It’s not surprising that International Women’s Day would get pushback in Islamabad. 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).
“International Women’s Day: With Shoes And Stones, Islamists Disrupt Pakistan Rally,” by Diaa Hadid, NPR, March 8, 2020:
Demonstrators belonging to Islamist groups attacked an International Women’s Day rally in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Sunday, hurling rocks, chunks of mud and even their shoes. The demonstrators, who were at a rival rally held by hardline Islamist organizations, were particularly enraged by one slogan the women’s day rally adopted: “mera jism, mera marzi” – “my body, my choice.”
Riot police set up large cloth barricades to dive the rival rallies, which flanked either side of a main road. But the police were also there to protect the women’s day protesters, after the hardline men and women threatened violence.
As the protest was winding down, dozens of men tried to push through the barricade, including a man who held a little girl aloft on his shoulders. According to a video uploaded to Twitter by a BBC reporter, police used batons to push them back. Still, for the next few minutes, they hurled projectiles that scattered the women’s day protesters, as journalists huddled behind concrete road dividers….
DHazard says
Islam hijacks hearts, turning men against their wives and children. Even Muslim mothers find themselves on the short end of the stick, forced to follow the will of their spoiled little sons. It’s depressing to realize that the misogyny of one man who’s been dead for over 1400 years is still breaking the jaws of Muslim women today.
gravenimage says
I’ve seen this many times. There was a Muslim woman a few years ago on the bus in long black robes and Hijab whose son who was about four was violently kicking his sister’s stroller–she was about 18 months–causing her to cry. The mother was both ineffectively telling her son “no” at the same time she was smiling. It was pretty obvious how the boy was likely to grow up…
mortimer says
In Pakistan and other Muslim countries women (even family members) are afraid to tell men what to do. The misogyny is normative Islam.
Cicero says
“Islamic hardline men AND women” – says it all.
A similar type of spirit energised the orthodox East Delhi rioters – throwing projectiles and missiles , over running the other side and terrorising then
Don’t you just love Islam – the Religion of Peace , Mercy ,Compssion and Trspectful Dialogue
tim gallagher says
Pakistan seems like such an appalling, really hardline Muslim country that I’m surprised the government even let people there have a Women’s Day rally. They would be pretty brave people who attended that rally, like the women who rallied in public in Iran a while back. Brave people. As this report shows, yet again, Islam and most of its adherents are a backward, extremely primitive bunch who still have the mental outlook of 7th century barbarians. How anyone thinks that such people, with such attitudes, should be allowed into our civilised western countries is completely beyond me. Countries like Pakistan seem as if they will never improve or progress, but are more likely to get worse and become more hardline and backward.
mortimer says
Those women are gutsy.
tim gallagher says
Yes, Mortimer, I am amazed and in awe at the courage of these women, such as the ones a while back in Iran (as well as these women in Pakistan), who put their lives on the line in these vicious Muslim countries. They would know they are probably going to be treated appallingly for challenging barbaric and misogynistic Islam.
Martin says
Clashes erupted between participants of the Women’s March and a “conservative” religious rally in Islamabad on International Women’s Day on Sunday.
( “conservative” — most probably a code word for “Muslim fanatics” )
Martin says
…. but this other “Women’s Day” rally, where women were more decently dressed, was not attacked …
Sun says
To watch the short videos scares me to death – particularly the second one. Islam is no fun.
We have to stop Islam in the West before it is too late.
gravenimage says
In other words, Muslims were attacking the women.
God, I hate Islam.
Sun says
+1
AleX says
Dichotomy of meanings.
While in the West the slogan ‘My body, My choice’ sounds stupid enough for making a case in Roe/vs/Wade, in Pakistan the same slogan ‘Mera jism, Mera marzi’ is merely an attempt to protect female minors from abuse and genital mutilation by the barbarous, anachronistic mohamedans, and rightfully so!
Thus the Paki mozlem mob, once again, proves itself to be an imbecilic mass of hopelessly unevolved cultist followers of a rapist ‘prophet’.
SAFI says
You nailed it.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: Muslims disrupt International Women’s Day rally, attacking rallygoers with stones and shoes
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This should not surprise. Muslims *hate* women.
Krishna says
Where are those retuers feminists?
Giacomo Latta says
If that means where are the white and pinkish Western feminists, absolutely!
elee says
What a stinking pre-Mediaeval s**thole. Now, can one sympathise with these brave women and not desire that their human rights and liberties be protected? And can one desire their freedom without pondering who in the world might be capable of deterring their oppressors? And just like that one becomes not only an Islamophobe but also a cultural imperialist. Because, well, our way truly is better. Oh and because if we do not oppose and thwart them here there and everywhere, they will enslave us everywhere.
Marigold says
To be honest I don’t particularly support the militant feminism which emerged in Western countries and is still in evidence today. This is because they have showed themselves to be hypocritical and selective in the women’s issues they support.They are strangely silent when it comes to speaking out against female genital mutilation or the oppressive garments Muslim women are often forced to wear but were vociferous when it comes to having the right to legally murder their defenceless unborn babies.
However, I do think the Pakistani women who marched must be extremely brave because Islam has shown itself to be more oppressive to women over the centuries than Christianity ever was. In fact in the early Christian era women were drawn to Christianity because of its liberating attitude towards women.It always taught that they were equal but different to men.That fact has been largely ignored in the second wave of Western Christianity that is why I could never fully support it.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Linda Sarsour must be torn over this one. But she’s inferior to men by her own belief, so she can suffer alone. Allah himself dictated Out of sight, out of mine. At least until you need your woman for something.
SAFI says
So typical. The same thing is happening everywhere in the muslim world every time when women dare to ask for basic human rights. But Pakistan is likely the worst islamic hellhole of all mysogynistic islamic hellholes.
Walter Sieruk says
The misogyny of Islam is awful strong malicious and vicious .Be it with Sunni Islam or Shi’ ite Islam it’s all ruthless ,heartless and malice-filled against females , both girls and women.
One example the anti-female spirit of Sunni Islam is seen in the heinously misogynistic Sunni kingdom of of Saudi Arabia.
For the Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a kingdom of callous brutal misogyny of the most heinously heartless kind there is. Be it the vicious, malicious and murderous Islamic practice of what is so very inappropriately called in the Islamic world “honor killing” and also the brutal cruel , savage Islamic tradition so unfittingly called “female circumcision “ which is reality of female genital mutilation. And other Islamic evils
An example, on March 11, 2002 in Saudi Arabia a girls dorm caught of fire, the girls naturally rushed out of that dorm that was on fire . In their hast to escape the flames they forgot to take and put on their face veils. Those Islamic state police of Saudi Arabia with this totally unreasonable and heartless Islamic mindset forced all the girls back into the dorm that was on fire. Only because they didn’t have their face veils. So all those girls did a horrible painful death .This is worse than tragic and sad, this is the murderous misogyny of the Islamic kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
One example of the anti-female spirit of Shi ‘ite Islam may be seen in a cruel tragic and murderous incident Shi -ite Islamic tyranny that had the official title of “The Islamic Republic of Iran.”
The 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 deadly s Islamic tyranny of Iran is very much stinking with brutal vicious and murderous violence against 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
To give an example the misogyny of Sunni Islam may be seen in Afghanistan and Pakistan .
This Sunni Islam’s outcome is the misogynistic brutal ,cruel vicious 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 Pakistan and 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.]
To give an example of the misogyny of Shi- ite Islam may be seen in Iran.
That ruthless cruel brutal heinous regime of Iran that is 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 misogyny 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
grandpahalfdime says
Oh, yeah, and in America we see The Women’s March being run by a Muslim…makes you wonder.
Wilfred Quadros says
These hijab wearing women deserve these kinds of insults from muslim men. By accepting the hijab as a divine message from the Quran, the women have made themselves subservient & unequal to men. They even go to great lengths to prevent other women who trying to free themselves from this horrible culture. These hijab wearing women should not only be insulted Pakistani men in Pakistan but also by all Muslim men around the around the world so they can understand their true value in Islam.