“I really make my own path.”
How grand. But what will Avery Mills think, and what will she do, when she discovers that many Muslims do not believe that a woman should make her own path?
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
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
Also, a Muslim wife may not refuse sex. A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “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” (Bukhari 4.54.460).
And: “By him in Whose Hand lies my life, a woman can not carry out the right of her Lord, till she carries out the right of her husband. And if he asks her to surrender herself [to him for sexual intercourse] she should not refuse him even if she is on a camel’s saddle” (Ibn Majah 1854).
Islamic law stipulates: “The husband may forbid his wife to leave the home…because of the hadith related by Bayhaqi that the Prophet…said, ‘It is not permissible for a woman who believes in Allah and the Last Day to allow someone into her husband’s house if he is opposed, or to go out of it if he is averse” (Reliance of the Traveller m10.4).
“’90 Day Fiancé’ Star Avery Mills Says She ‘Never Cared’ What People Thought: ‘Find Your Own Path,'” by Maria Vultaggio, Newsweek, August 4, 2019:
Season 3 of 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days is bringing back some familiar faces, but mostly new ones. This includes Columbus, Ohio, native Avery Mills and her 24-year-old Syrian love, Omar Albakkaur.
Avery, 19, left her faith as a Christian to become a follower of Islam—even though most of her family and friends objected. She joined a Muslim dating site soon after, which is how she met Omar.
When viewers first meet, she’s traveling to Lebanon with her mother to meet Omar for the first time. In a teaser for the new season, Avery gushes that he’s holding a woman’s hand for their first time. It’s up to Avery to decide if she wants to leave America—and all her family and friends—to be with her fiancé in a war-torn country.
Avery’s story is sure to garner attention, but she doesn’t care about the negative things people have to say about her faith or her decision to marry Omar. “I have never cared about what people thought in the past. No one can sway my decision on my choices,” she told Newsweek in a phone interview. “I really make my own path and I’ll tell them that.”
Sunday’s premiere marks her first time on reality TV and she’s not sure how to feel. “I’m excited to see how the story is going to play on TV [and] of course there are a few nerves, but I’m mostly excited,” she said….
Buraq says
She will, of course, be delighted to submit to FGM to keep everyone in the Ummah happy! Yeah?
Clown!
Mike says
no more war paint on her face
mortimer says
No more show biz for her.
Charles Ford says
Well the way to Hell is a broad thouroughfare and she is on it going full speed.
امان says
Who said you are going to heaven?Are tou judging others who are trying to do the right thing? Our beloved. Prophet came to save n warn ppl from hell why is there so much hatred toward. Others?empower and encourage others
gravenimage says
I suppose “Safety” here is warning people that if they don’t embrace the vicious creed of blood and death that they will never be safe from his murderous coreligionists. *Ugh*.
Most of us here hate to see women and children raped and innocent people murdered. “Safety” does not consider these horrors to be hatred, note.
kp says
ya, I watched this last night!! She’ll find out soon enough….silly girl!
Simo Hayha says
“I really make my own path.”
Her “path” might encounter a few entanglements and bumps when she is forced to have her clitoris clipped to forever prevent her from EVER experiencing any joy from sexual intercourse, instead merely being USED as a breeding animal by brutal males who could not care less about “satisfying” a woman!
Keys says
There is no freedom in Islam, only submission, so she won’t be making “her own path”.
Allah’s path is the only path, and it the path to hell for tens of millions of people.
Submit !
Makes says
In Islam woman are held in high status so much so that she does not have to pray in her menstruation period or even work or cook n clean, nowhere in islam does it say cut off clitoris some solaki tribes did it but that is not an islamic practice…
Angemon says
“In Islam woman are held in high status so much so that she does not have to pray in her menstruation period or even work or cook n clean”
“Does not have” or “is not allowed to”? IIRC, menstruating women aren’t allowed to touch the quran…
“nowhere in islam does it say cut off clitoris”
Narrated Umm Atiyyah al-Ansariyyah: A woman used to perform circumcision in Medina. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said to her: Do not cut severely as that is better for a woman and more desirable for a husband.
Sunan Abu Dawud 41:5251
Circumcision is obligatory (for every male and female) by cutting off the piece of skin on the glans of the penis of the male, but circumcision of the female is by cutting out the clitoris (this is called Hufaad).
Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law
https://islamqa.info/en/answers/60314/circumcision-of-girls-and-some-doctors-criticism-thereof
gravenimage says
Ah…right. And Islam “holds women in such high status” that they don’t have to choose their own husbands, or have to wait to grow up to have one! They also don’t have stop wearing Hijab or even leave the house if their Mehram doesn’t want then to. And they may be able to experience wife beating, “Honor Killing”, and stoning, as well…
This is what Islam *really* offers women.
As for the canard about FGM, 95% of women in Egypt are mutilated, as are almost 100% in Somalia. The “Prophet” himself condoned mutilation. Wherever there are attempts to stop FGM Islamic scholars protest.
mortimer says
MESSAGE TO AVERY MILLS:
DO YOU ENDORSE KORAN 4.23-24? Allah decrees that jihadists may rape MARRIED CAPTIVES.
Avery, do you endorse the rape of MARRIED CAPTIVES by Muslim terrorists in K.4.23-24 ?
Makes says
Whaaaaat?
gravenimage says
Does Muslim Makes condemn this? Don’t hold your breath…
CogitoErgoSum says
I wonder how many hours of instruction she received in Islam and how many tests she had to pass to become a Muslim? Who was her teacher? I’ll bet everything she knows about Islam came from her boyfriend Omar. I wonder how many times he has been married and divorced. I even wonder how many wives he has right now.
CogitoErgoSum says
Still thinking about this. Yes, I know anybody can be baptized at any time but, in my religion at least, it takes an extended period of time before being recognized as a full member of the church and being able to receive other sacraments of the religion. Furthermore, leaving the religion later does not carry with it the threat of losing your life — just losing your soul. Does this woman really know what she is doing? I don’t think so. And she doesn’t care. What a shame.
CRUSADER says
From my experience in Christianity one believes the Gospel and then becomes baptized as a public display of one’s conviction and witness of faith.
One is under the gift of Saving Grace upon accepting the Holy Spirit.
Then it can take a lifetime of perfecting until one transitions to the eternal.
Christianity is easy to embrace yet a challenge to practice.
The Holy Spirit guides and strengthens this path.
Anything good is with the effort.
We are truly blessed.
+ + +
Bob says
I look upon all religion as fake belief. I’m an Atheist. I’ve never seen any evidence of a god, not a good one anyway. But to join a cult like Islam is, that takes away a woman’s rights, is deplorable. And outright stupid.
Elisha says
Look upon? Sad thing is Bob, you’ve probably never spent five minutes evaluating the historical, prophetic and scientific evidence that supports the Biblical account of creation. You cannot demonstrate your own existence nor can your worldview account for reason and morality.
Many strident atheists have come to faith by simply examining the evidence for the resurrection of Christ Jesus.
Seeking truth presupposes earnestness, courage and humility. Amen.
Kari says
Anyone leaving your religion looses their soul? Wow! Now that’s ignorant. I believe in God and such but I don’t go to “church”. Too many fake, judgmental, hypocrites for me. I have faith. I read my Bible and I was baptized. You don’t have to do a bunch of crazy crap to go to heaven or believe in God. Smh.
mortimer says
Response to Cogito: a website says there is no instruction necessary.
How to Convert to Islam – The Testimony of Faith (Shahada)
Becoming a Muslim is a simple and easy process. All that a person has to do is to say a sentence called the Testimony of Faith (Shahada), which is pronounced as:
I testify “La ilaha illa Allah, Muhammad rasoolu Allah.”
The above is correct. Islam’s theory of conversion is ‘just say the words’ even if you have doubts, because faith will follow.
Most converts to Islam in the US are believed to drop out within 19 months according to a mullah who studies such matters. That’s about a year and half before the converts realize they’ve been duped and then admit it.
smooth lee says
Even if you’re were a convert, quitting Islam still makes you an apostate. Essentially, once a Muslim, always a Muslim . . . or else. The “or else” is death, so sayeth the Prophet Mohammad.
CRUSADER says
If a person testifies publicly (by typing) such a phrase of allegiance and submission to Islam on a media site such as this, does that make one a Muslim automatically? Uh oh.
elee says
What the hell anyway, we’re all marked for death or submission anyway. But hey, only we infidels can give a Muslim the gift of martyrdom.
CRUSADER says
That’s the Muslim delusion.
Keys says
“Season 3 of 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days is bringing back some familiar faces, but mostly new ones.”
“When viewers first meet, she’s traveling to Lebanon with her mother to meet Omar for the first time. In a teaser for the new season, Avery gushes that he’s holding a woman’s hand for their first time.”
Hunh ? Does Newsweek have editors ?!
Whatever, this young lady is headed for misery, but she does not care what her loved ones and friends say.
CRUSADER says
A lady from Lebanon who could set her path straight is proudly patriotic American citizen Brigitte Gabriel..
http://www.ActforAmerica.org
gravenimage says
+1
CRUSADER says
Listened to her speak near Chicago last week.
What she says about the Left in its support of Islam and against traditional Western values is all very important.
Her book “RISE” is a guideline to how to combat our adversaries and defend our values.
One could say it is a “Milestones”… 😉
gravenimage says
Excellent, CRUSADER.
Green Infidel says
Wonder if she has anything to say about the trauma suffered by someone else from Columbus, OH, for converting the other way – one Rifqa Bary?
CRUSADER says
Fathima Rifqa Bary (born August 10, 1992 in Galle, Sri Lanka[1]) is a Sri Lankan United States Citizen author who drew international attention in 2009 when she ran away from her Ohio home, at age 16, saying that her Muslim parents were going to kill her for becoming a Christian.[2] Her story was broadcast on TV and discussed on political blogs,[3] becoming a focal point in a culture clash between Evangelical Christians and Muslims.[4]
Rifqa Bary is the only daughter of Mohamed and Aysha Bary. She grew up in Columbus, Ohio with her older brother Rilvan and her younger brother Rajaa.[5] Her parents initially came to the U.S. from Sri Lanka to seek medical care for Rifqa after she became blind in her right eye after Rilvan threw a toy airplane at her when she was 5.[6] Prior to moving to Ohio Rifqa was sexually abused by an extended family member.[7] After moving into an apartment in Ohio Rifqa shared a room with her brothers.[8] She and Rilvan attended New Albany High School. At the school Rifqa was a Straight A Student, she took AP classes, she was a cheerleader, and a member of the track and field team. During her spare time she wrote poetry and took guitar lessons.[9] Bary’s parents have said that they are Muslims and pray five times a day.
Her attorney, John Stemberger, who is the leader of a Christian advocacy group,[10] claimed that the Bary family were members of the Noor Islamic Cultural Center (NICC), near Columbus.[5] In an official statement, NICC denied it was familiar with Rifqa Bary or her family and stated that their records showed she attended the cultural center’s Sunday School only three times in 2007.[11]
Rifqa became a Christian in 2005 at the age of 13. In July 2009, she was secretly baptized in Big Walnut Creek, at Hoover Dam Park by her mentor and friend Brian Michael Williams, an aspiring pastor and college student while her family was not at home. Rifqa eventually became a member of Columbus Korean United Methodist Church.[3]
In July 2009 Rifqa ran away from her family’s home to the home of Orlando, Florida Christian pastor Blake Lorenz and his wife, Beverly, with whom Rifqa had communicated on Facebook. Rifqa had told Beverly Lorenz that her parents would kill her for converting to Christianity.[4] Williams drove her to a bus station where a ticket was purchased under an assumed name for her bus ride to Orlando, Florida.[3] Bary lived with the Lorenzes for 10 to 21 days (reports vary)[4] before they contacted child welfare authorities, though Florida law required that they contact authorities within 24 hours of receiving Rifqa into their home.[12] Rifqa eventually turned herself into the police and spent two nights in jail until a judge set her free.[13]
Her case drew attention when she appeared on television and declared that her father said, “He would kill me or send me back to Sri Lanka,” describing herself as the intended victim of an honor killing.[4] A report commissioned by the Department of Justice under the Obama administration determined that honor killings are a credible threat for some young Muslim women who become “too Westernized.”[14]
Her parents said they never threatened to harm her.[15] Her father told a reporter that, “Honestly, we didn’t know why she left.” Regarding the death threat described by his daughter, he said, “She doesn’t know what she’s talking about,” and, “I want her to come back home. I love my daughter whether she’s Christian, or anything else. I want my daughter back.”[16]
Law enforcement investigations —
Rifqa Bary was taken into custody by Florida child welfare authorities while an investigation was conducted. The court appointed attorneys for her parents: private practitioner Craig McCarthy for the mother, and a lawyer from the state Florida Regional Council for the father.[17] As is the result in the vast majority of cases involving alleged child abuse,[18][19][20] the Florida Department of Law Enforcement report was inconclusive, finding no hard evidence of physical or verbal abuse.[2]
In the report, Bary’s father states that he did pick up his daughter’s laptop to throw it, but did not throw it due to the cost of the laptop (Bary alleged that her father raised the laptop above her head as though ready to hit her with it).[2] The FDLE report raised questions about one claim made by Bary: that her parents did not know she was a cheerleader.[2] The FDLE report states that pictures of her in uniform were prominently displayed in the family’s home three days later when the police visited and interviewed them, and that Mr. Bary signed the permission slip for her to be a cheerleader when Mrs. Bary would not.[2] The FDLE report also stated that they did not investigate anyone in the larger Ohio Muslim community and that Florida authorities relied in part on the investigation done by authorities in Ohio.[2]
On October 13, 2009, Orange County (Florida) Judge Daniel P. Dawson ruled that he would return Bary to Ohio pending a settlement of her immigration status.[16] Emergency custody continued in Ohio.[10]
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CRUSADER says
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Return to Ohio and Cancer Diagnosis —
On October 27, 2009, Bary was returned to Ohio and temporarily placed in the custody of Franklin County Children Services.[21] The public agency was to monitor her internet and phone use[22] and hoped to reunite the family before August 10, 2010, when Bary would turn 18 years old.[1] A case-management plan was filed on December 1, 2009, stating that Bary and her family needed to have face-to-face talks about their understanding of Christianity and Islam as one step toward reunification.[1]
On December 22, 2009, a magistrate of the Franklin county juvenile court denied Bary’s parents’ request for forced mediation and set the date for the dependency hearing for the end of January.[23][24] The hearing was canceled on January 19, 2010, when a deal between the parties was reached with Bary becoming a dependent of the State of Ohio in exchange for admitting that she broke the rules when she ran away. On January 29, 2010, once it was learned that Bary would be allowed to contact Reverend Lorenz and his wife, Bary’s parents, on the strict advice of their lawyer, requested to back out of the deal.[25] On March 2, 2010, Judge Elizabeth Gill denied their request and ordered them to continue their counseling sessions so that Rifqa could return home to her family before she turned 18.[26] In June 2010, Bary graduated from Focus Learning Academy. That same year, she was diagnosed with a rare form of Uterine cancer.
The doctors gave her one year to live.[27] After three surgeries and 45 weeks of chemotherapy, Bary stopped her cancer treatments.[28] Her parents asked the courts to force their daughter to continue receiving chemotherapy, but they refused.[29] Bary has been declared cancer free.[30] On August 10, 2010, Bary turned 18 years old and Franklin County Children Services’ custody of her ended.[31][32] After the gag order was lifted on her hearings, her father and mother stated that Bary had sent them a video two weeks prior, along with candy and music, saying she loved them. They also stated that Bary sent them letters including one where she thanked them for helping her be a successful student. At the same time, the parents’ Ohio attorney, Omar Tarazi, indicated that Barys have not had a private face-to-face conversation with their daughter, even in the presence of a family counselor, since she ran away.[33] Omar dropped his lawsuit against Bary’s lawyer, but he continued to sue Pamela Geller[why?] until September 21, 2011.[34]
Life After Winning Her Freedom —
In September 2010 after turning 18, Bary was granted residency in the United States.[35] Rifqa Bary eventually went on to study biology in college and became an evangelist. During her time in college Rifqa was able to go on a mission trip to India.[36] On November 6, 2015 Bary became a legal US Citizen after she turned 23.[37] On July 15, 2015 Rifqa had surgery to receive a prosthetic eye.[38] Rifqa became a writer and signed with WaterBrook Press in 2014.[39] On May 19, 2015 she released her debut book “Hiding in the Light: Why I Risked Everything to Leave Islam and Follow Jesus”.[40] Rifqa has since graduated from college with a degree in philosophy. She is now pursuing a career in law.[41]
Writings —
“Hiding in the Light: Why I Risked Everything to Leave Islam and Follow Jesus” (2015)
Public debate —
The situation drew international attention[16] and became a cause célèbre[4] and point of “hostility between some Christians and Muslims.”[42]
Imam Muhammad Musri of the Islamic Society of Central Florida claimed that the controversy was caused “by far-right religious groups” portraying Islam and Muslims as extreme fundamentalists who might kill a child.[42] Harry Coverston, a professor of religion, theorized that some individuals must have an enemy.[42]
Writing in FrontPage Magazine, conservative blogger and commentator Robert Spencer described the whole incident as a “slow-motion honor killing”[43] while Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio made statements in support of Bary. Mathew Staver, president of the Liberty University School of Law and lawyer for the Lorenzes said, “Lorenz had a legitimate reason to believe Rifqa Bary was in fear of her life because she’d converted to Christianity”.
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mortimer says
She will now be able to ‘make her own path’ in her living room, since her Muslim husband has the right to forbid her from leaving her home.
How naïve can a woman be?
CRUSADER says
She will submit to the form of Islam promoted by the pluralistic likes of Irshad Manji.
CRUSADER says
REAL RESISTANCE
Anti-totalitarian Muslim reformers like Farzana Hassan are leading the charge
By Phyllis Chesler
October 15, 2018 •
The most valorous resistance movement of our time is that which steadfastly opposes all forms of totalitarian fundamentalism, whether they masquerade as “progressivism” or as divine commandments. Partisans of this resistance oppose intolerance and incivility among both the masses and the intelligentsia; historical revisionism and historical illiteracy; racism—including Jew-hatred and Muslim persecution of black Africans; gender and religious apartheid; contemporary slavery. And finally, we condemn as genuine hate speech, that which assaults free speech, and leads to the absence of self-criticism, scientific inquiry, and intellectual diversity.
With some few exceptions, we strongly support the state of Israel. While many of us are Jews, Sikhs, Hindus, Christians, and atheists, those most crucial to this struggle are, perhaps, religious, secular, and former Muslims.
In her latest book, The Case Against Jihad (Mantua Books, 2018), Farzana Hassan, the Canadian feminist, author, and activist makes the case for why Muslims are essential to the fight against movements of militant Islamism. She writes: “The challenge to the ideology of jihad must come from within the Muslim community.”
What she is saying is that the “Good Muslim Germans” (so to speak), are the only ones who can stop the demonic Goebbels that have arisen in their names, overturned the long-standing customs of their parents and grandparents, radicalized their children, face-veiled their women, and declared a terrorist jihad against the West, against infidels, and against other Muslims.
Farzana Hassan is a brave resistance fighter for the 21st century. It helps that she is also a good writer and a clear thinker. But, perhaps most important, despite the considerable odds she has been persistent.
In The Case Against Jihad, Hassan argues that Islamic customs, history, and beliefs have been hijacked by a violent and criminal minority. This may not be a new critique but it is still one that comes with risks, especially for a Muslim author. In spite of the risks, Hassan writes with the hope of reaching more moderate Muslims, who, when forced to confront the takeover of their tradition, will find ways to stop the militants among them, perhaps by teaching them values that are radically non-Islamist.
Hassan interprets or re-interprets certain passages in the Quran to argue that they have either been misunderstood or perverted. For example, like Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Hassan writes: “The Quran clearly states that retribution has to be exactly equal, neither more nor less … in exactly the same manner in which the injury was inflicted … this cannot possibly be quantified in complex situations.” If Muslim communities truly understood the meaning of a passage like this, Hassan argues, they would understand that jihadists are “violating,” not “upholding,” Quranic principles and thus, would be emboldened to resist and end Islamist terrorism.
Ah, if only.
Although I, too, am totally committed to the power of the written word, wearily, I must note that hate-filled maniacs do not often engage in self-criticism, nor do they read books that oppose their worldview. However, there are still forms of meaningful resistance possible through reason and persuasion. Appealing to those just outside the circle of radicalism who act as its moderate apologists, is one way to strengthen the resistance movement; another, and perhaps the most important, is educating the coming generations.
The hope for Hassan and others like her, is that that logic, reason, and education can ultimately prevail over homicidal, totalitarian Death-Eaters. In the long run, yes; but in the breach, such military force must be defeated militarily, as was done at the gates of Vienna in 1683.
Hassan is at her most persuasive when she writes about her own life and the lives of Muslim women. In Unveiled: A Canadian Muslim Woman’s Struggle Against Misogyny, Sharia, and Jihad (2012), she shows that South Asian Muslim countries such as Pakistan and Muslim India used to be more tolerant, far less religious, and did not demand that women veil. In her view, Arabic customs and radical beliefs penetrated Pakistan and Afghanistan and “Arabized” the treatment of women, infidels, dissidents, and apostates.
In her efforts to “promote a tolerant strain in Islam and to alleviate the suffering of Muslim women and to protect beleaguered religious minorities in Muslim majority countries,” Hassan has been demonized, defamed and ostracized. She writes:
“Apart from being branded an apostate, I have been accused of being a sellout, a Zionist conspirator, a self-hating Muslim, a ‘whore’ for opposing the burka, a shrew who flouts all domestic virtues and a libertine who promotes ‘immoral secular values.’”
Raised in an influential and well-educated family in Pakistan, Hassan had an unusual upbringing. She and her sisters attended a Catholic school as did her mother. Her grandmother was a Protestant from Britain who had never been pressured to convert to Islam and who wore Western dress until a wave of fundamentalism in the 1980s forced her into the “traditional shalwar kameez.” Her family used to celebrate Christmas; Hassan cannot recall any of her relatives “praying regularly” (as Muslims).
She writes things that would be considered heretical by Islamists today while also recalling how, once, things were different, at least for the well-to-do in Pakistan. So, what changed?
“Bigotry would begin to take root and an inflexible orthodoxy would dominate. At that point I was beginning to feel the British and other colonialists did not complete their job. They should have stayed longer to ensure that democratic principles and a culture of tolerance and pluralism were firmly established in the subcontinent. The Islamic world was now riddled with fanaticism of the worst kind: one that would kill and terrorize in the name of religion.”
Among a number of specific and rather horrifying examples of the hatred toward Israel and Jews that exist in the Islamic world, Hassan writes of her experience on a trip to Syria in 2009:
“In the evenings, Judy, Kathy, Hind and I would roam the market or sooq. But anti-Israel sentiment was quite palpable on the streets. The war between Gaza and Israel was raging at that time. The figures on the screen showed Israel’s military might as a kind of grisly scoreboard: 13 Israeli dead against 313 Palestinians. During our visit, Judy and I also stumbled upon people trampling on a drawing of the Israeli flag on the street. Naturally Judy, being Jewish, felt very uncomfortable. On another occasion, we came upon a Syrian shopkeeper who was cursing the Israeli army. At the conference, some women declared, “We don’t hate Jews. We just hate the Zionists.” All over the streets of Damascus was the catchphrase “Gaza bleeds.”’
Echoing Hassan’s voice, there are a welcome and growing minority of Muslims and ex-Muslims. Some of them write critiques of Sharia, others reject Islam altogether or re-interpret the Quran. Some are religious, others are secular and agnostic.
To name only a few: In Canada, there are Homa Arjomand, Tarek Fateh, Irshad Manji, Salim Mansur, and Raheel Raza; in North America we have Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Zainab al-Suwaij, Nonie Darwish, Mona Eltahawy, Zuhdi Jasser, Asra Nomani, Soona Samsami, Amina Wadud, and Ibn Warraq; in Europe, there is Fadela Amara, Henes Ayari, Seyran Ates, Zeyno Baran, Samia Labidi, Maryam Namazie, Salman Rushdie, Bassam Tibi, etc. Perhaps the most endangered dissident Muslims live in Muslim countries; their precious names are legion, their punishments barbaric.
In Canada, Hassan has been attacked by Islamists and by politically correct feminists who disagree with her anti-burqa stand and with her call to separate religion and state, not boys and girls in school. She opposes the corporal punishment meted out to Muslim children in religious schools and rejects Canada’s misguided submission to Muslim misogynist customs out of misguided progressivism that selectively tolerates some forms of women’s subjugation.
I will give Hassan the last word:
“In the end, I urge all Muslims, fundamentalist and liberal, to think long and hard about these issues. It is now time to shun bigotry and obscurantism to enable a better future for all. I also urge Muslims to embrace Canadian values of equality, pluralism and dignity for all human beings. They must discard their anti-Western sentiment. They have chosen Canada as their home and they owe allegiance to it.
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Phyllis Chesler is the author of the new memoir A Politically Incorrect Feminist: Creating a Movement with Bitches, Lunatics, Dykes, Prodigies, Warriors, and Wonder Women published by St. Martin’s Press and is featured in the documentary “Feminists: What Were They Thinking?” airing now on Netflix
Phyllis Chesler is the author of 18 books including the landmark feminist classics Women and Madness (1972), Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman (2002), and An American Bride in Kabul (2013), which won a National Jewish Book Award. Her new memoir is titled A Politically Incorrect Feminist. She is a founding member of the Original Women of the Wall.
Rarely says
I suspect that he may be more interested in using the marriage as means for him (and his family) immigrating to the US than in finding marital bliss. If so, one might wonder if any cash exchanged hands.
Angemon says
Had to look up what “90 Day Fiancé” was, and that was my first thought – marriages by convenience.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Rarely and Angemon.
Jaladhi says
What is her attraction for this criminal murderous cult?? Fools come in all stripes and genders!!
Donovan Nuera says
Anyone on those TV dating shows are a bit kooky and attention-starved to begin with…probably “daddy-issues”. Similar issue with that young Minnesota girl a few years back who converted and moved to Gaza with her new lover….. mom had to have her arrested at airport as she was underage trying to fly there. Eventually her family gave up. Avery looks like the UCSD student who confronted Horowitz at his lecture about and then said she supported Hamas. Total chubsterette.
CRUSADER says
Video of David Horowitz at UCSD speaking to upstart muslima, and. Ideology referencing of Hitler Youth Week on campus, and MEMRI vidclips of Islamofascists, as well….
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=spicZoVs5Tk
mgoldberg says
Who cares? We have the courting of non muslims by muslims heartily endorsed by Islamic history and theology. See in a year what becomes of her life. I doubt it would last unless… and that’s a big if, he, is not religious and just wants a wife and a companion. I tend to doubt that very much. So… pack up this story until a year from now when the real story gets written. Now, it’s her crowing about how she’s making her own decisions, and next year? Wait, then the rest of the story comes out.
James Lincoln says
Next year, on Season 4 of 90 Day Fiancé, they should have a one-year follow-up on this story.
I hate to say it but, I don’t think that this is going to end well…
mortimer says
The ratings will plummet. Bye bye show. End of career move.
Wellington says
Message to this profoundly confused woman: If (actually very likely when) you get disillusioned with Mo’s creed, keep Sura 4:89 and 9.84.57 from the Bukhari Hadith in mind. Very much keep these in mind because your very life may depend upon it.
scherado says
What is the meaning of “90 days” in the show?
Ade Fegan says
Your days of “making your own path” are over baby
gravenimage says
“90 Day Fiancé” star Avery Mills converts to Islam, says “No one can sway my decision. I really make my own path.”
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What a deluded idiot. And that she is willing to move to Dar-al-Islam immediately means that she is in even more danger. I hope she escapes–but she may be too stupid to do so.
David M says
This is Natural Selection killing off the dummies in action.
gravenimage says
People are more likely to be “dummies” if they are never warned about danger.
No Muzzies Here says
All religions require a willing suspension of disbelief, but Islam requires much more. It requires one to hate non-members, to adopt a set of practices that the civilized world rejected centuries ago, and to completely empty the mind of all critical thought, intellectual pursuit and scientific inquiry while practicing total submission to an arbitrary external authority.
If it were not a religion that we are talking about, her action would be called insanity.
James Lincoln says
Even though Islam is – technically – a religion, anyone who voluntarily converts to Islam is one of the following:
1. Very severely deluded
2. A psychopath
3. Insane.
In this case, I believe that Ms. Mills is flavor number one…
sheliak says
She’ll soon get a crash course in hideous reality. Let’s hope she survives long enough to learn from it.
mortimer says
Agree with sheliak. I hope she gets out alive. Many women converts have been honor-killed.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
“The Qur’an 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 does not follow from this Quran quote that a woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man. But let’s assume that it *is*. What does this even mean? Is the testimony of any person exactly as credible as the testimony of every other person of the same sex? The qadi (sharia judge) need not assess the credibility of each individual witness but need only determine the sex of each witness? This is a crazy judicial principle that means that no man can prevail in a sharia court against the contrary uniform testimony of three women. Where can we look up a few precedents of sharia trials in which the number of female witnesses was greater than twice the number of male witnesses? How is this principle taught in qadi training instututes?
CRUSADER says
Have you read Usama Dakdok’s translation of the “Generous Qur’an”?
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Never heard of it. Thanks for the tip.
https://www.amazon.com/Generous-Accurate-English-Translation-Holiest/dp/098241370X
If you have a copy, can you find the passage (is there a topics index?) where “Last Day” is defined?
aDhimmiSaysWhat? says
I wonder if miss Mills is familiar with Janet Jackson’s recent foray into the world of Islam. She should read this:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/pagesix.com/2017/09/23/inside-janet-jacksons-rocky-marriage-and-ugly-split/amp/
tim gallagher says
I suspect a lot of the people who go on reality type TV shows are a bit weird. I think that they crave being celebrities and have a “hey, look at me” mentality. I wonder if the TV show also thought, look, it’d be great to have a Muslim in the show. I never watch those shows, but I’ve noticed in TV adverts for a TV cooking type reality show called “Master Chef” here in Australia, there has always been a Muslim amongst the contestants for the past 5 years or maybe longer. The thing I notice about this woman is the way she says, “I have never cared about what people thought in the past. No one can sway my decision ( boneheaded, ignorant choices I’d say) on my choices”. It’s like a fool’s manifesto. Yeah, we all ultimately make our own decisions, but we probably listen to wise advice before deciding. So she wouldn’t listen to , say, someone like Robert Spencer or Ayaan Hirsi Ali, someone who actually can tell her what Islam is all about. She’s just a fool. And also, her attitude is that she is a free, independent person, who always makes her own strong decisions, yet she is walking into Islam, which will stomp on her freedom and independence completely. Some people are too dumb to save.
tim gallagher says
I still think this woman is pretty foolish and could end up in big trouble, but later on in the day, I had the thought that, hell, she’s only 19 years old. I was thinking what an idiot I was at 19 years of age, so I guess I have softened my attitude to her foolishness a bit. At such a young age, it’s pretty common to make idiotic and impulsive decisions, although I must say that for a woman ( for a man or a woman, but especially a woman) to join Islam is a monumental blunder at any age.
Angemon says
I remember a Catholic Cardinal advising against marrying to muslim men, and especially going to their countries to visit their families.
tim gallagher says
Wise advice, Angemon, and especially the bit about not going off to some Muslim country where the woman would be defenceless. It is advice that everyone here at Jihad Watch, that is people who actually know something about Islam’s vile nature, would say is obvious. But then, there’s all those people who know nothing about islam and who are fed the unmitigated crap in the media which tells them that Islam is peaceful and lovely and all that hogwash.
CRUSADER says
Indeed interesting…. something which Irshad Manji should have second thoughts regarding….
Phyllis Chesler (by now 78) has written several works on such subjects as anti-Semitism, Islam, and honor killings. Chesler argues that many western intellectuals, including leftists and feminists, have abandoned Western values in the name of multicultural relativism, and that this has led to an alliance with Islamists, an increase in anti-Semitism, and to the abandonment of Muslim women and religious minorities in Muslim-majority countries.
Chesler was the eldest of three children raised in a working-class Orthodox Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York.[1] As a youth, she joined the Socialist-Zionist youth movement, HaShomer Hatzair, and later the even more radical left-wing Zionist youth movement, Ein Harod. Despite her parents’ disapproval, she continued to rebel against her religious upbringing.[2]
She attended New Utrecht High School, where she was the editor of the yearbook and of the literary magazine. She won a full scholarship to Bard College, where she met Ali, a Westernized Muslim man from Afghanistan, the son of devout Muslim parents. They married in a civil ceremony in 1961 in New York State, and settled in Kabul, in the large, polygamous household of her father-in-law. She credits this experience with inspiring her to become an ardent feminist.[3][4]
According to Chesler, her problems began on arrival in Afghanistan. The authorities forced her to surrender her U.S. passport, and she ended up a virtual prisoner in her in-laws’ house. Chesler describes this as how foreign wives were treated.[5] This phenomenon has been documented by others.[6][7][8] She reports that the U.S. embassy refused to help her leave the country. After several months, she contracted hepatitis and became gravely ill. At that point, her father-in-law made it possible for her return to the U.S. on a temporary visa.[4][9]
Upon her return, she completed her final semester and graduated from Bard, embarked on a doctoral program, worked in a brain research laboratory for E. Roy John, published studies in Science[10][11] magazine and received a fellowship in neurophysiology at the New York Medical College at Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital. Thereafter, in 1969, she earned a Ph.D. in psychology at the New School for Social Research and embarked on careers as a professor, author, and psychotherapist in private practice.[12]
Chesler divorced her first husband and married an Israeli, whom she also later divorced. She has one son. She describes their relationship, pregnancy, childbirth, and her first year as a newborn mother in With Child: A Diary of Motherhood. In the 1998 edition, her son wrote the preface to the book.[13]
(Source: Wikipedia)
Warren Raymond says
She met Omar.
That’s all you need to know.
PRCS says
A short list of brain-dead, booger eatin’ moron ‘reverts’.
Lindsay Lohan
Sinéad O’Connor
Casius Clay
Mike Tyson
Lou Alcindor
Omar Sharif
Malcolm X
Cat Stevens
CRUSADER says
Quite a list of losers and lost souls.
FYI says
And converrts don’t get Irony.
For women:-
Al lah,islam ,the koran and muhammed teach that women are inferior and stupid.
For Black converts:-
muhammed was a slave trader in Africans{sahih muslim 3901}
For singers and musicians:-
Al lah condemns anyone who listens to a woman singing{Reliance of the traveller,Umdat al salik section r40.1}Had O’connor and stevens stayed away from islam, they could still have had musical careers:the stupidity of these fools following a false god al lah{“the BEST of deceivers” k3:54},a god whose greatest enemy is a man called MALIK AL AMLAK{“KING OF KINGS”}Sahih Muslim vol 5 hadith #5611
vtology says
She’s a know-nothing, an ostrich, and a fool. She’s in the running for a Darwin Award at a young age.
elee says
Is she already praying to bear a thousand martyrs for Allah? And what’s her face doing uncovered?
elee says
Will someone schooled in female psychology please explain this occurrence to me?
Georg says
Wonder if she knows Islam’s liberal penalty for apostasy.
jca reid says
Total MUPPET!!!
SAF says
The Program 90 Days the Other Way… a woman is to marry a man from Tunisia. Currently they are in Qatar and she is beginning to learn what to wear… how a woman is to behave and her husband can have up to 4 Wives… she being an American is not reticent to this new way of life. The other Americans on this
show are finding life in other nations lacks so much what America has to offer… Every socialist Democrat and Communist Progressive needs to tune in to the show to what a priviledge it is to be in the United States of America!
FYI says
aw shucks!
She found islamic love..
She has now joined a pagan Arab cult whose ‘holy’ koran teaches that a woman’s testimony is HALF that of a man{k2:282}due to what muhammed said was “the DEFICIENCY OF A WOMAN’S MIND”
A god who CURSES Christians and Jews k9:30
Avery mills is too stupid to exist.
She has confirmed muhammed’s opinion.
She has made her own path alright,but is clearly lacking the necessary intelligence to see where it will lead
islam is the religion of AntiChrist:its god al lah{the “BEST of deceivers” k3:54} is false,its “prophet” muhammed ,who RAPED a 9 year old girl and was a mass-murdering psychopath{Abu Dawud 4390}is false,its commandment-of-God violating ‘holy’ koran is false.
Only an idiot would convert to this evil creed given all that information.
Reziac says
Yet another virtue signaler… I note that she did not move to a Muslim-dominated country where she could experience the full force of her new religion.
tgusa says
“I really make my own path.”
“I have never cared about what people thought in the past. No one can sway my decision on my choices,”
Good lord, the stupid is strong in this one. I nominate her for the 2019 Darwin Award.
Always remember this Avery Mills,
“You can check out anytime you like but you can never leave”
Jon says
Let her ask Janet Jackson, if she has some brains left to think straight.
Larry says
What a stupid TWIT!!!
MJP says
Only a weak minded fool would fall for BS like the Quran, Sharia Law, & all the other Satanic Garbage connected with Islam