The Jordanian Women’s Union is protesting this. One hopes that they will succeed, and that Sharia vigilantes will not arise in the wake of that success in order to enforce Sharia provisions on them by means of violence. With the notable and portentous exception of Egypt, all over the Islamic world the wind is blowing in the direction of more Sharia, not less. And so these women face an uphill battle.
“How ‘progressive’ is Jordan now? New court ruling on veiled women may suggest otherwise….,” from AlBawaba, March 23 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The Jordanian Women’s Union, along with lawyers across the Hashemite Kingdom, expressed shock last week after a ruling discriminating against women who do not wear the Islamic hijab was issued by the Amman Sharia Court of Appeal, according to Al Medanah News.
The court announced late last week that it agreed with one lawyer’s statement – based on a fatwa – that says a woman who does not cover up or wear a hijab is considered a “slut” and shouldn’t be allowed to testify in court.
In response, The Women’s Union released a statement published on Amman net that describes the court’s decision as discrimination against women and a violation of the Jordanian Constitution, which considers all Jordanian men and women as equals.
“The Amman Sharia Court of Appeal has accepted the lawyer’s objection to a female witness from testifying for not wearing the hijab, which the court said would affect the fairness and honesty in her testimony from 3/2/2014.
According to the fatwa, which the court’s decision was based on, women who aren’t covered up are “sluts,” and that gives those women a bad name. Furthermore, the court was unable to support this fatwa apart from with something written in the introduction of a book by Egyptian Islamic Theologian Sheikh Yusuf Al Qaradawi.
Seeing as this decision violates the provisions of the Jordanian Constitution which calls for equality between all Jordanians, and which protects their personal freedoms, we are demanding all the concerned parties to reconsider the mentioned decision above. Meanwhile we stress the following:
1. Women’s attire is a personal choice and no one should challenge it as long as they’re not breaking the law and stepping out of line. An attack on those freedoms is considered a crime and explicitly violates Article VII of the Constitution.
2. The court’s decision is an attack on women and their honesty and dignity, especially that the decision was made by the highest court in the religious judiciary.
3. The Personal status Law is unconstitutional as it affects the principle of equality as between men and women.
4. Making room for jurisprudence in courts is dangerous, and gives the judge the opportunity to rule according to his own beliefs.
The Women’s Union therefore demands the following:
1. Going back on the court’s decision to consider those who aren’t wearing the hijab as not fit or honest to testify in court.
2. We stress the importance of revising the Personal Status Law as it still discriminates against women.”
Lawyers throughout the Kingdom have also expressed opposition to the ruling publicly, with some calling for wider scale protests and demonstrations.
RCCA says
The women of the Jordanian royal family, Queen Noor, Queen Rania, do not wear hijabs so I am surprised that the court can get away with referring to women who do not as sluts.
miriam rove says
Slut? mean while raping and sodomizing a 9 year old girl is 100 percent sharia compliant.m
mortimer says
This is an admission of the meaning of Koran 33.59 “Tell thy wives and daughters, and the believing women, that they should cast their outer garments over their persons … that they should be known (as MUSLIMS) and not MOLESTED.”
The court admits that NON-VEILED WOMEN MAY BE RAPED. By not wearing a veil, THEY ARE ASKING FOR IT.
Jay Boo says
All non-Muslim women without head scarfs are by default whores by “Muhammad logic” and deserve to be raped. Even a Muslim woman walking alone without an escort is considered fair game.
A removable head scarf is to rationalize Muhammad’s sin by blaming the victim.
(AKA Muhammad’s Islamic RAPE scarf excuse)
Godless “pray 5-a-day” males pillage honor in a gleeful RAGE with a “head scarf” alibi as an excuse.
Though they behave like unaccountable whores while self-righteously blaming the victim all in the name of Allah, they only prove that Islam is not a religion.
Islam is still based on satanic verse filth.
HONORABLE men treat women with respect.
gravenimage says
This is very true, Mortimer—any unveiled woman is considered fair game. And so, in the grotesque “logic” of Islam, if a woman exposes herself to the potential sexual savagery of Muslim rapists, she must ergo be a “slut”.
Jay Boo says
The pimp prophet of Islam treated Allah as his own personal whore whenever he wanted a self-serving revelation.
Salah says
“With the notable and portentous exception of Egypt, all over the Islamic world the wind is blowing in the direction of more Sharia, not less.”
Indeed, what happened in Egypt is an exception, but…let’s wait for the Domino Effect.
As we all know, the Muslim Brotherhood is the “spiritual mother” of all jihadist groups, including al-Qaeda. Its spectacular defeat in Egypt will have a negative effect on ALL islamist groups. Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E. and Bahrein have already followed by declaring the MB a terrorist organization. Today, the only chance for the MB to survive depends on its ally in the W.H.
The notable and portentous exception of Egypt:
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-end-of-muslim-brotherhood.html
Defcon 4 says
@Salah
Are you really saying the only problem w/islam0nazism in the world today is all down to the Muslim Brotherhood? Do you seriously think that if the Muslim Brotherhood were to disappear tomorrow that islam would become a tolerant, civilised, peaceful religion?
Hundreds of millions of unbelieving, najjis kaffir were slaughtered and enslaved by muslimes long before the Muslime Brotherhood even existed.
Salah says
“Do you seriously think that if the Muslim Brotherhood were to disappear tomorrow that islam would become a tolerant, civilised, peaceful religion?”
No. I think that the fall of the MB will lead to the weakening and eventual fall and defeat of all its offshoots. This means that Violent Jihad will become less powerful and “less” violent. And as we all know, Islam cannot survive without violence.
Islam will never become a tolerant, civilised or peaceful religion. Islam will disappear as soon as its capabilities to wage Violent Jihad disappears.
sidney penny says
uncovered meat, sluts what next?
always a women’s fault.
Nothing to do with Islam?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/oct/26/australia.marktran
A senior Muslim cleric in Australia has sparked a furore by comparing women who do not wear a headscarf to “uncovered meat”, implying that they invited sexual assault.
No1 says
Disappointing. I always thought Jordan was one of the less Islamic states.
Henry says
Muslims, if there’s enough of you out there with some semblance of sane rationality, fed up and shamed enough to send this hypocritical, irrational, immoral, evil controlling mechanism called Islam crashing down into the dust bin of history, summon up your courage and rise together to help rid humanity of this scourge.