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Canadian Mental Health Association studies Muslim women’s mental health due to ‘discrimination’ and ‘hate crimes’

Dec 5, 2020 8:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams 14 Comments

According to the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA):

In Canada, Muslims are the targets of significant hate crime, aggression and discrimination. Muslim women in particular face discrimination and ill-treatment, even more so than Muslim men. This may be because the practice of wearing the hijab is a visible expression of Muslim women’s religion. It is not surprising that experiencing aggression and discrimination can go hand and hand with mental health difficulties.

This report was just picked up by the publication “Muslim Link.” Although there is no argument that genuine discrimination and hate can contribute to mental health problems, the Canadian Mental Health Association is advancing the victimology subterfuge in claiming that Muslim women in Canada are being targeted because of their faith to the extent that a study is warranted.

The CMHA is likely unaware of the extent to which Islamic supremacist special interest groups have dedicated themselves to demonizing infidels over “Islamophobia,” as part of their expansionary agenda of subversion.

The CMHA would do better to study the impact of the status of women in Islam, and how that may affect women’s mental health. But in that case, women’s answers to their questions may not be forthright, given the facts about their status and the burden they carry not to shame their religion and families. It is widely known that all women who experience domestic abuse fear isolation, intimidation and further violence. It is worse in many minority groups, in which a woman is threatened with marginalization (at best) should she tell her story and thereby embarrass her culture/religion. Honor violence is based on shaming one’s family. This is common in many cultures, including Islam. Islam is unique in its sanctioning of the inferiority and abuse of women:

(Quran 24:31) And tell the believing women to reduce of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers, their brothers’ sons, their sisters’ sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects of women. And let them not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment. And turn to Allah in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed.

If a woman does not cover, she is fair game to be abused:

(Quran 33:59) O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused.

Also see HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.

Ignorance about culture, covered up by identity politics and the soft bigotry of low expectations persists, and authorities are promoting these ills. If a Muslim woman is abused and psychologically affected, she only promotes her group identity by blaming the infidel. Screaming victimhood to advance the cause of Islam is an increasingly common practice.

The Canadian Mental Health Association rails against the alleged abuse of Muslim women in the West, but not against the abuse of Muslim women which is sanctioned in Islamic law. Of course domestic abuse is problematic in the West, but no Western law sanctions it. This was in part why Ontario outlawed Sharia arbitration in family courts. Canadian women urged Ontario’s then-Premier Dalton McGuinty to take a stand against “the ghettoization of members of religious communities as well as human-rights abuses.” Homa Arjomand, an Iranian woman who “launched a campaign to stop sharia in Ontario,” declared when Sharia was ruled out by McGuinty: “I’m so happy today. It’s a victory for the women’s rights movement.”

I am reminded of a story a health care worker told me. She said quietly that workers have seen Muslim women with burns and bruises on their arms under their full body coverings when asked to roll up their sleeves, while their Muslim husbands answer their health questions. When I asked what workers were doing about it, she said “Nothing.” They were not allowed to interfere. It is tolerated in our culture for “those people” to practice barbarity and abuse of women, but not for other “Canadians.”

The Canadian Mental Health Association is pushing a dangerous notion while having no awareness of the stealth jihad. The association has fallen into a trap, and is advancing the notion that distress experienced by Muslim women, even though it may stem from domestic abuse, is the fault of Canadians due to their “Islamophobia.” Canadians yet again stand condemned of “Islamophobia,” enough to lead to a mental health study — this time by the testimony of Muslim women, without any consideration of Salafi influences.

“Canadian Mental Health Association Study on Muslim Women’s Mental Health in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area,” Muslim Link, December 2, 2020:

The community-based research project, Muslim Women’s Mental Health, asked Muslim women in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) to describe their first-hand experiences of mental health and mental health services.

This kind of qualitative research is based on the wisdom that if you want to know how – and if – services and supports are working, you ask the service users and the service providers. [This study was prepared by Ruby Latif, MA; Doctor of Social Science Candidate (ABD), Royal Roads University; Research Associate, Diversity Institute, Ryerson University; Sara Rodrigues, PhD, Centre of Excellence on PTSD; and Andrew Galley, PhD, Canadian Mental Health Association, National.]

In Canada, Muslims are the targets of significant hate crime, aggression and discrimination. Muslim women in particular face discrimination and ill-treatment, even more so than Muslim men. This may be because the practice of wearing the hijab is a visible expression of Muslim women’s religion. It is not surprising that experiencing aggression and discrimination can go hand and hand with mental health difficulties. This study suggests that this is true for Muslim women in the GTHA.

The researchers in this study hosted focus groups with 13 Muslim women and interviewed 10 mental health professionals in order to understand how to improve mental health services and supports for Muslim women. The study also looked at why Muslim women may not be accessing services, and how to encourage them to seek support.

The women in the study revealed that they faced stigma and discrimination – both within and outside the Muslim community. There were cultural, religious or family stigmas about mental health that prevented women from accessing much needed mental health care. The women also faced service providers who didn’t understand their culture and faith, and who judged them. They spoke about the importance of having service providers who are sensitive to their life experiences and culture. This “cultural competency” and an increase in the cultural diversity of service providers would go a long way to improving the therapeutic experience for Muslim women.

The women in the study also mentioned the high cost of treatment and a lack of services in their community as obstacles to getting the mental health help they need.

CMHA is pleased to present this valuable research…

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", Canada, claiming victim status, Featured, Useful idiots, women's rights in Islam Tagged With: Andrew Galley, Canadian Mental Health Association, Muslim Women’s Mental Health, Ruby Latif, Sara Rodrigues


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  1. Chrissie01 says

    Dec 5, 2020 at 8:33 am

    yeah, we don’t like you and we do not want you around us.
    Cry, babies!
    Let your own folk and kin deal with your mental conditions. They are such capable ones!
    None of our problems.
    Our problems diminish once you and your numerous brood are off the scene.

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  2. revereridesagain says

    Dec 5, 2020 at 8:50 am

    Well, yeah, once you realize that it is Muslim males — there are no Muslim “men” — doing the discriminating and committing the hate crimes, starting with FGM and progressing to forced marriage and “honor killing”. Throw in the “stigmas about mental health” but oh, no, it’s those kafir mental health professionals who don’t “understand their culture and faith” who are at fault.

    Get rid of catastrophically irrational limitations on your life and things will improve. But that’s hard to do when it is your own “community” that threatens you with death if you escape its controls.

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    • Keith O says

      Dec 5, 2020 at 2:41 pm

      +1

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  3. mortimer says

    Dec 5, 2020 at 9:32 am

    The Canadian Mental Health Association should do a study on the MENTAL HEALTH EFFECTS OF INBREEDING AMONG MUSLIMS.

    The ‘hate crimes’ no doubt come mainly from Muslim males who deeply despise women as inferior to men in intelligence and morality. So said the prophet of Islam.

    The misogyny comes from Islam, not from Western people.

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  4. mortimer says

    Dec 5, 2020 at 9:40 am

    The Islamic veil’s intention is to isolate Muslim women so they will be more controllable by their male owners. There is also a stigma against Muslim women who seek emotional support.

    “Mental Health Stigma in the Muslim Community”, Ayse Ciftci, Purdue University

    Nev Jones and Patrick W. Corrigan, Illinois Institute of Technology

    https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jmmh/10381607.0007.102/–mental-health-stigma-in-the-muslim-community?rgn=main;view=fulltext

    Abstract

    Mental illness stigma continues to be a major barrier for individuals with mental illness. In this paper, we define constructs that comprise stigma (e.g., attitudes, stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination), discuss the harmful effects (e.g., label avoidance, public stigma, self-stigma) and present factors that may influence them (e.g., concealability). In order to better understand mental health stigma in Muslim community, we focus on intersectional stigma and present literature on the complex relationships among race/ethnicity, gender, class, religion, and health status among Muslims. In addition, we include literature highlighting culturally specific presentations of symptoms and mental health problems. Finally, we offer suggestions for future stigma research in Muslim communities.

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  5. mortimer says

    Dec 5, 2020 at 9:45 am

    The GHETTOIZATION of Muslim women comes from their own community. We all see it and know it. Muslim women are victims of the Islamic social system. It is horribly stupid and insulting to our intelligence to shift the blame for their ghettoization onto the kafirs! We dirty kafirs did not create the isolation of Muslim women. Let them take off their misogynistic veils and join modern women.

    The Canadian Mental Health Association officers who authorized this should be ashamed for supporting this foolish, counterfactual premise.

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  6. Shaman says

    Dec 5, 2020 at 10:01 am

    Promotion of Islamic veil/hijab has a misogynistic purpose. I don’t have any hatred towards women who wear hijab, in fact I feel so sad for them because they are not free from Islamic male oppression. They cannot feel the beautiful wind on their hair! I never felt okay when I was in places with many women who wear hijab. Not that I find them dangerous but if they were not free then as a male I cannot consider myself as free.

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    • Carol says

      Dec 5, 2020 at 11:20 am

      There aren’t many hijabis in Turkey, tho’!

      Reply
  7. James says

    Dec 5, 2020 at 10:59 am

    In the past, America at least welcomed immigrants provided they assimilated to American society. The founders said that people were created equal, but not that cultures or ethnic tribes were created equal. The notions of identity politics, grievance politics, multiculturalism were not basic principles of the founding documents or the Constitution. The idea that all cultures being equal, these cultures have a right to set up shop in America without regard for the values, customs, laws and practices of the country was not part of the founding vision. And I always assumed it was much the same in any Western society, especially ones derived from Great Britain, and the values inherited and adapted from Greek, Roman and Judeo-Christian ethics. Where the notion of multi-cultural rights of immigrants comes from and what justifies it is a bit puzzling. If it comes from Marxism, it is strange, since communist countries tend to be more insistent on conformity to the laws and practices of the state. An acquaintance recently defended Islam by pointing out that the hijab was not required in a certain Islamic country, I forget which, and was not required in Islamic scriptures such as the Koran. In short, the problem may not be that Canadians or Americans are prejudicial, but rather the problem lies in allowing or encouraging cultures to immigrate and try to establish foreign cultural values and practices without regard for the principle of assimilation to the host country. The solution must be to “reimagine” the requirement to be prepared to assimilate to Western values as a precondition for the privilege of immigration. We can see how in the past in other countries Islam has established its hegemony over the previous culture and then banished its values, beliefs and practices. Turkey would be an example. The Canadian psychologists are perhaps receiving funding from Islamic lobbies or perhaps they are trying to be woke multi-culturalists. But simply surrendering the culture of the West for the sake of social peace is appeasement and not so enlightened.

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    • Karen says

      Dec 5, 2020 at 11:37 am

      Unfortunately the Canadian government has instituted a policy of multiculturalism which says all cultures are equal – they are not. I agree all persons should be equal but some persons are more equal than others now in Canada. 🙁

      Reply
  8. John says

    Dec 5, 2020 at 11:20 am

    If I had to walk around in public dressed ‘like a letter box'(quoting British Prime Minister Boris Johnson), I’d be depressed too!

    Doesn’t Canada have this wonderful socialized medicine where everyone gets whatever they want without having to pay for it? That’s what Omar, Talib, the squad and most Democrats in the United States want.

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  9. Jaladhi says

    Dec 5, 2020 at 11:22 am

    These are nothing but imaginary “hate” crimes of delusional Muslimas! Canadian Mental Health Association should focus on how their religious teachings are turning them into mental patients!

    Reply
  10. wpm says

    Dec 5, 2020 at 12:27 pm

    Most of the Muslimas who are depressed because they are only objects and slaves to their male owners ,be they be their” owners” be husbands, brothers ,or fathers. The hate ,fear ,unhuman treatment of women is a very normal part of the “Islamic life style ‘ they live 24/7, 365 days a year. No amount of money or “government good intention” will solve their problem. Leave Islam to live a normal western life style most of their problems would go away, trouble is their male relatives would kill them first. The track record of honor killing over 1400 years in every Islamic cultural bears that out.

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  11. Keith O says

    Dec 5, 2020 at 3:04 pm

    Whenever we read about an organisation crying out over the abuse suffered by Mudslime females I notice a few things.
    First there is, as has been pointed out by other readers, no examination of the effects of islam on the females.
    There is no condemnation of the slave like conditions that their religion places them under.
    Always,Always, the finger of blame is pointed at the dirty infidels and finally
    We NEVER here of any support for these abused women by the hairy leg, hairy armpit brigade AKA Feminists!

    Reply

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