Atiya Siddiqua is working from the assumption that it is a woman’s responsibility to make sure a man is not tempted, and her fault if he is. This is the assumption behind honor killing and the punishment of rape victims, which is all too common in some Muslim countries.
“Women in tightly-fitted clothes as dangerous as AIDS, says female cleric,” by Sana Shakil, DNA India, April 22, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
President of the women wing of Jamat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) Atiya Siddiqua made the remarks at the sidelines of a function held for removing misconcepts about Islam.
In a statement that is ought to stir a hornets’s nest, a Muslim woman cleric on Friday said that women who wear tightly-fitted clothes are like pollutants who cause harm to to the society. The cleric went on to blame ‘such women’ for increased incidents of rape in the country and said that such women are as dangerous to the society as is the disease of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).
President of the women wing of Jamat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) Atiya Siddiqua made the remarks at the sidelines of a function held for removing misconcepts about Islam. Responding to a jourrnalist’s question on why Muslim women are supposed to cover themselves while there was no such condition for men, Siddiqua said purdah is in the best interest of women.
“A woman should cover herself for her own safety because we don’t know with what intentions men may look at us. Bepurdah (uncovered) women are polluting the environment. There is concern in about air pollution, water pollution but the biggest pollution for the society are bepurdah (uncovered) women. It is these women who are polluting the enivironment…The disease of AIDS is spreading, rape incidents are increasing on this account. Women who wear chust (tight) clothes pollute the enviornment.”
Siddiqua also went to state that women should roam out only when it is essential. “Mard baahar ghoomte hain. Aajkal aurtein bhi baahar ghoomti hain. Bacche kahaan jayenge phir agar dono baahar rahein. Aurton ko sirf basic needs ke lie nikalna chahie. Ye chhezein Bhartiya sabhyata ke bhi khilaaf hai (Men go out. These days women are also out all the time. In such a scenario, where will the children go? Women should come out of homes only for their basic needs. These things are against Indian culture.)”
Siddiqua, along with some other Muslim clerics, was one of the speakers at a function organised by JIH for creating awareness about Muslim Personal Law. Just like the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMLB), JIH also strongly opposed Centre’s stand on the issue of triple talaaq and Uniform Civil Code. JIH announced that it kick off the two-week long countrywide initiative titled ‘Muslim Personal Law Awareness Campaign’ (MPLAC).
“There is a need to educate, uplift and morally reform the Muslim society as a whole. A primary reason for violation of Shari’ah (Islamic laws) is lack of awareness among the Muslims. But these things can be taken care of by creating awareness and there is no reason to interfere with the Muslim Personal Law.”…
mike9a says
An insult even for 7th century MO minds, if any!?
Bruno Mueller says
LOL !!!
Barbara Ethel says
Benighted Western women will only realise what has been taken away from them – little freedom here, little bit of self determination there – when it is too late. When rebellion will mean a firing squad in a football stadium. This is not the future I wish to see for my descendants. I am truly horrified at the intransigent blinkered leftist blindness to this.
gravenimage says
This story is not from the West, but from India.
utis says
Lucky ladies! With sisters like these, you don’t need enemies. Does it never occur to the pup-tent fans in islam, that men’s imagination and lust run even more rampant when every bag on the street can harbor a houri instead of a dumpy, warty middle-aged dame with bad breath, or even a spry 80-year-old? It’s easy to infer that 80-year-olds have to be quick in Dar-al-Islam, or they become prey to even 80-year old letches.
And another thing, since when can muslimas become “clerics?” Is this a taqiya PR stunt to fool Indians? In any case, it’s got to be a temporary, just long enough to draw in the young or stupid. And why isn’t Madame Cleric at home with the rest of the pious hags?
Nigel GFF says
…”Women should come out of homes only for their basic needs.”…
If only the muslimas in the UK would be more ‘obedient’, how happy we might all be.
…”I see the girls walk by dressed in their purdah clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes”…
(I hope The Rolling Stones can forgive this corruption of their ‘Paint It Black’).
Santa Voorhees says
Yeah right, the air is so polluted we can hardly breathe it, water is so polluted that is undrinkable, but let’s think about uncovered women first!!!
Westman says
To my mind, normally dressed women(which this muslima would call wearing tight clothes unless they wore North Korean pajamas) are the beautiful flowers of our society, roaming in freedom of both body and mind while the body-bagged muslimas stand out like ugly weed clusters. To see a mother, with her, offspring, going about her business with the expectation of safety and respect is a value that all democratic nations should guard. I particularly am offended by her notion that the men of the West have the same socially untrained mind of her society.
Her statements point out the glaring weakness of Islamic society and ideology’s failure to attach respect and value for the mind and intellect of its women; turning women into a kind of “booty” that is owned and not respected by its men.
I see this muslima’s statement as expression of both jealousy and supremism. When she says, “These things are against Indian culture”, she is claiming India exclusively for Islam – and certainly without any intentions of democracy or freedom for women.
Michael says
Amen, Westman, to the beauty of women in our society. Well said.
maghan says
The assumption here is that Indian men are like animals that are always in heat. They think and operate only on pure sexual instinct.
Carolyne says
I think that would describe most Muslim men. It seems that Mohamed invented Islam purely to satisfy his sexual perversions.
ontheridge says
Well look where they tell jihadists they will go once they have killed non-muslims. To an eternal heaven that is nonstop sex with virgins, for ever and ever and ever.
gravenimage says
That is how Muslim men see themselves.
Shmooviyet says
This ‘female’ would have been right there, helping to shove uncovered girls back into their burning school– her own daughter included.
Michael says
Men are raised as animals under Islam. They are raised to be cruel, brutal, murderous, rapists — without any responsibility for their actions.
They rape and murder their own at will, constantly. Would they rape and murder and mutilate and torture them MORE if they actually wore clothes befitting a woman? Would their brutal hatred toward life itself, projected onto women, be somehow GREATER than it is, if they somehow actually showed their faces and bodies?
You can’t rape and kill and mutilate much more than they already do.
The ideology of zero responsibility … the cult of death. Islam.
Don Foss says
Right. Their prohet was an animal and so the sunnah is animalistic, and a woman’s main responsibility in public is not to provoke them into actions that are completely natural and acceptable in Islamic culture. All the niqab and burqa are saying is “I’m not interested in being pursued and raped.”
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Michael and Don.
marina says
“These things are against Indian culture.”
Really! India is a Hindu majority country. Does she expect the Hindu women to wear black tents and ugly bags on their heads. She has no right to dictate what indian culture is supposed to be like when she is the minority. Supremacist bitch.
gravenimage says
+1
DRHazard says
But what about the sheep and goats? They just parade around thinking that their hair covers the voluptuous shape of their rear ends. Even the kids, bucks and rams strut their stuff. You’re just riding your donkey down the road and there they are in the field, filling men with lust. You have to avert your eyes, which is something no Muslim man should ever have to do when you can just force others to accommodate your religious issues.
gravenimage says
Spot on.
Tara says
The Triple Talaq, which is banned even in Pakistan and Bangladesh, is still practiced in India. The matter is with the Supreme Court now, and while the sexist All India Muslim Personal Law Board, an NGO whic has armed itself with too much power, rages against a nation wide uproar to ban Triple Talaq, India’s perverse Islamophilic media ( NDTV, and other demented news channels), refuse to so much as mention it. Hoping, perhaps, that ignoring it will prevent the world from noticing it. Jawaharlal Nehru University’s students are on Pakistan’s payroll and are doing their very best to destroy Hinduism and destroy India.
somehistory says
Misery loves company, so this bold and ugly is attempting to force the mild and fair to cover up and stay inside.
Like others have pointed out, India does not belong to moslims and its evil, demonic, nasty, repulsive, *culture.*.
The future of India must not belong to those who worship the infamous nobody of the desert who raped children and killed those who disagreed with him.
G. Oleg says
“Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful.” (NIV, 1 Peter 3:2-5)
“Also, the women are to dress themselves in modest clothing, with decency and good sense, not with elaborate hairstyles, gold, pearls, or expensive apparel, but with good works, as is proper for women who affirm that they worship God.” – Timothy 2:9-10
Carolyne says
Further….
1 Corinthians ll:5 “And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is just as if her head were shaved.”
1 Corinthians 11:13 “Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?”
1 Corinthians 14:35 “If they wish to inquire about something, they are to ask their own husbands at home; for it is dishonorable for a woman to speak in church.”
Ephesians 5:22 “Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.”
1 Timothy 2:11 “A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.”
Don Foss says
Well, thank God for Martin Luther and other Judaeo-Christian reformists and a religion allowing for secular societies and laws encouraging the freedom of thought and personal responsibility.
somehistory says
Written by a Jew, and a Lawyer at that. There is a Bible verse written by the same man who says “all Scripture is inspired by God.”
Those who wish to please God, pray for understanding when reading and applying it to one’s personal life.
The main reason for this: no man (or woman) is perfect and all make mistakes, errors in judgment and errors in understanding. It’s what’s in the heart that counts, as Jesus said, “Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.” (Matthew 12)
If our heart is right, and our motives are pure in wishing to follow the First two commandments, which is to, “Love Jehovah your God with your whole heart, your whole mind, your whole soul, and your whole spirit, and Love your neighbor as yourself” (known as the Golden Rule of do unto others as you wish to be done unto you.),
Then God will forgive those things we do out of ignorance or lack of understanding.
If a woman wants to wear a head scarf when she prays, that is her choice. And the “husband is to love his wife as he loves himself.”
gravenimage says
Your apparent belief that Judaism and Christianity call for women to be allowed to leave their homes, and that if they do they deserve to raped, is utterly mistaken.
ElderlyZionist says
Sex is SCARY! TERRIFYING! What is this thing that bleeds, but does not die? Better cut its xtoris out, keep it under control. Allah preserve us! And Allah is the best pornographer.
Lioness says
Muslim men ARE beasts who will rape anything that isn’t covered from head to toe, and even the covered ones don’t escape unmolested. But in islam it’s ALWAYS a woman’s fault for being raped.
James says
This would be amusing if this were a secular news site. However, I understand that Mr. Spencer is Catholic. Part of Catholic moral teaching regards scandal and the “near occasion of sin” to another person. If women wear revealing clothes in public, it is a sure bet that more than a few men, weakened by concupiscence, would most certainly fall into lustful thoughts of those scantily clad ladies. As we know Jesus cautioned followers that even lustful thoughts are adulterous and must be avoided. How is that possible when women parade around in various states of undress? This is exactly what Catholic moral teaching means by scandal and being the near occasion of sin to another.
Given all that, Siddiqua is morally right on this one.
Santa Voorhees says
She may be morally right as you say. But to state that uncovered women pollute the environment more than water/air pollution is beyond absurd.
gravenimage says
James wrote:
This would be amusing if this were a secular news site. However, I understand that Mr. Spencer is Catholic.
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What absolute rot. Robert Spencer is indeed a devout Catholic–but that does not mean that this is a Catholic site. This is Jihad Watch–and a Muslim preaching Purdah and rape of uncovered women is very much an issue.
And in what way is this “amusing”? This is what Islam wants to impose on all women–nothing amusing about that.
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Part of Catholic moral teaching regards scandal and the “near occasion of sin” to another person. If women wear revealing clothes in public, it is a sure bet that more than a few men, weakened by concupiscence, would most certainly fall into lustful thoughts of those scantily clad ladies. As we know Jesus cautioned followers that even lustful thoughts are adulterous and must be avoided. How is that possible when women parade around in various states of undress? This is exactly what Catholic moral teaching means by scandal and being the near occasion of sin to another.
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What a load of crap. The idea that Catholicism or any Christianity condones men raping “undressed” women is simply grotesque.
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Given all that, Siddiqua is morally right on this one.
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Given that many Muslims consider anything less than a Burqa to be “undressed”, I see what depths James has sunk to.
She does not even believe that women should be allowed to leave the house.
Why doesn’t “James” just convert to Islam–if he hasn’t already?
ibrahim itace Muhammed says
Mr spencer,the merchant of lies to promote filthy christianity and serve evil jew,christians and hindu idol worshipers will not consider wrong for women to expose their bodies to atract men to have indiscriminate sex like animals because both hinduish and christianity were inspired by devil the father of evil and immorality.that is why all of you are criticising muslims for insisting on modest dressing to maintain descency.Above all both idol worshiper and christians are very badly smelly due to contact with the devil the owner of bad smells.
Michael says
‘Modest dress’? To cover a woman completely? This is your definition of modest? For a woman to deny who she is, so she doesn’t ‘tempt’ men? Aren’t Muslim men taught to respect women? That they are individuals in their own right? And should be free from unwanted advances, let alone physical assaults? It’s not a woman’s ‘fault’ if a man acts like an animal because he sees her skin.
Pity the Muslim women, who are treated like sex slaves and servants, with no rights of their own.
gravenimage says
Repulsive Muslim apologist ibrahim itace Muhammed wrote:
Mr spencer,the (sic) merchant of lies to promote filthy christianity (sic) and serve evil jew,christians (sic) and hindu (sic) idol worshipers will not consider wrong for women to expose their bodies to atract (sic) men to have indiscriminate sex like animals because both hinduish (sic) and christianity (sic) were inspired by devil the father of evil and immorality.
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What a lot of rot. The only ones cited having indiscriminate sex here are the *potential Muslim rapists*.
Notice that muhammed has no problem with Muslims raping women in the streets.
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that (sic) is why all of you are criticising muslims (sic) for insisting on modest dressing to maintain descency (sic).
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This Muslimah is not “insisting on modest dressing to maintain descency (sic)”–she is claiming that Muslims can rape any woman not in full Muslim dress. Moreover, she does not even believe that women should be allowed to leave their homes.
*This* is what Muslims like ibrahim itace muhammed want to inflict on women.
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Above (sic) all both idol worshiper and christians (sic) are very badly smelly (sic) due to contact with the devil the owner of bad smells.
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muhammed has made this ludicrous claim before–despite Western hygiene being so superior to that of most Muslims.
Of course, he is not talking about *actual* cleanliness, but Muslim ritual “cleanliness”.
In other words, a Muslim who has not washed for weeks save for his feet and whose left hand is encrusted with feces is “clean”, but an Infidel who showers twice a day and uses deodorant and antibacterial sanitizers is “very badly smelly”.
This shows that pious Muslims understand cleanliness no more than they do morality.
Jenny H says
gravenimage,
I agree with you entirely.
gravenimage says
India: Female Muslim leader says women in tight clothes “pollute the environment,” provoke rape
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Often female Muslims are just as avid in supporting Islamic savagery as are the men.