Saudi Arabia: Yemeni girl goes missing, believed to have been captured by genies

Laugh if you will, but there will be more and more of this in the West as the Muslim presence increases. The existence of jinn (genies) is taken for granted in the Qur'an, so they are an integral part of the worldview that is advancing steadily Westward. In The Caliph's House, Tahir Shah's marvelously entertaining account of his adventures moving his family to Morocco and buying and refurbishing a home in Casablanca, Shah is repeatedly amazed by the belief of the locals (including Westernized Moroccans whom he believes to be sophisticated) in the existence of jinn, the mischievous spirit beings who interfere in human affairs. And their invariable reply to his astonished inquiries is, "It's in the Qur'an."

"Genies blamed for girl's disappearance: After a visit to Koran reciters, she had to be carried out as she appeared to be in a trance," from Emirates 24/7, February 10 (thanks to Tanstaafl):

A Yemeni girl has been missing for nearly a month in Saudi Arabia and her family believe she could have been snatched by jinn (genies), a newspaper reported on Thursday.

The 23-year-old girl stepped out of her house in a mountainous village near the western town of Taif and never returned, prompting a massive police search campaign, Sabq Arabic language daily said.

"Some people told police they saw her walking on a hill not far from her house then vanished again," the paper said.

"Her brothers and some residents in the village said she sometimes appears at night and then suddenly disappears...they told police that they believe she has been haunted and taken by jinn."

The paper quoted her brother, Ahmed Ali, as saying his sister ran away from home a year ago but was found at another house on the same day. He said his sister had been nervous and moody but had no problems with the family just before she vanished again.

"On that day, she was with my other sisters washing in the second floor of the house...she then went down to the ground floor...my sisters waited for her but she never came back," he said.

"Before she vanished, we used to take her to some Koran reciters and scholars...she used to walk into their places but we had to carry her on our way out as she appeared to be in a trance...a red fluid sometimes oozed out of her ears and noses...it was not blood and it had a strange smell...some scholars told us that she is haunted and others said she is under jinn guardianship."

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And we can all safely assume that you find the existence of angels just as ridiculous.

No? why not?

Poor girl. Abused, I'm sure, by the oh-so-pious Koran reciters and scholars. The 'strange' red-fluid was obviously blood and fluid from an infection if it smelled bad. At least I hope thats what it was, as opposed to the pious scholars' bodily fluidmixed with her blood! Sorry to be gross, but it is very likely she was sexually abused.

Will the claim that a jinn did it get me out of traffic tickets?

Ahmed Ali might be jumping the gun on this, by blaming the jinn.

It could be the Jooos - they are known for bewitching Muslims.

If I were Ahmed, I wouldn't sleep on the floor, and I'd keep my eyes open for stray cats wandering around...


"Before she vanished, we used to take her to some Koran reciters and scholars...she used to walk into their places but we had to carry her on our way out as she appeared to be in a trance...a red fluid sometimes oozed out of her ears and noses...

I bet she looked forward to those visits...No wonder she 'vanished'...Where ever she vanished to, it is probably better than living with those lunar-ticks...

Girl!? At 23 she's grown woman for God's sake, and 23's pretty old to be single when you can be married off at nine. Perhaps the visits to the scholars and Quran reciters was because she wasn't married yet, maybe she had just had enough of the pressure and decided to leave home (again). Alternatively, maybe she was the victim of a honor killing and the jinn were convenient scapegoats.

The tragic Yemeni young girl, is probably raped and murdered so brutally by pervert old rapists and murderers in that savage Saudi land - after all, women/girls lives are worthless amongst these barbarians especially if you're not an Arab or a black girl/women! These barbarians are just imitating the creator of Islam, the Arabic Pedophile rapist, robber, slave-owner (including sexual slaves such as young Jewish captive girls), and mass murderer of the Jews, Mohammed, in order to construct pure Arabian kingdom and legitimize his and his tribe’s evil Arabic socio-cultural practises!

Saudi Arabia: Jewish tribe goes missing...Muhammad said: “They were changed into rats”
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/06/monkey-men-les-hommes-singes.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrWnXllf1JY

Video footage of what happened prior to the incident.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8rnMc22AG8 (note Spencer- you should use this for all future "genie" stories)

On that note, depending on who the genie is, it might be pretty awesome to be kidnapped by one. ;)

It definitely looks like a case of "honor killing" by the family and now they are making up this obviously delusional story of jinns taking her away. Seems to me jinns have taken the brains of Muslims away. Poor guys, We can't blame them for all the brain dead activities they commit all over the world!!

Probably abused and sold into slavery...

I have to ask....

how are genies viewed in the Islamic sense?

Are they jolly wish granters like in Alladin?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYyO44U2BQ4

Or backstabbing a-holes like in Alladin 2? Are all genies good, are all evil? Or is it a mix?

That final thirty seconds of Screamin Jay sounded like it might have been some of that old miraculous Arabic poetry magic done so well by koran reciters and scholars. The guy on the saxophone looks familiar.

'And we can all safely assume that you find the existence of angels just as ridiculous. No? why not?'

You're a clown! Believing in jinns is all part of the Islamic mindset. It goes hand in hand with, for example, Sharia.

Angels, however, are part of a belief system that was utterly changed by the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment. Few people *seriously* believe in angels nowadays, but hundreds of millions believe in jinns.

You think you're comparing two religions that are more or less equal. How wrong you are!

That's the point a liberal lefty klutz like you will never understand or admit to. I lustily sing 'Hark the herald angels sing' at Christmas time, but you could knock me down with an angel's feather if I saw one flying in the sky.

Clown!!

Maybe they were Mossad trained genies, like the Mossad trained sharks and Mossad trained vultures?

Seriously, is Muslim mental health really that bad? Seems as if they have the collective mentality of an autistic toddler in that sad part of the world.

At Yemen an unmarried women is an old hag, she must of fought of the islamist dirty old men, and had enough, either she ran off on her own, or most likely her family killed her in an honor killing. either way poor women, look guys she is 23 years old, considered middle age in Yemen did not want to live under the thumb of islamist rule!

I happen to agree with you. she is a brave sould who had enough of their bull shit.
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None of you know what you're talking about. It was the tooth fairy.

Saudi Arabia: Yemeni girl goes missing, believed to have been captured by genies
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"Laugh if you will"

No laughing from me. I don't know exactly what happened here, but it's nothing good. People are often taken to Qu'ran reciters because they are ill or are considered "behavior problems". Hearing the Qu'ran recited, or drinking ink that has been used to write Qu'ranic verses, is widely believed by superstitious Muslims to have healing properties.

The reference to "a red fluid sometimes oozed out of her ears and noses...it was not blood and it had a strange smell" is very disturbing.

It might have been blood, or it might have been a bloody infection—meaning she was actually seriously ill, and that her illness was untreated. Of course, it might also have been some trick by the "scholars" themselves to keep the family coming back.

It might also have come from the "scholars" themselves beating her bloody. Ayaan Hirsi Ali was savagely beaten by her Qu'ran tutor when she was a girl, and she wound up with a concussion and barely survived.

There is also this deeply disturbing item:

"The paper quoted her brother, Ahmed Ali, as saying his sister ran away from home a year ago but was found at another house on the same day."

She *ran away*. That might meant that the girl was taken to the "Qu'ran reciters" to control her behavior.

So—what happened? Did she run away, and the family was too embarrassed to admit it? Did they "honor kill" the troublesome girl? Did the Qu'ran reciters kill her themselves, either accidentally or as an "honor killing"? Did she die of some nasty untreated disease?

Was she actually kidnapped, albeit not by "Jinn"?

I doubt we'll ever know. But the chances for the poor girl do not look good—especially if most people believe she was spirited away by invisible genies.

"Few people *seriously* believe in angels nowadays, but hundreds of millions believe in jinns"

Dont mistake your abysmal ignorance and stupidity for facts, clown boy

here are some facts which completely contradict the nonsense you wrote above and which you will completely ignore in your response:

"Most Americans believe that angels and demons are active in the world, and nearly 80 percent think miracles occur, according to a poll released yesterday that takes an in-depth look at Americans' religious beliefs. "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/06/23/ST2008062300818.html

I think this means that some people "seriously" believe in angels don;t you?

"You're right, Flarov! Angels kidnapped my little sister! Please please help me try to get her back!

Cordially
Robert Spencer"


Its a completely harmless belief Robert yet you feel the need to post it on your blog. Why do you need to humiliate Muslims for a harmless belief that is just as irrational as your belief that a virgin gave birth to the son of a sky pixie who's watching us from heaven?

Oh and those who don't believe in your sky pixie go straight to hell.

The 23-year-old girl stepped out of her house...

Since when is a 23 yr old woman considered a girl by Moslems?

*** 33:51 ***

You may put off whom you please of them, and you may take to you whom you please, and whom you desire of those whom you had separated provisionally; no blame attaches to you...

At the risk of repeating what you already know, Moslems partake of thighing (Khomeini fatwa), 9 yr old age of consent (Khomeini fatwa), bestiality (Khomeini fatwa), clitoradectomy, sex slavery (Sear-Rah), wife beating (Ko-Ran), perceived slut stoning(Sear-Rah), rape ((Sear-Rah)... you know the list.

Hey, I can dig the fact that Moslems are way sexed-out and way kinky (D&S), but now a 23 yr old Moslima is a "girl?"

Infantilism is another kink. These Moslems leave no kink untouched... or would that be unfondled?

Arab News has this on the issue of "Maids", or "Servants", or "Domestic Workers":

http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article266924.ece

"I would like to suggest the recruitment of women drivers from neighboring countries, especially tough women from east African countries no older than 40."

...erm, yes ....

I would like to suggest the recruitment of women drivers from neighboring countries, especially tough women...

Woman drivers from sub-Arab Moslimas is a slippery slope that could one day see Saudi Moslimas driving down Main Street Mecca. Wouldn't this humiliate Moslem Men, Larsen?

Also, isn't there a tinge of age discrimination in this proposal? We better beef up our law schools now, cuz there could come a flood of lawsuits into the American justice system to guarantee the U.S. Constitutional rights of older sub-Arab Moslima drivers.

as irrational as your belief that a virgin gave birth to the son of a sky pixie who's watching us from heaven?

You are mistaking YHVH for Allah...It's Allah who is watching every move you make...He even wrote the song 'I'll be watching you'...If Allah is not watching you from heaven, who is? I thought Allah knew everything...Don't Mahoundians believed that YHVH and Allah are the same God?...

Clown boy..eh? I must've really got under your skin. So much so, that you didn't bother to read the Wapo article you linked me to. But I read it, carefully.
The article says that most Americans believe in a 'higher being'. This ranges from God within you as a spiritual element, to Atheists saying they believed in some sort of power that was bigger than them.

That's a pretty vague, stretched out, blurred belief system. Not even a system. Islam, by stark contrast, says every syllable in the Qur'an is the literal word of God; so, if I say that there's no such thing as a jinn and the Qur'an says there are jinns, then I'm an apostate, or blaspheming the Qur'an, or whatever, and I should be executed.

You liberal lefties just don't get it! You say in your response to Robert Spencer that the Islamic belief in jinns is 'harmless'. Harmless! Just try telling the Islamic world that any notion of a jinn is nonsense and then start making plans to change your name and go underground.

The liberal left's stupidity and total lack of understanding about what the free world is up against is staggering.

look: i do not think he is trying to humiliate muslims. everone here know that I hate religions. all of them with Islam being on top of the list. while I beleive Jinns and Angels are bunch of BS, but regardless of the Americans here beleiving in angels, if some one goes missing, the cops and FBI go looking for him/her. we just do not assume the Angels took him/her! do you know what I mean?
BTW: it is so beautiful here in the NYC today!!!

You are an idiot. What is harmless about blaming a missing woman on the djinn?

Harmless is Muslims believing they need to pray to Allah when they enter the restroom. Harmless is Muslims believing they shouldn't leave a daylight's beam of space between one another when praying in rows so the djinn don't slip between them and cause them to sin. Laughable, but harmless.

I am happy to have people of all and no faiths fighting the horrors of Islam. I am disgusted by atheists who are moral equivalency artists so they don't have to use any skills of judgment and discernment, things they don't learn because they have no moral compass.

The Washgtn Post article flarov 222 references is written by a liar. It misrepresents the Pew Research Report findings. (I went to the Pew Research website itself). You can't believe everything you see in the Wa Po. It's a mostly leftwing operation. The Pew Research report says that 60% of those identifying themselves as Evangelical churchgoers believe there are such things as angels and demons. The report does not say "90% of Americans believe that". The Pew report says 90% of Americans believe there's some sort of God or supernatural higher spirit of some kind. The Wash Post writer chooses to grossly distort the Pew Report, and the gullible and tendentious flarov 222 retails it here as though it's God's Truth.

Anyway, believing there are such things as angels & demons is not the same as imputing them as the cause of everything that might happen on any given day.

Sometime we believe in the supernatural, but when dealing with a missing person...or when dealing with most problems...we look first for a rational explanation.

Has anybody considered whether this 23 yr old girl was taken up to a cave in the mountains and gang raped? Could be. There are many documented Moslem gang rapes in Paris, Lyons and Sydney. Why not in Dar al-Islam?

Flarov,
You think sky pixies and God and Allah and angels and demons and djinn are equally ridiculous? Well, that's a valid position, yet a little odd for a supposed Muslim to call Allah ridiculous.

The difference is you won't find any Christians or any non-Muslims in the world who blame a woman's disappearance on supernatural beings. At least not any people outside of an asylum.

As for what likely happened to the girl (dismissing for the moment the djinn hypothesis), "..she used to walk into their places but we had to carry her on our way out as she appeared to be in a trance..." Strange that in Saudi Arabia, and unmarried woman is allowed to enter such a place full of strange men on her own. And she comes back bloody, and now she's missing? Yeah, better blame it on the djinn. Must be part of the reason why there is so little reported crime in that part of the world:)

Genie from Alladin is so totally my favorite djinn.

It's inexplicable!

What could possibly have happened to a young woman walking around by herself in Saudi?

I'm wracking by brain and I can't think of any possible explanation for this totally puzzling occurence.

Well, I guess they're right; must've been the djinn! No other possible explanation!

"Its a completely harmless belief" -

It is not harmless belief. She is missing - either she is murdered or tucked away in some remote place for whatever reason. Basically, she is abused, Of course it is so natural for a Mohamedian to abuse others and pretend it is harmless.

If your Koran states alive people can be taken away by Jinns or what have you, then it is obviously wrong. Hence those cannot be God's words. If anything in the Koran is not a God's word, then the rest of the Koran is also not God's word. Either Koran is all God's words, which it clearly is not. Therefore, it is thought out and written by men of Arabia, the control freaks, They want to control the wealth and women of the world.

Muslims see jinns all over the place -- even in bathrooms.

Sheesh.

This story would be funny except that so many Islamic regimes have technology and high-tech weapons.

flarov222 wrote:

And we can all safely assume that you find the existence of angels just as ridiculous.

No? why not?
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Its a completely harmless belief Robert yet you feel the need to post it on your blog. Why do you need to humiliate Muslims for a harmless belief that is just as irrational as your belief that a virgin gave birth to the son of a sky pixie who's watching us from heaven?
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It doesn't matter whether one believes in angels, "sky pixies", fairies, or even jinn here.

This woman is likely in great danger here, if she is not already dead. That no one is bothering to come to her aid because she is reputed to have been "captures by genies" is *anything but innocent*.

It is quite likely, in fact, that whoever is responsible for this girl's disappearance is blaming it on mythological creatures. Again, *anything* but "completely harmless".

Given your shoddy history of posting here, though, I'm sure you are quite aware of this.

Of course, I believe in Angels. They play my beloved Red Sox in the American League. As for making fun of Islam, it's really hard not to. You just can't make up this stuff up.

Fasten your seatbelt and take your Dramamine we are about to go hurtling backward in time at warp speed.

As for angels I am a Christian (pixie in the sky) and I believe in Angels. I do not for an instant believe they kidnap people or perform other acts of mischief. There is a an enormous difference. Christians believe that God works mainly through man and nature, but yes he does perform the occasional miracle. But no he does NOT kidnap or perform mischievous or evil deeds nor do the angels.

This poor girl was 23 and unmarried and a burden and embarrassment to the family. She is 6ft under thanks to the fam.

Islam is satanic period.

Kudos for the great video!

...a red fluid sometimes oozed out of her ears and noses...it was not blood and it had a strange smell...some scholars told us that she is haunted and others said she is under jinn guardianship."

I'm curious to know how many noses she had! I'm glad that the omnipotent 'scholars' offered an explanation for her disappearance but is 'jinn guardianship' a blessing or a curse? I'm inclined to think it's a curse but at least she has a guardian and I hope she's wearing her shroud. If not, the morality gestapo will catch her and send her to prison to be gang raped.

No Susan...she has just now become one of the 72 virgins that the Islamic martyrs get to enjoy!Now we understand where they get them from! Satan and his jinns kidnap them!! Makes sense to me!

Being that old and not being married must have been such a shame for the family. I believe she has been murdered by her family to regain their honor and are blaming the Jinn for spiriting her away.

I hope I'm wrong! I hope that she finally got away from her family safely as they sound to be smoking too much goat turd in their hookahs!

I too wonder just how many "noses" she had. The entire story sounds like it was made up to conceal her death and send those who may have been searching away shaking their heads.

Blows to the head make the nose and ears bleed as do some poisons. The truth will likely never be totally recited by those who know it because they have given their "story" and most likely will stick to it.

JINNS AND INCUBI – two creations of magical thinking with sexual implications.

Satan, being a spirit, is neither male nor female. However, like his Creator, Satan is usually referred to as a masculine being. Many believe that Satan, or the Devil as he is often called, can "possess" human beings. Possession is bodily invasion by the devil.

The Catholic Church still performs exorcisms on those considered to be possessed. Jesus is said to have cast out demons, i.e., performed exorcisms, and the Church considers itself to have been given this same power by Jesus. Throughout the centuries, many pious religious people have erroneously considered those with certain mental or physical illnesses to be possessed by Satan.

More frequent than outright possession, however, has been the accusation of being in consort with the devil. Satan is believed to have many powers, among them the power to manifest himself in human or animal form. The consorting has been recorded as often being purely physical and mostly sexual. For most of the history of Christianity there are reports of Satan having sex with humans, either as an incubus (male devil) or succubus (female devil). Witches and sorcerers were thought by many to be the offspring of such unions. They are considered especially pernicious because they inherit some of the devil's powers.

In the heated debate between the Catholic Church and the rebellious Martin Luther one clergy claimed that there was an answer to the age old theological question whether a witch having intercourse with an incubus could produce offspring. Martin Luther was the living proof.

According to Carl Sagan, accounts of diabolical intercourse are common cultural phenomena:

Parallels to incubi include Arabian djinn [jinn], Greek satyrs, Hindu bhuts, Samoan hotua poro, Celtic dusii... (Sagan 1995, 124).

However, as a child being instructed in the ways of Satan by Dominican sisters, stories of nuns being raped by incubi in a priest's clothing were assuredly not told. The Devil was there to tempt us to sin, pure and simple. He was not there to have sex with us or engage in reproductive experimentation or breed a race of witches and magi. To be sure, his main temptations would be sexual.

There was no doubt that He spent a lot of time using girls to tempt boys into impure thoughts and deeds. He would invade our minds continuously during adolescence, planting desires for sexual experiences too evil to be mentioned much less performed. I suppose, to be fair, the girls should have been taught to be wary of boys trying to get them to yield to sexual temptation and that we would use every trick in the devil's arsenal to get them to go "all the way."

But the girls were taught that they were the temptresses and were therefore the ones who needed to keep from harming the boys with their female charms. We were taught to pray constantly, implore the intercession of the saints and the Holy Mother of God, that they might give us protection against the snares of Satan. It must have occurred to many observers that the fear of Satan seems very much like fear of our own sexuality.

Indeed!

Jinns are much like the oft mentioned "inshallah".
Referring everything to nebulosity and maybes, putting the blame somewhere else, avoiding the truth and clear statements.

My first thought was of course that the poor young woman had been pretty badly knocked about and finally gotten rid of. But perhaps she was mentally ill and they were seeking alternative treatment.

Who knows, it might have helped. Inshallah.

It's an unfortunate situation if this lady has disappeared but it strikes me that no-one commenting here has the slighest idea why or how she disappeared, and certainly no more credible theory than abduction by jihns. And yet people are throwing around accusations of rape, murder, honour killings etc. It beggars belief. You don't know what's happened to this woman so why accuse people you don't know of committing hienous crimes against her?

Believing in jihns is no dafter than believing in God or angels or being afriad of spiders or having a superstition where you always put your left sock on first. Where I live people have taken to wearing a piece of rubber around their wrists because it allegedly gives you better balance... I really don't see the harm in any of this. And whether the police are looking for a kidnapper, murderer or genie, doesn't change the fact they're trying to track down the woman.

However, perhaps most relevantly, what has any of this got to do with jihad?

My understanding of jinn (shaken not stirred) is that after the creation of mankind the loser jinn who were not given human form became angels. Allah has billions of angels who record every move we humans make and his omnipotence is expressed through them. For example, I am currently picking my noses and one of Allah’s angels is recording this haram act (one nose is okay) in his/her/its notebook. Come the Day of Judgment, the angel will tell Allah that I picked my noses at 11:01 am on Friday, February 18, 2011. For this alone, I will be thrown into the fires of hell for eternity. What about scratching my asses?--another egregious sin that could extend my stay in hell to eternity plus 30. I rest my case concerning the absurd concept of jinn, Allah’s angels and the religion of Islam.

I do, however, pray to the Creator to protect the young Yemeni woman who is a victim of Mohammad’s inane concept of god.

I have to ask....

how are genies viewed in the Islamic sense?

Are they jolly wish granters like in Alladin?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYyO44U2BQ4

Or backstabbing a-holes like in Alladin 2? Are all genies good, are all evil? Or is it a mix?
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I have something of a background in folklore, Bob. The Jinn seem to be regarded as a pretty mixed bag—rather like the old "bad fairies" of medieval superstition. They can be malevolent, generally neutral, or—occasionally—benevolent. They are often considered capricious and untrustworthy, in any case.

They seem to be a bit of a catch-all for unexplained ill-luck by superstitious Muslims.

GI...I think that they are more like the jinn in the "Wishmaster" movies. Evil pranksters that trick people into making wishes, and then twisting the wish fulfillment into something harmful. All of these ideas are fictitious, just as the explanation that a group of jinns spirited the young woman away. Maybe it was a group of men dressed like jinns that kidnapped her? That explanation is just as valid as any others at this point.

This story is another example of the insanity that islam causes in people. This large religious cult is the cause of so much death, destruction and evil, more than any other belif system that has ever been seen on this world. How can the civilized world stop it?

So is this the Saudi equivalent of the "a dingo stole my baby" defense?

So, here we have it again! Why do they trust these people to make a Democracy when Democracy is against the Mighty Koran? Look at this: If they must believe in Genies because the Koran orders it, why do you think they will believe in Democracy when the Koran condemns it?

Dude, there are different grades of belief. The lowest grade would be the joking sort - "Damn house elves hid my house keys again!" to something like this as about the highest.

If I were asked, "Do you believe in aliens?", the short answer would be "yes". However, it just means that I think that if we look hard enough, we might find an extraterrestrial bacteria in our own solar system pretty soon (within the next 25 years). That's a lot different than believing that some bug-eyed joes are running about the planet kidnapping and probing people.

I suspect most Americans are on the softer end of the belief spectrum in most things. Muslims are definitely on the hard, literal end, and this is where the problems start.

Islam is based upon Mohammad's 7th Century (after Jesus) reinterpretation of the Bible (dictated, as Mohammad was illiterate), which is called the Quran and on the actions and sayings of Mohammad, which was written down in the Sunnah/Haddith. Mohammad claimed the Archangel Gabriel dictated to him, and he dictated to his scribes. The Archangel Gabriel was the MESSENGER OF GOD in the original Bible who told Mary she was the one chosen to be the mother of the Jewish Messiah, the savior of mankind from sin. Mohammad originally thought that he was being harassed by a demon, but his wife convinced him that it was the Archangel Gabriel. (How ironic that later Mohammad declared the testimony of a woman is half that of a man . . . )

As the dictated Quran changed with Mohammad's behavior, the later suras abrogating the earlier suras, Muslim male supremacy, domination, privilege, and rationalization (there is no justification) of abuse of women and non-Muslims became more established. Women were systematically abused and made legally responsible for their own abuse. For example, women who are raped are responsible because they were too close to a man, they talked to a man, they had any part of their body showing, even when only their eyes are showing their eyes can be called too provocative (e.g., they looked directly at a man), etc., etc., etc. You see the shock (and/or excitement) when Middle Eastern men visit Western cultures and think that every woman who looks them in the eye is either "asking" for sex or "deserves" to be raped.

As the study of domestic violence abusers in the West has shown, abusers deflect all responsibility onto their victims, use any means to rationalize their abuse, consider the victim as merely an extension of themselves, and convince themselves that they have the right to complete obedience, one-sided loyalty, and immunity from responsibility. The Quran embraces all of these ideas and also gives yet another means to immunity from responsibility in the idea of jinn (demons) who take over the abuser and the abused so that there is no human responsibility, and thus no direct consequences. If the rationalization is too obvious, blame the jinn.

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Brad Thor, novelist

“A top American analyst of Islam....A serious scholar...I learn from him.”
Daniel Pipes

“A brilliant scholar and writer.”
Douglas Murray

"One of my best teachers."
Ashraf Ramelah, Voice of the Copts

“Thank God there’s at least one man with balls left in the West.”
Kathy Shaidle, Five Feet of Fury

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Neal Boortz

“Robert Spencer is the Stephen King of Jihad.”
Chris Gaubatz, Muslim Mafia

“Armed with facts and fearlessness, Spencer stands up for Western civilization.”
Michelle Malkin

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Hamas-linked CAIR

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Heidi Beirach, Southern Poverty Law Center

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Khaleel Mohammed

“The Likud anti-Christ.”
Dar al-Hayat newspaper (Saudi Arabia)

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