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Pakistan: Muslim candidate for National Assembly says it is forbidden in Islam to vote for women

Jul 5, 2018 1:19 pm By Robert Spencer

“Men 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.” — Qur’an 4:34

“‘Haram’ To Cast Votes For Women: Pakistan Ex Social Welfare Minister,” Press Trust of India, July 3, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate for the July 25 general election and former Punjab province minister Haroon Sultan has sparked a controversy by terming it “haram” to cast votes for women.

Haroon Sultan, who has served as minister for social welfare in the previous tenure of the PML-N government in Punjab, is contesting elections from the National Assembly constituency NA-184 against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s female candidate Zehra Basit Sultan Bukhari, who is also reportedly his sister-in-law.

Addressing a rally in his constituency in Muzaffargarh, Haroon Sultan said he will follow the directions of religion and will abstain from casting a vote to any female candidates as it is considered “haram” (forbidden in Islam), The News reported.

“I will work under the commands of Allah and His messenger…and will desist from doing the contrary,” he added….

Voting is a constitutional right in Pakistan, but millions of women have been prevented from exercising their franchise by men using outdated customs.

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Filed Under: Featured, Pakistan, Sharia, women's rights in Islam Tagged With: Haroon Sultan, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)


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  1. Benedict says

    Jul 5, 2018 at 1:55 pm

    “Pakistan: Muslim candidate for National Assembly says it is forbidden in Islam to vote for women.” –

    That’s not fair! Where I live it’s overwhelmingly women who votes for Muslims.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 5, 2018 at 2:45 pm

      Uh…right. Another false claim that all dhimmis are women.

      If you hate women so much, why don’t you just convert to Islam?

      • Benedict says

        Jul 5, 2018 at 3:10 pm

        I could write you a long list of wonderful women who are not dhimmis, G. –
        But I think there is something in the caring female nature that is more prone to be taken in by deceit than its counterpart, though, Angela Merkel being an outstanding example. And Islam is all about deceit.

        • 6woods says

          Jul 5, 2018 at 5:14 pm

          Such mysoginistic crap. Why not convert already, as gravenimage has suggested?
          And if you think Merkel has been ‘deceived’ by islam, you’re wrong. She knows what islam is all about. Muzzies are being used as a kind of militia to forcefully effect globalization and a NWO. Her ‘caring female nature’, if it exists, has squat to do with it.

    • Susan B is getting really mad@# says

      Jul 6, 2018 at 3:14 am

      Under Islamic law women are not allowed to breath with out permission of their owners.

      • Benedict says

        Jul 6, 2018 at 7:40 am

        That’s not corrected by having the Western World taken over by women – of both sexex.

        • Susan B is getting really mad@# says

          Jul 6, 2018 at 8:42 am

          I had no idea that the globalist like Soros and Rothschild where women. I had no idea that islamic oil money is controlled by women. You learn something every day.

        • Susan B is getting really mad@# says

          Jul 6, 2018 at 8:47 am

          Benedict I take it you are not very fond of females period you think that calling men women is the worse insult you can come up with. We women are such vile creatures are we not?Are you sure you are not a mohammedan, your views of women seem to fall in line with the islamic faith where women should never have any power over any male no matter how young and must always bow down to their owners or else.

      • Westman says

        Jul 6, 2018 at 7:49 am

        The image of the black tents conjures up a similarity to “The Handmaids Tale”

        • Karen says

          Jul 6, 2018 at 5:22 pm

          Excellent comparison. Interesting that one situation is real, while one is a made-up fantasy/drama of Hollywood. Too bad Hollywood doesn’t have the courage or interest to do a series on the real-world subjugation of women in the Islamic world. Everyday life is Saudi Arabia, despite some recent window dressing, would make some scary episodes.

  2. eduardo odraude says

    Jul 5, 2018 at 2:07 pm

    In the most canonical hadith collection, Sahih al-Bukhari, Muhammad says

    “Never will succeed such a nation as makes a woman their ruler.”

    https://muflihun.com/bukhari/88/219

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 5, 2018 at 2:50 pm

      Yes–this is mainstream Islam.

      Those who claim–absurdly–that Islam is a “feminist” religion often cite Muhammed’s entrepreneurial first wife Kadijah or the female representatives of a tribe that pledged allegiance to Muhammed as proof that Islam is egalitarian. But these were women who had a degree of freedom *before* Islam. There are no such cases following the imposition of that oppressive creed.

      • eduardo odraude says

        Jul 5, 2018 at 3:28 pm

        Agreed, gravenimage.

        It’s clear to any informed person with an open mind that Islam as represented by the example of Muhammad and the core Islamic sources gravely oppresses women and others, especially where Muslims are in the majority or constitute a large enough minority, and especially in the core Islamic region of the Middle East and North Africa. But you find the same oppression spreading among many European Muslims and other parts of the Muslim world. The fact that some Muslim women describe their own subjugation as “liberating” means no more than the statements made in the past by some slaves that slavery was fine or benign etc. Even if free societies create some problems for women (such as new forms of objectification), it is no solution to jump into the arms of the even worse forms of dehumanization practiced in Islam with its totalitarianism.

        “Allah” in the Qur’an tells Muslim men, if they merely fear disobedience in their wives, first to warn them, then to banish them to beds apart, then to “beat” them. The core Islamic texts contain examples of Muhammad and his closest followers striking women. Of course there is physical abuse of women in all societies, but in many Muslim contexts the behavior is sacralized, whereas in the US, for example, it’s a serious crime. In the US, hitting a woman is usually considered extremely dishonorable and shameful for a man, and that even applies in many cases where she is hitting or trying to hit him.

        On the whole, Islam represented an increase in the oppression of women, even for its time. The one case where Muhammad seems actually to have taken a good step for females was when he — or his Qur’an — rejected burying girl babies alive.

        • Karen says

          Jul 6, 2018 at 5:25 pm

          Great post, eduardo.

      • J D S says

        Jul 6, 2018 at 9:33 am

        Agreed! If one studies Islam one will find that women are no more than property…nuf said.

  3. b.a. freeman says

    Jul 5, 2018 at 3:12 pm

    … millions of women have been prevented from exercising their franchise by men using outdated customs.
    —
    sigh. the customs are *not* outdated, they are current, and are valid for all time, according to the cult of islam. this just goes to show that those who should know better (non-muslim indians) are foolishly covering for islam in their attempt to be unbiased. why don’t they just report the truth, and make sure that what they report *is* true?

  4. DHazard says

    Jul 5, 2018 at 3:20 pm

    Allah forbids so many things it’s a wonder Islam hasn’t banned itself out of existence.

    • eduardo odraude says

      Jul 5, 2018 at 3:33 pm

      In a sense it has banned itself. That’s why Islamic societies that follow Muhammad’s example and Islamic law are so phenomenally uncreative. Because Islam is fundamentally destructive, which means it is also, in the long run, self-destructive.

    • abad says

      Jul 5, 2018 at 8:14 pm

      Islam forbids everything that is good, nurturing and life sustaining.

      Islam is the Religion of Death.

      There is a reason that Moslems kill each other every single day, lo, just as I am writing this post, some Moslem is killing another Moslem somewhere on earth.

      No other religion has its people murdering each other so on a daily/hourly basis. None.

      Maybe if Moslems all kill each other off that would solve a lot of problems.

  5. 762x51FMJ says

    Jul 5, 2018 at 3:54 pm

    One of the primary differences between Islam and the rest of the world is that under Islam all men must live their lives exactly as Mohammed did in the 6th century.
    In a cave raping a 9 year old girl named aisha, and if this doesn’t appeal to you let me remind you.
    The panalty for apostasy is death. ..

  6. infidel says

    Jul 6, 2018 at 3:03 am

    MUST READ: Jehaadi pest of a student Umar Khaleed BOOTED out of one of India’s top Uni. ..

    https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/jnu-rusticates-khalid-fines-kanhaiya/articleshow/64876320.cms

    and herein lies another Islamic truism from the annals of the infidel:

    Muslim MISUSE Uni campuses and the freedom of campus atmosphere in the cause of Islam and Sharia. The campus becomes a deadly weapon in the hands of the Muslim in that he can do what he deems fit. The freedom of speech, the lovely and impressionable infidel young women with whom he can run riot in LOVE-JEHAAD, indulge in rumor mongering against the right by spreading VICIOUS rumors, endlessly play victim and get an audience in the form of naive young students, endlessly demanding concessions like halaal canteens and prayer rooms and even mosques..fire their guns from the shoulders of the left against patriotic students and make it appear as if it the Leftist students who are against the patriots… their mischief and miasma is endless. No Muslim student should be admitted to campus of any top infidel Uni without proper whetting.

    • infidel says

      Jul 6, 2018 at 3:06 am

      One more thing I forgot to add: They also indulge in endless CHARACTER ASSASSINATION of students who are patriotic and have RIGHT-LEANINGS.

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