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What if Linda Sarsour’s husband forbade her to leave the house?

Oct 20, 2017 11:15 am By Robert Spencer

“The husband may forbid his wife to leave the home…because of the hadith related by Bayhaqi that the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, ‘It is not permissible for a woman who believes in Allah and the Last Day to allow someone into her husband’s house if he is opposed, or to go out if he is averse’” (Reliance of the Traveller m10.4).

That is from a manual of Islamic law that al-Azhar, the foremost institution in Sunni Islam, certifies as “conforming to the practice and faith of the orthodox Sunni community.”

And it says a husband can forbid his wife to leave the home. Feminist leader Linda Sarsour thinks that’s reasonable:

So what would have happened if this famed feminist Muslim leader of the Women’s March on Washington last January had had to skip the march altogether, because her husband decided he wanted her around the house that day?

What would all of the feminists who revere Linda Sarsour and hail her “courage” have thought then?

This is one of the absurdities created by the alliance of Western secular liberals with Islamic supremacists. I explore it and many others like it in my new book Confessions of an Islamophobe. Sarsour and many other pro-Sharia feminists, as well as pro-Sharia gay activists, pro-Sharia rabbis and other anomalies of our absurd age feature prominently in its pages.

Have you preordered your copy yet? Find out how standing up for human rights and equal justice for all can make you hated, vilified, and notorious. Read Confessions of an Islamophobe. Preorder your copy now here.

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  1. MFritz says

    Oct 20, 2017 at 11:24 am

    Sarsour is way too useful for the cause, so she’s allowed to stay on the long leash. For now.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 24, 2017 at 12:10 am

      Spot on.

  2. jewdog says

    Oct 20, 2017 at 11:59 am

    I think this is one case where I actually support Sharia. Yes, keep her at home, please.

    • PRCS says

      Oct 20, 2017 at 12:51 pm

      Good, contrarian thinking.
      Like it.

    • Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

      Oct 21, 2017 at 1:21 am

      +1

  3. jihad3tracker says

    Oct 20, 2017 at 12:01 pm

    Reza Poofy Poof Aslan’s Reddit blog just confirmed what I have long suspected:

    Linda wears a strap-on device, so there is no chance of her getting a “stay home” directive.

  4. Dan says

    Oct 20, 2017 at 12:39 pm

    “What if Linda Sarsour’s husband forbade her to leave the house?”

    Weellll.

    They SAY, there’s no such thing as 100% good or 100% evil…..

  5. Voytek Gagalka says

    Oct 20, 2017 at 12:53 pm

    Isn’t that extremely strange that her husband is permitting her to engage in such activity? It is proving to me only one thing: that her “marriage” (if existing at all) is phony, political expediency arrangement and she is just used by other Mohammedans as a TOOL in destroying the West by its “miserable hands.” No other explanation is possible.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 24, 2017 at 12:18 am

      She was married off in an arranged marriage when she was a teenager.

      I think he just assumes that her actions–and current comparative freedom–are good for Islam.

      If Islam is ever fully established here, that will be the end of that.

  6. Guest says

    Oct 20, 2017 at 1:23 pm

    I hate Sharia because I read the basics.

  7. fbijihadidefender says

    Oct 20, 2017 at 1:59 pm

    Feminist champion Linda Sarsour defends Sharia Law that treats women as a second class citizen.

  8. c matt says

    Oct 20, 2017 at 2:28 pm

    What if Linda Sarsour’s husband forbade her to leave the house?

    This country would be in better shape.

    • mortimer says

      Oct 20, 2017 at 3:05 pm

      The question is: why doesn’t he do it?

      • Keys says

        Oct 20, 2017 at 6:18 pm

        Because she will poison him.

  9. mortimer says

    Oct 20, 2017 at 3:09 pm

    What’s it like to be a Muslim wife? Misery!

  10. mortimer says

    Oct 20, 2017 at 3:13 pm

    Do Arab men hate women? – Head to Head … You decide.

    • Keys says

      Oct 20, 2017 at 11:12 pm

      Thank you, mortimer, for posting this video. Well worth watching.

      Near the end one man mentioned the “elephant in the room” preventing “gender equality”. He did not name that “elephant”.

      I would hope that as these muslims work through this, as this brave woman is trying to do without losing her muslim faith, they will realize that there is no elephant “in the room”; rather the presence “in the room” is a diabolical monstrosity that enslaves women and makes inhuman beasts of men – and that evil is Islam.

      It is so difficult, maybe impossible, for many muslims, who have much good in their hearts, to see that intertwined evil, because they have grown up with Islam as the will of God, who they do not want to reject.

    • billybob says

      Oct 21, 2017 at 9:56 am

      I was so impressed with how well that woman could articulate her arguments and think on her feet. No matter what the moderator said, and he was well prepared in advance, she had a cogent answer for him. So here I am saying “that woman” because we have never even heard her name before, and it takes more than one video for a name to stick. Why have we never heard her name?

      Such a brilliant woman fighting on the front line with the most misogynistic society in the world should be a hero to Western feminists. Her named should be evoked at every rally. She should be featured on panels everywhere, but who do we get instead? A scum bag cockroach like Linda Sarsour who pretends to be a feminist yet advocates for Sharia; a total fraud.

      In fact, a quarter of the world’s female population – Muslim women, don’t even exist for Western feminists. These so called feminists are far more concerned about the microscopically tiny portion of the population that is transgender than they are about a quarter of the female population of the world.That fact alone shows that Western feminism is a bogus movement.

      • Keys says

        Oct 21, 2017 at 10:46 am

        Well said, billybob.

        Her name is Mona Eltahawy.

        • Keys says

          Oct 21, 2017 at 10:58 am

          from Wikipedia article on her (Mona Eltahawy):

          “She described herself as “a secular, radical feminist Muslim” in a 2011 interview.”

          “On September 25, 2012, Eltahawy was arrested for spraypainting an American Freedom Defense Initiative advertisement in a New York City Subway station that read: “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.” “

          “ In 2009, The Economist said that Eltahawy used the phrase “the opium of the Arabs” referring to Israel, describing, as the magazine elaborated, “an intoxicating way for them to forget their own failings or at least blame them on someone else. Arab leaders have long practice of using Israel as a pretext for maintaining states of emergency at home and putting off reform.” “

          “ In a May 2012 article in Foreign Policy, she wrote, “Name me an Arab country, and I’ll recite a litany of abuses [of women] fueled by a toxic mix of culture and religion that few seem willing or able to disentangle lest they blaspheme or offend.” “

          She has a website:
          monaeltahawy.com

        • billybob says

          Oct 21, 2017 at 11:20 am

          Keys – thank you for your feedback and links. I had noticed that she failed to condemn Islam as the source of misogyny in the Arab world during her talk, but her statement that she considers herself a Muslim went right past me. So for all her efforts, she is doomed to fail, because she doesn’t recognize the source of the problem.

          Of course if she was an apostate she would be dead in the water from the start and perhaps literally as well. She seems to think she can reinterpret the Quran as something that is benign to women, but she is never going to convince the Muslim world of such heresy.

          Another criticism I had of her was that she condemned “all religion” of being misogynistic . While I am not knowledgeable of “all religions”, I do know that Christianity is NOT misogynistic. If you read Christ’s teachings or about his life there is no.misogyny there so I resented her slander.

          Anyhow, my original comment still stands even in spite of this new information you have provided me.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 24, 2017 at 12:23 am

          Yes–I’m afraid she is a good Muslim, as well–hating freedom and the Jews.

  11. Jayell says

    Oct 20, 2017 at 3:21 pm

    So she has a husband? How did that happen?

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 24, 2017 at 12:24 am

      Arranged marriage.

  12. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Oct 20, 2017 at 7:02 pm

    “The … Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, ‘It is not permissible for a woman who believes in Allah and the Last Day to allow someone into her husband’s house if he is opposed, or to go out if he is averse’” (Reliance of the Traveller m10.4).”

    Are any statistics available on the percentage of women who believe in (1) both Allah and the Last Day, (2) Allah but not the Last Day, (3) the Last Day but not Allah, (4) neither Allah nor the Last Day? And what is this Last Day, anyway? Last Day of what? Where in the Quran did Allah define this term “Last Day”?

  13. Westcoastjohnny says

    Oct 21, 2017 at 12:44 am

    The ‘you have to know the details of sharia’ argument is so stupid I can hardly believe anyone would say it. Compare with ‘nazism is reasonable, if you know the details, most people only know about the basics.’

  14. Guest says

    Oct 21, 2017 at 1:23 am

    If her husband kept her at home we wouldn’t have to listen to her insanity

  15. Sarah says

    Oct 21, 2017 at 7:20 am

    “What if Linda Sarsour’s husband forbade her to leave the house?”

    Well, for a start, there would be one hell of a gigantic party being held by a whole bunch of us to celebrate his decision.

    And a GoFundMe. Definitely a GoFundMe – someone buy that guy a new Thawb! And some earplugs. If I had to live with her foul screeching in my ears every minute of every day, I’d want ear plugs.

  16. Screeminmeeme says

    Oct 21, 2017 at 9:44 am

    What if Linda Sarsour’s husband forbade her to leave the house?

    The world would be eternally grateful.

  17. Brenda Romano says

    Oct 21, 2017 at 7:32 pm

    I wish he would.

  18. Mahendra Singh says

    Oct 23, 2017 at 2:36 am

    What is the cop doing behind her? What if she fxxxs loud and clear?

  19. gravenimage says

    Oct 24, 2017 at 12:08 am

    What if Linda Sarsour’s husband forbade her to leave the house?
    ………………….

    Well, she says this savagery “makes a lot of sense”. *Ugh*. Of course, she will continue to pretend that this has nothing to do with Islam–when she is in front of the Infidels, at least.

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