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“The Qur’an Teaches That All Human Beings Are Equal”: Sex (Part II)

Dec 12, 2016 8:29 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

What about Esposito’s next claim, that “the Qur’an teaches that all human beings are equal, regardless of…sex”?

Before we weigh this statement, let’s review what we know about the treatment of women in Islam. Can there be equality between men and women, when a man can marry four women but a woman only one man? When a man can triple-talaq his way out of any marriage, even being allowed now to fax his triple-talaq message home for it to be valid? When male heirs inherit twice as much as female ones? When the blood-money payable for a murder is twice as large for a male victim as for a female? When the Qur’an itself gives instructions on when and how, and how hard, to beat a wife? When the testimony of a woman is worth half that of a man? When, if a woman makes an accusation of rape, she must have four male witnesses to back her up? Or when a woman is raped, or otherwise been sexually attacked (or even just looked over), it is often she who is in danger of being killed by her own father, or brothers, or uncles, all in order to preserve the family’s honor, a strange code indeed that punishes the victim? And if we need Qur’anic passages to explain these practices, they are easy to locate, along with several excerpts from the most authoritative collection of Hadiths, that by Bukhari:

In the Qur’an we find:

Quran (4:11) – (Inheritance) “The male shall have the equal of the portion of two females.” In Islam, sexism is mathematically established.

Quran (2:282) – (Court testimony) “And call to witness, from among your men, two witnesses. And if two men be not found then a man and two women.”

Quran (2:228) – “and the men are a degree above them [women]“

Quran (5:6) – “And if ye are unclean, purify yourselves. And if ye are sick or on a journey, or one of you cometh from the closet, or ye have had contact with women, and ye find not water, then go to clean, high ground and rub your faces and your hands with some of it.” Men are to rub dirt on their hands, if there is no water to purify them, following casual contact with a woman (such as shaking hands).

Quran (2:223) – “Your wives are as a tilth unto you; so approach your tilth when or how ye will…” A man has dominion over his wives’ bodies as he does his land. This verse is overtly sexual. There is some dispute as to whether it is referring to the practice of anal intercourse.

Quran (4:3) – (Wife-to-husband ratio) “Marry women of your choice, Two or three or four.” Inequality by numbers.

Quran (53:27) – “Those who believe not in the Hereafter, name the angels with female names.” Angels are sublime beings, and would therefore be male. So those with wrong beliefs (“not in the Hereafter”) would “name the angels with female names.”

Quran (4:24) and Quran (33:50) – A man is permitted to take women as sex slaves outside of marriage. Note that the verse distinguishes wives from captives (those whom thy right hand possesses.).

In the Hadith and Sira

Sahih Bukhari (6:301) – “[Muhammad] said, ‘Is not the evidence of two women equal to the witness of one man?’ They replied in the affirmative. He said, ‘This is the deficiency in her intelligence.’“

Sahih Bukhari (6:301) – continued – “[Muhammad said] ‘Isn’t it true that a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menses?’ The women replied in the affirmative. He said, ‘This is the deficiency in her religion.’“ Allah has made women deficient in the practice of their religion as well, by giving them menstrual cycles. 

Sahih Bukhari (2:29) – Women comprise the majority of Hell’s occupants. This is important because the only women in heaven mentioned explicitly by Muhammad are the virgins who serve the sexual desires of men. (A weak Hadith, Kanz al-`ummal, 22:10, even suggests that 99% of women go to Hell).

Sahih Bukhari (62:81) – “The Prophet said: “‘The stipulations most entitled to be abided by are those with which you are given the right to enjoy the (women’s) private parts (i.e. the stipulations of the marriage contract).'” In other words, the most important thing a woman brings to marriage is between her legs.

Sahih Bukhari (62:58) – A woman presents herself in marriage to Muhammad, but he does not find her attractive, so he “donates” her on the spot to another man.

Sahih Muslim (4:1039) – “A’isha said [to Muhammad]: ‘You have made us equal to the dogs and the asses’“ These are the words of Muhammad’s favorite wife, complaining of the role assigned to women under Islam.

Do these Qur’an passages and reports of what Muhammad said in the Hadith (and there are many more that could be adduced) in any way support the claim of Esposito that men and women are “treated equally” in Islam? Do you think he could possibly be unaware of these passages? Or is he willing to state utter falsehoods, prepared to brazen it out should anyone dare to question his claim? He could do this brazening in two ways: The first is just to insinuate that any such challenger is merely exhibiting “Islamophobia,” and thus need be paid no never mind. That often ends the discussion. The second is the argument from authority: could the head of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Professor John Esposito, be deliberately misleading us about the treatment of the sexes in the Qur’an and Hadith? You bet he could. He could, and he does.

 

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  1. Susan Bourgeois says

    Dec 12, 2016 at 8:38 am

    This religion is from a false prophet

  2. Angemon says

    Dec 12, 2016 at 9:03 am

    That’s a really nice watch Esposito is wearing – I guess “muslim-Christian Understanding” pays well…

    • Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

      Dec 12, 2016 at 11:29 am

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    • maghan says

      Dec 13, 2016 at 5:34 am

      This is the profound psychological issue. How can a man have self respect when he has to blatantly lie for an Arab paycheck?

  3. Cretius says

    Dec 12, 2016 at 9:08 am

    Obviously any accommodation to Mohammedans reinforces their belief in their supremacy over non-believers. Also in Arab culture accommodation is seen as a weakness that is to be exploited to further the goals of Islam. Also, the teaching that emphasizes that everything belongs to Islam results in large number of Mohammedans living on welfare that is paid for by the taxes of non-believers. Why work when you are paid generously to stay home and breed with multiple wives?

  4. Dennis says

    Dec 12, 2016 at 9:09 am

    I have very little reason to accept what Esposito says about Islam. He most likely gets a payoff from several Muslim orgs.

    • Cretius says

      Dec 12, 2016 at 9:13 am

      The article is pure Mohammedan propaganda based on the Islamic doctrine of deceit to further the goals of Islam.

  5. eduardo odraude says

    Dec 12, 2016 at 10:03 am

    To add to the excellent article by Mr. Fitzgerald — the following in-depth study ranked nations according to the position of women — of the bottom 20 nations, 19 are Islamic.

    http://reports.weforum.org/global-gender-gap-report-2014/rankings/

    • eduardo odraude says

      Dec 12, 2016 at 10:08 am

      So Esposito is either a liar or an idiot, and probably both.

    • eduardo odraude says

      Dec 12, 2016 at 11:37 am

      Correction: 18 of the 20 bottom nations are majority-Muslim.

  6. john spielman says

    Dec 12, 2016 at 11:02 am

    but some people ( muslims ) are just MORE EQUAL than non muslims!

    PS: john Esposito is just an old worn out academic WHORE for his pimp and employer Saudi Prince

  7. old white guy says

    Dec 12, 2016 at 12:35 pm

    the koran teaches no such thing and I do not think the readers here need to be told that.

  8. STJOHNOFGRAFTON says

    Dec 12, 2016 at 10:40 pm

    Theresa May is a nominal Christian not a true Christian. A true Christian has had a spiritual rebirth which gives them spiritual discernment that nominal Christians and others don’t have.

    1 Corinthians 2:14 says: “The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned”

    Ephesians 6:12 says: ” For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places”.

    If Theresa May was a Spirit filled Christian she would be able to understand the import of the above quote from Ephesians, be able to discern the spiritual nature of Islam, then be circumspect about how she relates with anything Islamic.

    Theresa May might be a regular church goer, pray often and be a stalwart of the church but that does not make her a true Christian.

    Matthew 7:16 says: “….you will know them by their fruits”.

    Are Theresa May’s conciliatory dealings with Islam producing good fruit?

    • maghan says

      Dec 13, 2016 at 5:27 am

      Ans that is the very blatant hypocrisy of Theresa May’s politics. What the stupid liberal public wants is nice and polite talk on the surface but massive violence and killings under the surface. May endorses the selling of lethal weapons to Saudi Arabia which it is now using to rain death and destruction in Yemen killing and maiming thousands. May now chastises FS Boris Johnson for stating the truth about the very wicked and primitive regime named Saudi Arabia.

      The hypocritical lady is now posing with a degrading Arab hijab just to continue selling lethal and death-dealing weapons to the criminal Saudis. And these people have the nerve to complain about Trump.

      Old Adage: hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

  9. sidney penny says

    Dec 13, 2016 at 12:07 am

    Goodness me,couldn’t he find a bigger chair?

  10. don vito says

    Dec 13, 2016 at 12:26 am

    Is he a transmoslem?

  11. Biff H says

    Dec 13, 2016 at 4:56 am

    I want to share with you a conversation I had with a Muslimah and her berating me about my lack of respect for Islam. I informed her that even if she were capable of providing a reasoned defense of Islam if I were to respect the tenants of Islam I would have to discount her testimony because as all Muslims know their prophet and Allah in the Qur’an said women were spiritual and mental defectives and her testimony was worthless without another women to remind her and to assure all concerned that her statement isn’t the hair-brained rantings of a sub-par creature plagued with menses. If the knowledge she is conveying could possibly effect the destiny of my eternal soul why would I trust a truth her co-religionists say she is incapable of delivering without another female to concur as to its accuracy? She can’t deny the doctrinal basis for my position and still call herself a Muslim as denial puts her in a state of being deficient in her religion.

  12. Troybeam says

    Dec 13, 2016 at 10:46 am

    The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth…people get smart and read Islam’s Reliance of the Traveller: Islamic Sacred Law aka sharia.

    This book is Islam in a nut shell, want the truth, find it here: READ IT.

    • Aussie Infidel says

      Dec 14, 2016 at 1:44 am

      Troybeam, How right you are! Most Westerners simply haven’t read the Quran ,Hadith, Sira or the ‘Reliance’; yet the useful idiots on the Left are apologists for this criminal ideology. And many gullible academics have attended dawah sessions where the da’is preach that Islam is a religion of peace. They get the Meccan version of Islam, but not the Medinan verses – and certainly not the Sharia.

      A link to the Reliance is:

      http://www.islamicbulletin.org/free_downloads/…/reliance2_complete.pdf

      It’s a big file, but it downloads OK. It should be a ‘must read’ for every Westerner concerned about Islam – and certainly every politician and lawyer. Most of those people are simply ‘flying blind’.

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