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Raymond Ibrahim: Why ‘Infidel’ Women are Jihad’s Greatest Victims

Sep 28, 2016 9:09 am By Raymond Ibrahim

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[Originally published by the Gatestone Institute]

Always harsh, Islamic law is still harsher for women. According to the Koran, men have “authority” over women and may beat them for disobedience (4:34). According to Mohammad, the prophet of Islam, women are less intelligent than men — two women are needed to equal one man’s testimony — and the majority of hell’s population consists of women, who are further likened to donkeys and dogs in their ability to distract a man from his prayer and thereby annul it.

What, then, is Islam’s view of women who are “infidels”? They are at best “meant for one thing, the pleasure of the Muslim man,” as one Muslim told a group of young Christian girls in Pakistan before terrorizing and murdering one. In the Koran, (e.g., 4:24), non-Muslim women seized in a jihad can be bought and sold as sex slaves for Muslim men, as the Islamic State—not to mention America’s “good friend and ally” Saudi Arabia—have been doing.

Emily Fuentes, communications director for Open Doors, a human rights organization that advocates for persecuted Christians, said:

Unfortunately, more and more women are the target of [Muslim] terrorist groups. There are numerous international incidents of women being kidnapped, raped, and forced to convert from Christianity to Islam by radical extremist groups…. Many are also sold on the open market. This brutality is not only occurring in the Middle East but in Africa and in many other places. In many of these countries, women are subject to persecution because they are considered second-class citizens because of their gender. As minorities in both gender and faith, Christian women face double the persecution. Although we don’t have an exact number, we know that millions of women are being persecuted…. In these Muslim-dominated countries, Christian women are systematically deprived of their freedom to live and are denied basic human necessities.

Christian women are double damned: as non-Muslims, they are barely tolerated “infidels”; as women, they are even more inferior than their already despised male counterparts.  Add to this the facts that women are physically weaker—and physically more attractive—than men, and, at least outside the West, more passive than men, and it becomes clear why they are the greatest recipients of Islamic abuse.

By now, the plight of non-Muslim females in the grips of ISIS is well known. Since conquering Mosul in June 2014, the caliphate has executed as many as 250 captive non-Muslim girls (mostly Yazidis and Christians) for refusing to be sex slaves. Most recently, 19 Yazidi girls were placed in iron cages and burned alive in front of a crowd of hundreds, for refusing to copulate with jihadis.

According to a report that appeared one day after Open Doors highlighted the plight of non-Muslim women:

Religious minority women under IS control are often repeatedly sold from jihadi to jihadi. Once militants get tired of raping and abusing one particular girl, they usually sell them off to one of their militant buddies so they can rape and abuse them at their own pleasure.

One escaped Yazidi girl explained how “she was bought and sold by eight different jihadis… We were put on display [in sex slave markets]. Men came in and looked at us like objects. It was like a car showroom…. Women were bought for cash — as little as $20, or exchanged for things like mobile phones, or given away as gifts.”

She was raped at least three times a day for over 16 months by countless ISIS fighters, forced to take contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs, and repeatedly tried to kill herself to escape the abuse. Her account is typical, and has been made by many other escaped non-Muslim girls.

Other recent reports tell of “one 8-year-old girl who was also bought, sold and raped by eight different militants in a span of 10 months”; of another “sex slave who set herself on fire to prevent from being raped”; of a couple who, after their children were abducted by ISIS, answered their door to find a plastic bag containing the body parts of their daughters and a video of them being tortured and raped; and of Christian and Alawite women being raped and slaughtered by ISIS jihadis invading their village.

But such Islamic abuse of women is hardly limited to groups such as ISIS or Boko Haram — a Nigerian-based organization that also defines itself in exclusively Islamic terms and is notorious for abducting, enslaving, raping and murdering Christian girls. Approximately 700 Christian and 300 Hindu girls are abducted, enslaved, and raped in Pakistan every year. These are very large numbers considering that Christians and Hindus each make up only one percent of the nation’s Muslim-majority population.

Just four days after Open Doors made its remarks about the plight of Christian women, two Muslim men in Pakistan invaded the home of a Christian woman while her soldier husband was away serving in the army. They tied and gang raped her while threatening to slaughter her two-year-old infant daughter if she did not comply. According to the 30-year-old woman: “The men treated me like an animal, telling me I was a worthless Christian…. They said Christian women are all whores and they would come back and repeat their debauchery if I ever told anyone.”

Because she is both a female and an infidel in a Muslim-majority nation, the police and the law did nothing for her. That same week, five more Christian girls were kidnapped, converted to Islam, and forced to “marry” their captors.

There are many more examples of rape and sometimes murder of Christian girls — and sometimes Christian boys — in Pakistan. After a 9-year-old Christian girl was raped by a Muslim man who boasted of having “done the same service to other young Christian girls,” local residents explained:

Such incidents occur frequently. Christian girls are considered goods to be damaged at leisure. Abusing them is a right. According to the [Muslim] community’s mentality it is not even a crime. Muslims regard them as spoils of war.

A similar situation prevails in Egypt. In July 2012, U.S. Congressman Chris Smith testified about the “escalating abduction, coerced conversion and forced marriage of Coptic Christian women and girls. Those women are being terrorized and, consequently, marginalized.”

The late and often diplomatic Coptic Pope Shenouda III, the head of Egypt’s Christian community, highlighted this proclivity back in 1976: “There is a practice to convert Coptic girls to embrace Islam and marry them under terror to Muslim husbands.” Between 2008 and 2013 alone, nearly 600 cases of abduction, rape, and forced conversion of Christian women have been documented in Egypt. The situation has only gotten worse since, as per the title of a 2012 report: “Abductions and Forced Conversions of Christian Coptic Women in Egypt Dramatically Increase.”

If young women are sexually targeted, older women are sexually degraded. On May 20, a 70-year-old Christian woman in Egypt was stripped naked, spat upon, and paraded in the streets of Minya to jeers, whistles, and yells of “Allahu Akbar” (“Allah is Greatest”) by an angry Muslim mob.

Two days before the Open Doors report was published, Muslims in Uganda beat and raped a 22-year-old Christian woman because she accused a mosque leader of murdering her father due to a religious argument. A month earlier, the 13-year-old daughter of a mother who left Islam and converted to Christianity, was raped by local Muslims and told: “This is the second warning to your mother for disgracing the faith of the Muslims.”

It should be noted that even in Europe, it is the indigenous females who are suffering the most from the influx of Muslim migrants. Exponentially higher numbers of sexual attacks and rapes are being committed, often on the same logic that prevails in the Islamic State or Pakistan. In the words of a Muslim migrant in Germany who stalked, cursed, and groped a woman: “German women are there for sex.”

A final important point: while non-Muslim women are targeted more than non-Muslim men for sexual reasons, that does not mean that they are targeted less than men when it comes to non-sexual forms of Muslim persecution, such as attacks on “blasphemers” and “apostates.” Chivalry is an alien concept to Islam; when it comes to terrorizing and putting infidels in their place, the religion of Muhammad is strictly egalitarian. In Pakistan for example, the most notorious blasphemy case involves a Christian woman, Asia Bibi, who has been in prison on death row since 2009; and when a Christian couple was accused of desecrating a Koran, both husband and wife were burned alive. More recent accounts that surfaced around the same time that Open Doors highlighted the plight of Christian women include:

  • Indonesia: In what was described as “an unprecedented use of Shari’a on a non-Muslim,” a 60-year-old Christian woman was publicly caned 30 times for selling alcohol.
  • Islamic State: A Christian woman was executed by Islamic militants for refusing to deny her faith in Christ. ISIS also threatened a group of Dominican nuns, demanding they either convert to Islam or pay jizya, tribute (based on Koran 9:29). “The elderly sisters [fled and] began to suffer heart attacks and heart failures from the stress of the mass exodus. Over the past 18 months, 23 of them died, sometimes up to three deaths a week. ‘They died of a broken heart,’ said Sister Huda.”
  • Uganda: A Muslim man strangled his wife to death for leaving Islam and converting to Christianity. Another Muslim man beat and threatened to butcher his wife while shouting “Allahu Akbar” because of her conversion to Christianity.

One seldom hears of the reverse, of a Muslim wife killing her husband for apostasy, due to the lack of authority women have in the Muslim world.

It is for all these reasons that non-Muslim women—physically weaker and physically more desirable than men—are perfect targets: for nowhere else can Islam’s contempt for “infidels,” and females in general, best combine and vent itself than onto non-Muslim women.

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Filed Under: Muslim persecution of Christians, women's rights in Islam Tagged With: Emily Fuentes, Open Doors


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  1. Kelly says

    Sep 28, 2016 at 10:00 am

    This is absolutely heartbreaking and horrifying.

    Congressman Smith was referenced on Catholic Radio (a program Sunday on EWTN at 12:30) in which it was noted that although Congress has now declared that genocide is happening, President O said nothing about it in his address to the UN.
    This in itself is outrageous.
    How can we support Congressman Smith and his efforts to move Congress?

    I have seen the article on TROP about the feminist in Canada who is being castigated for pointing out the dangers of Islamic teaching there. We need our feminists to awaken en masse and speak against Islam’s horrors. How would it be possible to call or write en masse so that we are not ignored?

    The Catholic hierarchy must speak up for its religious, if even to pray for them regularly. I was heartened that Sunday we finally prayed as a church for persecuted Christians. I hope that this prayer will continue and expand. There seems to be so much fear of being bigoted that people are not even praying for the persecuted regularly. It’s shameful.

    These horrors against women are only getting worse as they happen and they are not condemned and stopped. Even in this country, even decades ago, rapes were happening. Innocent and naïve young western women were targets, not ever having met people who thought they were no more than sheep (literally). It is only worse now that there are more Muslims in the west and they have more political power (the power of shame and fear of lawsuits at least).

    But we have claim to be a righteous country both at home and abroad. Though we may not be perfect, we still carry the torch of freedom. It is time that we band together. Can each of us forward this article to our Congressmen, Senators, church leaders, others?

  2. Dan says

    Sep 28, 2016 at 10:51 am

    I know I’ll get flack for this, but a large part of this problem is because of Western feminism.

    For too long, Gloria Stienem feminism has pushed this “Women need men like a fish needs a bicycle” mentality, and these days few even understand the only reason something as idiotic as that could have been said was because decent men were around to keep the bad ones from clocking her.

    Obviously the women captives don’t have the strength or more would have overpowered guards to escape.

    So there goes the “Women can do anything a man can do” logic. It’s just as stupid “Men can do anything a woman can do.”

    From 99-02, I sailed through Middle East waters, several times asked if we’d sell the women in our crew, and what does anybody think would have happened if us guys were either a; bad men, or b; women?

    Part of being a man is defending any weaker; women, children, the elderly, the handicapped, and even other men, and real know there is a time when a good ass kicking is the only solution.

    Unfortunately, while Islam has been raising generations of males to treat women like garbage, the West has been raising generations of boys to BE like women.

    Welp.

    You reap what you sow and now?

    The crazy rapist gangs are kicking down the doors and men, who never grew up learning a little bit of pain never hurt nobody, are just cowering under the bed with the women and children.

    It’s time Gloria’s kind of feminists admit they never cared their women’s rights, or they’d have long ago turned their wrath on these Islamist scum, and probably even been advocating nukes.

    Heck, I contribute to several groups trying to free and protect these women, and I’m just a dumb bicycle, and the ironic thing is, as idiotic as I think Stienem and her beliefs are, if I knew her kind were being sold as sex slaves I’d still go in and kick the snot out of every man involved.

    • TheOldOligarch says

      Sep 28, 2016 at 11:57 am

      I remember trying to explain this to one of my female friends at University years back. Feminism has done incalculable damage to the natural protective instincts of western men towards their women. That might be all fine and dandy while things are peaceful, but they will not always be thus. This trend will reverse I think, it’s just a shame how many horrors and outrages it’s going to take to rekindle that in Western men. It’s going to take a lot more occurrences like New Year’s Eve 2015, and lot more Rotherams before it happens though, which is going to be a pity for the women involved along the way. I suppose it isn’t surprising though, when we look at how many dead bodies it takes for people to shed each tiny bit of political correctness and delusion. We’ll need a hell of a lot more death and rape before the bleating masses are ready to act on this, we’ll get there eventually though unfortunately/fortunately.

      • Dan says

        Sep 28, 2016 at 12:37 pm

        I don’t think we’ll ever get there.

        When I told people about my personal experiences in the Middle East, far too many women I was full of ***t.

        For some kinds of people, the only way they’ll change is if they are held captive themselves.

        But I suppose, for saying something like that, some feminist is going to say I’m a closet misogynist.

        But I’m willing to ship anybody over there right now who’s still denying the Islamist problem.

        Straight up swap for all the captives and persecuted over there right now.

        Mostly liberals, but any and all political and religious who still think talk can settle this.

        And send them with all the exact defenses these sex slaves, and yazidi and Jews and Christians, had when their so called Muslim neighbors and friends turned on them.

        See how “talk” works when you’ve go nothing to back it up.

  3. Angemon says

    Sep 28, 2016 at 11:19 am

    Raymond Ibrahim: Why ‘Infidel’ Women are Jihad’s Greatest Victims

    The people who should be advocating for women’s rights and see patriarchal conspiracies everywhere seem to forget that muslim-majority countries exist. There is cultural and institutionalized oppression of women and non-muslims in muslim-majority countries, so it’s very hard for non-muslim women to improve their status in society. And the people who should be supporting them from abroad simply seem to forget they exist. It’s much easier to rant against air conditioning and demand resources and special status from a government eager to comply than to risk their lives and go against an hostile government.

    • Jay Boo says

      Sep 28, 2016 at 11:54 am

      Hillary the beast is safe.

      Even Muslim men have a nasty limit.

  4. Kay says

    Sep 30, 2016 at 12:34 am

    In the US now, our laws protect us. Genital mutilation, rape, beating people up (even if she’s your wife), child abuse and polygamy are illegal.
    But we must be concerned about the changing demographics, the attacks on free speech, and the infiltration of Mohammedens into our government.

    One of the Muslims I have known told me, “Here (in the US) men don’t beat their wives because it is illegal.”

    But I agree with Kelly in that our voice of righteousness should be heard also abroad. O, as leader of the free world, should have spoken to the UN about the genocide happening. Also, Christians have a special responsibility as those are our brothers and sisters who are being persecuted, part of our body.
    O sacred Head now wounded!

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