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Ireland: Judge in hot water for saying “Muslims feel they can actually beat their wives”

Mar 28, 2014 2:23 pm By Robert Spencer

Anthony-HalpinNow wait a minute. The Qur’an says: “Men are the managers of the affairs of women for that God has preferred in bounty one of them over another, and for that they have expended of their property. Righteous women are therefore obedient, guarding the secret for God’s guarding. And those you fear may be rebellious admonish; banish them to their couches, and beat them.” (4:34)

Islamic apologists routinely claim that the Qur’an’s command to beat disobedient women must be applied only with the most harmless of implements — i.e., a toothstick, as per a weak hadith. However, Muhammad’s example is normative for Muslims, since he is an “excellent example of conduct” (Qur’an 33:21) — and according to a canonical hadith, Muhammad’s favorite wife, his child bride Aisha, reports that Muhammad struck her. Once he went out at night after he thought she was asleep, and she followed him surreptitiously. Muhammad saw her, and, as Aisha recounts: “He struck me on the chest which caused me pain, and then said: Did you think that Allah and His Apostle would deal unjustly with you?” (Muslim 2127) Aisha herself said it: “I have not seen any woman suffering as much as the believing women.” (Bukhari 7.72.715)

So in sum, what Judge Anthony Halpin said was true: if there are any Muslims who take the Qur’an and Muhammad’s example seriously and act upon them, then there are Muslims who “feel they can actually beat their wives.” But telling truths of that kind is what “sparks controversy” in this silly and willfully ignorant age.

“Judge sparks controversy after saying ‘Muslims feel they can actually beat their wives’ in court case,” by Colin Brennan for the Irish Mirror, March 28 (thanks to Twostellas):

Judge Anthony Halpin has been asked to remove or clarify his comments by the Immigrant Council of Ireland

A judge has sparked controversy after saying he thinks that “Muslims feel they can actually beat their wives” while a Somali man was on trial accused of burglary at his ex-wife’s house.

Judge Anthony Halpin made the comments on Thursday in Tallaght District Court.

Khadar Younis denied breaking into his divorced wife’s home while she was sleeping in her bed.

He pleaded not guilty to breaking a protection order and being in the possession of a knife while in the house at Fernwood Avenue, Springfield, Tallaght, on May 10.

His ex-wife Kara Ibrahim told the court she wanted to drop the case against him because he was a good father but not a good husband.

There was no evidence against the the dad-of-four of a physical assault.

Judge Halpin remanded Mr Younis on continuing bail to a date in September.

The Immigrant Council of Ireland has called on  Judge Anthony Halpin to clarify or withdraw his comments….

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  1. richard Sherman says

    Mar 28, 2014 at 2:32 pm

    This judge speaks the truth…and SHOULD not back down!

    • Shane says

      Mar 29, 2014 at 9:45 am

      Agreed! Non-Muslims all over the world must tell the dark truths about Islam. Liberals believe that coddling Muslims will make them less likely to kill us, but they are being foolish. Muhammad was a warlord and a killer and his followers are told that he is the perfect example for them to emulate.

  2. mariam rove says

    Mar 28, 2014 at 2:34 pm

    The Immigrant Council of Ireland has called on Judge Anthony Halpin to clarify or withdraw his ….

    Yes. Let’s clarify this. Muslims according to their pedophile prophet do feel that they can beat their wives. So clarified. m

  3. eib says

    Mar 28, 2014 at 3:36 pm

    The Quran says what it says.
    There is no controversy.
    None.
    Why can’t the Irish comprehend that the Muslims are doing to them what they claim the English did to them?!!
    And unlike the English, the Muslims will succeed through terror if they are not resisted.
    Read ’em and weep, O’ will become ibn soon enough.
    How is it that the Irish were so willing to confront the English and so unwilling to confront the Ummah?

    • Jimbo says

      Mar 28, 2014 at 8:12 pm

      Shared antisemitism.

  4. eib says

    Mar 28, 2014 at 3:38 pm

    Quote:
    Aisha herself said it: “I have not seen any woman suffering as much as the believing women.” (Bukhari 7.72.715)
    end

    Aisha is one of my favorite people in Islam.
    She’s worth much, much more than her pedophile husband, the false prophet Mohammed.

  5. duh_swami says

    Mar 28, 2014 at 3:54 pm

    From post above…Frankly, I do not give a flying fuck about Muslim husbands ” manning up” by keeping their wives “in check”. It definitely increases the chances of their wives revolting and running away,

    Interesting. It looks like you are advocating spousal abuse…More beatings=more running away. That is something like, ‘The floggings will continue until morale improves’. Are you married? Do you ‘man up’ and keep your wife in line?

    • Gray Herbert says

      Mar 28, 2014 at 8:11 pm

      The post does not advocate spousal abuse at all. The point is simply made that, if Muslim men obey the dictates of their religion and beat their wives, this increases the chances of the wives running away, and not breeding any more soldiers for Allah – a consummation devoutly to be wished. But, as I see it, the problem is rather that Muslim women are often more fanatical in their religious observance than the men, if that is even possible. Throw in a bit of the old Stockholm Syndrome, and you have a recipe for compliant wives staying in the abusive relationship, churning out the annual soldier for Allah regardless.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 1, 2014 at 9:14 pm

        Gray Herbert wrote:

        The post does not advocate spousal abuse at all. The point is simply made that, if Muslim men obey the dictates of their religion and beat their wives, this increases the chances of the wives running away, and not breeding any more soldiers for Allah…
        ……………………….

        By this “reasoning”, Muslim women should be the most liberated and “empowered” women in the world—clearly, they are not.

        The fact is that while some women *do* rebel against brutality, that many more are apt to be cowed by their barbaric husbands.

        After all, back in Dar-al-Islam there is often nowhere for them to run away *to*.

  6. ralph3796 says

    Mar 28, 2014 at 5:29 pm

    Once upon a time there was this child raping, murderous, thieving, POS who went into a cave for 45 days. There he met a Jewish Angel named Gabriel who passed on to the child rapist the unholy Qur’an written in Arabic which the child rapist could not read because he was an illiterate child rapist. He went forth and murdered many people, stealing their stuff, and raping and enslaving their women and children. He made a deal with the Meccan polytheists, promising not to do to them which he hath done to everyone else that he had come upon. Well, He lied. He attacked them, killed them, stole their stuff, raped and enslaved their women and children, and claimed their temple which contained their kabba and 365 idols, one for each day of the year, as his own. Of the polytheists’ idols was one named Allah, the moon god. The child rapist chose Allah as his god and removed all the other gods. Wonder why all Islamic States’ flags have a crescent moon on them? Today, muslims claim that their holiest of holy places, which was built over 2000 years before the child rapist’s birth, was build by two Jewish brothers in expectation of the coming of the child rapist and his religion of Satan, known today as Islam. The child rapist’s name was Muhammad. The angel he met in the cave who he thought was the Jewish Angel, Gabriel, was, in fact, a Jinn, which is sort of an Angel of Satan. Islam: serving over 1.4 billion idiots and counting.

    • Vivienne Leijonhufvud (goldie) says

      Apr 2, 2014 at 11:47 am

      Brilliant interpretation and all true from what I have learned about the illiterate Mohammed. The Koran was written well after his death.

  7. mortimer says

    Mar 28, 2014 at 6:43 pm

    His Honour Anthony Alpin is a man who has read something of the Koran and/or Sharia. His words are literally correct. Wife-beating is fully authorized by every Islamic expert because it is in the eternal, pre-existent words of Allah.

    Allah willed from all eternity for men to beat their wives.

    Thank you, Your Honour, for telling the plain truth. Do not let them get away with deny the facts! Well done, sir.

  8. Michael Copeland says

    Mar 28, 2014 at 7:59 pm

    Muslims “feel” they can actually beat their wives because they are INSTRUCTED that they can actually beat their wives. See videos on the internet of imams giving this instruction. It is in the Koran, as shown above. The Koran forms part of Islamic law, and there is the death penalty for denying any verse in it.

  9. Wellington says

    Mar 28, 2014 at 8:04 pm

    “Ismail Mohammed” is part of the problem, not part of the solution. Whatever his game, it’s nothing respecting Islam he and his ilk can fix.

    Whether troll or sincere (instructive, no, that if sincere he could actually be worse than your standard troll, deuce difficult though this would be?), his “contribution” here at JW is no contribution at all, as duh_swami, Champ and others have already ascertained.

    • Jay Boo says

      Mar 28, 2014 at 11:17 pm

      I see Ismail (the snail) troll must sleazed in and been deleted.
      He seems to post (Obscure and misdirect) on articles that reveal Islam’s disgrace or Jihad schemes.

      He is definitely running interference to get JW’s off the topic despite his pretense otherwise.

      • Jay Boo says

        Mar 28, 2014 at 11:22 pm

        Typo
        Ismail must have sleazed in

  10. fair_dinkum says

    Mar 28, 2014 at 10:54 pm

    its easy to substantiate.. hope he goes ahead and quotes the relevant bits.

  11. Champ says

    Mar 29, 2014 at 2:27 am

    BTW, “Ismail Mohamed” was also posting as “True Christian” …further proof of his deceit.

  12. voegelinian says

    Mar 29, 2014 at 4:29 am

    I guess I missed the Ismail Mohamed party…

  13. FatherJon says

    Mar 29, 2014 at 5:57 am

    This is yet another example of how weak-kneed and supine our judges are becoming. Giving in to a migrant council over something like beating your wife in Islamic societies is ridiculous. The amount of recorded beatings of wives and daughters could fill a large library. It’s amply evidenced in the Koran and the hadiths. The judge should tell them to get lost.
    FJ

  14. FatherJon says

    Mar 29, 2014 at 6:24 am

    I wonder how the good judge would view the latest statistics from the UK where the Muslim prisoner population has doubled in a decade. He’d probably agree with the spokesman who blames it on Islamophobia and the police :-

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/number-of-muslims-in-prison-doubles-in-decade-to-12000-9222237.html

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 1, 2014 at 9:20 pm

      Why would you say that? This judge appears to be at least somewhat Islamo-savvy.

  15. Lookmann says

    Mar 29, 2014 at 9:01 am

    wife-beating in islamic hell-holes is so common that it is not news-worthy in those places or neighbouring nations. yet somehow this affected me .

    Afghan woman, shot in the face by her husband, wants to become a journalist in……… America !
    The title of the article says she wants to meet an indian actor, but her goal is to become a journalist.

    http://www.indiatvnews.com/crime/news/latest-afghan-woman-shot-in-the-face-by-her-husband-wants-to–5714.html

  16. Mirren10 says

    Mar 29, 2014 at 12:45 pm

    ”Khadar Younis denied breaking into his divorced wife’s home while she was sleeping in her bed.

    He pleaded not guilty to breaking a protection order and being in the possession of a knife while in the house at Fernwood Avenue, Springfield, Tallaght, on May 10.

    His ex-wife Kara Ibrahim told the court she wanted to drop the case against him because he was a good father but not a good husband.”

    So, this creature breaks the law by breaking a protection order, breaks into his ex-wife’s house **carrying a knife**, and she bleats she wants to drop the case against him because ”he was a good father but not a good husband.”

    Did it occur to this moron to wonder what he was going to do with the knife ? Maybe he was planning to stab her, or saw her head off, (which would rather tend to make him ‘not a good husband’) on the other hand, if he had attacked one of his children, would she then re-evaluate her verdict of him as a ‘good father’ ?

    What a purblind fool.

  17. Carolyne says

    Mar 29, 2014 at 1:27 pm

    I have always felt that Muslim pedophiles are inadequate to interacting with women on an adult basis. Somewhere along the line they were not able to emotionally progress to the point that a grown-up woman would actually want to have sex with them. So, they are attracted to children, both boys and girls, because they are physically stronger and they have no need to put forth any effort to be a desirable sex partner, which they could not do anyway. Let’s face it. Washing only one’s feet several times a day lacks something in the………..un……..hygeine department.
    Having a low intelletual level could possibly be the result of first cousins marrying first cousings for generations. In Pakistan, 70% of married adults are married to their first cousins. In such a small gene pool, the worst characteristics are bound to be magnified–such as pedophilia and other aberrant behaviours.

    So, one can only conclude that a person who brags that they have several sexual encounters every weekend, and often with children, or perhaps goats or camels, does not have the…… adequate physical requirement to do so and is living out their fantasies only in their heads.

    It’s one of the hazards of being a Muslim.

  18. Ericka Leijonhufvud says

    Mar 29, 2014 at 3:37 pm

    To all the savages defending Islam on this page if you cannot adjust to our social law I suggest you go back to where you come from. None of you can integrate you bring your cruel and savage religion with you and we don’t want it. Clear off.

    No Irish judge in his right mind should bow to such an ignorant and savage a society as Islam. Get out Islam and stay away. Already there are too many of you and 4 of you are members of the Muslim Brotherhood – with Irish passports. Expecting Ireland to bail you of Egypt when Morsi was deposed. Ireland has her own problems i.e recession few jobs for Irishmen. Yet you expect to have a €45 million useless mosque and playground for you Muslims to frolic in built by Irishmen you will later abuse. Go Go Go

  19. voegelinian says

    Mar 29, 2014 at 4:33 pm

    For some reason, this particular thread (and this thread only, from what I can see) is filled with commenters (including JW regulars) failing to use the “Reply” button — then compounding that with saying “you said that” without specifiying who the bloody ‘ell they are addressing. Makes for a confusing, unproductive, waste of time.

  20. Erin O'Connor says

    Mar 29, 2014 at 5:27 pm

    The judge is right
    I would like to see any woman hating muslin try to hit me

    • Vivienne Leijonhufvud (goldie) says

      Apr 2, 2014 at 11:52 am

      Spoken like a true Irishwoman Erin are you a chip off the old block Gracie O’Malley. We need her today to deal with these devils.

  21. dumbledoresarmy says

    Mar 30, 2014 at 6:31 am

    A word to anyone who has stumbled in here or may stumble in here in the future: most of the postings in this thread are very confusing, because what is happening is that most people were replying to one particular poster – calling itself one ‘Ismail Mohammed” – whose postings have all been deleted because, among other things, the poster was boasting obscenely about having had sex with girls as young as or younger than 12 years old.

    It is unclear whether that poster was an actual mohammedan (it claimed to be an ex-mohammedan, but this did not appear very likely) or just a particularly nasty troll pretending to be such in order to try to yank people’s chains, but either way, its repulsive rhapsodisings about sex with little girls were waaaay beyond the pale. So it was abruptly seized by the scruff of the neck and the seat of the pants and tossed outside into the gutter where it belongs.

  22. gravenimage says

    Apr 1, 2014 at 9:08 pm

    Ireland: Judge in hot water for saying “Muslims feel they can actually beat their wives”
    ………………………………

    How dare this judge actually speak the truth about Islam? Of course, it would be different if he were a pious Muslim *lauding* this barbarism—then the press would just ignore him…

    And worse—this case didn’t sound like “just” wife-beating, but a potential “Honor Killing” as well. Scary…

  23. Vivienne Leijonhufvud (goldie) says

    Apr 2, 2014 at 11:44 am

    Bless the goodly Irish Judge who had the nous to speak the truth about Islam. Research Islam thoroughly and you will find it based on the old Babylonian Goddess Ishtar (explains the waning crescent moon on top of an inverted breast generally with three nipples beneath the crescent) A learned Irish Gentleman ascertained I had researched my facts correctly. Later when Mohammed learned about Judaism and Christianity he added it to the original pagan religion. Further more a Swedish learned gentleman pointed out Christianity came to Scandinavia between 550 and 650 AD. Therefore as Swedish Vikings went East into Russia as well as the middle east. Mohammed would have picked up the stories of the Nordic Sagas. The myth of the Virgins collecting the hero warriors from the battlefield. Every night tables in Valhalla/Paradise were laden with food the best being ‘wild boar’. Now ‘wild boar’ conflicts with the Talmud dietry rules. Vikings even made it to Sophia Mosque in Istanbul although at this time it was still a Byzantian Christian Cathedral the citadel of Holy Roman Empire. Draw your own conclusions!

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