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The New York Times, like the rest of the establishment media, seems to have adopted a policy of making Islam look as good as possible whenever possible, no matter what incidences of jihad violence and Sharia oppression have to be whitewashed in the process. And so it was no surprise when the Times on Thursday published a weepy, self-pitying piece by a Muslim woman, Myra Farooqi, all about her romance with a Hindu man, which went sour when he ungallantly refused to convert to Islam to marry her. Criticize the draconian and supremacist Islamic marriage laws that made for this scenario? Not on your life, as far as the New York Times is concerned.
After telling the sad story of her doomed relationship, Farooqi writes: “I cannot defend the arbitrary limitations of Muslim love because I have been broken by them.” However, she is not criticizing those limitations: “for a while I blamed my mother and religion,” but apparently she is over all that now. And “the onus of sacrifice lies with the non-Muslim whose family is presumably more open to the possibility of interfaith relationships.” She knows it can work: “I have since watched Muslim friends marry converts. I know it’s possible to share a love so endless that it can overcome these obstacles.” But only if the non-Muslim is willing to sacrifice.
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Mike says
why would I or anyone else with a head on there shoulders want to convert to a let’s say race of hate of woman. I love my wife and children woman. Remember is Islam if a woman doesn’t follow Islam Sharia Law it’s the death of them. Sorry I’ll pass
I see Islam like sticking your boy thing in the door and slimming the door on it
Rob says
But then we men who convert, get to demand sex, marry off our underage daughters, have the same daughters gentially mutilated and if we tire of the old bag get another more nubile spouse.
gravenimage says
Only Muslims feel that they “get to” mutilate their children and pimp them out at a tender age. *Ugh*.
maria says
yes, islam is a perverted ideology like the nazis and communists.
why should non muslim men marry a muslim women under the condition that the menconvert to islam?
Why don´t the muslim women convert to christianity, Judaism, Hindu, buddhism if they want to marry a non muslim men?
It is probably so that the devilish perverted ideology would disappear from the world and save it from islam?
gravenimage says
+1
jim says
So; they are saying convert to a CULT of sexism, pedophilia, and terrorism? ARE THEY INSANE?
Wellington says
The editorial staff of The New York Times does not have the collective wisdom or moral intelligence of a slug.
Am I exaggerating for effect here? Yes I am—but not by all that much.
Besides, in defense of slugs, they might be repulsive but they do little to no harm, contra the editorial staff of the NYT which is both repulsive and regularly does a great deal of harm.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Surprisingly, I found out that the New York Times can actually have some value…
I recently stayed at a Marriott Hotel and they gave out complementary copies of the New York Times.
I grabbed one before I left to come home and gave it to my daughter.
She thanked me and said that it made a great cage liner for her pet rabbit…
Wellington says
And I have no doubt, James, that rabbit is a conservative.
gravenimage says
I’ll take slugs in my garden to Muslim supremacists in my society any day…
Wellington says
Gets my vote, gravenimage, for the quote of the day.
gravenimage says
🙂
Alfredo says
That “old bag” in a clear projection of what he’s become, sees nothing wrong with mutilating his daughters. For him who has been degraded as a human been, the solution is to purchase another more “nubile” wifey. Depraved.
E T says
Slugs destroy beautiful gardens, they just keep eating away until there is nothing left and they spread slime, just like the New York Times.
revereridesagain says
I can think of few things that would turn me away from a man faster than a stubborn persistence in adhering to the murderous ideology of Islam. For a man to respond to reason and decency and renounce his Muslim beliefs is an act of courage and integrity, and I greatly admire all those who have chosen to do so, especially openly.
Ms. Farooqi, on the other hand, has none of those qualities and instead wants some man to “save” her by sacrificing his own mind, integrity, grasp of reality, personal safety, and quality of life. Avoid her and her type like the plague, gentlemen!
gravenimage says
Hear, hear!
Wellington says
Seconded.
Giacomo Latta says
Did Ms. Farooqi inform the rest of the muslim community about his religious background? If so, it could be too late for her would-be converted husband who would be nothing but a decapitated, eviscerated mess, the result of muslim men who had been dishonoured. ”There are no muslim men good enough for you, well …”
Jim says
Why could she not convert to Hinduism to marry him? In modern society the problem has been dealt with either way. One or the other converts. Or both continue to hold their previous faith. There is a novel about a rabbi who married a Catholic woman, and neither changed their faith. In a popular TV series the woman converted from Christianity to Judaism to marry a Jewish man. A person my family know is Jewish and her fiancé converted to Judaism to marry her. Unfortunately the marriage did not last, because she met another man and got a divorce t marry him. So, conversion does not always work either. Someone in my family was Catholic before and after marriage, and simply stayed home on Sundays, as her husband took the children to a Protestant church. I suppose that arrangement works as well, if one of the partners is not so committed to attending services of a different religious faith. My conclusion is that the Hindu man made the right decision, because, because Islam and the wife would have made unacceptable demands even if he had converted.
gravenimage says
Jim, you are a civilized person–so, yes, all of these configurations can work.
But in Islam, since it considers men to be superior to women and Islam to be superior to every other faith, a Muslim man can marry–or rape–an Infidel woman; but a Muslim woman can *only* marry a Muslim or someone who will convert to Islam.
In the Muslim world Infidel men and Muslim women who so much as are friends with each othere can be murdered by pious Muslims.
Phil Copson says
Bear in mind too that the entire story may be a fabrication, and “Myra Farooqi” may not exist. The NYT’s point in publishing the story is not to provide a news item of such limited interest that it’s amazing that anyone saw fit to waste news-print on it,, but to promote Islam amongst non-muslims by influencing the weak-minded into accepting conversion.
Does anyone in their right mind turn out such tosh as being “broken by the limitations of muslim love” and “sharing an endless love that will overcome all obstacles” ?
Sounds more like PG Wodehouse’s fictional romantic authoress “Rosie M Banks” – (a dig at real-life authoress Ethel M Dell) – than a real person. Next thing you know, Myra will be telling us that “the stars are God’s daisy-chain”……
vcragain says
I don’t think that the differences between sects of Christianity are anything to get a fit over…whereas if you are a Christian and your wannabe-partner is a Muslim, there is a definite built-in huge issue facing your life right there….even if you managed to survive the hysteria from the Muslim side over your non-conversion to their ‘truth’, you must know your existence is precarious if any of the extremists find out about your status ! Better to stay away….as I might have said here before…my father was in Kuwait for 3 years when i was an early teen & made sure to educate my young brain on the perils of getting too near to Muslim males – (he was disgusted with their attiudes to females) – so just assuming that your ‘tolerant’ Muslim mate will always stay accepting of your non-Muslim status is a bit dodgy IMO ! Good luck with that !
gravenimage says
+1
Ken Johnson says
BUT ONLY IF THE NON MUSLEM IS WILLING TO SACRIFICE. ONLY ¡¡¡¡
tgusa says
Security at the new york times headquarters should be staffed with 100 percent muslim converts. For equity and inclusion the mentally ill should provide security for the mentally ill. That would be a show worth binge watching.
Quazgaa says
Simple, stay away from muslim women riding such a high horse.
Let them marry the horse.
James Lincoln says
Any non-muslim who is contemplating marrying a muslima needs to see a mental health therapist – ASAP…
tgusa says
Any non-muslim who is contemplating, anything involving muslims, needs to see a mental health therapist – ASAP…
BlackSabbath says
I have a problem with the term “non-muslim.” A perfectly normal person should be just called normal person, and not a “non-muslim.” For instance, how would you feel if I called you a non-rapist, non-childmolester, non-terrorist, and non-murderer. Technically, these terms are correct, but just weird because the status-quo is bestowed upon the abnormal behavior.
notnolib says
+10
James Lincoln says
Good point, BlackSabbath…
Infidel says
Her very condition – that he convert to islam – should have told him that he loved her more than she loved him. It shouldn’t have taken his parents to talk sense into him. Aside from that, as an Indian/Indian-American, even if he was ‘secular’, he should have thought 10 times before dating a Pakistani, since even beyond religion, there is the issue of Indo-Pak enmity which is a people-people rather than a government-government animosity
Karmayogi says
NYT doesn’t know, if this Hindu man was in India, he would have been dead already.
Secondly, an “interfaith” love ceases to be interfaith, the moment religious conversion is required. It will become “intrafaith”. But NYT would never understand.
And it’s very convenient to say “the onus of sacrifice lies with the non-Muslim” like it’s a casual thing. None of the US news media has the ball to question WHY?
gravenimage says
+1
Infidel says
No, he wouldn’t have been dead. She already went in w/ the condition that he had to convert to islam if they were to marry, so had this happened in India, they’d have been left alone. The only thing is that his parents would have disowned him, as they might have in this case as well
The way it works there is that if a man in a muslim-infidel relationship converts out of islam, he’s targeted for death. If a woman marries an infidel w/o converting him, she’s targeted, even if he and his family allows her to remain muslim
One last point: I’m sure Myra Farooqi approves of the marriage jihad that takes place throughout the subcontinent, where non-muslim girls, including underaged ones, are converted to islam and married to muslims, forcefully in Pakistan and Bangladesh, and deceptively in India. To the extent that she’s heart-broken at losing the man she ostensibly loved, that’s something to be celebrated!
mortimer says
The uncritical acceptance of whatever TAQIYYA they spout is NORMATIVE at the NYT, rather than an aberration. They publish their TAQIYYA unchallenged.
Lower than lowest journalistic standards.
gravenimage says
New York Times Blames Non-Muslim Men for Refusing to Convert to Islam to Marry Muslim Women
………………
Just appalling. Islam demands conversion.
Jack Holan says
The Nytimes are you OKwe can always count on in this ‘New Way’ Islamic Jihad by any means. Of course if this involved conversion to be a Jew, Catholic, Christian Hindu Buhididist the Times would call it imposing, not understanding of Islam or its cultures, arhcaic a relic of the Ancients. The Leftists will always twist it to to there reality and damned be the truth.
SJ says
True
Andrew Blackadder says
The followers of islam cannot seem to see their own contradictions as they say they need not convert from islam to whatever religion their partner is, but their partner is the intolerant one for not converting to islam, they cannot see the stupidity in their own faith but I guess thats what islam is about, stupidity at its finest.
The Hindu gentleman knows about islam and may well see that once he converts he cannot, publicly at least, return to Hinduism, but Im guessing his love of Krishna is enough for him.
Perhaps this woman could learn what love really is.
gravenimage says
This is ugly but not contradictory–it is all Muslim supremacism.
Eleanor says
Of all the Muslim men in all the cities in all the world, she walks into Mr Hindu. What are the odds?
tgusa says
Nice play on Rick in Casablanca, of all the gin joints in the world. Very nice.
tgusa says
White democrats in the US media are fanning the flames of hate across the board. Non haters of all persuasions need to unite and crush them all to a point where we will never see them raise their ugly faces against us ever again.
Clifford Fodor says
In Canada, one Muslim guy beat his wife with a hockey stick for a half an hour. In the Middle East somewhere, a mother was made to starve by the Muslims. After she was given food and had eaten it, she was told that the meat were the chopped up pieces of her son. Refugees boat people from North Africa were making their way to southern Europe. A few of them were Christian, but most of them were Moslems. The Christians were thrown overboard.
Islam is pure evil. It should not be allowed in this country or in any of our allies. Doesn’t anyone remember the 9/11 attacks? Isn’t there a law against bringing in dangerous people?
Khushi says
I can understand the muslim woman wanting to marry a muslim.
I can of course understand that the Hindu man DID NOT want to convert because who would want to convert to such an odious cult??
What i can’t understand is why would NY Times print such drivel like this??
Did someone pay them?
Do they want to be promoting islam which is responsible for most terrorist attacks in the world?
Don’t they have better news stories to print?
Are they becoming a yellow journal?
My conclusion was that this story must have been published for money.
There is no other reason why a reasonable minded editor would push something like this on their paying subscribers.
E T says
Plant the seed, plant the seed, plant the seed. Be a slave for Allah.
Qutb said” The Qur’an on the one hand constructs faith in the hearts of the Muslim community and on the other attacks the surrounding Jahiliyyah through this community, while struggling to remove the jahili influences which are found in the ideas, practices and morals of the Muslim community. The construction of the Islamic belief occurred under these stormy conditions, and not in the form of a theology or theory or scholastic argument”.
Jerry says
Muslims follow the Qura’n genocidal agenda against all non Muslims.
The less unpleasant ones not necessarily literally, but at least aspirationally.
Some of the less devout ones can be less unpleasant but are often hypocrites to a greater or lesser degree.
My young brother married one when both were just older than sixty. Neither converted.
Had the been younger I would have counselled them against such marriage for practical reasons as if children were born in such marriage they would have inevitably grown up confused and conflicted.
Ultimately, the marriage broke down for the mundane reason that despite being Muslim the wife was also an alcoholic, or so I was made to understand.
Now that my young brother is much older and single he spends his time in a deeper and deeper study of a non Muslim religion.
May God God have mercy on him and his confusions.
notnolib says
An interesting factoid……When muslimas cheat (and they do cheat), they typically do so with Jewish men. By contrast, muslim men have never (in the entire history of islam) been able to satisfy a woman. That explains why their women need to be “cut” so they can’t experience pleasure. On the other hand, Jewish men are well known for their patience, kindness, and inventiveness. You really can’t blame the muslima.
Lisa says
I don’t blame them.. they are Nasty biatches not taught to bathe regularly or clean themselves or shave or use deodorant ? and in accordance with evil islam the women have had their genitalia mutilated and can not enjoy sex and who knows how it may be for an American male used to unmutilated women ?????
OLD GUY says
Seems to me the Hindu man made the right decision. The big question here is why would the N.Y.Times put this story in the news paper? Nothing news worthy here, sounds like they just needed a filler story.
truthout says
This is an attempt at brainwashing for the masses .First off Islam isn’t a religion, its a war strategy.
Last I checked you didn’t join the war lords to marry .If this were true religion then two adults could have found a solution .I guess the brainwashing campaign. didn’t get the memo. that repeating something over and over doesn’t make it so.Truly pathetic
SJ says
To be fair, NYT seems to have published her story to show people how bigoted she is.