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BBC: “You can’t generalise Islamic law and say it favours men and treats women badly”

Nov 21, 2018 12:48 pm By Robert Spencer

The New York Times and the BBC appear to be locked in a competition today over who can proselytize more openly and dishonestly for Islam.

“You can’t generalise Islamic law and say it favours men and treats women badly… I want to correct that misconception.”

In reality, the Qur’an teaches that men are superior to women and should beat those from whom they “fear disobedience”: “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

Muhammad’s child bride, Aisha, says in a hadith that Muhammad “struck me on the chest which caused me pain, and then said: ‘Did you think that Allah and His Apostle would deal unjustly with you?’” — Sahih Muslim 2127

The Qur’an likens a woman to a field (tilth), to be used by a man as he wills: “Your women are a tilth for you, so go to your tilth as you will” — Qur’an 2:223

It declares that a woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man: “Get two witnesses, out of your own men, and if there are not two men, then a man and two women, such as you choose, for witnesses, so that if one of them errs, the other can remind her” — Qur’an 2:282

It allows men to marry up to four wives, and have sex with slave girls also: “If you fear that you shall not be able to deal justly with the orphans, marry women of your choice, two or three or four; but if you fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly, then only one, or one that your right hands possess, that will be more suitable, to prevent you from doing injustice” — Qur’an 4:3

It rules that a son’s inheritance should be twice the size of that of a daughter: “Allah directs you as regards your children’s inheritance: to the male, a portion equal to that of two females” — Qur’an 4:11

It allows for marriage to pre-pubescent girls, stipulating that Islamic divorce procedures “shall apply to those who have not yet menstruated” — Qur’an 65:4

Islamic law stipulates that a man’s prayer is annulled if a dog or a woman passes in front of him as he is praying. “Narrated ‘Aisha: The things which annul the prayers were mentioned before me. They said, “Prayer is annulled by a dog, a donkey and a woman (if they pass in front of the praying people).” I said, ‘You have made us (i.e. women) dogs.’ I saw the Prophet praying while I used to lie in my bed between him and the Qibla. Whenever I was in need of something, I would slip away. for I disliked to face him.” — Sahih Bukhari 1.9.490

Another hadith depicts Muhammad saying that the majority of the inhabitants of hell are women:

“I looked into Paradise and I saw that the majority of its people were the poor. And I looked into Hell and I saw that the majority of its people are women.” — Sahih Bukhari 3241; Sahih Muslim 2737

When asked about this, he explained:

“I was shown Hell and I have never seen anything more terrifying than it. And I saw that the majority of its people are women.” They said, “Why, O Messenger of Allah?” He said, “Because of their ingratitude (kufr).” It was said, “Are they ungrateful to Allah?” He said, “They are ungrateful to their companions (husbands) and ungrateful for good treatment. If you are kind to one of them for a lifetime then she sees one (undesirable) thing in you, she will say, ‘I have never had anything good from you.’” — Sahih Bukhari 1052

And in another hadith:

The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) went out to the musalla (prayer place) on the day of Eid al-Adha or Eid al-Fitr. He passed by the women and said, ‘O women! Give charity, for I have seen that you form the majority of the people of Hell.’ They asked, ‘Why is that, O Messenger of Allah?’ He replied, ‘You curse frequently and are ungrateful to your husbands. I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religious commitment than you. A cautious sensible man could be led astray by some of you.’ The women asked, ‘O Messenger of Allah, what is deficient in our intelligence and religious commitment?’ He said, ‘Is not the testimony of two women equal to the testimony of one man?’ They said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘This is the deficiency in her intelligence. Is it not true that a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menses?’ The women said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘This is the deficiency in her religious commitment.’” — Sahih Bukhari 304

Another statement attributed to Muhammad: “If a husband calls his wife to his bed [i.e. to have sexual relation] and she refuses and causes him to sleep in anger, the angels will curse her till morning.” — Sahih Bukhari 4.54.460

“100 Women: The woman who decides if men can take a second wife,” by Heather Chen, BBC News, November 20, 2018

Islamic law, also known as Sharia, is often associated by critics with harsh punishments and hardline attitudes. But one of Malaysia’s first female Sharia high court judges says her role gives her an opportunity to protect women in the Muslim-majority nation.

Judge Nenney Shushaidah presides over five trials a day and can hear up to 80 cases a week.

Malaysia practises a moderate form of Islam but conservative attitudes have been on the rise and the use of Sharia is growing as well. Under a dual-track legal system, thousands of Muslims use it to settle moral and family matters. Non-Muslims are required to follow secular laws that deal with the same matters.

She passes judgment on everything from financial cases to those involving the Sharia concept of Khalwat [unmarried Muslim couples being caught in compromising situations].

But her expertise lies in child custody and cases of polygamy – the Muslim concept of allowing men to marry up to four wives, which is legal in Malaysia.

Judge Shushaidah says there are many factors she considers before, for example, allowing a polygamous union.

“Every case is complex and different,” she explained. “You can’t generalise Islamic law and say it favours men and treats women badly… I want to correct that misconception.”…

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  1. Jean says

    Nov 21, 2018 at 12:53 pm

    “There is no worse fate for a woman upon this Earth than to be born into Islam.”

    (Anyone with a brain)

    • mortimer says

      Nov 21, 2018 at 6:12 pm

      YES, JEAN… let people judge that for themselves after they read the hadiths of Mohammed, Islam’s false prophet, that insult and degrade all women …

      – I think that women were created for nothing but evil
      – Women have ten ‘awrat (vulvas). When she gets married, the husband covers one, and when she dies the grave covers the ten (of her shameful parts)
      – A straw mat in the corner of the house is preferable to a barren woman
      – Women are toys, so choose (your ‘toys’)
      – The woman is a toy, whoever takes her, let him care for her [or do not lose her]
      – Had it not been for women, God would have truly, truly been worshipped
      – Men perished the day they obeyed the women
      – Obedience to a woman’s advice causes regret
      – Consult women and act contrary (to it)
      – Sneezing, drowsing, yawning in prayer, also menstruation, vomiting and nose-bleeding are from Satan
      – When…your affairs are in the hands of your women, the interior of the earth (hell) will be the better for you than its surface
      – If a woman offered one of her breasts to be cooked and the other to be roasted, she still will fall short of fulfilling her obligations to her husband. And besides that if she disobeys her husband even for a twinkling of an eye, she would be thrown in the lowest part of Hell, except she repents and turns back
      – Mohammed asked some women, “Isn’t the witness of a woman equal to half that of a man?” The women said, “Yes,” He said, “This is because of the deficiency of the woman’s mind.”
      – I have not seen any one more deficient in intelligence and religion than you (women)
      – I was shown the Hell-fire and that the majority of its dwellers are women.
      – Bad omen is in the woman, the house and the horse
      – After me I have not left any affliction more harmful to men than women
      – Don’t wear false hair for Allah sends His curse upon such ladies who lengthen their hair artificially
      – Treat women well for they are like domestic animals and they possess nothing themselves. Allah has made the enjoyment of their bodies lawful in his Qur’an
      – Women, slaves and camels are same
      – Prayer is annulled by a dog, a donkey and a woman
      – If you relax the woman’s bridle a tiny bit, she will take you and bolt wildly. And if you lower her cheek-piece a hand span, she will pull you an arm’s length … Their deception is awesome and their wickedness is contagious; bad character and feeble mind are their predominant traits
      – “[A man’s wife] fears him, while he fears her not, a kind word from him satisfies her, where nothing of hers has importance in his eyes, it is she who must tolerate the presence of concubines, and it is she who worries when he is ill whereas even her death would leave him indifferent
      – If a man calls his wife to his bed and she refuses, and he spends the night angry with her, the angels curse her until morning
      – Treat women well, for they are [like] domestic animals [awan] with you and do not possess anything for themselves. You have taken them only as a trust from God and you have made the enjoyment of their persons lawful by the word of God, so understand and listen to my words…
      – Muhammad’s last words on women during his farewell speech:
      – God allows you to put them in separate rooms and to beat them but not with severity. If they refrain from these things they have the right to their food and clothing with kindness. Lay injunctions on women kindly, for they are prisoners with you having no control of their persons. (Sirat Rasul Allah. Translated in English by A. Guillaume. First published by Oxford University Press, London in 1955)

      • BC says

        Nov 22, 2018 at 4:25 am

        So why did the ominscient one create them? Mohammad seems to have forgot that but for a woman he would not have lived

    • J D S says

      Nov 22, 2018 at 9:31 pm

      How can anyone that knows how to read, believe such hogwash. the Koran alone, never mind all the other Islamic trash, tells good how men are so superior to women.

  2. Ferd III says

    Nov 21, 2018 at 1:07 pm

    Al Beeb – the head of ‘religion’ at Al Beeb is a Moslem Fascist. NY Times is so desperate for ‘readers’ it will now seek out the Moslem. Lies, propaganda, dis-information – all well known practices of the fascist. See Islam, Globaloneywarming, EU, Brexit Betrayal/BRINO, Nazism, Communism etc etc. for information on Orwellian tactics.

    • Jayell says

      Nov 21, 2018 at 2:54 pm

      The BBC has enjoyed something of a ‘high’ (in the olfactory sense) reputation for quite some time, but, since the Cliff Richard debacle, it now fairly stinks. You should see the choice comments regularly appearing in the newpaper blogs! Yet our reverred national broadcaster just ploughs on regardless, because their ‘jizzya’ (the abhominable licence fee cash) just keeps rolling in whatever they see fit to do, so the islam-infested Religious Broadcasting department can keep up their propaganda as long as they like without any come-back. I wonder if they ever had a Chapel in Bfroadcaisting House? That will be a mosque before too long!

      • R Russell says

        Nov 21, 2018 at 8:20 pm

        Jayell
        Today (21st November) I watched a BBC TV show. Pointless.
        The contestants had to name a US state with consecutive vowels. As the contestants gave their answers, the host read out the State motto.
        One contestant answered South Dakota and the motto was ‘Under God, the people rule’.
        The host then went on to say it would be better if the motto was ‘under-dog the people rule. He repeated it several times.
        He would never have said, Under Halla the people rule.
        I decided to write a complaint as a hate crime. I don’t think I will get a satisfactory reply.

        • mortimer says

          Nov 21, 2018 at 11:04 pm

          NewYorkTImes is WHITEWASHING and SANITIZING normative Islamic MISOGYNY.

          Bill Warner: The Islamic Doctrine of Female Inferiority

        • Jayell says

          Nov 22, 2018 at 10:32 am

          With all due respect, why should UK contestants on a UK TV show be expected to know anything at all about American States? It’s not their country. Would American contestants on an American show be expected to know the names of any English counties? No? Thought not. (My guess is that the UK contestants would have had problems there as well!). Also, there’s been a lot on the UK media about ‘Black Friday’ and the presenter on LBC this morning wished his listeners ‘Happy Thanksgiving’? Why, exactly? Neither of those two things have anything whatsoever to do with us this side of the pond. Sorry, not at all impressed!

    • J D S says

      Nov 22, 2018 at 9:35 pm

      Even must Ms know better..but guess they will waste their money on the NYT rag sheet and listen to the LIBERAL BBC

  3. jewdog says

    Nov 21, 2018 at 1:12 pm

    I think the worst is the Sharia requirement that a female alleging a sex crime has to produce for four male witnesses. I doubt that the BBC or NY Times are aware of that, nor would they want to believe it.

    • revereridesagain says

      Nov 21, 2018 at 1:53 pm

      They’d just call you “racist” and “Islamophobic” for pointing it out..

  4. FYI says

    Nov 21, 2018 at 1:34 pm

    It seems that,amongst other things,muhammed the “prophet” of islam was a chauvinist.

    As well as being misogynistic,antisemitic and antiChristian{bukhari 1:8:427}
    Stoning women for adultery muslim 4206{whilst he indulged in it himself the hypocrite!}
    owning and selling slaves{sahih muslim 3901} and receiving his koranic revelations whilst wearing Aisha’s dress{sahih bukhari 2442}he was also a polygamist with a child bride.

    women do not seem to be worth much to muhammed{..or to allah in his koran,a woman’s testimony=half that of a man k2:282}

    On that basis,muhammed’s attitude to women is explained..he had no moral compass.
    {Nowhere in the life of muhammed is their any evidence of him actually OBEYING any of God’s Commandments}

  5. Lydia Church says

    Nov 21, 2018 at 2:32 pm

    The term ‘generalizing’ does not even apply either way.

    Islam treats women badly and favors men. Period.
    That is the fact, put as simply as can be, according to the dictates of islam according to their instruction manual; the koran!

    The only thing that can be said is that this is true of the koran, in general!

    To deny it is to lie, plain and simple.

  6. Peter says

    Nov 21, 2018 at 2:55 pm

    Yet more pro-Islam disinformation and propaganda from the British B.S. Commissariat.

  7. rubiconcrest says

    Nov 21, 2018 at 4:08 pm

    What the judge says is of little value. Has the judge ever known any other system of justice? Naturally, the article did not quote any women who have to live with a husbands other wives or lose their children in divorce or who divorce and have no form of support and must return to live with their fathers.

  8. Angemon says

    Nov 21, 2018 at 4:13 pm

    But one of Malaysia’s first female Sharia high court judges says her role gives her an opportunity to protect women in the Muslim-majority nation.

    “Protect” from whom?

  9. Muhammad Bear says

    Nov 21, 2018 at 4:19 pm

    The MI6/MI5 controlled BBC completely understands Islam. Its feigned ignorance is by design. The big picture is to collapse third world Islamic countries into the West. If you’re a dictator it is perfect. You replace a population that has a tradition of liberty with a culture that will accept authoritarian rule. But even better. The ruling elite, with a long history of a predilection for pedophilia, can import an ideology that will permit the legalization of it. As for the complete tyranny that comes with an Islamic theocracy, as in the case of Socialism (communism and fascism), it won’t apply to the leaders.

  10. Phobic-ist says

    Nov 21, 2018 at 4:46 pm

    The BBC is morally bankrupt and beyond redemption. God damn them

  11. sidney penny says

    Nov 21, 2018 at 11:36 pm

    “Malaysia’s first female Sharia high court judges”

    The last thing that Malaysia needs.

    Does Sharia have a lower court?

    MMM Modern Moderate Malaysia

  12. Krishna says

    Nov 21, 2018 at 11:45 pm

    Well the judge should been born in countries practising authentic Islam like saudi arabia

  13. Sam says

    Nov 22, 2018 at 5:07 am

    When will truth be something that we all strive for again in the western world? When big governments, dictators, Islam take control of nations, truth becomes a very rare commodity.

    That is why I support Trump as he is against the big government we have unfortunately.

  14. Dude says

    Nov 22, 2018 at 5:54 am

    I figured it out a while back, why women accept the coverings. That way they just have to fight off one man – not every man on the street. The covering gives them safe passage from all the rapists roaming the streets.

    Let them have the ones without the covering – we are protected. It’s us versus them, and I would rather have them raped than me. So by standing by the covering I am condemning the bare-headed females to rape by the miscreant masses. If we all stop hiding our beauty, the monsters would never know who they are allowed to rape.

  15. Edward Dillon says

    Nov 22, 2018 at 11:36 am

    Muhammad was an IDIOT, and most likely insane.

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