Ruqiya Farah Yarow is a name in this news story. By this time tomorrow, she will be forgotten. And that is telling. Muslims in the West claim to stand for religious freedom — the freedom to wear the veil. They even held World Hijab Day to proclaim and celebrate that freedom. Barack Obama has congratulated himself over the fact that “the United States government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab and to punish those who would deny it.”
No one, however, speaks out for people like Ruqiya Farah Yarow. No one (other than Pamela Geller) has ever spoken out for Aqsa Parvez, whose Muslim father choked her to death with her hijab after she refused to wear it. Who will speak out for Amina Muse Ali, a Christian woman in Somalia whom Muslims murdered because she wasn’t wearing a hijab; and of the 40 women who were murdered in Iraq in 2007 for not wearing the hijab; and Alya Al-Safar, whose Muslim cousin threatened to kill her and harm her family because she stopped wearing the hijab in Britain; and Amira Osman Hamid, who faces whipping in Sudan for refusing to wear the hijab; and the Egyptian girl, also named Amira, who committed suicide after being brutalized for her family for refusing to wear the hijab; and the Muslim and non-Muslim teachers at the Islamic College of South Australia who were told that they had to wear the hijab or be fired; and the women in Chechnya whom police shot with paintballs because they weren’t wearing hijab; and the women also in Chechnya who were threatened by men with automatic rifles for not wearing hijab; and the elementary school teachers in Tunisia who were threatened with death for not wearing hijab; and the Syrian schoolgirls who were forbidden to go to school unless they wore hijab; and the women in Gaza whom Hamas has forced to wear hijab; and the women in Iran who protested against the regime by daring to take off their legally-required hijab; and the women in London whom Muslim thugs threatened to murder if they didn’t wear hijab; and the anonymous young Muslim woman who doffed her hijab outside her home and started living a double life in fear of her parents, and all the other women and girls who have been killed or threatened, or who live in fear for daring not to wear the hijab?
When will we see the Muslims in the West who profess to be against coercion hold Ruqiya Farah Yarow Day? And if they won’t — and they won’t — why won’t they?
“Somali woman killed for not wearing veil, relatives say,” BBC, July 30, 2014:
Militant Islamists in Somalia have shot dead a Muslim woman for refusing to wear a veil, her relatives say.
Ruqiya Farah Yarow was killed outside her hut near the southern Somali town of Hosingow by gunmen belonging to the al-Shabab group, they say.
The militants had ordered her to put on a veil, and then killed her after returning and finding she was still not wearing one, the relatives said.
An al-Shabab spokesman denied the group had killed the woman.
Al-Shabab does not fully control the area where she was living, he added.
Relatives, who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals, told the BBC that Mrs Yarow was killed at about 07:30 (04:30 GMT).
She was shot twice and died instantly, they added.
She is survived by her husband and children, the relatives said.
Al-Shabab, which controls much of southern and central Somalia, imposes strict rules of behaviour, including dress codes for men and women.
BBC Somalia analyst Mary Harper says the fact that al-Shabab has denied killing Mrs Yarow suggests that rogue elements within the group may have been responsible for her death.
It is also possible that al-Shabab wants to distance itself from the shooting because it is likely to provoke a strong public reaction, she says.
Jay Boo says
What does Allah of Islam have to say about this?
Speak up Allah!
Aren’t you offended that Muslims do such disgusting things in your name Allah?
It this continues the world will begin to realize your just a sick evil joke Allah.
Speak up Allah!
(please excuse the capitalization for grammatical purpose only)
Jay Boo says
ISLAM
Saudi Arabia’s ‘gift’ to Somali woman.
THE SLAVE TRADE RELIGION
bettina says
Hi, JB — you said, “please excuse the capitalization for grammatical purpose only.”
I vowed months ago to type in lower case every single muslim word — names, places, allah, mohamed, all of ’em. To defeat the auto-correct feature on JW, which capitalizes all proper names, you need to type the word and a space, then go back and lower the capital.
This is a little cumbersome, but my reward lies in the fact that no Islamic word EVER deserves the honor of an initial cap.
Jay Boo says
Hi Bettina,
That is a clever technique.
I agree that no Islamic word EVER deserves the honor of an initial cap.
However, I can afford to be a little bit over generous to Islam by allowing capitalization in my writing because some days I let loose on Islam and its conjurer MO with such a mock-fest blitzkrieg that if I am magnanimous on this one issue, it seems to add a contrast as to what follows.
christine dorothy says
Allah by fact in history, was a moon god. All this fuss over a moon god. Islam means submission and muslim means those who submit. Allah never said anything; only Momo declared he was the speaker of Allah. Uncontested. Interesting.
Jay Boo says
“It is for the sake of Allah”
What Allah needs is a good swift boot in the ass.
Tradewinds says
There is no Allah. Mohamet is Allah, the Arabian pagan moon deity that doesn’t exist.
Centurion_Cornelius says
+1
Roger that!
The depraved musings of a pirate and child molester.
Koran=believe or die! Yeah…now THAT’S religion…
Jay Boo says
A little peaceful music from Kenya to keep the Muslim trolls ay bay.
And to put Allah of Islam back in his lowly place
Beagle says
Since Pamela moved her site I have had no luck trying to post there by phone. In the last few days my phone will not allow me to click dialog boxes at Jihad Watch. I’d fix the problems if I had the first clue why they started. Seems odd that the only two places I have trouble posting for technical reasons are the leading counterjihad blogs.
Louise from Canada says
Same with me. This is odd. Wonder why??
Beagle says
I have seen ?women? dressed exactly like the ones in the photo at the top swimming, riding bikes, and slowly trudging through thunderstorms here in Orlando. The first two instances appeared to be imminently life threatening. The third, not much better
Turns out I can post using Disqus at Pamel’s site on a computer. Still no luck with phone.
Jay Boo says
Muhammad said bend over when you Muslims pray and
“Say my name”
Champ says
Muslims in the West claim to stand for religious freedom — the freedom to wear the veil. They even held World Hijab Day to proclaim and celebrate that freedom.
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Freedom? …these garments are slavery, and they represent the *slavery* that is inherent within islam on the whole. I find it interesting that mohammedans have so many things backwards, and this is yet one more clear example of how distorted their way of thinking is.
Angemon says
Did the spokesman said he was against the death penalty for not abidding by their dress code? Or was it more along the lines of “someone got to her first”? Oh, wait, that implies I take their word as being true. Silly old me…
Champ says
Now that’s a picture of oppression, doom ‘n gloom …
David Hayden says
“Every Picture Tells A Story Don’t It”
Rezali Mehil says
All,
I know you cannot tell immediately…but that is DDA, Mirren and Graven….
Graven is with the bowed head trying to hide more in case anyone finds about her drawings…never mind Graven…your secret is safe with us…..
More Later….
Rezali
Champ says
Revolting “rezali” is the only laughing at her stupid joke, and her pathetic attempt at humor only reveals that she’s jealous of these 3 amazing and intelligent women …and Graven is a gifted artist!
gravenimage says
Thank you so much, Philip and Champ! This means a lot to me.
And I very much second your words on DDA and Mirren—two of the very best posters here.
Champ says
You’re welcome, my dear friend.
dumbledoresarmy says
You flatter me.
You are often much more precise and “on the ball” than I.
And Mirren 10 is an inspiration, too.
Y’know, I would love nothing so much as to sit at a coffee table (or perhaps in a Max Brenner’s chocolateria) with you and Mirren10, and just talk about all the things we *can’t* really spend any time talking about here, for security reasons or else just because they’d be too wildly offtopic.
Mirren10 says
Thank you, graven !
But I have to say I feel very much a novice in such very good company.
You and dda are both so much more knowledgeable than myself, and reading your posts, both of you, I often say to myself, ”now, why didn’t **I** see that.”
Echoing dumbledoresarmy, it would be wonderful if we could all meet someday !
gravenimage says
DDA and Mirren, I would *love* to be able to meet you both one day!
How does one of the Max Brenner’s in NYC sound? There’s one in Greenwich Village just blocks from the resurgent WTC Freedom Tower—that would seem apt.
dumbledoresarmy says
Yes. I have seen Gravenimage’s artwork for the Resistance – e.g. for Draw Mohammed Day – and I have also seen her professional work, by which she earns her bread and butter, and it is beautiful.
Mirren10 says
I echo graven here; thank you very much, Champ, Mr Jihadski, and dumbledoresarmy. It means a lot to me, also.
Champ says
You’re welcome, my dear friend!
gravenimage says
The repulsive Rezali Mehil wrote:
All,
I know you cannot tell immediately…but that is DDA, Mirren and Graven….
Graven is with the bowed head trying to hide more in case anyone finds about her drawings…never mind Graven…your secret is safe with us…..
More Later….
Rezali
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I’m not “bowing my head” to the brutality and oppression of Islam—and neither are staunch Anti-Jihadists Dumbledore’s Army and Mirren.
And notice that Rezali Mehil has no trouble with Ruqiya Farah Yarow’s being brutally murdered for refusing to don the slave rag—instead, she is gleefully envisioning brave Infidel women here in just the same plight.
And her reference to my drawings—she is enraged because anyone dared to criticize the appalling “Prophet”—especially his rape of poor little nine-year-old Aisha, which she described as “holy” and “ordained by Allah SWT”. *Ugh*.
And far from “hiding it”, I’ve provided the link below (Warning! Graphic image):
http://s478.photobucket.com/user/gravenimageartist/media/AishasWedding-1.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0&_suid=140677289630706285143289715052
Mirren10 says
”I know you cannot tell immediately…but that is DDA, Mirren and Graven….”
Are you sure it isn’t a photo of your wifies ?
You know, the ones who make you cringe at all the ‘whispers and pointing fingers’ from your ‘community’ ?
”Graven is with the bowed head trying to hide more in case anyone finds about her drawings…never mind Graven…your secret is safe with us…..”
Gravenimage’s powerful and disturbing drawing of your foul ‘prophet’ raping poor little Aisha, really got up your nose, didn’t it ? Truth hurts, doesn’t it, chumbawumba !
By the way, you’ve amply illustrated the truth in your old ayatollah’s statement, ”there is no joking in islam”.
Just a hint, rezali old son, jokes are supposed to be **funny**, not pointless ! 🙂
More later, chumbawumba !
Champ says
Hi Mirren10!
Great reply to you-know-who ..and I suppose “IT” is equally fitting, right? lol!
Revolting “rezali mehil” offers opportunities for friends, like us, to show love to one another, so nothing is wasted with the garbage that “IT” throws our way.
Also, “rezali” serves as a prime example of the heartless, soulless, rotten fruit that islam produces.
Like the Bible states …
“By their fruit you will recognize them …” — Matthew 7:16
Take care, my friend 🙂
anamberlily says
It is proven and common knowledge that Christianity has done much all around the world to improve the rights of females, because Christianity doesn’t teach the subjugation of women. Islam requires that women hide just about everything on their body. Islam treats women like objects, like slaves. They don’t allow us, as women, our right to humanity. We are human too. We are not objects. For the sake of my Jesus, we as women are not born just to be the property of a man! That Islam teaches and requires this near mummy looking attire of its women is ALL BY ITSELF enough to show how dangerous the ideals surrounding Islam religion truly are.
Angemon says
gravenimage says
Sharia Somalia: Islamic supremacists murder woman for not wearing a veil
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Damn barbarians. This isn’t about “modesty”—instead, it is all about controlling women.
More:
Ruqiya Farah Yarow is a name in this news story. By this time tomorrow, she will be forgotten…
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Not by me. I won’t forget Amina Muse Ali, or Aqsa Parvez, or any of the other women who have been slaughtered for refusing to don the slave rag.
Chrissy says
It is a sad thing for the world to forget these women. I know I won’t remember all the individual names but I WILL remember what happened to them for defying a rule enforced by men who are so sexually depraved that they can’t control themselves if they happen to see a woman’s face. And it seems it wasn’t even an islamic law until fairly recently. I can’t for the life of me remember where I read it, but apparently the full face veil is a ‘fashion borrowed from early Saudi Arabia’ and is not compulsory in the koran. I wish I could remember where I saw it and supply the link. It was an imam who said it a couple of months ago. If anyone else saw it and remembers where it’s from, could you share the link?
gravenimage says
Chrissy wrote:
And it seems it wasn’t even an islamic law until fairly recently. I can’t for the life of me remember where I read it, but apparently the full face veil is a ‘fashion borrowed from early Saudi Arabia’ and is not compulsory in the koran…
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Chrissy, this is one of the many things Taqiyya-spouting Imams tell Westerners that is both true and not true.
The Qur’an says this:
Quran (33:59) – “Tell thy wives and thy daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks close round them…”
Quran (24:31) – “And say to the believing women that they cast down their looks and guard their private parts and do not display their ornaments except what appears thereof, and let them wear their head-coverings over their bosoms, and not display their ornaments except to their husbands or their fathers…
So the Hijab, at least, *is* required. The rest is open to a certain amount of interpretation. But the basic idea that women must cover themselves was established in the very earliest days of Islam.
Here’s more information from The Religion of Peace:
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Quran/007-veils.htm
So even with the “liberal” interpretation, Ruqiya Farah Yarow, and Aqsa Parvez, and many others would be just as dead.
Dabaanjafi says
I am also afraid those Islamists from Somali in Europe to kill me for not wearing the veil. What happened to my country is bad, I like my country the secular times. The problem is Somali people too who converted to Salafism and Wahabism, before 1991 you wouldn’t see any of this. Somali women should teach their men not to bring the backward culture of Arab Nomads. I feel sorry for this woman who been killed R.I.P and I feel sorry the other innocent people who suffer because of this ideology. I think Somali women can change some of this oppresion, they should go in the streets and demonstrate about violence even the mothers Al Shabaab men should do it.
dumbledoresarmy says
The harsh truth is this, my dear: you will never be truly free unless and until you leave Islam as Ayaan Hirsi Ali did, and as another brave Somali woman, Mona Walters, has done.
Don’t try to shift the focus from Islam to “Wahabbism” or “Salafism”, as if they were some sort of thing brought in from outside. They’re not. They’re just…Islam. Real Islam, as frequently practised in many Muslim lands throughout the last 1400 years. Every time Muslims get slack, and start behaving almost like normal humans, there’s a revival of Real Islam, cruel and horrible.
By the way: where do you think FGM comes from? Were *you* mutilated?? The Shafiite Sunni Muslim school of the Sharia says that it is “obligatory” to cut out a woman’s clitoris. Will you campaign against FGM as well as against the veil? (And as for the veil, is it just that you’re against covering of the face? Would you go so far as to campaign for a woman to be able to go *bare-headed*, with NO veil at all, if she wanted to?).
Would you be willing to campaign for a Muslim woman’s right to marry outside Islam, if she chose? (that is, for her to be free to marry a Christian or an atheist who does *not* convert to Islam)?
Would you be willing to campaign against the apostasy law, and demand that people who are Muslims should be free to change their faith, or become atheists, if they want to, without being punished in any way at all for so doing?
Christine Dorothy says
These are the things to fight for for all humanity. Muslims are part of that humanity. Now is the time to put aside the discriminatory doctrines that block this achievement.