Everything this woman recounts — the child marriage, the beatings, the polygamy, the recognition of women only as means of sexual pleasure for men, the divorce with no access to the children — is sanctioned by Islamic law. This is her life story — she lived these things. Will she be denounced as racist, bigoted and Islamophobic?
“‘Islam brought me nothing but pain and hardship’: Iranian child bride who was beaten by her husband and then forced to give up her children to flee to Australia slams harsh Muslim regime,” by Josh Hanrahan, Daily Mail Australia, December 3, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A Muslim child bride who fled to Australia has told how she was beaten and abused by her husband, claiming her religion caused her ‘nothing but pain’.
At the age of just 16 the Iranian woman was forced by her father to marry a man who was a decade older. She says she didn’t want to, but Islam left her with ‘no rights’.
More than two decades since her wedding day, the 39-year-old is living on the Gold Coast, Queensland, her new home after initially fleeing Iran for the safety of Europe.
Telling the Gold Coast Bulletin her story of discrimination and how she was forced to give up seeing her children, the woman revealed she has converted to Christianity.
Growing up in Rasht, in the north-west of Iran, the woman said she was forced into following Islam and had no option to convert to anything else.
‘A person who does that in Iran will be deemed an apostate and the punishment is death,’ she said….
Her father had two wives and there were stages where she and her family would go hungry as he provided more to the others. Then there was February 17, 1994.
Despite pleading with her father not to let it go ahead, she was forced to marry the cousin of his second wife. He was 26, but she was just 16.
She was pregnant at the age of 17 and gave birth to a son in 1995. In 2000 they had a second child, a girl.
Throughout their relationship she says she was beaten by her husband, who was also having affairs with multiple women.
‘I hated Islam and its regressive laws in Iran more than ever — a religion with no value or respect for women,’ she said.
‘It recognises women as only a means of sexual pleasure for men.’
Eventually her father agreed to push for a divorce, but under Islamic law she had to give up her children….
‘Islam had brought me nothing by suffering and hardships,’ she said.
M says
Sexual pleasure? I don’t believe the Islamic mentality about sex is anything more than perversion and power plays. There is no room for actual romantic love when there is no respect for women. So to call what they do pleasure is sick. It’s just animalistic rape and domination. Rape is about violence and power. Any pleasure they get is like the “pleasure” an animal abuser gets torturing animals. Sick and distorted.
roger woodhouse says
Muslim men never need to learn to ‘court’ a woman or find love by mutual attraction during their teen years.No interaction between the sexes leads to repressed sexual urges and then to excessive promiscuosity later in life.Hence the Islamic law of allowing men to have sexual slaves and numerous wives.Their marriages are arranged by families interconnected thus adding to this unnatural and destablising state of affairs.
larry says
Very well said.
gravenimage says
Agreed, M.
Champ says
islam: the religion from hell!
islam is *wholly* evil …
Guest says
It takes strength for a woman to speak of this.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Agreed.
It also takes being outside an islamic controlled territory.
Thankfully, she is arrayed of both.
LeftisruiningCanada says
“At the age of just 16 the Iranian woman was forced by her father to marry a man who was a decade older
Not a bad age distribution as these things go. Must have been a moderate family.
“the 39-year-old is living on the Gold Coast, Queensland, her new home after initially fleeing Iran for the safety of Europe”
Wonder why she left Europe? That could be interesting.
“Throughout their relationship she says she was beaten by her husband, who was also having affairs with multiple women.”
Of course, using the term ‘affairs’ is misleading. In the west the word usually means something like ‘an illicit sexual relationship outside the bounds of monogamous marriage”, which cannot apply in the islamic context.
What he was doing was simply being a normal muslim man, empowered to chase his tail after everything on two legs, while calling it good and permitted.
“‘I hated Islam and its regressive laws in Iran more than ever — a religion with no value or respect for women,’ she said. ”
Clearly a racist, not able to understand that what she endured was only the sad misrepresentation of a great faith…..next she’ll be a neo nazi Oz First party member.
“Eventually her father agreed to push for a divorce, but under Islamic law she had to give up her children….”
Definitely a moderate family.
“‘Islam had brought me nothing by suffering and hardships,’ she said.”
Which is all it really has to offer, whether you’re in or whether you’re out.
Oliver says
My objection is to the heading. “Child Bride”.
At 16, not a child, but an adolescent.
In New Jersey, for example, the age fpr consenting sex, I have read, is 14
As Left, said ( she 16, he26) not a bad age difference. That she didn’t want to marry the msn, but was focec to, in my opinion, another matter
Her children are now 22 and 17. Hardly babies
Interesting article, but, repeating myself, the title is misleading?
StacyGirl says
I could not give up my 17 yr old. Why should she give up anything? Because like the woman, children are also possessions.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Don’t get me wrong, i in no way agree with the arranged marriage of a young woman to an older man she detests.
But, with so many 10 year olds getting married off to 50 year old imams about the place, it was at least notable that the age difference in this case was so relatively civilized.
Which, by the way, says little good of islam.
carol says
Oliver…
1/ Although 16 the marriage was not based on her own inclinations. It was about her dominating milieu. As an individual she did “not count” and had little choice. In a 7th century desert there may have been justification but in the 21st century this is just societal calcification and disrespect for half the human race and it also causes a shallow, troubled life for the male half. Allah and warfare to fill the void.
2/ Her “husband’s” activities showed his environment led him in the direction of valuing other “worldly things” rather than a more meaningful, constructive bond with the female half of the ying/yang thing.
3/ Her children were not 22 and 17 when she was forced to leave them due to no fault of her own (other than her coming to the realization that she was being USED for and at the pleasure of a male-oriented social construct). The male could easily just nab and reposition another female to take her place. Problem over for him and just a lot of heartbreak for her.
carol says
“Problem over for him and just a lot of heartbreak for her”…and I might add “…and for her CHILDREN also – assuming the loving, natural bond with the mother had not been interfered with, suppressed and warped as well”
Halal Bacon says
Hey Sarsour, put this in your Hookah and smoke it!
Leon Degney says
I have always said, and find it difficult to understand why any woman would want to convert to Islam. Those born into the vile cult obviously have no choice, but to convert, when there is so little or in fact nothing in Islam here on earth or in their supposed paradise. Women like Sarsour without a doubt are mentally ill basket cases.
carol says
Most of us go through a young and “stupider” stage. For many females the appeal of a young husband, loving babies, no jobs to worry about, exotic new adventures, group togetherness etc. is understandable. But when you have more maturity and recognize what ORTHODOX ISLAM represents and causes then you have no excuse for daydreaming through life and being stupidly blind and disloyal to higher principles.
tim gallagher says
Unless you are a masochist, there is surely nothing good in Islam for any female human being. Muslim girls and women seem to have only one role in Islam and that is to breed plenty of Muslims to try to take over the world for evil Islam. And to breed very large numbers of Muslims in the attempt to outbreed the non-Muslims. One of Islam’s main tactics. Only a masochist could enjoy such a role in life. I’m very happy for the woman in the report for escaping from Islam, and having some chance of enjoying a fulfilling life. I’m always glad to hear of people escaping Islam’s malignant atmosphere.
Shmoovie says
Hey Stanford U admins & SPLC: is posting articles like this one on his site proof of RS’s ‘phobia and intolerance- or of his sympathy for women trapped by islam into such misery? And she was one of the fortunate few compared to the ways so many of these ‘wives’ end up..
Sarah says
Well, her full story must be an absolute doozy, to be honest. Iranians find it very hard to secure asylum in the West, whether its Australia, America, Europe etc etc.
There must be some provable, very horrific circumstances in her past.
I’ll be honest, I’m only glad that she’s safe, because she’s not only being honest about the train-wreck that is Islam, but also because she has abandoned that religion. If she sat there and said this, all the while still wearing a hijab and babbling about how true Islam is all unicorns and puppies, I’d be grinding my teeth, over here.
The only thing I find baffling now, is that she has converted to Christianity. Jeez Louise, you’d think she’d had enough of religion for her lifetime.. By all means, believe in God in some way, but I find it fascinating that most Muslims who find the courage to abandon Islam tend to run to Christianity instead. Its as though they are incapable of standing on their own two feet and deciding that they do not need religion of any form, in their life, dictating to them how to live, how to think and how to behave and react.
Then again, I am biased given I am an Atheist. And if she has to convert to another religion, I’m very relieved that its Christianity. Unless she’s managed to pick some bizarre equivalent to the Westboro Baptist Church, then presumably she’s being told how to be a benign, forgiving, peaceful little Christian. I guess things could be a heck of a lot worse.
She is brave to speak out and smart to hide her face. She’d get killed otherwise. The only thing that surprises me here is that the mainstream media picked up on this story. I read it earlier today on two separate MSM outlets.
gravenimage says
Sarah, I am no fan of the Westboro Baptist Church, and I used to counter their vicious claptrap here in San Francisco on a regular basis when they would show up and preach their warped garbage.
Two things, though: firstly, there is nothing mainstream about the Westboro Baptist Church. Both the mainstream Baptist Church and Southern Baptists disavow these jerks. At its largest under Fred Phelps, the Westboro Baptist Church was no more than about seventy members, mostly his family and in-laws. Since he passed away, it is much reduced even from that.
And, even more salient, as much as I hate these creeps hectoring loved ones at the funerals of gay people and military personnel, they have never called for violence.
As disgusting as they are, they are *nothing* like violent Muslims.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Yes, GI.
Everyone within the realm of orthodox Christianity see WBC for what they are: a cult.
Every truth has been abused, it’s in our nature.
Several Christians, from different traditions, have tried to reach out to them over the years, but the cult has firmly taken hold. Some have come out from the WBC too, which left them shunned and quite destitute, since the place is basically their entire social universe.
Here’s an interview with the daughter of the leader, done a few years ago by Chris Rosebrough. His show is quite good, though he has a funny sense of humor.
http://www.piratechristian.com/fightingforthefaith/2009/07/15/interview-with-shirley-phelpsroper-of-westboro-baptist-church
Greyhound Fancier says
One view is that Islam is a far-out cult of Christianity — it takes the Christian scriptures and teachings and turns them on their ear. It just goes to show that man can take anything and screw it up.
Jesus is the best friend you can ever have, He will never steer you wrong, and if you stay close to Him, you can have peace in your life.
It’s superficial to see religion as only a set of rules. It’s worldview, a philosophy, and offers the wisdom of the ages. Everyone in the Western world takes its Christian foundation for granted — with the challenge of Islam, we will rue the day we forget our roots.
gravenimage says
Muslim child bride: “Islam had brought me nothing by suffering and hardships”
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That is what Islam does.
duh swami says
‘The flogging will continue until morale improves’…Quran 24:2.5
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
No, it is filthy Christianity that promotes Child Abuse where church men kept little girls as sex slaves after killing all others according to mithraist evil Bible. Later, they castrated male slaves for hard labor and kept females for sex by crucifying their hands and legs before penetrating .Today the church men keep little children for anus and vaginal sex as it has been happening in the west. thus, Christianity and Judaism are the roots of all evils because they are being inspired by the Satan (the cursed one) who is the father of all evils
WorkingClassPost says
You are one sick person.
But I’m sure that there are all too many more where you came from.
IanB says
No, Ibrahim, you are projecting Islamic evils onto Christianity in your comment. yes, there have been Christian priests and nuns who have abused children but their behaviour is not part of Christian theology as it is in Islam. Islam permits sexual penetration with children as Muhammed did with Aisha. Child brides are common in Islam. FGM is a disgustingly common Islamic practice. Pakistani Muslim males have gang-raped thousands of girls in the UK and other European countries. Eunuchs were castrated male slaves kept by Muslims as were female sex slaves, “of the right hand”, as mandated by the unholy Quran.
Islam is inherently a filthy, evil, perverted religion as proved by many passages in the Quran and hadith considered authentic by Muslims. Your so-called prophet was a sexual pervert and paedophile – as well as, again according to authentic hadiths, a murderer, looter, deceiver, slaver and self-confessed terrorist.
The Quran is a manual of hatred towards non-Muslims.
It is your Allah who is the cursed one Satan, the greatest deceiver – the moon god of the pagan Arabs before Muhammed appropriated him for his made-up cult. Islam is a curse upon the whole of humanity. Islam came from the depths of Hell and to there it will return defeated. As for you, you are totally deluded.
gravenimage says
Fine post.
LeftisruiningCanada says
yep, well said.
Christians don’t have to hid their sins, or the sins of their leadership.
We acknowledge them and have dealt with those who were guilty. Where things have been hidden, it is not because of anything in Christian teaching, but simply because Men are fallen, and would keep their sins in the dark.
Ibrahim cannot defend anything he said in his post above, nor can he condemn the actions of his co-religionists because, to him, they do not sin when having sex with little girls. Indeed, they can do no wrong at all.
gravenimage says
The appalling Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
No, it is filthy Christianity that promotes Child Abuse where church men kept little girls as sex slaves after killing all others according to mithraist evil Bible. Later, they castrated male slaves for hard labor and kept females for sex by crucifying their hands and legs before penetrating .
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Of course, no such thing has ever happened. Previously, Ibrahim itace muhammed has claimed that the Bible calls for churchmen to crucify and rape women. I and other posters have asked him many times to produce such verses; of course, he has not been able to do so, because they do not exist.
As for slavery, it was Christians in the West who *abolished slavery* long since, something that Muslims have never done. In fact, Ibrahim itace muhammed *himself* has affirmed that Muslims can enslave Infidels as slaves and sex slaves.
As for child abuse, the “Prophet” Muhammed himself “married” a six-year-old child and began raping her when she was nine. Ibrahim itace muhammed has also affirmed that Muslims can “marry” little girls.
More:
Today the church men keep little children for anus and vaginal sex as it has been happening in the west. thus, Christianity and Judaism are the roots of all evils because they are being inspired by the Satan (the cursed one) who is the father of all evils
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Of course, sexual abuse of children by *anyone* in the West is *illegal*.
This is not true in the Muslim world–in many parts of Dar-al-Islam raping underaged girls *is the norm*.
Notice that Ibrahim itace muhammed has not condemnation for this Muslim engaging in forced “marriage” with this poor girl. But then, why would he? This is perfectly Islamic.
LeftisruiningCanada says
His repeated graphic descriptions in this, and most of his other posts, tell most of what we need to know about Mr Ibrahim.
Thank you.
John Forbes says
SEEN LOTS OF THIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST OVER THE YEARS. JUST BREEDING & SEX BAGS & DISCARDED WHEN TIRED OF OR REPLACED WITH OTHER WIVES!
LOTS OF BEATINGS AS WELL!
YET THE WEST INSISTS THAT WE BELIEVE THE LIES!
HOPEFULLY, TRUMP CAN PRIES OPE THE BOX LOMG ENOUGH TO GET ENOUGH PEOPLE TO SEE WHAT THE LEFT IS DOING!
THE LABOR PARTY MEMBERS IN THE BRITISH HOUSE OF COWARDS ARE SOMETHING TO WATCH & THE BRAYING OF THE JACKASSES DEAFENING!
THESE ARE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO AIDED & ABETTED THE MUSLIM CHILD RAPING GROUPS OF ROTHERHAM & MAY The OTHER UK TOWNS & CITIES OVER 2 DECADES BEFORE ANDREW NORFOLK WITH THE DETAILS SUPPLIED BY JAYNE SENIOR FROM THE EX RISKY BUSINESS MANAGER MANAGED TO GET THE INFORMATION OT TO THE LONDON TIMES!
THESE PEOPLE THEN TRIED DESPERATELY TO SHUT THE BOX AS WELL & THEN THE POLICE COMMANDERS BLATANTLY LIED ABOUT THE ANGIE HEAL REPORTS – THAT THEY SUPPOSEDLY HAD NEVER SEEN! UTTER NONSENSE & YET ALL THE LIES WERE ACCEPTED & NO ONE CHARGED!
LIES ALL OVER !!
Manny says
God bless this woman. I see she doesn’t give her name. I wonder why? Of course that’s sarcasm. Islam is despicable but particularly despicable toward women. I pray for the conversion of all Muslims. May they find love in the God of Christianity.
Walter Sieruk says
Many times it’s Islam = child abuse
LeftisruiningCanada says
Indeed. Islam = codified child abuse