Self-righteous Westerners who indulge in moral equivalences such as “discrimination against women isn’t unique to any one religion” would do well to educate themselves, or make their claims to the real victims of Islamic doctrine, which assigns an inferior status to women. It also sanctions female genital mutilation and the rape of infidel women, both of which phenomena we see with distressing frequency today.
So now it emerges that “Sheikh Saad al-Hajari, the head of the government’s religious edict authority in the southern province of Assir,” recently addressed the “the evils of allowing women to drive.” It’s because they have “a quarter the brainpower of men,” he says. He goes to explain the “worth” of women in the Qur’an and Sunnah. (The constitution of Saudi Arabia is the Quran.)
Another leading Saudi cleric wanted to make sure that women stayed in line and warned that “women who drive cars could cause damage to their ovaries and pelvises and that they are at risk of having children born with clinical problems.”
“Saudi cleric says women have ‘a quarter of the intellect’ of men”, Alaraby, September 21, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
In Saudi Arabia, where women cannot drive, a senior state cleric has said women should not be allowed behind the wheel because they have “a quarter the brainpower of men”.
In Saudi Arabia, where women cannot drive, a senior state cleric has ruled women should not be allowed behind the wheel because they have “a quarter the brainpower of men”.
Sheikh Saad al-Hajari, the head of the government’s religious edict authority in the southern province of Assir, recently made the comments at a lecture on “the evils of allowing women to drive”, Saudi daily Sabq reported on Wednesday.
“It is not their fault, but women lack intellect do they not?” Hajari asked an audience.
“Their lack of intellect does not harm their piousness because they are made that way,” he said, explaining that in Islam a woman’s testimony is worth half of a man’s.
“Would you give a man with half an intellect a driving licence? So how would you give one to a woman when she has half an intellect,” he said.
“And if they go out to the market this gets halved again! So they now have a quarter of an intellect,” Hajari said without giving an explanation for his reasoning.
He then argues that because women pray less than men – during menstruation women are prohibited from prayers – they also have half the “faith” of men.
The sheikh’s comments have been circulated widely by social media users in the conservative kingdom with many people harshly criticising his reasoning.
Translation: “This person is offending and denigrating Saudi women, authorities must take action against him and fire him from his position.”
Translation: “The real problem is that a few of these clerics explain and interpret religion as they please and use our religion as an excuse to do the worst things.”…..
Hindu American says
Makes sense – four legally acquired muslim wives, quarter brain power each….do the math.
Hindu American says
As a follow up, 4 wives X 1/4 brain power = one male muslim brain power. Who said men and women in islam are not equal?
abad says
LOL
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
With the Moslem Brainpower Unit you have invented a breakthrough unit of measurement (UOM) that will prove useful in the burgeoning field of social engineering. The MBU has the potential to be as historic as the pound, inch, mile and g-force. But there is much important work to do, for you’ve only done the math on the Moslem-to-Moslima ratio. How does one measure a MBU ratio between Moslem individuals, or, more importantly, an MBU ratio between Moslems and Infidels.?
You might want to use Crowdfunding to raise the money to build a laboratory. I wish you luck in this, but to flip history I cannot be your Bose (except when I play the sound system in my car).
PATRICIA FRANCES KOENIG says
LOL! That is Muslim logic… or what passes for logic in Islam. Btw, I.Q. tests would prove that imam and the Koran wrong. Again the Koran contains false/incorrect scientific claims.
Robeaver says
Don’t you have to be able to read for parts of an IQ test? Pattern recognition maye OK. So the illiterate masses get a low score. I passed mine with a 51 out of the 100 average. So there all my teachers.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
I read this and am ashamed to admit that Rosie O’Donnell, Ellen Degeneres and Joy Behar immediately jumped into my mind’s eye. Not Whoopi, though. I may be a latent sexist, but I am not a racist.
It’s time for the authorities to jail Larry Summers for the crime of sexism. But they can leave me out of it, I’m clean.
gary says
Is it a requirement for muslim males to be this foolish?!
My wife would embarrass & humiliate this guy in a public debate!
But in “Their world” women don’t have a voice. Oh the stupidity of Islam.
Linda Sarsour would you care to address this….. Struggle?
WCM says
Linda Sarsour certainly proves she has the intellect of far less than 1/4 of the public average. But, deBlasio continues to give her free gummint money. What does that say of his intellect?
marina says
Islamic logic = joke. These cave men do not belong to this era.
Robeaver says
Oxy for the morons.
Santa Voorhees says
“Saudi cleric says women have ‘a quarter of the intellect’ of men”
Well… they still have much more intellect than leftists, that’s for sure.
CogitoErgoSum says
How disrespectful to one’s own mother to say that women have 1/4 the brainpower of a man. This sheik is saying that his own mother is (or was) a moron and, therefore, (if his mother raised him) he was raised by a moron. That explains a lot about him ……. and all Muslims. They all have morons for mothers.
WCM says
Probably cousins too…!
Karen says
I believe this super-holy sheikh is exhibiting classic signs of “clinical problems”. Likely his mother drove a car. So sad…he’ll always be an idiot.
Guest says
Maybe they just haven’t been given the chance to prove they just might be smarter than you, ass
Robeaver says
They are not smarter than my ass, I asked and it said no in Arabic.
mariam rove says
Not sure where this cleric is going with those comments because most if not all Muslim clerics have their brains up there asses. M
mortimer says
MR, what effect will his statement have on Muslim women who read it? With a growing educated population of women in Saudi Arabia, such comments will surely trigger a revolt.
gravenimage says
I would not count on it, Mortimer. Many Muslim women take Islam seriously, as well. To assume they are all opposed to it because it oppresses women is, I believe, a mistake.
Donna says
Never trust a woman who wears a garbage bag to an interview!
Peter says
That could explain why the current leaders of Germany and the UK are such Islampophiles.
mohamonator says
Surely, western “feminists” must be beside themselves with indignation at the imam’s blatantly sexist analysis, right? (sound of crickets)
Karen says
And tumbleweed rolling by…..
Wellington says
“Women have ‘a quarter the brainpower of men'”
Obviously this Muslim cleric has never met my wife. Or my sister. Or many female friends of mine. Or…. Or…. Or….
Reminded here too of what Bertrand Russell in his The History Of Western Philosophy wrote in countering Friedrich Nietzsche’s comment when dealing with women, i.e., not to forget thy whip, to wit, “……but nine women out of ten would get the whip away from him, and he knew it, so he kept away from women, and soothed his wounded vanity with unkind remarks.”
Hmmm. Seems this Muslim cleric and Nietzsche have something in common.
Bernie says
Even the Muslims get something right once in awhile. Just kidding ladies!
Westman says
Sheikh Saad al-Hajari has it completely backwards.
Because Muslim women are limited in their exposure to Islam, by exclusion, their intelligence remains the same while that of pious males drops to 1/4 of that of females due to the requirement to simultaneously hold, accept, and believe conflicting Quranic verses and Hadith.
Rocking back and forth, mashing grey matter into the skull, while memorizing the Quran, also leads to OCD and the Tourette’s Syndrome symptom of uncontrollably yelling out, “Allahu Ackbar”.
gravenimage says
Actually, Westman, Islam warps women as well as men–it screws up anyone who takes this foul creed seriously.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Oh yes, Mohammadism, that great protector and incubator of culture, mathematics and science! We can add this new one to the Saudi fatwa from the 1960’s (still in force) that declares that the world is flat!
Robeaver says
I loked it up and there is a huge flat earth society in the US. Just gogle it.
They have faith that the earth is flat. No, really.
And muslums have faith. Therfore the earth is flat. Faith comes thru again. Flat faith? Flaith? Reminds me of girls in grade 6. I had faith they were f***. My faith was soon erased by evidence.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
American are presently free to believe anything they want. The flat earth fatwa is Saudi law.
gravenimage says
Exactly, Flavius.
Sarah says
Oh, its this doofus, again.
Someone needs to show him how to use a computer. Then he can look up a list of the most advanced nation’s in the world – and I mean advanced by regards of their economies, military might, technological and scientific prowess etc.
The top 29 do not include a single Islamic nation. Not a one. As a matter of fact, the majority are Western, or at least those with a Western influence (such as Japan and South Korea).
Funny that.
gravenimage says
+1
Sarah says
Thanks, Graven!
Perhaps we can send a woman to teach this worm how to use the computer for this purpose.
Wouldn’t that set the cat amongst the pigeons. 😉
gravenimage says
I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near him…
Joeseph Smith says
Definitely don’t drive, women, because you may have babies with “clinical” problems due to injuring your ovaries. Being forced to marry your cousin, however… THAT is no problem at all!
Mike says
This is sad. In my 60 plus years I’ve run into some damned intelligent people that were female…stunningly so. These are the people I say are the reason our western Christianisnt still dragging our knuckles on the ground. Their attitude and treatment of women may well be why they’re so culturally retarded.
When I think of FGM I shutter. These poor humans are living in hell on earth and my heart goes out to them. If I were to ever come upon a rape in progress by these sub humans there’s no telling what I’d do but the question of giving my life to save her wouldn’t enter my mind. God help her attacker’s though.
gravenimage says
Saudi Muslim cleric: Women have “a quarter the brainpower of men”
……………………………
What percentage of intelligence do pious Muslims have compared to civilized Infidels? Ten percent? One percent? Less?
More:
He then argues that because women pray less than men – during menstruation women are prohibited from prayers – they also have half the “faith” of men.
……………………………
This is, of course, not original. The vicious “Prophet” of Islam said that women were deficient in intelligence and religion, because their testimony in Islamic court was worth half of that of men, and because they were not allowed to pray during menstruation.
Never mind that this circular reasoning does not prove the deficiency of women, but rather the deficiency of those who take Islam seriously.
Karen says
Nice to know that one can have an IQ of 25, and be a functionally pious Muslima.
she says
Women Have More Active Brains Than Men
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170807120521.htm
males and females tend to use different parts of the brain
gravenimage says
Muslims use as little of their brains as possible…
Curious Observer says
It is nonsense to claim that women have only a fraction of the brainpower of men. It is however, very likely that they have at least five times the brainpower of mullahs and imams.
Ute H says
I believe in Live and let live. We should not judge , so we shall not be judged. Those people live and lived in the time of pharaoh they go back to the Babylon. What does it tells you. Revelation said. Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess, that Yeshua is “Lord” Women were held in a Harem in Egypt. That thinking has been never changed in their History That is why I would never marry someone with Babylonian believes, I am thankful and blessed , that I was born in our Western Society. .
Karen says
I feel very blessed to be living at this time in the West. Amen to that.
mortimer says
Christine is correct. Most Westerners do realize the extent of Islam’s systemic misogyny.
The hadiths of Mohammed that insult and degrade all women:
– I think that women were created for nothing but evil.
– Women have ten ‘awrat (vulvas). When she gets married, the husband covers one, and when she dies the grave covers the ten (of her shameful parts).
– A straw mat in the corner of the house is preferable to a barren woman.
– Women are toys, so choose (your ‘toys’).
– The woman is a toy, whoever takes her, let him care for her [ or do not lose her ].
– Had it not been for women, God would have truly, truly been worshipped.
– Men perished the day they obeyed the women.
– Obedience to a woman’s advice causes regret.
– Consult women and act contrary (to it).
– Sneezing, drowsing, yawning in prayer, also menstruation, vomiting and nose-bleeding are from Satan.
– When…your affairs are in the hands of your women, the interior of the earth (hell) will be the better for you than its surface.
– If a woman offered one of her breasts to be cooked and the other to be roasted, she still will fall short of fulfilling her obligations to her husband. And besides that if she disobeys her husband even for a twinkling of an eye, she would be thrown in the lowest part of Hell, except she repents and turns back.
– Mohammed asked some women, “Isn’t the witness of a woman equal to half that of a man?” The women said, “Yes,” He said, “This is because of the deficiency of the woman’s mind.”
– I have not seen any one more deficient in intelligence and religion than you (women).
– I was shown the Hell-fire and that the majority of its dwellers are women.
– Bad omen is in the woman, the house and the horse.
– After me I have not left any affliction more harmful to men than women.
– Don’t wear false hair for Allah sends His curse upon such ladies who lengthen their hair artificially.
– Treat women well for they are like domestic animals and they possess nothing themselves. Allah has made the enjoyment of their bodies lawful in his Qur’an.
– Women, slaves and camels are same.
– Prayer is annulled by a dog, a donkey and a woman.
– If you relax the woman’s bridle a tiny bit, she will take you and bolt wildly. And if you lower her cheek-piece a hand span, she will pull you an arm’s length … Their deception is awesome and their wickedness is contagious; bad character and feeble mind are their predominant traits.
– “[A man’s wife] fears him, while he fears her not, a kind word from him satisfies her, where nothing of hers has importance in his eyes, it is she who must tolerate the presence of concubines, and it is she who worries when he is ill whereas even her death would leave him indifferent.
– If a man calls his wife to his bed and she refuses, and he spends the night angry with her, the angels curse her until morning.
– Treat women well, for they are [like] domestic animals [awan] with you and do not possess anything for themselves. You have taken them only as a trust from God and you have made the enjoyment of their persons lawful by the word of God, so understand and listen to my words…
– Muhammad’s last words on women during his farewell speech:
– God allows you to put them in separate rooms and to beat them but not with severity. If they refrain from these things they have the right to their food and clothing with kindness. Lay injunctions on women kindly, for they are prisoners with you having no control- of their persons. Sirat Rasul Allah. Translated in English by A. Guillaume. First published by Oxford University Press, London in 1955
Karen says
I wonder why the angels of Islam never curse the husbands. Weirdos.
BTW, thanks for sharing that list. The word ‘maladjusted’ comes to mind.
gravenimage says
Yes–thanks for the ample proof that Islam hates women.
mortimer says
CORRECTION: Most Westerners do NOT realize the extent…
mortimer says
Islam is a misogyny cult, a rape cult and an enslavement cult. Muslim women are among the most repressed women found anywhere on earth…especially those in Soddy Barbaria.
In KSA, a woman may have a pilot’s licence and an international driver’s licence, but she is not permitted to drive herself to her AIRPLANE at the airport. She may fly, but not drive.
Politicianaphobia says
I hate Islam
Politicianaphobia says
I really hate Islam.
Politicianaphobia says
and the Oscar for best comic goes to…….. Alarmed Pig Farmer
gravenimage says
+1
Renee says
The only conclusion can be is that this muslim cleric takes after his mother.
Politicianaphobia says
Halloween, Halloween, Oh what funny things we see. If you can read or live in the West and are wearing a ghost outfit, perhaps you are stupid. After all this is 2017 and if he loves you he will tell you to take it off, and he may even get rid of his other wives, not make you walk behind him, beat you, dance, sing and live your life as an equal.
Bill D. says
Not only are women abused in this life, but most have nothing to look forward to in the next life. Muhammad’s treatment of women from the Quran and the hadith is presented in a recent documentary, “Through the Lens of Muhammad’s Life: How the Example and Teachings of Muhammad Shape Islam Today” (at 30:50) https://youtu.be/YtKJpahyC10?t=1851
Karen says
Oh dear…..I drove today, and now my ovaries and pelvis hurt. Wish I could be smarter.
gravenimage says
Ha ha!
Logically-speaking says
The Arabs have very low IQ when compared to the Israeli. That is why the lost all the battles they fought with the Israeli even though they greatly outnumbered IDF..
carolyn says
Re:”He then argues that because women pray less than men – during menstruation women are prohibited from prayers – they also have half the “faith” of men. :
Not following the math that cuts the woman’s faith by half due to no prayers during menstruation. Since on average a period lasts about 1 week of the month, it should only be dropping the faith level by 25%, not 50%, so by his logic, a woman would have 75% of the faith of a man…. Plus what about before a woman/child getsher period, or after menopause? Then a woman’s faith should equal a man’s. He obviously has not thought through the math involved!! Or also, has he included the fact that women must stay at home all day, while men are theoretically out of the home to work, so a woman might have more time during the day to pray than a man! I think Spock would say he has not proved his point logically.