“While we were having my cousin’s wedding party in her family’s house, a man entered our room – which had been marked for female guests only – cursing and swearing and hitting. He accused us of being lewd because we were listening to music and not wearing the Islamic attire.” Hitting women is acceptable under Sharia, as per Qur’an 4:34 — listening to music, not so much.
“Sharia Law Interrupts a Woman’s Wedding In Deir Ezzor, Syria,” by Younes Ahmad and Karen Leigh, ABC News, May 25, 2014:
On April 20, members of Deir Ezzor’s Al Sharia Law Authority, a controlling Islamic party that uses force to implement the conservative law enforced by extremist groups who control Deir Ezzor city and swaths of the east, stormed an all-female wedding celebration at a private home.
Seventeen women were detained for several hours. The team of men who held them gave the reason as listening to loud music and not wearing Islamic dress.
“While we were having my cousin’s wedding party in her family’s house, a man entered our room – which had been marked for female guests only – cursing and swearing and hitting,” says Miriam, a 31-year-old housewife. “He accused us of being lewd because we were listening to music and not wearing the Islamic attire.”
The incident, she says, “is new to us. We are used to holding our parties and weddings in our own way – a way that does not even contradict the Sharia law these Islamists are demanding we uphold.”
With the near total absence of the Syrian government from most of Deir Ezzor city, the so-called “Sharia boards” have begun to enforce their own rules, using violence where necessary to force civilians, particularly women, to abide by them.
Activists say Abu al-Baraa al-Tunisi, the fighter suspected of bursting in on Mariam’s cousin’s wedding party, is with Jabhat al-Nusra, and is one of the al-Qaida-affiliated group’s representatives on Deir Ezzor’s Sharia board.
Though the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has imposed harsh restrictions on mobility and attire on women in neighboring Raqqa, the women present at the wedding are still baffled by al-Tunisi’s requests.
“What is the Islamic attire that we, as women attending a wedding, are supposed to wear according to the Sharia board?” says Amina, a guest. “And how could they allow themselves to enter a place when they know only women are present?”
Mohammad, a 32-year-old public servant who was near the home at the time, says he was “surprised” to see the force with which al-Tunisi and his men crashed the event.
“When I tried to intervene, a number of Sharia board members prevented me,” he says. “They had the place surrounded and were waiting for their colleague, who didn’t take to long to emerge, leading a number of women. He was ranting and raving that he would punish those lewd women for what they did, and that the fires of Hell will be more than pleased to receive their bodies on Judgment Day.”
Sheikh Khaled, a 70-year-old neighborhood dignitary, says the incident was the first of its kind in the area. “What has happened is a grave thing. We will prevent it from happening again, no matter the cost.”
Hours after the incident, residents’ frustration with the increasingly brutal tactics employed by local ISIS fighters was on display at a demonstration held near the wedding party house, with protestors calling to topple the Sharia board.
The demonstration was the first of its kind to be staged in Deir Ezzor city since extremists came to power following the withdrawal of regime forces two years ago.
Gary Mullennix says
As a religious man practicing Islam as it is meant to be practiced, what he has done in this story is fully normal and required. Islam is a arabic word meaning ‘submit’ and he is submitting to the rules of Islam and one of them is to cause ALL other people to submit as well.
Wellington says
Well, what is fully normal and required by Islam should be looked upon by all sensible human beings as often aberrant and sometimes just downright dangerous to the preservation of life. Islam made this “bed” and Islam is fully responsible for it.
Besides, it is so damn clear, I mean crystal clear, that if any religion was constructed by men for men, Islam was. While I decry the many stupidities and hypocrisies of modern Western feminism (and they are legion), it only takes half a brain to figure out that Islam errs in the complete opposite direction. Yeah, only half a brain, and perhaps not even this much.
mortimer says
Not exactly Islamic to snoop and break in to another Muslim’s home!
But one more comment: the ‘FIRST INCIDENT’ like this? It won’t be the last until the whole country gets sick of this death cult. The atrocities will go on until they say, ‘We no longer want to perpetuate these foolish lies.’
kikorikid says
Yep, You pretty much covered it.
Angemon says
I thought modesty meant “lowering your gaze”, not “entering the women dressing room and threatening to punish them”.
DRHazard says
We are so often being told by Islamists that everyone would be better off under Shariah, rather than democracy. But here is an example of the underlying problem with that belief; whose Shariah? whose Islam?
Apparently it’s the one with the guns (ignoring the “no compulsion in religion” part of the Quran). Muslims are dreaming if they think they can wish for universal Shariah and not expect it’s most extreme form to be the norm. All you have to do is accuse a fellow Muslim of not being Muslim enough and the on the heels of that proclamation is the charge of apostasy. What is the penalty for apostasy? Muslims can’t even agree on that but it’s always the one with the power who decides. In that way a small handful of extremists can dominate many more “moderates”. For this reason I have no problem drawing a parallel between fundamentalist Islam and other violent fascist movements like Nazism.
Michael Copeland says
Famous scholar Maududi wrote:
“No one can regard any field of his affairs as personal and private. Considered from this aspect the Islamic State bears a kind of resemblance to the Fascist and Communist states.”
Charli Main says
Coming soon to London, Paris, Rome and your home town, aided and abetted by the Muslim water carries in Western Governments and the MSN.
One of the most incomprehensible things of all, are the numbers of ” Western women” that are vociferous in their support of Islam and the practice of Sharia.
Perhaps they think that the ” black bin bag” dress code won´t apply to them when the Muslims take over their country.
islamisdeath says
Perhaps they think that the ” black bin bag” dress code won´t apply to them when the Muslims take over their country.”
I can tell you that every young brain dead lefty I talk to says exactly that. They just don’t get it that they too will be imprisoned by sharias demonic rules. The most common reply i get is “Oh (my name) you don’t think that will happen here do you? That just wont happen here!” They are effectively laughing at me.
Jay Boo says
ISIS the Islamic version of the ‘SS’
OldBlackCat says
I wonder WHO appointed themselves JUDGE, JURY AND EXECUTIONER here? HA! Oh, I get it — IT’s SELF APPOINTED !!! Who ever has the biggest stick, whoever has the guns! Arm the women under those burkqas! Fight for your freedom! These women have forgotten the lesson – the LAST LESSON of MOHAHA. NEVER EAT food prepared by the women you beat, or kill their husbands….here…have a nice sheep dinner Moha Followers. Wasnt’ Mohaha POISONED by the Jewish woman he raped after murdering her husband and father? Took him a painfully long time to die. Check out Dr David Wood on answeringmuslims.com This story of these poor women being brutalized is appalling. Who is this barbarian? I hope the MEN WEDDING GUESTS & the GROOM Beat the crap out of all of those who attacked the women. And the women brought the culprits a ‘nice sheep dinner’ accompanied by various herbs and delicacies….