They have to keep telling us, because only by constant repetition can propagandists compel people to discard the truth and embrace the lie.
The author of this piece, Saadah Khair, is described here as an “activist, International Women’s Alliance for Family and Quality Education.”
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
“Islam improves status of women,” by Saadah Khair, New Straits Times, January 12, 2019:
There is much hope that this year will be better with clearer and higher goals. What happened in previous years should be a lesson to everyone, including how women are treated and children are respected.
There were countless cases reported last year regarding sexual harassment, rape, incest and domestic violence.
These crimes are disgusting, and the cases show no sign of decreasing. But what about those that go unreported?
It’s embarrassing when most of the cases reported involved alleged Muslim perpetrators committing crimes against Muslim women and children. It is certainly heartbreaking to ask, “why Muslims?”.
In Islam, women are equal to men. Both have similar rights even though they may be different.
Islam improved the status of women. The Quran and Hadith contain loads of references acknowledging women’s rights and encourages being kind to women.
Prophet Muhammad said many times in the Hadith: “Treat women nicely.” (Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim).
He said: “Women are twin halves of men.” (Jami’ al-Tirmidhi). He emphasised treating women without harshness and violence.
Women have been described as fragile as glass and need to be treated gently.
Shaykh Mohammed Aslam, a Muslim scholar, described the importance of women in the life of the Prophet.
He said, “The Prophet was born in the lap of a woman. He was delicately wrapped up and nursed by a woman. The first person to see his beautiful and illuminated smile was a woman. When his mother died in Abwa, he tearfully returned to Makkah with a woman.
“When he returned from Hira, the first person who covered him was a woman and the first person he spoke to was a woman. A woman was the first to believe in him. A woman was the first to pray with him. A woman was the first to die for him.
“When he delivered his khutbah (sermon), a woman was the first to build a minbar (pulpit) for him. When he left this world, he left resting his head on a woman.
“His lineage continued through a woman; and his final words were, ‘I give you counsel that you be good to your women’.”
So it amazes me how some still don’t know the rank of Muslim women.
Each new year will come with new resolutions. This year, may we follow the Prophet’s way to respect women and act kindly towards them….
james reid says
Bollox!! Throughout the Islamic sacred texts women are put down, lower than dogs! Aisha, Mohammed’s child bride & favourite wife said, “Nobody suffers like the women of those who Believe.” These must be the books & dogma where Nazi Propaganda Minister, Dr. Josef Goebbels, got his famous quote from: “To get people to believe you, tell your lies, tell them often & make them BIG ONES!” Utter disgrace. With 15 – 20minutes’ research, anyone could find out the Truth about this cancerous Desert Dogma.
keith says
Remember, it is not only acceptable to lie to an infidel, but encouraged!
This clown is only doing what he has been told. And we have all heard the “I WAS FOLLOWING ORDERS” defence before.
william carr says
It’s embarrassing when most of the cases reported involved alleged Muslim perpetrators committing crimes against Muslim women and children. It is certainly heartbreaking to ask, “why Muslims?”.
This a blatant falsehood, most of the cases reported were of Muslim men committing crimes against NON MUSLIM girls/ Nor were the crimes “alleged” they were proven in court and the perps convicted
gravenimage says
Muslim men treat Muslim women and children like crap, as well.
J D S says
I doubt that anyone could explain to the “ACTIVISTS” that Islam .portrays that Muslim women are about as much more inferior to men than is dirt, than Robert Spencer puts it.
mortimer says
J.Reid is correct … 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)
CogitoErgoSum says
Hard to believe that a woman would want to poison him, isn’t it?
somehistory says
What balderdash! A peck and a half of lies, and more in a truckload out back.
How can these creatures face themselves in a mirror? They will have to face something else.
Revelation 21:8 “But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars–they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.” (New International Version)
Jean Terry says
I wonder if the author would be willing to live in the Middle East in a Muslim country like Iraq or Iran, etc. Maybe she just wants to believe this as it is too scary to denounce her religion since they often kill those who do.
Halal Bacon says
yah and foxes make excellent hen house watch dogs
CogitoErgoSum says
A woman should feel safe in the place where she makes her home. She should not have to live in fear of her husband beating her or of being raped if she shows herself in public. A man who strikes his wife to ensure her obedience to him is a man without honor. A nation which requires its women to hide themselves in public to keep them from being molested is a land filled with dishonorable men.
eduardo odraude says
According to the 2018 Gender Gap report, 17 of the bottom 20 nations with respect to women’s rights are Muslim-majority.
Note well, the organization that produces the Gender Gap report does not point this out. But it’s a simple matter to go to their world ranking online and check the bottom 20 nations. The report is produced by a group called the World Economic Forum, if I recall correctly.
gravenimage says
+1
mortimer says
Islamic countries are at the bottom of a number of lists. No doubt Muslims realize that. Islam creates failure and crime.
TKF says
Islam treats women as property and livestock. In Islam women have all the rights MEN let them have, which ain’t very many.
gravenimage says
Women’s rights activist says “Islam improves status of women”
………………………
Only if you consider FGM, child “marriage”, rape, marital rape, polygamy, wife beating, sex slavery, summary divorce, “Honor Killing”, and stoning to death an “improvement”…
Terry Gain says
Yes, because when you can’t find a man to slap you around, there’s nothing like being raped to make a woman feel liberated.
gravenimage says
+1
Savvy Kafir says
Right! And modern industrial meat-farming improves the welfare & happiness of cattle, hogs, & poultry. And day is night, and up is down, and words have no meaning.
Chacko Kurian says
The only importance for women in islam is for sexual pleasure, procreation and doing household chores.
And by mandating FGM, they want to deny the women of sexual pleasure even.
Georg says
“Islam improves status of women”
In comparison to what?
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“Instead of shunning Saudi Arabia after Khashoggi killing, investors flock to $7.5 billion bond sale”
“U.S.-based investors accounted for 40 percent of the 2029 bond purchases and 45 percent of the 2050 debt, according to Reuters.”
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/instead-shunning-saudi-arabia-khashoggi-200400737.html
S. N. says
Saadah Khair is either stupidly naive or a big lier!
Noone can tell me what Islam is! Noone is allowed to preach to me about Islam being peaceful. I lived under Islamic rules and was a Muslim for 40 years; a practising-Islam Muslim.
There is no peace there. Believe me!
Logic&Reason says
Other headlines from the Taqiyya Times….
“The Three Stooges” Depicts Non-Violence
“Mickey Mouse” Neither a Mouse Nor a Cartoon
Westman says
Muhammad, foremost admirer of women as objects with deficient brains, hell-bound evil intent, men’s mutilated tilth, and to be neither seen or heard in public unless shrouded.
There are only two words to describe feminists who assocate with Linda Sarsour – ignorant or stupid.
Walter Sieruk says
What can outrageously false this to say that “Islam improves the status of women” this this blatant and outright lie may be two examples ,of many may be seen, in that Islamic misogynistic ruthless cruel brutal tyrannical regime of Iran.
First this Islamic “mullah regime” so unfittingly has the word “Republic” in its title ,for its called “ The Islamic Republic of Iran” [ I R I]. On the topic of this Islamic tyranny a former Muslim revealed that “The IRI system recognizes women as dependent upon men and incomplete human beings who need to be supervised and controlled by men and the State. This author further exposed that “Women are created for the purposes of giving pleasure to men and child bearing – functions that confine them to the home” This is a male Chauvinistic as can possibly be. In addition this writer further makes it known that “The IRI legal system still retains traditional patriarchal bias that can be described as nothing but systemic subordination of women , which is undoubtedly a human rights violation .” This author further reveals that “Iran is of what Islamic fundamentalists desire, an Islamic State, and the consequence of achieving it “State Terror. Instead of utopia, Iran is an Islamic totalitarian nightmare…” and “the Islamic Republic of Iran exists and operates as what every Islamic fundamentalist dreams of, an Islamic state ruled by Sharia …What followed its establishment was the inevitable consequence and inexorable logic of its Islamic premises; state terrorism, a merciless tyranny.” [1]
This heinous Islamic has been also exposed by another author who was born and lived in a Middle Eastern nation for many years. She wrote “Female freedom and independence is one of the greatest sins in Islam…” and “Women in Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.” [2] All this is wicked, unjust and misogynistic to the extreme. Islam had not regard for human life, regardless of what the apologists for this religion will claim.
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM BY Ibn Warraq. pages 345-347.
[2] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel pages 62, 172
Second, that misogynistic, harsh brutal oppression of girls and women in this tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran has ,many times, becomes even worse the forcing females to wear hijab against their will . As this following example reveals.
That heinously cruel and murderous Islamic tyranny of Iran is very brutal and vicious to the Iranian people. Especially regarding females. Both girls and women. For example a teenage girl in Iran was talking to her boyfriend on the phone and then the Islamic state “police” walked over to her and shot her dead. They did that wicked and malicious thing to her because she was talking to her boyfriend and they also didn’t like her clothing. [1] That was a clear cut case of murder and vicious Islamic madness by Iran’s Islamic state “ police”, who call themselves the “Revolutionary Guards”, they got away with their hideous and malice –filled evil because the mullahs as well as other villains in power in that tyrannical Islamic regime.
[1] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili page 240
Walter Sieruk says
As for that bogus claim the “Islam improves the status of women” That totally false claim shows its very easy to say something” but it’s a completely different thing to prove it. Islam proves the exact opposite.
As seen in that cruel, brutal and vicious Islamic tradition of female butchery which some Muslims so inappropriately call “female circumcision’ has spread like an infectious disease , or a plague , even to the USA. This heinous Islamic custom of misogyny has been exposed in the book by Brigitte Gabriel which is entitled THEY MUST BE STOPPED. For on page 178 it reveals to the reader that “One of the most devastating practices to young girls of the Islamic world is female genital mutilation. Young girls have their clitoris removed without anesthesia…”
Indeed, they must be stopped !
Walter Sieruk says
The totally abused and complete false statement that “Islam improves the status of women ” is refuted of many good , valid and sold sources
.As for example from the book A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili on pages 2,3,117 exposes the misogynistic outcome s of that Islamic “revolution” is the extremely cruel, brutal and demonic misogyny of this hideous Islamic regime. Not only against women but even young girls. As explained by this former Iranian Revolutionary Guard member who defected to the West and how now lives in America his book also informs the reader about the malicious and murderous affront girls in Iran’s Evin prison which reads that those in power ,the “paraded teenage girls in front in front of me as they led them to their deaths. These girls were barely out of their childhood, barely old enough to think of themselves, much less form thoughts against the state. They knew nothing about the machinations of politics. They were innocent in every sense of the word and certainty innocent of trumped –up charges that led to their imprisonment. Yet they suffered fates too brutal for even the most vicious criminal. ..Their few remaining moments of life had been filled with the level of abuse that few can imagine…The author further states “They tortured and killed young girls, in God’s name and before their execution they raped them because they believed that if a girl dies virgin, she will go to heaven, and they wanted to deny them this reward.”
So much for that bogus clam that “Islam improved that status of women .” What a lie !
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Walter Sieruk says
That false totally false statement “Islam improve the status of woman is exposed and a false claim. As exposed by the following.
First ,about the topic of Islamic violence against girls and women which, something, takes the form of the brutal cruel vicious and murderous action that is so inappropriately y called “honor killing.” This malicious misogyny is so heinous callous and malice- filled that it’s an affront to all that is good, decent and right. In addition, the author, Brigitte Gabriel had revealed in her book which is entitled THEY MUST BE STOPPED on pages 171,172 , that “The shocking reality is that most Muslim men ,including those educated in the West ,have no objection to the degradation of women in their countries .Across the Muslim world, even in moderate Islamic countries, women’s’ rights are almost nonexistent…Women is Islam are considered unclean ,deemed inferior even to dirt.” Furthermore, as for Islamic violence against girls and women in Canada. In this just cited book it explains on page 176 that “Honor killings have also come to the West thanks to the rise of Islamic immigration. “
Indeed, they must be stopped!
Second, the brutal ,cruel vicious and murderous actions of Islamic misogyny which is so inappropriately called “honor killing.” This heinously wicked misogynists Islamic tradition reaches such n demonic extent of evil and madness that in number of Muslim nations ,as Afghanistan , if a girl or woman is raped she then might undergo being murdered in an “honor killing.” This is worse that a terrible miscarriage it’s an outright outrageous affront to all that is decent, good right as well as sane. To actual punish the victim of raped and not the rapists is most hideous, vile and wrong. very wrong. The Bible teaches in Proverbs 17:15. “The Lord hates two things, punishing the innocent and letting the guilty go free.” [E.R.V.]
Kepha says
About women being Muhammad’s first followers–
Sounds a lot like the Old Deluder Satan and Ancient Serpent himself, as described in Genesis 3!