur’an as inferior to men, for “the men are a degree above them” (2:228); and they are, as Muhammad said, “deficient in intelligence.”
Yunique Saafir deserves to know the truth about the position of women in Islam. And once she realizes just how badly Muslim women are treated, not despite but according to the texts and teachings of Islam, and learns, too, about the racism to be found in the writings of Muslim historians, philosophers, and theologians, perhaps she will curb her enthusiasm for Islam and what she has dreamily described as “Islam’s emphasis on racial and gender equality.” Recognition of Islam’s dismal reality can’t come soon enough.
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58 Comments
5 years ago
Too bad this misguided fool will not be introduced to any writings that have not been whitewashed. For some reason blacks think Islam is good for black folks, since it’s mostly a religion made up of non whites.
5 years ago
Reply to
El Kabong
I think you’re absolutely right. I think Islam has a major campaign to attract “people of color” so they can push their destructive agenda while pandering to some of these people’s sense of victimhood — and entitlement. Linda Sarsour is a classic example. A true sociopathic antisemite, she hides behind the racial social justice agenda and so-called feminist-social-justice-warriors; we know what she truly is, though. a Jew-hating terrorist, or as I like to say: Hitler-in-a-Hijab.
5 years ago
Reply to
DocReality
Chuck Colson openly talked about it. He was the Watergate guy that went to prison and changed. He became a Christian. He truly turned his life around and helped others.
He had a prison ministry that was very successful. He died in 2012. He truly turned his life around and had a major impact on converting prisoners to Christianity. Blacks in prison were turning to Islam even then and the attraction was it being the “religion of color” and their rejection of Christianity – the “white man’s burden”.
5 years ago
Blacks have always been slaves under Islam. Saudi Arabia officially banned slavery in the early 1960s.
D
5 years ago
Reply to
jkarna
Not really, I have a coworker who went to Saudi Arabia for his Haj, when he came back he spoke of the slave markets of women in niqabs being sold in the center of town, all with extremely dark complexions.
5 years ago
Reply to
Nefarious420
Black women who have traveled to Saudi Arabia have talked of local men wanting to buy them.
D
5 years ago
Reply to
Dmitry Krotchlikmeoff
I wouldn’t be surprised if many of the slaves were stupid black tourists who agreed to get purchased not realizing what they got themselves into.
5 years ago
Reply to
jkarna
LOL! It still goes on.
Notice how Muslims in the middle east, CASTRATED males as slaves immediately upon arrival. They didn’t want to take ANY chances of their women copulating by choice or force with them. Muslims look DOWN on blacks but they will USE them for their agenda.
5 years ago
Sounds like this individual is “terminally” unique — or Yunique, whatever. Another victim with no attachments, probably trauma from the country of origin/family of origin, and now trying to find attachment and meaning and getting sucked into Islam the way gang members suck children into street gangs. Another victim identifying with a perpetrator, with no insight into the “trauma-bonding” dynamics which are occurring.
5 years ago
Reply to
DocReality
Doc, I am pleased to see you refer to Moslems as “victims”, a concept with which I wholeheartedly agree. Unfortunately, following the canon of their ideology, they have a tendency to victimize everyone else.
5 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
Yeah just like all those nazis were victims during WW2 eh muslum sympathizing worm?
5 years ago
Too damn stupid to live. Hell with her.
5 years ago
Reply to
famouswolf
Teach real islam or this kind of crap will continue.
Muslims & Left are pathological liars. share this if anyone believes their Lies http://bit.ly/2rF8pfo
5 years ago
There’s one born every minute.
5 years ago
Many blacks bizarrely view izlam as a black religion. They strangely see converting as a way to be with their own and fight back against whites.
5 years ago
This is another example of Islam exploiting ignorant people and using RACE as a recruiting component. Remember Christianity is “white man’s burden” whereas Islam is the “religion of color”. Will she be FGMed soon?
5 years ago
It’s amazing how stupid conclusions a person can draw when that person knows next to nothing about what s/he is talking about.
5 years ago
Years ago it was the Moonies that sucked in gullible fools, Now it’s Islam
5 years ago
Reply to
Lynn D
The Moonies never slaughtered millions of people in the name of their cult, the muslums have and are still doing so.
5 years ago
Yeah, nothing says equality like being told that because you’re predisposed to being a s!ut, you need FGM to control your urges and not lead men astray.
What a joke!
5 years ago
Since when has truth, knowledge of historical fact and even common-sense been hallmarks of either the left or of islam?
5 years ago
” Impressed with Islam’s “Emphasis On Gender Equality”
Yes. it is very impressive. There are two primary positions.
1. Horizontal – when they succumb to their masters wishes and desires,
2. Vertical – when they do the household labour or when they are being stoned to death.
3. I inadvertently omitted.
On their knees when giving thanks to Allah for their joyous lives.
5 years ago
She’s that stupid to be sucked in by islam, there will be very little chance of her leaving, some people deserve the stupid life choices they make, unfortunately they also breed. ( and vote ).
5 years ago
There is a reason to convert to Islam: It is called “insanity”.
5 years ago
Apparently women who convert to IssssssLaammmmmeeeee are InSane; they surly are screwed up mentally.
5 years ago
Women that are inclined to convert to islam are outright stupid. There is nothing for women in islam except degradation, humiliation, physical and mental abuse with the very distinct possibility of being murdered as women are possessions in islam, not people.
5 years ago
Reply to
SemurJengkolMaknyus
ANYTHING is better than the common moslem practice, that you PROUDLY ADMITTED TO, of performing oral sex on their own male offspring. Shame should be felt .. but you feel pride. Simply disgusting and vile …. it’s a “moslem thing”.
5 years ago
Reply to
SemurJengkolMaknyus
Being a whore to islam is far worse. Whores, bacha bazi boys every form of disgusting pervert is attracted to islam
5 years ago
Reply to
SemurJengkolMaknyus
Your bacha bazi boy is cheating on you behind your back…with your goat and 2nd wife.
5 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
When little semenjerkoff, the lady boy, admitted .. PROUDLY proclaimed that it had performed oral sex on its own male offspring … Ever since that “comment” of jerkoffs … I actually become nauseated every time I see it making a “comment”. A human being would feel great shame .. A moslem .. is PROUD of having performed that vile act.
5 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
What was, to me, the most shocking was his statement of, “What’s wrong with that?”. Another example of a moslem just bein’ a moslem.
5 years ago
What a major dumb-*ss.
5 years ago
“In Egypt, for example, where 97% of the girls undergo this operation, not just Muslim girls but also Coptic girls take part. ”
I didn’t know that about Coptic girls.
5 years ago
I think what she is saying is this new fangled religion of hers will finally bring white man and white woman down. Yeah, that the gender inequality she wants evened out.
Negroes only have white envy and jealousy and you’ll never get along with them despite lieberals phony sadistic promises.
5 years ago
If a man converts to islam, he approves of lying, misogyny, rape, stealing and violence in general. If a woman converts, she most likely has no self-esteem, hates her body and is very insecure.. This culture needs the male to be violent and the woman to have no self-love.. That’s normal in Islam. No equality in islam. She’s delusional.
5 years ago
If someone is so stupid and want to convert to e-Slime, let them, I couldn’t care less.
5 years ago
she is a very ignorant girl. there is probably some kind of brain damage. it is evident in anyone who could believe what she does. the moslems are infiltrating these poor, black neighborhoods and spreading their cock n’ bull stories about the islamic deathcult to illiterate youngsters who are fed this tripe. school is hard. wearing a blanket on your head and believing what someone is telling you, is easy
5 years ago
Wow that is one ugly dyke…She’d look great being tossed off a roof.
5 years ago
Reply to
Pantalones
Her glide ratio would be on the order of 1:100. Feet horizontal to feet vertical drop.
5 years ago
Unfortunately, she is not “yunique”. This Ignorant ugly dindunuffin gets the prize for most ridiculous made up dindunuffin name. She deserves everything that happens to her as a result of converting to the fake “religion” of pigs.
5 years ago
Muslims know and acknowledge one gender of homo sapiens, MEN. Women are property, and treated like farm animals.
5 years ago
She ain’t smarter than seafood!
5 years ago
The clitorectomy fight song:
Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay!
Did you get yours today?
I got mine yesterday
that’s why I walk this way!
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5 years ago
Willful blindness (ignorance) is a damnable thing…
