What if someone had told Janet Jackson before she married Wissam al-Mana about Islam’s teachings about women? She probably would have denounced the truth-teller as an “Islamophobe.”
Janet Jackson is now estranged from her Muslim husband Wissam Al Mana. According to insiders, Jackson began to feel “like a prisoner” in the marriage. Al Mana wanted “a traditional wife who stuck with Muslim traditions.”
“Muslim traditions.” Would Jackson have married Wissam al-Mana in the first place if she had known about these Muslim traditions?
A manual of Islamic law certified by Al-Azhar, the foremost authority in Sunni Islam, as “conforming to the practice and faith of the orthodox Sunni community,” stipulates:
[A] woman may not leave the city without her husband or a member of her unmarriageable kin accompanying her, unless the journey is obligatory, like the hajj. It is unlawful for her to travel otherwise, and unlawful for her husband to allow her to. ( Reliance of the Traveller m10.3)
As a traditional Muslim wife, Jackson could also have expected to be beaten if she got out of line. This is because the Qur’an says:
[M]en have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them. (4:34)
Nowhere, of course, does the Qur’an teach that a woman can beat a man under any circumstances.
The Qur’an also likens a woman to a field (tilth), to be used by a man as he wills:
Your women are a tilth for you, so go to your tilth as you will. (2:223)
It declares that a woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man:
Get two witnesses, out of your own men, and if there are not two men, then a man and two women, such as you choose, for witnesses, so that if one of them errs, the other can remind her (2:282).
It allows men to marry up to four wives, and have sex with slave girls (those “your rights possess”) also:
If you fear that you shall not be able to deal justly with the orphans, marry women of your choice, two or three or four; but if you fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly, then only one, or one that your right hands possess, that will be more suitable, to prevent you from doing injustice (4:3).
The Qur’an has more that oppresses women. It rules that a son’s inheritance should be twice the size of that of a daughter:
Allah directs you as regards your children’s inheritance: to the male, a portion equal to that of two females (4:11).
It allows for marriage to pre-pubescent girls, stipulating that Islamic divorce procedures “shall apply to those who have not yet menstruated” (65:4).
There is much more Islamic misogyny. But if you try to discuss these things with any modern feminist, you’ll just be denounced as an “Islamophobe.”
Yet does Islam really make women “prisoners”? Does it really oppress women? Can we talk about this without name-calling? My new book Confessions of an Islamophobe (preorder here now) makes the case: there is perfectly good reason for women to be concerned about Islam, and it isn’t “prejudice” or “bigotry” to point that out.
This is the book to give to your feminist friends who think that concern about women’s rights in Islam is just “right-wing bigotry.” In other words, this is the book to give to pretty much the entire world except for those who have at some point in their lives been called “Islamophobes” — and even they will find it enlightening as well. Reserve your copy here today.
Dum Spiro says
Kind of gives new meaning to these singles titles from Janet’s “Control” album…
When I Think of You
Control
Nasty
He Doesn’t Know I’m Alive
… don’t you think?
— Spero
Dum Spiro says
I forgot this single from “Control”:
What Have You Done For Me Lately?
Maybe things ended up for Janet like this lyrics excerpt from “Scream”:
Tired of injustice
Tired of the schemes
Your lies are disgusting
What does it mean
Kicking me down
I gotta get up
As jacked as it sounds
The whole system sucks
Another example of art imitating life, don’t you think?
— Spero
Jim says
Don’t forget that Muslim women must walk a certain number of steps behind the man/husband, to show her subordination to men.
In any case, reading the Koran, etc, would probably not have dented her mind; such is the mind of a liberal. They are, in a way, just as brainwashed in leftist ideology and as Islamists are in their’s. Neither one is really a “free thinker.’ The “liberals,” the “progressives” rationalize everything away. You’re a “Islamophone” (whatever that is), you’ve misread, misinterpreted it, you’re a bigot, you’re a racists, you’re just full of hate, and so on. Nope, I think is would have made no difference to her. I’m surprised she even caught on. Of course, now that she is a rebellious apostate, she might want to minimize all contact with them. Once an Islamic, always an Islamic…or else.
scherado says
Some pictures are “keepers”. This is one fine picture.
mortimer says
Agree. Janet has a definite look of discomfort or embarrassment. How could a glamorous showbiz personality walk down the street in a coal sack like that?
scherado says
It is for the guy, presumably,
Jack Diamond says
I posted this before but it never gets old, apparently. I even sent this to Lindsay Lohan as an act of kindness, lol.
WHY YOU SHOULD NOT MARRY A MUSLIM by Ali Sina
“Recently, I received a few emails from women who said they are in love with a Muslim man and wanted my opinion.
One thing you should know about Muslims is that you should never trust them. This blanket statement does not sound politically correct, but it is a fact. They say you can’t paint an entire population of 1.5 billion people with the same broad brush. You can. That is a politically correct statement and it is total nonsense. Here are a few generalized true statements.
Vegetarians don’t eat meat.
Nordic people are white.
Blinds don’t see.
Fat people are overweight.
Thieves are dishonest.
As you see you can generalize. And the fact that you must not trust a Muslim is a general fact. No Muslim should be trusted specially when it comes to Muslim men wooing non Muslim women.
Ask the most “open minded” liberal and irreligious Muslim who drinks and does not pray what they think of the verse 4:34 in Quran that prescribes abusing one’s wife verbally, psychologically and beating her if the husband fears that she may be thinking of disobeying him? Note that the wife does not have to actually disobey her husband, his paranoia that she may be thinking of disobeying him is enough for him to abuse her and beat the crap out of her.
Umar reported the prophet as saying: “A man will not be asked as to why he beat his wife”. (Hadith Of The Sunan Of Abu Dawud, Chapter 709 – On Beating Women, #2142).
Not a single Muslim country recognizes rape of one’s wife. If a man wants to have intercourse, the wife must comply even if she is sick.
And here are two more gems from the Prophet.
“It is not permissible for a human being to prostrate to another human being. Were it permissible for a human being to prostrate to another human being, I would have commanded the woman to prostrate to her husband because of his great right upon her. By the One in Whose hand is my soul, if he (the husband) had, from his feet to the top of his head, an ulcer oozing blood and pus, and she came to lick it off for him, she would not have fulfilled his right.” (Recorded in Ahmad and al-Nasa’i,)
Abu Sa’id al-Khudri narrated Muhammad saying, “A husband’s right upon his wife is such that if he had an ulcer and she licked it for him, she would not fulfill his right by that.”
First the Quran limits the rights and the power of women to be independent and earn their living by restricting their movement, dress and interaction in the world. Then 4:34 says men are superior to women because they provide for them and as such women must obey their husbands and be grateful to them. Then it prescribes verbal, psychological and corporal abuse.
Ask any Muslim what they think of this verse and whether the are willing to denounce it. Then watch how they lie and beat around the bushes in order to deny the obvious meaning of this verse or minimize its effect. The most ridiculous part of their denial is when they tell you you can only beat her with toothbrush.
The Quran prescribes lying and deceiving the non-Muslims.
The Quran prescribes violence and terror. All Muslims believe in every word of the Quran. No Muslim will denounce a single word of the Quran. You don’t have to be Aristotle or an expert in syllogism and deductive reasoning to put the two together and come to the conclusion that you should not trust Muslims. All of them lie. All of them are deceitful. They even lie to me and think they can get away with it. For Muslims lying to advance their faith is a holy deed. It is woven in their psyche. They grow with it and do it naturally. Just as you are taught to smile when your eyes lock with the eyes of a stranger, Muslims are taught to lie to non-Muslims.
There are no moderate Muslims. There are also no radical Muslims. All Muslims believe in the same book, every word of it. They just practice it to different extents. We call those who follow their faith to the letter radical and the wish-washy ones moderate. There is only one Islam: The Islam of Muhammad and the Quran. It is the only Islam that matters. The rest is a bunch of lies. This Islam is violent. It instructs the believer to lie to the unbelievers, to cast terror in their hearts and to murder them.
Muslim men are on the hunt for non-Muslim women so that they convert them to Islam or produce Muslim children. This is called love jihad. It has nothing to do with love, because these men will kill your freedom and suck your vitality. It is about expanding Islam and you are only a tool.
Muslim men are misogynist by their upbringing. They can’t respect there wives. They have not seen it in their own families and societies. It is not part of their psyche. The concept of equality between men and women is alien to them. Believe me I had to adjust to it myself and I did not come from a fanatical Muslim family.
The chances of having loving and meaningful relationship based on mutual respect with a Muslim man is slim. Your chance of having a successful marriage with a non-Muslim is about 50%. Half of marriages end in divorce. Your chance of having a successful and happy marriage with a Muslim man is less than one percent. Why take that risk?
We are all children of God. There is a piece of God in all of us. Islam has killed that spirit in Muslim. What is left in them is the darkness of the Devil. You marry a Muslim, you’ll regret for the rest of your life. Once you have a child with him, you may as well kiss goodbye your freedom. The Muslim man will snatch your happiness, destroy your hopes and reduces you into a shadow of yourself. You enter in a marriage with a Muslim man, you enter in a hell.
But love blinds. I hope there is enough common-sense left in you to save your soul and your life before it is late. Do it for your unborn children. You can throw your life to dogs if that is your choice, but you have no right to destroy the future and happiness of your future children.”
http://alisina.org/?p=5269
b.a. freeman says
when i first encountered this article by mr. sina, i saved it so that i could make reference to it, because he points out that muslims are not familiar with love due to their upbringing. i could say this, too, but with nowhere near the same weight, because he was raised muslim. fortunately, his father either allowed him to question his religion, or he questioned it and kept quiet about it, as a child, and became an atheist (and later still, christian) as an adult. mr. sina’s proposition makes perfect sense, because islam encourages muslims to act like gangsters, with women used as sex objects and baby machines. i think that it’s safe to say that not many gang bangers have a good family life; similarly, i doubt that many pious muslims have a good family life. as the child is raised, so goes the adult.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Look, monty-pythonishly, on the bright side of life: having waited until five years of marriage passed,and until she had a child, Janet Jackson is apparently going to be able to demand $100 million from her Muslim tormenter. That’s $100 million moving from the Muslim to the non-Muslim column. And once she’s pocketed that, she might write a tell-all book warning about marrying Muslim men. She’s likely to have a big audience.
b.a. freeman says
sadly, were she to start telling the truth about islam, she would be disparaged by the lying leftist media, who will not allow disrespect (even if true and deserved) to be shown to their proxy troops.
Angry Aussie says
Anything to get back in the headlines. Who cares really? She escaped because she is high profile. Many others don’t and can’t.
She has no excuse for being so stupid. Western women who convert to Islam deserve what they get. We have the internet and libraries. It isn’t as though she was forced by the sword to convert.
Moron of a woman.
Kris J says
Hear hear.
b.a. freeman says
well, i tend to be a little more forgiving, perhaps because i was almost as stupid. we need to keep in mind that the traitors on the left have controlled education for decades; i graduated high school in the 1960s, and was beginning to see signs of leftist control even then (although i didn’t recognize it as such back then). if one is fed leftist propaganda from early childhood, and is not taught critical thinking, one is hard pressed to be able to recognize, let alone find, the truth.
sometimes the real world forces us to make corrections. as U sagely noted, however, most women who make her mistake don’t get a chance to rectify the situation. let us hope that she understands that the a**hole she married is that way because of his religion and upbringing, not just because he is an a**hole in general, and that she shares that with the world. stranger things have happened!
Ned kelly says
Many westerners have NO IDEA what Islam is about. My own friends + family have disowned me for saying the truth about islam, calling me hate filled + racist. They believe the media portrayal of Islam, which is totally false.
MFritz says
Obviously, being married to a muslim is not My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Mrs. Jackson?
Axis porcinus says
She marry RICH muslim man!! I get it $$$$ Scary for sure but why would a free woman want to live in the Female Prison of Islam??
Ewanda says
For Mohammad to be right, the smartest woman in the world is half as smart as the dumbest man!!!!
I am going to repeat this mantra every chance I get till finally it sinks in and drives free women to act to set things right, because there is not enough action by enough men to get back what we are losing and have lost already. There are too few brave souls doing the work of too many who pile the responsibility onto them. Don’t you think that Spencer, Geller, Warner, Gaffney, Shayesteh, Solomon, Wood, Guandolo, Lopez, Saleem, Gabriel, Ms. Solomon, Johnston, Dakdok, Glazov, Williams, …….. and all those who have set their normal lives aside to sound the alarm at the gate, really would rather be doing whatever they were doing before they were dragged into this role? How brave and unappreciated they are! I can’t name them all but they are not enough to stem the tide on their own.
How are we helping to resolve this relentless monster building itself up in the wings before it is too late? Many hands make work light. Now is the time to refuse the label of Islamaphobe and turn it back on the detractors by labelling THEM Dhimmis. It is not helpful to call victims stupid. What did you believe before you became informed? Looking back, wasn’t it easy to fall in step because of the lies?
For Mohammad to be right the smartest woman in the world is half as smart as the dumbest man!!!!!! The very fact that this is obviously not true should give us enough courage to further point out other gross errors in this Ideology. Once there is found a crack in the armor more cracks make the whole thing unstable – unable to stand on its own. Why are we still playing the game according to their rules?
b.a. freeman says
we’re playing this game by their rules because the liars who control the legacy mass media won’t let the game be played any other way. hitler, stalin, mao, et al., showed how to successfully manipulate millions of people by telling the Big Lie; we all used to get our news from the mass media, and they were in general quite trusted, so as they decided to start flogging their own beliefs rather than reporting events, they found that the Big LIe was much easier to push.
the internet has only been available for not quite 25 years, so the first generation of adults who don’t get their news from legacy media has only recently come of age. we can go around the legacy media using the internet, but unfortunately, those who were educated in public schools and western universities (most of us) have been fed leftist lies since early childhood, and were not taught to think critically at all. in order to get the word out, we need to be relatively non-confrontational. when one is in a shouting match, one is not likely to really listen to one’s opponent; furthermore, the left won’t argue if it can incite a riot, so don’t give them any excuse to do so. let them be the unreasonable ones. most people, although nominally leftist because of their schooling, will be reasonable if U are reasonable and respectful. challenge them to *not* take your word for it, and explain that in order to be most effective, their arguments should come from both inside and outside islam. don’t demand that they become experts; if one is not contemplating converting to a given religion, one is not usually interested in diving deep into its beliefs. if U challenge people to make a minimal effort, however, they might actually check islam and discover the truth about it.
Karina says
She just traded in one cult (the Jehovah’s Witnesses) for another (Islam).
Nesses are not a cult.J_not_a says
Jehovah’s Witnesses are not a cult. They are students of the Bible and do not hold up any human as an idol like Mormons do with Joseph Smith for example and have their Book of Mormon, now that is a cult, so is Scientology with their L. Ron Hubbard. Those two are two real examples of cults which both target rich people for members.
WW says
FINALLY someone said it!!!
You are absolutely correct
WW says
The above comment is for Karina. She is correct- both are cults. Both change who Jesus is and use different books other than the Holy Bible. Plus both are driven and controlled by man.
WW says
Finally someone said it!! You are Absolutely correct Karina.
Samuel Barthis says
Janet looks hideous in that garb. Why would this man want to marry her if she is not gorgeous in that apparel? Three reasons comes to mind: she has money, she is famous, she looked sexy without the religious garb. But, the poor woman was more outgoing than this man would aver. In the end like her brother Jermaine who had become a Muslim she has become an official Islamaphobe-Islam is too restrictive. welcome to the club!!!
FYI says
Was Michael Jackson’s pet Chimp Bubbles.. converted to islam?
Of course not:don’t be ridiculous.
Chimpanzees are smart and intelligent creatures,unlike those who convert to islam.
Dacritic says
Doesn’t she have a brother who is also a Muslim? He probably had a hand in this.
Kris J says
I cannot believe how ignorant so many Americans still are about islam- It’s pathetic: they actually believe it’s “just another religion” and have NO IDEA what it’s really about and their true agenda – to convert and enslave the entire world. Janet Jackson probably figured she was getting a “normal guy” and then, like so many western women who marry these control freaks was shocked to discover what was expected of her. I’ll bet anything that his mother, sisters etc made her feel welcome by teaching her to cook his favorite “traditional” dishes, all seemingly in good fun, welcoming her into the family, and she thought it was optional – only for her to shockingly realize that she’s expected to cook/eat nothing BUT couscous or else, the rest of her life (oh and don’t forget she couldn’t eat at the table with the menfolk, like in Morocco! LOL).
Carolyne says
No “Wardrobe malfunctions” for Janet. Seems her wardrobe is quite limited under Islam. Nothing’s going to falloffthis garb.
Carolyne says
Seems my space bar is “Malfunctioning.”
Valkyrie Ziege says
; She married a man exactly like her father,
i.e., ignorant, controlling, and manipulative, and incapable of love.
Get a good lawyer, and cut him out of your life, permanently.
TheBuffster says
Deer Loward, that’s the ugliest hijab getup I’ve *ever* seen!