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Iranian Ayatollah: “With Islam, joy and hope filled humanity…Israel has shopping center for trafficking in women”

Feb 22, 2019 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

“Not long ago, there was news that in Israel a shopping center for trafficking in women had opened, and the video of [the center’s inauguration] was shown worldwide. The report showed that they sat the women like merchandise in the store windows, with price tags on them.”

Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani issued this lurid libel in a letter to the contestants in a Quran memorization contest for women. This epitomizes the Iranian regime as a whole: ostentatiously pious in its Islamic observance, and built on hatred and lies.

“Iranian Ayatollah Nouri Hamedani: The Zionist Regime Has Opened A Shopping Center For Trafficking In Women,” MEMRI, February 19, 2019:

In a letter to the contestants in the 12th Dar Al-Quran of the Imam Ali contest – a Quran memorization contest for women – which opened December 15, 2018 in Jamkaran, near the holy city of Qom in Iran, Iranian Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani, a senior Shi’ite scholar and part of the Iranian ruling establishment, stressed the appreciation of the merit of women in Islam and their importance in the Quranic tradition. He contrasted this with the denigrating and humiliating treatment of women in pre- and post-Islamic cultures, in both the East and the West.

Opening his letter with Quranic verses about women’s equality to men, and directing a warning to humanity about the “Zionist regime’s” treatment of women, he went on to say that this regime had opened a shopping center for publicly trafficking in women. He added that it also was murdering people and selling their organs, as was its protégé, the Islamic State (ISIS).

The following are highlights of Ayatollah Nouri Hamedani’s letter to the contestants:[1]

“Our teacher [Ayatollah] Alama [Mohammad Hossein] Tabataba’i [leading Shi’ite Quran commentator, d. 1981] said in his ‘Al-Mizan’ commentary that these [Quranic] verses [on equality between men and women] descended in the era when it was thought that a woman who transgresses must take responsibility and be punished, but if she does a good deed, her husband should get the credit. This stemmed from the fact that women [were considered] base and disgraceful, and unworthy of receiving credit. These verses reject this thinking.

“But barbaric views of this kind have not been limited to the era [of the Prophet Muhammad] or to the Arabian Peninsula, and the humiliation and degradation of women has a sad history worldwide, throughout many generations….

“All these are examples of the oppression and cruelty that were women’s lot before the revelation of our dear Islam. With the rising sun of Islam, and the merciful call of the Prophet of Mercy, Mohammad, the spirit of joy and hope filled humanity. He always mentioned the important, high place of women in Muslim society, and their attributes. He conveyed to the people many of the Quranic verses regarding the important merit of women and their great value in society…

“We hope that the women in our society, and all women in the world, will keep in mind that the Zionists and colonialism still want to objectify women. Not long ago, there was news that in Israel a shopping center for trafficking in women had opened, and the video of [the center’s inauguration] was shown worldwide. The report showed that they sat the women like merchandise in the store windows, with price tags on them. This is actually the same thing that ISIS, the protegee of America and Israel, did in Iraq and Syria: they abducted many girls and sold them in marketplaces, and now the Zionist regime has officially opened a shopping center for trafficking in women, before the very eyes of billions of people in the world!!…

“Why are the UN and the other international communities silent in light of this activity against humanity by Israel? Have they too lost their identity? God, we appeal to you.”

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  1. Jaladhi says

    Feb 22, 2019 at 5:15 pm

    Yeah, yeah,….. the regular blah, blah, blah .. “With Islam, joy and hope filled humanity…” The same old regular BS from this fuddy- duddy!!

    We all know what Islam brings to humanity – nothing but pure evil and misery. Per the old Khomeni – “there is no joy in Islam”. How can this guy forget the edicts of his predecessor??

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 22, 2019 at 6:10 pm

      +1

    • jimjfox says

      Feb 23, 2019 at 5:45 am

      Israelis would not have thought they were presenting an Islamist with such proof of western decadence- of course muslims will lap this up, having not the wit to realise the intention but see it literally as instructed by Hamedani.

    • J D.S says

      Feb 23, 2019 at 9:21 am

      We all , except muslims, know there is plenty of stupidity in Islam and for a leader in Islam to blabber out such stupidity really brings it to the front. Really , joy in islam??? Now that is a pure lie.

  2. gravenimage says

    Feb 22, 2019 at 6:09 pm

    Iranian Ayatollah: “With Islam, joy and hope filled humanity…Israel has shopping center for trafficking in women”
    ………………..

    Not just calumny, but projection–it is Islam which still enslaves people, not civilized Israel.

  3. Indiana Tom says

    Feb 22, 2019 at 6:11 pm

    “With Islam, joy and hope filled humanity Yeah, and Islamic State was a fun filled Disney Magic Kingdom.

    • mortimer says

      Feb 22, 2019 at 10:11 pm

      We know the “JOY” of Islam from the FOUNDER Iran’s Islamic Republic, AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI who said:

      “The PUREST JOY in Islam is to KILL and be killed for Allah …

      … War is a blessing for the world and for all nations. It is God who incites men to fight and to kill. The Koran says, “Fight until all corruption and all rebellion have ceased.” The wars the Prophet led against the infidels were a blessing for all humanity.

      … The Qur’an tells us: “not to make friendship with Jews and Christians” (5:51), “kill the disbelievers wherever we find them” (2:191), “murder them and treat them harshly” (9:123), “fight and slay the Pagans, seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem” (9:5).

      KILLING IS THE ‘PUREST JOY IN ISLAM’ (-Ayatollah R. Khomeini)

      • Rufolino says

        Feb 23, 2019 at 3:52 am

        Khomeini expresses himself like a psychopath.

        Maybe you have to be a psychopath (like Mohammed), to rise to the top of Islam.

        • jimjfox says

          Feb 23, 2019 at 5:41 am

          No ‘maybe’ about it

  4. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Feb 22, 2019 at 6:52 pm

    https://www.memri.org/reports/iranian-ayatollah-nouri-hamedani-zionist-regime-has-opened-shopping-center-trafficking-women#_ednref1
    is tantalizingly uninformative.
    “Not long ago, there was news that in Israel a shopping center for trafficking in women had opened, and the video of [the center’s inauguration] was shown worldwide. The report showed that they sat the women like merchandise in the store windows, with price tags on them. This is actually the same thing that ISIS, the protegee of America and Israel, did in Iraq and Syria: they abducted many girls and sold them in marketplaces, and now the Zionist regime has officially opened a shopping center for trafficking in women, before the very eyes of billions of people in the world!!”

    Why is there no link to this video? Where is this flesh mall? In Tel Aviv? In Ashkelon? And what prices are charged? Are the wily Jews undercutting the sex-slave markets on the Arabian Peninsula and in Tehran? What kind of crappy consumer reporting is this?

    And ISIS (the Islamic State) is “the protegee of America and Israel”? What an insulting thing to say about our Sunni brethren!

  5. FYI says

    Feb 22, 2019 at 6:54 pm

    It is a COMPLETE WASTE of time memorizing allah’s koran.

    A more intelligent thing for muslims to do would be to see if they can learn,and, an even more difficult task {given allah DISAGREES with them},is to OBEY the Actual God’s Actual Commandments.

    EXODUS 20:1-17{the Ten}
    Deut 6:4-9/Lev 19:18{ 2 Chief laws}

    “And if thou are in doubt muhammed concerning that which WE reveal unto thee
    question those who read the scripture that was before thee{i.e the Bible}”k10:94

    So ask a Jew or a Christian to explain the importance of striving to OBEY them.

    Just because allah says in k2:191 muslims can “slay the unbeliever” doesn’t mean you can get away with violating the 6th Commandment by murdering some infidels.Or that his permission to commit adultery k4:24,Steal from infidels k48:20,bear false witness
    means you can do so.

    allah is in error.
    allah doesn’t even agree with God’s Exodus 20 laws{plus he missed the 2 chief ones}
    {the islamic koranic allah{the “best of deceivers” k3:54} is NOT the Judeo-Christian Biblical God.Of course the iranian holy men cannot figure that one out..which is why they don’t understand Israel’s importance to the Actual God}

    The EXODUS 20 Experience:try learning those instead,not wasting time memorizing the koran

    • James Lincoln says

      Feb 22, 2019 at 7:11 pm

      FYI correctly states,

      “It is a COMPLETE WASTE of time memorizing allah’s koran.”

      Think of all the time that Muslims waste on this worthless rag of a holy book.

      Imagine if they used this time and energy for the betterment of their societies for the common good, etc.

      What a different world we all would be living in.

  6. Peter says

    Feb 22, 2019 at 7:14 pm

    Perhaps that fool cannot tell the difference between manikins (womanikins?) and real women. Sheesh, the things these idjits try to pass off as ‘divine wisdom’.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 22, 2019 at 8:24 pm

      Could be, Peter…

      But the chances are that this Ayatollah does not believe his own bs–he just hopes these ignorant girls do.

      • Westman says

        Feb 23, 2019 at 11:08 am

        Exactly. He is assuaging Muslim women’s feelings of oppression with lies to keep himself and his brethren in a “superior” status. This only works among the stupid or ignorant as long as actual knowledge is controlled. The world is too interconnected for this to last. Eventually, Islam will be considered “the joy and hope” of the mentally challenged.

  7. A_M_Swallow says

    Feb 22, 2019 at 9:29 pm

    Here is the video. It was a publicity stunt against the trafficking in women and girls for sex.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 22, 2019 at 9:47 pm

      A_M_Swallow, *thank you* for that link.

      So this moronic Ayatollah is taking a *protest* against the trafficking of women as trafficking in women. No surprise there…

      Here’s more on this group:

      http://atzum.org/projects/task-force-on-human-trafficking/women-to-go/

      Nothing like it in Iran, of course…

      • Giacomo Latta says

        Feb 23, 2019 at 9:43 am

        Ayatollah Hamedani was so excited that he ordered a couple of women for himself without checking for any veracity first.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 23, 2019 at 3:07 pm

          Ha ha

  8. mortimer says

    Feb 22, 2019 at 10:05 pm

    Shi’ite mullahs have BA’s in TAQIYYA, but their AYATOLLAHS have PhD’s and post-doctoral degrees in TAQIYYA. The Shi’ites are the ELITES of TAQIYYA.

    This ayatollah SLANDERS and DEMONIZES Jews as a justification for their eventual, genocidal DESTRUCTION.

    Ayatollah Nouri Hamedani is soliciting genocide against Jews. Who can be more despicable than this hate-preacher?

    • dan christensen says

      Feb 23, 2019 at 10:58 am

      Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani just expressed his innermost secret sexual desires, projecting them in typical islamic hypocrisy to moral outrage. He would love too visit such a shopping center incognito:-)

  9. Terry Gain says

    Feb 23, 2019 at 12:23 am

    Islam. A supremacist, totalitarian, irrational, incoherent and violent political ideology which spreads hate and lies while posing as a religion.

  10. CRUSADER says

    Feb 23, 2019 at 2:46 am

    Slavery in many forms seems to continue.
    Society needs to call it all out for what it is.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 23, 2019 at 3:09 pm

      Slavery continues in Islam, certainly. How could it not? The “Prophet” himself was a slaver.

  11. dan christensen says

    Feb 23, 2019 at 3:07 am

    Oh – horror of horrors – All over the Christian world there are shopping centers for trafficking in dead ‘porcus’.

  12. Greg Murphy says

    Feb 23, 2019 at 7:06 am

    Talk about the pot calling the kettle!

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 23, 2019 at 3:11 pm

      Except this is a lie–Israel does *not* enslave people.

  13. somehistory says

    Feb 23, 2019 at 9:31 am

    He’s a liar, plain and simple. One word shows this: “Joy.” Joy is a “fruit of God’s Holy Spirit.”

    One cannot have true “joy” unless they have God’s Spirit. moslims reject God’s Spirit by denying Jesus Christ and by lying about God Himself.

    There is no “joy” in islam. Mass murderer, raper of children,lying scummy sleaze of the desert…struck out.

  14. Gyomza says

    Feb 23, 2019 at 10:25 am

    Self delusion

  15. Paul says

    Feb 23, 2019 at 10:57 am

    Yeah but whats the prices, hard or soft currency. New or used. Do they do trade-ins. How about lay-aways ?
    All these unanswered questions

  16. Geoffrey de Brito says

    Feb 23, 2019 at 8:36 pm

    This Ayatollah is quoted as saying, “With the rising sun of Islam, and the merciful call of the Prophet of Mercy, Mohammad, the spirit of joy and hope filled humanity.”

    That’s a direct contradiction of the Ayatollah Khomeini’s view of joy in Islam, who said in 1979; “Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious.”

    • Paul says

      Feb 24, 2019 at 8:22 am

      I am sure the Ayatollah took fun and joy in his 11 year old bride.

      Just saying.

      Paul

  17. A_M_Swallow says

    Feb 24, 2019 at 8:51 pm

    No. They were actresses taking part in the 2010 campaign against trafficking in women. See the video I posted.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 27, 2019 at 1:26 am

      +1

  18. John Dunshee says

    Feb 25, 2019 at 3:54 pm

    Yes, Muslims know how to treat women. When they’re getting overrun in Syria, they decapitated 50 of their captured Yadzi sex slaves and tried to scoot out the door.

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