Although this Opposing Views story is new, actually Sheikh Abdullah al-Daoud made his statements in 2012. He said: “The prevalent custom among Muslims of the countries of East Asia is to make girls start wearing the hijab in the second year of their lives. This has motivated us to compete with them, and we will start our girls wearing the hijab even earlier….We do not want to see revealing and shameful clothing, especially when girls start to develop and fill out, and show signs of beauty, and so on. You find that she is in a state of exposure and nudity. I think we know that there are fatwas that forbid this, even if they have not yet reached the stage of puberty. Whenever the girl is an object of desire, the parents have the duty to cover her up with a hijab.”
His comments reflect the assumption that underlies the mandatory covering-up of women of any age: that if a man is tempted, it is entirely the woman’s fault, and her responsibility to end that temptation by removing it from sight.
“Saudi Cleric Suggests Baby Girls Wear Burqas to Prevent Rape,” by Lina Batarags for Opposing Views, February 3 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
A Saudi cleric has proposed this solution to molestation of young girls: they should be required to wear burqas.
While no law or practice in Islam requires that baby girls wear burqas, Sheik Abdulla Daoud suggested that covering the babies in burqas would keep them from being raped. Daoud made the controversial comment on TV last year, stating that babies were being molested in Saudi Arabia.
The video recently surfaced on social media, and elicited shocked and indignant response from fellow Saudis.
“Now the baby victims are blamed for men’s crimes. Allah help us stop the ignorance, stupidity,” tweeted Masleeza Othman.
Othman later followed up the original tweet with another condemning those who “abuse, molested and sexually assaulted or harassed the babies, children.”
“They aren’t supposed to even live!!” Othman continued.
Senior Islamic officers have also been highly critical of Daoud’s comments, noting that they “made Islam and Sharia law look bad.”
Daoud’s comment comes as a contrast to online activists’ recent calls for the Saudi kingdom’s rulers to impose harsher punishments on child abusers. Most notably, Fayhan al-Ghamdi, a prominent preacher, received a light sentencing after confessing to raping and beating his 5-year-old daughter to death.
Startlingly, al-Ghamdi is protected by Saudi Arabia’s Islamic law, under which a father cannot be executed for murdering his children or his wife.
Reports indicate that Saudi Arabia plans to launch a 24-hour hotline, specifically for reporting violence against children.
eib says
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“Now the baby victims are blamed for men’s crimes. Allah help us stop the ignorance, stupidity,” tweeted Masleeza Othman.
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It speaks badly for the men.
The strong, through their cruelty, condemn themselves.
MaryJo Gill says
As if BABIES bear the responsibility for mens behavior. How IGNORANT is that?! This is by and far one of the most despicable attitudes I have ever seen!!
bobm says
What an indictement..(spelling?).. case closed.
mortimer says
How many Saudi males find babies are an ‘object of desire’?
The civilized world has a name for such men! Pedophiles!
Salah says
Muhammad saw a 2-3 year old girl in her mother’s arms. He was so “impressed” by her that he said, “By Allah, if this girl reaches marrying age and I’m still alive, Iwill surely marry her.”
Musnad Ahmad v.6 p.338 (arabic)
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2010/03/pedophile-muhammad-mahomet-le-pedophile.html
Porkys2istan says
Marrying age = 6*
*But you can only do it between her thighs until she can ‘take’ penetration (which is 9).
Islam is so wise and forward thinking to not rip little girls in half with sex too early!
Champ says
“His comments reflect the assumption that underlies the mandatory covering-up of women of any age: that if a man is tempted, it is entirely the woman’s fault, and her responsibility to end that temptation by removing it from sight.”
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True, Robert …
Juxtapose this view with what Jesus taught his followers to do, which was to resist the lust of the eyes.
And James 1:14-15:
“But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.”
Question: “What is the lust of the eyes?”
Answer here:
http://www.gotquestions.org/lust-of-the-eyes.html
Nothosaur says
Champ,
No. Jesus did not say that. The writer of the book of James said that.
Jesus used dramatic eye-plucking/hand-chopping hyperbole (found in Matthew) to teach about temptation.
Too extreme for me, but a still better than the conduct/teachings of Mohamud.
Christian Beltram says
I hope that the people who call this hotline will have their names concealed and their voices altered in order to prevent them from becoming the victims of honor killings at the hands of their families.
Wellington says
Here’s my favorite line: “…they (i.e., Daoud’ comments) ‘made Islam and Sharia law look bad.'”
Message to all Muslims: Islam and Sharia law look bad 24/7 with no extra help required from anyone.
Against Muslimanimals says
What a bunch of backward minded race of people these people are . In most parts of the world these people would be imprisoned for the way they think about small children . In there custom this is normal.
Jerry says
Maybe Islamist men should be neutered or have their eyes taken out to prevent rape of baby girls.
Similarly minded Jewish Super Orthodox men too.
Why should girls and women be penalised because fanatic men are religously indoctrinated to coninuously fantasizing about them as sexual objects?
Wellington says
Fallacious tu quoque reasoning there, Jerry. Yeah, as if “Jewish Super (Super?) Orthodox men” are approximately the same threat to females worldwide as are Muslim men. Wise up, Jerry.
86Mo says
@ Jerry –
Show me where Judaism teaches or condones child rape?
Show me where Orthodox Jewish men – anywhere in the world – are “marrying” little girls because their religion says such a thing is acceptable?
marclouis says
I’m pretty sure there are perverted child molesting rodents in all communities even orthodox Jewish ones, even some scriptures in religions that back it up. the difference being that child molestation, is widely condemned in all communities and prosecuted by law, and that includes the Jewish state of Israel.
descendantofacrusader says
I believe this devote muslim cleric may be on to something here. Why not hijabs and garbage sacks for goats, sheep, donkeys, camels, etc.? Are they not also “tilth” to the various fields sexual explotation by all those excited muslim men who are simply not responsible for their carnal lusts? Babies? That’s sick!
86Mo says
What kind of a pervert even THINKS of babies in a sexual manner in the first place?
The fact that we’re talking about an entire culture of men like this is horrifying beyond belief.
Champ says
I agree!!
fair_dinkum says
moslem households are a microcosm of moslem society. the same rules that run the home, basically run the country.
the statistics on pedophilia are inconclusive. child marriages not noted as such and a web of threats distort a lot. as for incest. at least 70% of pakistan, for instance, is married to its cousin. about the same in saudi arabia.
the oppression in islam is such that women are inferior, not to be trusted, need 4 male witnesses to a rape etc. and in the west pack rape by moslems has been cited as “cultural differences” in court defense. Scandinavia, France, England, Australia, the U S, Canada, India, Africa..thousands of women (and men in a lot of cases, going unreported) in all of these countries have had to endure these “cultural differences”.
and islam is so alien as any sort of culture.
that it seems this man, some sort of mullah, is suggesting that babies should be covered due to the risk of molestation?
muhummed himself married a 6 year old girl.
we get more information more often and faster than ever before. this has seen the increased awareness of the child bride issue in islam, as child brides as young as 8 have recently been sold to and raped to death by afghani and pakistani imams.
we are talking about a beliefs system going back 1400 years and never modernised. more suited to simple west asian warlords than to more modern, computer age humans. and in light of the facts, and in light of precedent, this is not surprising. anything to do with females is seen as a mix of embarrassment and anger. ownership and control.
and there it is.. islam.
Veracious_one says
rape?…by whom?
Fr. Basil` says
You know, this latest fatwa shows a lot about how nasty mahometan men are–and how they can’t be expected to control their sexual urges, even for toddlers.
Maybe this Saudi imam knows mahometan men better than we do.
Pumbar says
When even your prophet was a kiddy fiddler, what else could be expected. Sick.
The_Corrector says
MemriTV does it again! They are very selective in the translation. They could’ve given a more descriptive translation that would have portrayed the obvious even more. Since the majority of memritv viewers don’t understand the Arabic language, they aren’t able to see the major flaws and major omissions in their translations.
With that said, Is Daoud really a Muslim Cleric? Or is he a guy with an Islamic education speaking on t.v. To the unknowing public it would seem to be that this guy is some HUGE Muslim scholar whose word is LAW. WRONG!!! He is nothing more than a typical Christian television evangelist dressed in Muslim form. What is meant by that last statement is that what he has stated is laughable at best and punishable at worst, because of his clear violation of Islamic academia; creed and jurisprudence. If we know the history and general theme behind Al-Majd channel, then this would be no surprise. Furthermore, out of all the material regarding this subject that’s available, it would be MemriTV to highlight such foolery. Very typical MemriTv. Their videos are full of this type of foolery in the name of “Muslic Cleric”. Not to mention, how selective they are in these “shocking/taboo/tabloid like” subjects that they choose to highlight. But then again most of us are SHEEP regardless of what religion or country we belong too.
dumbledoresarmy says
Ladies and gentlemen, observe, above, a poster calling him or herself “The Corrector”, and signing in expressly and *only* to attempt a spot of well-poisoning as regards MEMRI, accusing the translators at MEMRI of mistranslating, etc.
Nonsense.
Methinks that “The Corrector” is a mohammedan who knows all too damn well that the kind of stuff that MEMRI makes visible to westerners is *not* cherrypicked but dismally *typical*.
But he wants, at all costs, to prevent curious infidels from paying attention. He does not want curious infidels – whether ordinary citizens, or journalists, or politicians, or religious leaders, to spend a few hours or a few days at MEMRI perusing the vast array of samplings of the mohammedan media that are there made accessible…he doesn’t want them to come to understand just how common, how *normal* for that media, that thought-world, are screams, and rants, and the mind-bogglingly bizarre (like the sample we are currently discussing), and insane conspiracy theories, and an endless farrago of nonsense-and-lies.