Margaret Johnson, “sociologist, writer, and business owner,” who is an acolyte of Fethulleh Gulen, recently delivered herself of an article entitled “How Islam led me to reject toxic masculinity and realize my worth.”
I’ve long been eager to reject my toxic masculinity, and there’s nothing I’d rather do than to realize my net worth. So I eagerly read the article. And now that I’ve finished it, I am convinced that no comment I might make could begin to do it justice. It cannot be improved upon. It is a perfect specimen of its type.
Here is that article:
“Several years ago, at 35 years old,
Sic for “when I was 35.”
I converted to Islam. As I began to practice the religion, I unexpectedly felt an awakening of my feminine energy. Growing up in America, I rarely received any encouragement for my femaleness: I grew up distrusting my intuition in favor of verifiable facts,
Yes, of course, why should anyone favor “verifiable facts” over one’s “intuition”?
I learned to keep the discomfort of my menstrual cycles to myself and continued on those difficult days as if they were like any other. It was widely accepted by my female colleagues that we would be penalized in the professional world in [sic] if we had kids too soon or had too many. I had little notion of what feminine energy was and I was blind to just how hyper-masculine our Western culture is.
Part of being Muslim is praying five times a day. After converting, I began to learn the prayers right away, starting with one prayer a day and working my way up until I had incorporated all five into my daily schedule. Along the way, a curious thing happened; for the very first time in my life, I began looking forward to my menstrual cycle. Women are excused from the daily prayer during this time of the month. I had been having my period for more than twenty years and, for the first time in my life, I was being told, “Rest, take it easy, you are excused from these duties.” And who was telling me? My Creator. This was a kind of care I had rarely received, and it initiated in me a gradual thawing, an uncovering of my long-suppressed female energy.
AS I BEGAN TO PRACTICE THE RELIGION, I UNEXPECTEDLY FELT AN AWAKENING OF MY FEMININE ENERGY.
Eight years after my conversion, I took a spiritual journey to Turkey with two other converts and a Turkish guide, who was a deeply spiritual man. It was Ramadan and my first time spending the holy month in a Muslim country. After years of experiencing Ramadan in the United States as a mostly solo endeavor, I had an immersive, cultural and spiritual experience with shared sahoots and iftars, strangers opening their homes, preparing feasts of food and love, exchanging gifts and peace, with so much harmony and tranquility. An unprecedented level of care and nurturing enveloped me once again.
One day, in the early pre-dawn, we visited the Eyup Sultan Mosque in Istanbul. This mosque was built next to the grave of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari (known as Eyup Sultan in Turkish), the last survivor of the close circle of companions around the Prophet Muhammad. As our group walked towards the mosque and turned the corner after our sahoor
Sic for “suhoor.”
at a nearby restaurant, I was shocked to see the street flooded with Turkish women during the very early morning hour. Dressed in silk scarves and pardesüler (long tailored, fitted overcoats) they streamed toward the courtyard where the women would pray. I joined the stream of women and I felt the physical sensation of my heart splitting open and God’s Mercy whooshing in. The ice cracked, the hardness of my heart suddenly softened.
A week later, I returned to the United States. As my spirit transformed from this experience, this new love-soaked energy, I wanted to create, serve, to be of use, nurture, love. I could not calm down. My husband asked, “What happened to you over there? Did you have brain surgery?” “No” I replied, “I had heart surgery.”
That supreme nurturing, not only by the Most Merciful, but by my Turkish hosts and their embracing culture, gave me a sense of worth tied to my own humanity. That feeling of being worthy birthed this powerful female energy.
THIS WAS A KIND OF CARE I HAD RARELY RECEIVED, AND IT INITIATED IN ME A GRADUAL THAWING, AN UNCOVERING OF MY LONG-SUPPRESSED FEMALE ENERGY.
One year ago for the first Women’s March, I metroed with my close Jewish and Muslim friends to downtown D.C., where we converged with epic, Hajj-sized crowds filling one mile of Independence Avenue and spilling over to cover our National Mall. Sister protests were organized in 550 cities and towns in the United States and in more than 100 countries in every corner of the globe in an unprecedented show of solidarity. Women and men from all orientations and human expressions converged to stand together and say, “We matter. You will not marginalize us, dehumanize us, commit violence upon our bodies. We have worth. We will occupy physical space with that worth.” We came together in crowds so huge and so peaceful, there was no denying our worthiness.
Since then, we have seen an explosion in the #MeToo movement. The #MeToo movement is many things, but at its heart is women refusing to no longer
Sic for “any” longer.
be treated as unworthy.
With our polarized identity politics in this nation, we have rushed headlong into post-modernist truisms that everyone is unique, everyone’s “truth” is equally valid. In giving highest value to living out our individualized truths, we have ignored that we are asking for this acceptance inside a system of gross inequality and a perverted patriarchy that all too often gets expressed as violence against women. In this rush to claim our personal truths, we skip over a greater truth: that such a thing as feminine energy exists, that women’s procreative and nurturing energies are vital for healthy societies. All manner of wisdom traditions, including Islam, support this greater truth.
Leaping so quickly to post-modernism, our identity politics have taken shape within the space of toxic White male supremacy that rests on a specific social hierarchy. In our society that claims to be a meritocracy, one’s place on the social hierarchy inevitably sears degrees of worthiness. In a way, our country birthed a bastardization of patriarchy, but it is not a bastardization in the traditional meaning of the word. It is a bastardization where patriarchy is born without the balance of female energy (as opposed to an unknown father) and without the notions of care, nurturing, support and appreciation that emerge from it.
“THE #METOO MOVEMENT IS MANY THINGS, BUT AT ITS HEART IS WOMEN REFUSING TO NO LONGER BE TREATED AS UNWORTHY.
Again, sic for “refusing to any longer.”
In this patriarchy, as the stories from #MeToo amply illustrate, women have been asked to squeeze themselves into a male-centric society and way of doing things. You want a seat at the table? Well, they say: we set the rules, and you must conform to our way of doing things, and you must do whatever we ask, and in the way we like it, or you cannot have access to the keys we hold, and if you try to inject your vision, to infuse your essence, then we will stamp that out, we will squash you, we will remind you that we are the top of the hierarchy, and you are lucky to have a seat at the table where a few crumbs might fall your way.
How can the resulting psychology of this be anything but women feeling a deep and abiding sense of unworthiness?
The Women’s March was a collective of women standing up and saying, in response, that we are worthy and we will be seen and heard. We will not be reduced to pussies for you to grab.
Women refuse to be considered unworthy any longer. Times
Sic for “Time’s.”
Up! If our Western culture decides to stop trying to contain and control feminine energy, what ways of understanding will replace it? How do we build a society that values the masculine and the feminine, that gives space to the grand diversity within masculinity and femininity without either seeking to minimizing or control the energy of the other? We must all claim our worth, not as a way of asserting superiority, but in [sic] a humility that acknowledges our humanity and our authentic selves.
Here I have appended, on the subject of women in Islam, Qur’anic verses, stories from the hadith, excerpts from the biographer of Muhammad, Ibn Ishaq, from the historian Al-Tabari, about women in Islam, all collected at thereligionofpeace.com (and shamelessly lifted by me). They are offered below, to gently remind Margaret Johnson of what her new faith teaches, and which she has, it seems, managed to overlook:
Quran (4:11) – (Inheritance) “The male shall have the equal of the portion of two females” (see also verse 4:176). In Islam, sexism is mathematically established.
Quran (2:282) – (Court testimony) “And call to witness, from among your men, two witnesses. And if two men be not found then a man and two women.” Muslim apologists offer creative explanations to explain why Allah felt that a man’s testimony in court should be valued twice as highly as a woman’s, but studies consistently show that women are actually less likely to tell lies than men, meaning that they make more reliable witnesses.
Quran (2:228) – “and the men are a degree above them [women]”
Quran (5:6) – “And if ye are unclean, purify yourselves. And if ye are sick or on a journey, or one of you cometh from the closet, or ye have had contact with women, and ye find not water, then go to clean, high ground and rub your faces and your hands with some of it/” Men are to rub dirt or water on their hands to purify themselves, following casual contact with a woman (such as shaking hands).
Quran (24:31) – Women are to lower their gaze around men, so they do not look them in the eye
Quran (2:223) – “Your wives are as a tilth unto you; so approach your tilth when or how ye will…” A man has dominion over his wives’ bodies as he does his land. This verse is overtly sexual. There is some dispute as to whether it is referring to the practice of anal intercourse. If this is what Muhammad meant, then it would appear to contradict what he said in Muslim (8:3365).
Quran (4:3) – (Wife-to-husband ratio) “Marry women of your choice, Two or three or four” Inequality by numbers.
Quran (53:27) – “Those who believe not in the Hereafter, name the angels with female names.” Angels are sublime beings, and would therefore be male.
Quran (4:24) and Quran (33:50) – A man is permitted to take women as sex slaves outside of marriage. Note that the verse distinguishes wives from captives (those whom their ‘right hand possesses”).
Hadith and Sira
Sahih Bukhari (6:301) – “[Muhammad] said, ‘Is not the evidence of two women equal to the witness of one man?’ They replied in the affirmative. He said, ‘This is the deficiency in her intelligence.'”
Sahih Bukhari (6:301) – continued – “[Muhammad said] ‘Isn’t it true that a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menses?’ The women replied in the affirmative. He said, ‘This is the deficiency in her religion.'” Allah has made women deficient in the practice of their religion as well, by giving them menstrual cycles.
Sahih Bukhari (2:28) & Sahih Bukhari (54:464) – Women comprise the majority of Hell’s occupants. This is important because the only women in heaven mentioned explicitly by Muhammad are the virgins who serve the sexual desires of men. (A weak Hadith, Kanz al-`ummal, 22:10, even suggests that 99% of women go to Hell).
Sahih Bukhari (62:81) – “The Prophet said: “‘The stipulations most entitled to be abided by are those with which you are given the right to enjoy the (women’s) private parts (i.e. the stipulations of the marriage contract).'” In other words, the most important thing a woman brings to marriage is between her legs.
Sahih Bukhari (62:58) – A woman presents herself in marriage to Muhammad, but he does not find her attractive, so he “donates” her on the spot to another man.
Sahih Muslim (4:1039) – “A’isha said [to Muhammad]: ‘You have made us equal to the dogs and the asses'” These are the words of Muhammad’s favorite wife, complaining of the role assigned to women under Islam.
Abu Dawud (2:704) – “…the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) said: When one of you prays without a sutrah, a dog, an ass, a pig, a Jew, a Magian, and a woman cut off his prayer, but it will suffice if they pass in front of him at a distance of over a stone’s throw.”
Abu Dawud (2155) – Women are compared to slaves and camels with regard to the “evil” in them.
Ishaq 734 – “As for Ali, he said, ‘Women are plentiful, and you can easily change one for another.'” Ali was raised as a son by Muhammad. He was also the 4th caliph. This comment was made in Muhammad’s presence without a word of rebuke from him.
Ishaq 878 – “From the captives of Hunayn, Allah’s Messenger gave [his son-in-law] Ali a slave girl called Rayta and he gave [future Caliph] Uthman a slave girl called Zaynab and [future “Caliph] Umar a girl to whom Umar gave to his son.” – Even in this world, Muhammad treated women like party favors, handing out enslaved women to his cronies for sex.
Ibn Ishaq 693 – “Then the apostle sent Sa-d b. Zayd al-Ansari, brother of Abdu’l-Ashal with some of the captive women of Banu Qurayza to Najd and he sold them for horses and weapons.” Muhammad traded captured women for horses.
Al-Tirmidhi 3272 – “When Allah’s Messenger was asked which woman was best he replied, ‘The one who pleases (her husband) when he looks at her, obeys him when he gives a command, and does not go against his wishes regarding her person or property by doing anything of which he disapproves’.” (See also Abu Dawud 1664)
Tabari 8:117 – The fate of more captured farm wives, whom the Muslims distributed amongst themselves as sex slaves: “Dihyah had asked the Messenger for Safiyah when the Prophet chose her for himself… the Apostle traded for Safiyah by giving Dihyah her two cousins. The women of Khaybar were distributed among the Muslims.”
Tabari 9:137 – “Allah granted Rayhana of the Qurayza to Muhammad as booty.”
Ishaq 969 – “Lay injunctions on women kindly, for they are prisoners with you having no control of their persons.” – This same text also says that wives may be beaten for “unseemliness”.
Tabari 9:1754 – “Treat women well, for they are [like] domestic animals with you and do not possess anything for themselves.” From Muhammad’s ‘Farewell Sermon’.
Here are a few recent statements on the position and role of women in Islamic society, also found at thereligionofpeace.com:
The fourth Caliph, who was Muhammad’s son-in-law and cousin, said just a few years after the prophet’s death that “The entire woman is an evil. And what is worse is that it is a necessary evil.”
“A traditional Islamic saying is that, “A woman’s heaven is beneath her husband’s feet.” One of the world’s most respected Quran commentaries explains that, “Women are like cows, horses, and camels, for all are ridden.” (Tafsir al-Qurtubi)
‘The revered Islamic scholar, al-Ghazali, who has been called ‘the greatest Muslim after Muhammad,’ writes that the role of a Muslim woman is to “stay at home and get on with her sewing. She should not go out often, she must not be well-informed, nor must she be communicative with her neighbors and only visit them when absolutely necessary; she should take care of her husband… and seek to satisfy him in everything… Her sole worry should be her virtue… She should be clean and ready to satisfy her husband’s sexual needs at any moment.” [Ibn Warraq]
A Yemeni cleric recently explained in a television broadcast what makes women inferior and unable, say, to serve as good witnesses: “Women are subject to menstruation, when their endurance and mental capacity for concentration are diminished. When a woman witnesses a killing or an accident, she becomes frightened, moves away, and sometimes even faints, and she cannot even watch the incident.”
During a 2012 talk show on an Egyptian television channel, a cleric slammed Christianity – in part for teaching gender equality: “the Christian religion does not differentiate between women and men, but it confirms their perfect equality: it gives them an equal share in inheritance, it bans divorce, and it bans polygamy.”
In 2014, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan emphasized that men and women are not equal: “Our religion has defined a position for women (in society): motherhood.”
“Islamic law also specifies that when a woman is murdered by a man, her family is owed only half as much “blood money” (diya) as they would be if she had been a man. (The life of a non-Muslim is generally assessed at one-third).
“Homa Darabi was a talented physician who took her own life by setting herself on fire in a public protest against the oppression of women in Islamic Iran. She did this after a 16-year-old girl was shot to death for wearing lipstick. In the book, Why We Left Islam, her sister includes a direct quote from one of the country’s leading clerics:
“The specific task of women in this society is to marry and bear children. They will be discouraged from entering legislative, judicial, or whatever careers which may require decision-making, as women lack the intellectual ability and discerning judgment required for these careers.” Ayatolllah Khomeini
“Modern day cleric Abu Ishaq al-Huwaini has called for a return of the slave markets, where Muslim men can order concubines. In this man’s ideal world, “when I want a sex-slave, I go to the market and pick whichever female I desire and buy her.”
Margaret Johnson, “sociologist, writer, and business owner,” may find what I have posted above just as enlightening as many of us found her article.
We all have so much to share, don’t we?
Indiana Tom says
Women in Islam have all the rights of a household pet.
gravenimage says
Women in Islam have *fewer* rights than household pets in the West.
Diane Harvey says
She has a lot to learn.
jihad3tracker says
IF WE HAVE 5 SPARE MINUTES TO PUSHBACK AGAINST HER IDIOTIC RAMBLING, this is the original source:
http://muslimgirl.com/46935/islam-led-reject-toxic-masculinity-realize-worth/ Scroll down to the page bottom for a path to comment.
When responding to web articles written by worshippers of Allah, DO NOT USE YOUR MAIN EMAIL ADDRESS. Create one used for just such adventures, to avoid flooding your inbox with spam or threats. G-Mail is my top choice for that.
Garfield says
No one talks about rampant animal abuse by Muslims. I’ve heard that in heavily Islamic areas one finds mutilated cats, commonly. And they hate dogs. Perverted sickos…and this idiot woman thinks she’s found…..support for her ….many feelings during menstruation? Well then. Did she get FGM yet? Thats a way to be even more muslimey isn’t it? She should hurry up and get cut then.
Islam can so easily be twisted around and presented as something good but it is completely made of LIES: it is a death cult full of hate.
StellaSaidSo says
‘…rampant animal abuse by Muslims…’
…includes bestiality. Goats, donkeys, camels, sheep – and it’s ok to sell the abused beast to your neighbours after you have slaughtered it, but not ok to serve it to your own family.
mortimer says
But… she has it BACKWARDS … she should say, “How toxic masculinity led me to reject Islam and realize my worth.”
MOHAMMED WAS A SEX ADDICT … DOES THAT COUNT AS ‘TOXIC’, JOHNSON?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWzJ_nwWjps
mortimer says
Many hadiths talk about SEMEN STAINS on Mohammed’s clothing.
IS THAT ‘TOXIC’ ENOUGH for you, Johnson?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfDYzY-shBA
LeftisruiningCanada says
Mohammad – the idol of a billion teenage mentality muslim guys who think its cool to be covered with semen.
Will says
From the frying pan into the fire …… this women is seriously damaged ……
Will says
More like the women in izzzlam have the rights of beasts of burden …….
J D S says
No Tom….household pets, in most cases, get loved and cared for
And not used a sex Object.
madpatriot says
This is sickening as she is actually accepting what is outrageous for any female; theirs or ours! It makes me so angry when I see an American especially, that is white listening to this satanic garbage that islam and muslims spew! Totally against all freedom, what is of real faith in God. If one reads the Koran or researches these people, it is a totalitarian governmental system of living, not a ‘religion of faith or peace.
It iS a cult of terrorism, subjugation and indoctrination from birth to be as they are…opposite to all that America was founded to be. ANYONE that joins this group is an enemy of America, freedom, real faith
and all our nation was meant to be.
Carol (the 1st) says
It was probably a jinn that operated on her brain. – something along the lines of what happened to Mohammed in that cave? Maybe after she washes off her menstrual “dirt” the big boys will allow her to go help them round up some sex slaves or juveniles or livestock. Once she lands back on her feet of course.
Elizabeth Lawson says
Heavens. This lady had to “ find herself and her womanhood” through the medium of a seventh century,
misogynistic disaster and one that would cheerfully see her hanged, stoned to death, beaten, disempowered in every conceivable way, and TOLD that her worth is less that of a farm animal – and certainly less than half that of a man – however stupid, ignorant, insane, or primitive he might be? Sorry, it she richly deserves her fate – that is until she is adjudged by medical/educational experts to be uneducable and/or brain damaged.
StellaSaidSo says
Yep. File under ‘Batsh*t Crazy’.
Most Western converts to Islam have pre-existing conditions (massive stupidity, for example) which heighten their susceptibility to weird ideas and causes.
This woman appears to have the complete inventory.
Will says
A typical hand-maid of izzzlam , veiled & submitted , women in izzzlam are chattels
wombs for the ideology , this one however will be lucky if she becomes wife # 10 !
jewdog says
Erdogan has demanded that we turn over alleged coup plotter, Fethullah Gulen, which we refuse to do. Instead, could we send her? Even if she’s not enough to satisfy Erdy, I think it would be a very constructive move.
dumbledoresasrmy says
Good one!
Actually, I think that President Trump *should* root up Fethullah Gulen and all his operatives – both the cradle Muslims of the ‘Gulen Movement’, a sub-cult within Sunni Islam, and the deluded and/ or evil converts such as this bizarre female, and gift wrap them, and send them post haste to Mr Erdogan, with his compliments, and much joy may he have of them… NOT.
gravenimage says
Yes–Gulen should be shown the door. That does not mean turning him over to Erdogan, who is as bad or worse–just telling him to find another place from which to wage his Jihad.
Kelly Mulholland says
Margaret Johnson.
She works hard to maintain such deep cognitive distortions.
Train wreck waiting to happen. Hopefully she doesn’t take too many down wit her.
jihad3tracker says
Hello Kelly — TRAIN WRECK ALREADY HAPPENED.
“Deep cognitive distortions” is a polite way of saying that she has an IQ somewhere between lichen and moss.
Garfield says
Hey, be respectful…lichen and moss is useful and good for the world.
Linda says
Perhaps she’s engaging in a little taqiyya here.
Linde Barrera says
This gal, Margaret Johnson, is the perfect example of a “bs artist”. “Taqquiya” is the polite word for “bs” in Arabic, right? She has become completely enculturated and saturated with Taqquiya and seeks to share it. She is doing a great job of spreading that Taqquiya!
Mr. Fitzgerald, could you send a copy of this article to the vicious Linda Sarsour? She should know about your brilliant responses to this woman’s delusions.
Lydia Church says
Whoever told her this balderdash, it definitely wasn’t her Creator!
He is not the author of islam, the devil is.
islam oppresses women and that is just a fact of reality.
And all of this ‘feminine energy’ sounds like someone who does yoga with Oprah, both a no-no.
There is nothing wrong with being female to the utmost and believe me, I am.
I am not ashamed to be a woman in any way and I do see that sort of tomboy thing in society.
But many of these women themselves have the personal vendetta to climb the corporate ladder with aggression.
And I had a sneaking hunch that this whole “me too” thing that went viral had a connection to islam.
My thinking was as follows. First I saw all these women who came forward complaining of advances from men in the pursuit of their careers. It was so widespread. I thought of all the women being raped in Europe. The goal over there is for them to act like muslim women, cover up and hide in their homes so as not to be manhandled and raped. It is as if this is an invitation for rape, it is excused as ‘too tempting’ because she is not covered in a black sheet with two peep holes for looking out, as if it is somehow her fault. So the choice becomes risk rape, or comply. There is a similar agenda brewing for the US too in this way, some compromise will be struck, if women just ‘cover up more’ then they won’t be fondled, or if they don’t go to these places to begin with, etc. I don’t know, it is just a speculation. But I know their agenda and just saw these pieces of the puzzle laying around…
Stacy Girl says
Yes, my great grandmother said they looked forward to their menstrual periods in the camps, too. After being raped all month it was a blessing.
gravenimage says
The only question is whether she is delusional or just spouting Taqiyya.
WCM says
Jaw-dropping, willful ignorance.
Just when you think no one could approach Sarsour in this category…..
dumbledoresasrmy says
Either wilful ignorance or deliberate falsification.
She needs to be confronted, publicly (how prominent a personage *is* she?), with 1/ the apostasy law of Islam, and asked if she’s on board with it, and whether she would approve if every apostate from Islam currently living within western countries, were hunted down by sharia assassins and murdered and 2/ the blasphemy law… then ask her if she thinks the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists and Theo Van Gogh *deserved* to be murdered by Muslims, ask her if she *agrees* with the death fatwa placed upon Salman Rushdie and whether, if she were in a position to either kill Mr Rushdie herself or hand him over to a sharia assassin, she would *do* it.
Ask her whether, if she had a daughter, she would give that daughter at age 8, or 9, or 10, or 12, willynilly, into a Muslim ‘marriage’ with a man of 30 or 40 or 50 or 60, to be maritally raped.
Ask her *which* school of Sunni Islamic Sharia she favours: Hanbali, Hanafite, Shafiite, Malaki – and therefore whether she regards the excision of a little girl’s clitoris (possibly along with excision of all external genitalia) as *obligatory* or as something that is *good* and desirable but not absolutely compulsory.
(Here, offered by a jihadwatch commentator some years ago, is a summary of what those four main schools of Sunni Sharia ‘law’ have to say about female genital mutilation – the cutting out of the clitoris, sometimes accompanied by other gross mutilations of the female parts).
Here are the views of the four orthodox schools of Sunni jurisprudence:
The Shafi’i school of Islamic jurisprudence considers female circumcision to be wajib **(obligatory).**
The Hanbali school of Islamic jurisprudence considers female circumcision to be makrumah (honorable) and **strongly encouraged, to obligatory**.
The Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence considers female circumcision to be **sunnah (optional) and preferred.**
The Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence considers female circumcision to be sunnah (preferred).”
That is: NONE of the four schools forbids it. NONE condemns it. ALL approve of it with varying degrees of enthusiasm.
She needs to be confronted with that ugly fact and asked: **if you had a daughter aged 7-12, in light of those sharia rulings, WOULD YOU HAVE HER CLITORIS CHOPPED OUT AND HER LABIA SLICED OFF AND THE RESULTANT WOUND STITCHED SHUT”??
gravenimage says
DDA, this idiot spends most of her time babbling about the “Islamist” Gulen movement. It is very cult-like.
PATRICIA FRANCES KOENIG says
Margaret Johnson is lying. Islam is the epitome of “toxic masculinity.” This is taqiyya on steroids!!!
Billy Chickens says
She “metroed”? We lived in Washington for years and never once “metroed”. We always “went on the metro”.
mgoldberg says
I imagine the women of North Korea recite similar spewings. Great voluminous praisings, full of warmth and luscious revelations. Even ast the gulags and camps breed new workers for their slave lives.
dumbledoresasrmy says
How I would *love* to put a woman like this into the same room with a bunch of knowledgeable female apostates from Islam, whether Christian or atheist. Put her in a room and have her debate Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nonie Darwish, Wafa Sultan and Taslima Nasreen. And I’m sure that Nonie and Wafa could probably find a good few *other* apostates – both atheists and Christians – to join the panel.
Also present – some Yazidi and Assyrian Christian and Coptic Christian and Nigerian Christian and Pakistani Christian and Sudanese Christian survivors of mohammedan kidnap-and-enslavement-and-gang-rape.
She has to sit still, shut up , and LISTEN to those victims – victims of Mohammedan men imitating Mohammed the warlord and rapist and slave raider/ slave trader – tell their whole stories. The beatings the threats the cruel rape the pious prayers beofre and after the brutal rapes. The seizure and dragging from the family home. The kidnap on the street. The stripping and beating and humiliation and degradation… all because they were dirty female kuffar.
Hammer her with it. hammer her with the hadith on FGM and the rulings on FGM in the four books of Sunni sharia ‘law’ and *then*… she has to sit still, shut her damn mouth, and listen to Ayaan Hirsi Ali describe what it is like to be *subjected* to FGM, sans anaesthesia, sans antiseptics or antibiotics.
Confront her with the testimony of Hannah Shah who, after converting to Christianity in the UK, heard a mob of Muslim men with *axes* hacking at the doors of the house she was living in. They had been sent by her father the imam, to *kill* her for being an apostate from Islam.
This female needs *shock treatment*.
Video it all: the apostates relentlessly giving their testimony, the non-Muslim victims of Muslim – impeccably-orthodox-sunnah-conforming – brutality giving *theirs*… and then our Fethullah Gulen Muslim cultist giving her response. Whatever it turns out to be… but I’d guarantee that at some point she would *lose* it, bigtime.
I think it would be very instructive.
gravenimage says
It might be–or she might *like* listening to the savagary her creed has done to others.
Carol (the 1st) says
Lock her up in one of their convenient; sanitized little mental compartments with Karen Armstrong. Tell them they can’t get out until they reject Islam. Or would that be a spoil-sport thing to do?
Wellington says
So, according to this person, America over the course of its history has been anti-woman and Islam over the course of its 1400-year history has been pro-woman. Well, no wonder then that she, since converting to Mo’s creed, has “felt an awakening of my feminine energy.”
Can’t make this stuff up. No you can’t. But then you couldn’t make up a religion that is control-freakish in every pore of its theological constitution all the while posing as a champion of such things as women’s rights and the rights of “People of the Book.”
Once again is demonstrated that truth is far, actually quite far, stranger than fiction. Time for a beer (or maybe three).
LeftisruiningCanada says
Beat you to it
Cheers, as always 🙂
Paul says
She rejects “toxic masculinity” and embraces Mohammedanism!
Couldn’t help but think of this, how appropriate in this case and with
many other feminazis :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecJUqhm2g08
t says
Thanks, Paul! I had a good laugh at the end of it.
gravenimage says
Thanks for posting that cartoon by Sye Ten Atheist. He does a lot of great anti-Jihad work. Irreverent and very funny.
JawsV says
At the end: “It’s not rape when a Muslim does it.”
Speaks volumes.
Paul says
@t ; @gravenimage
Glad you like it 🙂
Richard says
At last I have hope! Thank God for Margaret Johnson!! Please send her and every liberal aggressive “Feminist” woman like her over to Islamic countries so that they may destroy the Muslim world as they have been doing to the West! Unfortunately, I don’t think the Muslims will be such weak fools as Western men are. But she and her insane ilk may still be our best hope against Islam!
Wellington says
Most Western men are not weak. Perhaps most Western elites who are male are, but not most Western male.
You have defamed a very significant group of the human species. Back up your claim. I say you can’t.
Carol (the 1st) says
A lot of these women get a wake up call once they’re over there with their mates. Psychotherapist Phyliss Chesler was one of them.
Batt says
If prayer were actually a positive experience, then why would she look forward to her periods in order to avoid praying? And does she march in solidarity with millions of Turkish, Egyptian, Iranian Saudi and Afghan women who have neen brutally held down while a village shaman cut off their genatilia without even an aspirin? That blood is not menstrual. Will she wear a blanket over her head and expect to be not laughed at as she tries to eat spaghetti in a public restaurant? Too bad she is missing out on all the fun when she gets to paradise, and all of the black-eyed houris virgins are taking all the men…
gravenimage says
Batt wrote:
If prayer were actually a positive experience, then why would she look forward to her periods in order to avoid praying?
…………………
Yes, I wondered that myself–but then, Muslims do not feel the need to be logically consistent.
And the idea that if no Jew or Christian could miss prayers if she was dealing with cramps is just ridiculous. It is Islam where those not praying are often attacked; not civilized faiths.
jewdog says
She’s the woman of my dreams – but then I wake up screaming.
t says
A good one, jewdog! Your joke, that is.
gravenimage says
🙂
Kepha says
LOL!!!!!!!!
Hugo Hackenbush says
Another one to file under “You Can’t Make This UP!!”.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Nowadays those files are getting very full.
Hugo Hackenbush says
Need to call “Got Junk?”
utis says
Standard middle-age crazy story: bored with life, lacking purpose, runs into flattering proselytizers who pump up an already inflated ego. The sucker converts and becomes pusher and pimp for the new faith. If she’s lucky, she won’t be executed for heresy (that “energy” crap sounds like moldy old New Age lingo).
It’s been decades since I read “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” but the one thing I do recall is his gushing about his trip to Mecca and all the peace and brotherhood at the Hajj. He convinced himself Islam isn’t racist. When you pamper and fuss over them, you can get a sucker to believe anything.
gravenimage says
Thank goodness most people don’t do sh*t like this when they hit middle age.
Jacqueline Robnett says
I agree. Moreover this woman finds comfort and a sense of belonging in mobs. You may ridicule her, but how many more are there like her? Even more frightening – they vote.
John says
It’s easy to ridicule women ‘discovering’the greatness in Islam, but western equality with its equal duties may not really what all or most women really desire.
Of course, Islam takes away rights from women, but if you are basically a primitive gut driven animal, who needs human rights, equality or freedom of thoughts?
We should maybe try consider the incentives both the overt and hidden causing some women to convert.
Abstract concepts like freedom of thought, speech and conscience are great, but attempting to counter Islam logically by pointing out inconsistencies and contradictions may not always be the rithe most persuasive counter argument for women.
You should not convert to Islam, because you declare you want X, and Islam subtracts from your value X by restricting what you can do may be a perfectly reasonabloe proposition, but it may not be the right fit when confronting the issue of women converting.
Jaladhi says
The first two lines are enough to know this lady is totally brain dead and that why she converted to Islam. This is sufficient to say and no further comment is necessary!! LOL….
mortimer says
Margaret Johnson is a severe case of COGNITIVE DISSONANCE! MOHAMMED WAS A TOXIC SEX ADDICT…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWzJ_nwWjps
Cheer Bear Girl says
Islam is a dream come true for every sex addict and pervert.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Sounds like a sufi. In other words, apostates that mohammad would happily slaughter.
Just for larks, had to quote a few bits from the article.
“I grew up distrusting my intuition in favor of verifiable facts,”
This used to be a normal part of a modern education. Now that post modernity is all the rage, i’m sure she will be much happier.
” I began looking forward to my menstrual cycle. Women are excused from the daily prayer during this time of the month”
Sounds like she doesn’t really like the “5 prayers a day” diet to me.
“This was a kind of care I had rarely received,”
Yes, it is a sign of great care that you are excused from having to do things that your prophet and your god makes mandatory. Bait ‘n’ switch.
“Eight years after my conversion, I took a spiritual journey to Turkey”
She means a ‘pilgrimage’, but it’s more fun to imagine her traveling there as an astral projection.
” I joined the stream of women and I felt the physical sensation of my heart splitting open ”
Mass gatherings are known to have this effect. Hitler used them to great effect.
“I metroed with my close Jewish and Muslim friends”
Careful dear, mohammad wouldn’t like that.
“we have rushed headlong into post-modernist truisms that everyone is unique, everyone’s “truth” is equally valid”
Like she thinks her version of islam is the true one.
“that women’s procreative and nurturing energies are vital for healthy societies. All manner of wisdom traditions, including Islam, support this greater truth.”
yes, islam definitely wants to make use of the procreative energies of women. But not much else.
The rest could have come out of a newage feminist fortune cookie package.
So, where’s the islam?
“We will not be reduced to pussies for you to grab.”
Madam, please, language.
Shmoovie says
Let a Western kuffar woman try that last line on a gang of muslim men surrounding her on NYE in Germany, or in Tahrir Square…
gravenimage says
Pious Muslims hate having to cite verifiable facts–you see that with Muslim apologists here all the time. Islam despises reason.
Kepha says
Sufis apostates? They’ve been the shock troops of many a jihad from the Maghreb to the Caucasus to Central Asia to Mindanao..
Sufis are attractive to the Western Airhead class because they’re exotic and mystical. period. They dialogue with Quakers, so the denizens of the Deep State and befogged religious studies department go gaga over them. I even heard this when undergoing training in the US State Department, supposedly to help look after my country’s interests abroad.
Margaret Johnson probably heard the azzan, understood nary a word of it, and thought it musical (it is; but it is ugly for promoting one of the biggest blasphemers as a prophet of God); then picked up some of the more gooey drivelings of some Sufi, and decided to be a Muslim because it would be “cool”. But, if her husband is not a Muslim, she will probably never know the degraded place her new religion has for her.
Shmoovie says
She was excused from prayers during menstruation, she believes or at least claims, because her “Creator” was kind and understanding, and wanted her to rest.
Not because she was a filthy bleeding female during those days.
How comforting for someone this troubled to live in a brainwashed unreality like hers. If only she could explain why islam isn’t as wonderful for all its female followers.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Good point about the uncleanness.
Islam is not so good for everyone else……because they aren’t doing it right.
😀
gravenimage says
Good points, Shmoovie.
reyol says
Another ‘These chains set me free’ Islamic convert. Margaret Johnson, It’s not a sale when they jack up the price before they cut it. That’s what your menstrual break from prayer is. They give you a break from sleep deprivation, frontal lobe knocking and hypnotic logic killing repitition because you became ritually unclean when you experienced your feminine energy.
gravenimage says
Exactly, Reyol.
MFritz says
And so the circle closes. Rabid feminism embracing fascist ideology.
Kay says
Uh . . . I guess we weep.
(But I think someone has just found a new horse to ride.
‘I’m like you: I went to the women’s march so you must be like me . . . and we both hate Trump anyway; that’s what’s most important.’)
Relic says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8sSXU-j8fI
eduardo odraude says
Dear Margaret Johnson,
An in-depth 2016 analysis of all the world’s nations ranked them with respect to a whole range of women’s rights. Of the bottom 20 nations, 17 were Muslim-majority, as one can learn here:
http://www.goo.gl/dVLRDs
Your article injures all the women oppressed in those nations. You ought to reconsider your position.
ketzel says
Disclaimer: I skipped most of it, but the first few paragraphs are useful and illustrate why some Western people convert to Islam. She keeps repeating that Islam gave her a feeling of being taken care of and belonging, in contrast to her culture of origin. In other words, she feels abused and neglected, and found something that healed those feelings.
It’s very likely that she came from a background of abuse or neglect. Most likely, her family was middle-class, but there was something wrong with their relationship skills. So, people in the counterjihad should take note of this. There’s something like this in almost every case: a bad childhood, drug abuse, etc. There must be some way of helping damaged people before they join a cult. Or get Islam out of the West. In the good old days, people like her would get more involved with Christianity, and those people at least did some good and weren’t subversive.
gravenimage says
I came from a terrible, violently and sexually abusive childhood.
Far from making me vulnerable to Islam, it made be more cognizent of the abuse of others. I recognized Islam as abusive–it did not make me want to try to find solace there.
Margaret Johnson *may* have been abused–or she may just be a vicious moron.
ketzel says
Of course, there are better ways of processing abusive childhoods. But it’s remarkable how many Muslim converts use Islam to heal/escape. A comment above refers to Malcolm X. Well, Malcolm X found Islam in prison. There is speculation that he was gay, and that in addition to being a thief, he had also worked as a male prostitute. So when he converted, he found a way out of all that. Does this sound like an ordinary coming of age story? No, but it does sound like a typical coming to Islam story.
That’s my point. There is always this escape from suffering angle. Cat Stevens had addiction problems. I could go on and on. Suffering doesn’t always lead to Islam, but I’d challenge anyone to cite one Western Muslim convert who isn’t fleeing something in their past they can’t deal with.
StellaSaidSo says
‘…I’d challenge anyone to cite one Western Muslim convert who isn’t fleeing something in their past they can’t deal with.’
Indeed, the cynical, predatory recruiters who deliberately seek out the vulnerable know that there is much truth in this.
I suspect that most Western converts to Islam are in this category.
There are some prominent converts who are clearly motivated by money or power. Politicians like Keith Ellison, for example. And CAIR heavyweight, Ibrahim Hooper. But it is likely that they too have a psychological pre-disposition.
JawsV says
I’m sorry to hear that, graven. Lots of best wishes to you!
Linde Barrera says
To gravenimage- I am so very sorry to read about your abusive childhood. God bless you.+
Eur says
Women are excused from prayer and when they have the period … because Islam considers them impure. This is how historically it has been. This woman says nonsense, it is evident that she is a mystical woman who has been seduced by the exoticness of Islam (idealized unknown world, women’s veils, prayers …) This woman should go to a psychiatrist.
Xero_G says
New-age feminist finds enlightenment in 7th-century misogynist cult. So when is your clitoridectomy scheduled?
Kepha says
Immaterial. The lady appears to have been lobotomized.
Sarah says
A white Western woman who has converted and somehow believes that Islam has given her, her feminine breakthrough. Meanwhile, she’s wrapped up to the high heavens, with that tighter than tight hijab that covers the ears – she’s devout alright.
You know who else is devout? Those scumbag Muslims who have carried out more than 32,000 terror attacks across the planet since 9/11.
She can celebrate her period till the cow’s come home for all I care. She can lie to herself for all I care. She can lie to others if that is how she copes each day – because as far as I’m concerned, she’s a Muslim and ergo, everything she says, I cannot trust and must view with deep suspicion.
She’s a total waste of space. If she thinks Turkey is so damn awesome – she should move her backside to Turkey.
Funny how it is always Muslim feminists who live in the West. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of an Afghanistan based Muslim feminist, has anyone else?
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And a VERY HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY to all my fellow JW readers! We’ve had a fantastic day here, despite the Left shrieking about wanting to change the date (because Australia Day is now apparently ‘Invasion Day’). I’m onto my second bottle of sauvignon blanc and feeling no pain at all, my friends!
May you all be safe and at peace tonight with your loved ones, wherever you are in the world.
gravenimage says
Happy Australia Day to all the proud Aussies here, from an admiring Yank! 🙂
Kepha says
Yes, Happy Australia Day.
StellaSaidSo says
Don’t be too sympathetic, Jay Boo! He’s probably the reason she converted.
FYI says
It is the savage,the intellectualy challenged and thetheologically ignorant who convert to islam,the cult of azazeel.
I mean it is not difficult to differentiate between God and the primitive islamic moon god of hate,allah.
Five times a day the muslim “prays” to their anti-Christian,anti-Jewish,Commandment -violating allah in a cult that provides no salvation anyway.
There is nothing more idiotic looking than a silly white woman wearing a hijab,apart from those self-righteous ginger-haired converts spouting arabish.
How amazing that that anyone should be so dumb as to believe the islamic story that the “perfect” koran was given by an anti-Semitic fallen angel jibreel to a mass-murdering,slave trader “prophet” muhammed{sbuh} by the savage moon god allah in a cave with no witnesses.
isam attracts the chaff;the wheat will find God.
The converts to islam are too stupid and too lacking in wisdom to see the difference between the god of hate allah {=azazeel}and the True God.
Ann Marie says
When she came back from her trip, she said she ‘had heart surgery’
No, what really occurred is that she had been completely brain-washed… and she turned over her personality, her will, her freedom.. I guess for a weak person such as Margaret Johnson, that’s her way of coping.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
“Several years ago, at 35 years old, I converted to Islam. … Eight years after my conversion …”
So for this 43-year-old, “several” is stretchy enough to include “eight”.
“We have worth. We will occupy physical space with that worth. We came together in crowds so huge and so peaceful, there was no denying our worthiness.”
So hugeness confers worthiness. By adopting a calorie-rich diet, she can occupy even huger physical space, making her more worthy.
“gross inequality and a perverted patriarchy that all too often gets expressed as violence against women.
… In a way, our country birthed a bastardization of patriarchy.”
So what she wants is unperverted, unbastardized patriarchy.
boakai ngombu says
thanks for doing the math … at 43, isn’t she due for the CHANGE? her feminine energy shall go; she’ll have to go to prayers every day in the month
she will get cranky, not so? this will give license to unremitting rage and then she will be truly muslim (slave) and always a victim to her womanhood.
SuicideChickenWing says
Another Muslim who doesn’t understand their own “religion.”
Troybeam says
A Muslim convert explaining the new freedom found in Islam: what a load of BS,
This is too directed and planned, total BS.
Never trust a Muslim on any level a convert or born into.
Have to laugh at this: AS I BEGAN TO PRACTICE THE RELIGION, I UNEXPECTEDLY FELT AN AWAKENING OF MY FEMININE ENERGY.
Where is the mention of FGM, that would be a female awaking right there, where’s the sex on demand awaking, every bit of this person is just BS.
Billy Chickens says
Her new “love soaked energy” which makes it so that she “can’t calm down” is a sign that she’s being possessed by Allah (Satan). She will be so filled with love that she will begin to kill.
Dustin Koellhoffer says
ROTFLMAO! How does a woman realize her “feminine power” by becoming a slave of Islam and second class to all the men?
Hogdude says
I’ve read the Qu’uran and other Islamic works, but I fail to understand anything this women conveys. Prayer always helps but her message (if any) is lost in the mix. Good luck.
Kathy says
Dear God, what an abysmally stupid woman!
Reading the utter drivel she spouts, I mostly felt embarrassed for her. Making stupid decisions and having to live with them is hard enough when you keep your stupidity to yourself, shouting your stupidity from the rooftops must make it that much harder when you finally realize just how incredibly dumb and naive you have been.
To think that here is a woman who had the great privilege to be born free and who actually chose slavery, and that amongst some of the most brutal, vicious and twisted bastards on the face of the planet, is literally mind-boggling – and really rather sad…
Unfortunately, there still ain’t no cure for stupid – but embracing Islam is apparently one way to put the terminally stupid out of their misery!
No Muzzies Here says
Sad to read the writings of someone who has left rationality behind.
PS, That’s not how you use “SIC.” Sic means “Thus” in Latin, and is inserted in quoted text to call the reader’s attention to an error, and that the error is in the original text.
AJS says
I wonder why this liberated sista doesn’t take her feminine energy to Saudi Arabia where rumour has it she will be allowed to drive a car in the near future. Or Iran where the Islamic government are so intent on upending the white male patriarchy that they intend to nuke it? Or Afghanistan where wimmin are valued so highly they can be locked up and beaten for devaluing themselves by not wearing a head scarf.
Poor mite must be suffering so much in the wicked west where a rape culture of raunchy pop videos is a deceitful mask, unlike the honest, egalitarian rape culture of Islamic countries where women are considered partners in rape and can be stoned to death for sex outside marriage after being raped.
Honestly! It’s hard to take the piss out of this article because it’s so over the top that any mockery would fall short of the stupidity displayed here.
mach37 says
Wow! Just Wow! that she doesn’t see The Prophet as a master of toxic masculinity.
“I began looking forward to my menstrual cycle. Women are excused from the daily prayer during this time of the month.”
Two short sentences that explain with crystal clarity why she likes her menses. Islamic prayer requires a lot of time and physical effort, if done properly.
I also find it incredible that she openly admits to having Jewish friends. Sura 5:51 is just one of many that tells Muslims: “Do not take the Jews and Christians for friends.”
Annabelle Lee says
If you feel you’re denigrated or treated as unworthy because you are a woman in the US, it’s most likely all in your head. Just another excuse – oh- now that I’m wearing a hijab and baggy “modest” clothes, people won’t just look at me as another female body. No one ever forced me to do anything when I was “indisposed”, but the idea in Islam is not that they want you to rest, but that you are unclean! So go on dreaming your pipe dream about Islam being something empowering to women and not a misogynistic, pedophilic, violence-promoting mess. I’m sorry but you must’ve had a crappy childhood that lowered your self -esteem ; this often happens to women who aren’t so great looking. (I know, I was fat) But don’t worrty now you can cover up!
Christina Hadleigh says
This woman is a total IDIOT. If she thinks looking feminine is to look like a POSTAL BOX on the move, let her get on with her life, but after reading most of the article before becoming so incredibly bored I had to stop.
I can’t see why her rubbish even gets printed. She comes across as naive and stupid believing in a hatred religion born out of a lost war, (HA-HA).
Believing in religion means you CAN’T think for yourself, you have to be led believing in spirits, false dogs, (OPPS! ha-ha) I meant false gods, written by someone with too much time on their hands, and you want to believe this load of old outdated ‘TWODDLE..
I like to think (for a laugh) that all religions were invented by arms manufactures just so they can sell weapons to both military sides of different religions.. Fucking idiots……
JawsV says
Sorry, not Judaism and Christianity.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Because political ideas never cause wars, right Christina?
Academe47 says
Her husband made this (toxic?) remark:
“What happened to you over there? Did you have brain surgery?”
So what’s the story about him?
Are they still together?
Separate bedrooms at least.
I’d guess her brainstorm was brought on by menopause (look at that dry hardening face of a 50+ Western woman).
She may have been one of those women who have (or have had) great difficulties on a monthly cycle (PMT etc, thought by some psychiatrists as equivalent to mental illness).
So, she has conflated the peace brought to her by menopause with wishful thinking about the “Religion of Peace”.
Yes,mentally ill.
Definitely needs to see a psychiatrist -a real one, not just another woolly thinking, psychobabbling, psychologist.