This is a typical pseudo-academic inversion of reality designed to bamboozle the ignorant and easily led. What really undermines and weakens women’s rights is this:
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
Muhammad’s child bride, Aisha, says in a hadith that Muhammad “struck me on the chest which caused me pain, and then said: ‘Did you think that Allah and His Apostle would deal unjustly with you?’” — Sahih Muslim 2127
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
Islamic law stipulates that a man’s prayer is annulled if a dog or a woman passes in front of him as he is praying. “Narrated ‘Aisha: The things which annul the prayers were mentioned before me. They said, “Prayer is annulled by a dog, a donkey and a woman (if they pass in front of the praying people).” I said, ‘You have made us (i.e. women) dogs.’ I saw the Prophet praying while I used to lie in my bed between him and the Qibla. Whenever I was in need of something, I would slip away. for I disliked to face him.” — Sahih Bukhari 1.9.490
Another hadith depicts Muhammad saying that the majority of the inhabitants of hell are women:
“I looked into Paradise and I saw that the majority of its people were the poor. And I looked into Hell and I saw that the majority of its people are women.” — Sahih Bukhari 3241; Sahih Muslim 2737
When asked about this, he explained:
“I was shown Hell and I have never seen anything more terrifying than it. And I saw that the majority of its people are women.” They said, “Why, O Messenger of Allah?” He said, “Because of their ingratitude (kufr).” It was said, “Are they ungrateful to Allah?” He said, “They are ungrateful to their companions (husbands) and ungrateful for good treatment. If you are kind to one of them for a lifetime then she sees one (undesirable) thing in you, she will say, ‘I have never had anything good from you.’” — Sahih Bukhari 1052
And in another hadith:
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) went out to the musalla (prayer place) on the day of Eid al-Adha or Eid al-Fitr. He passed by the women and said, ‘O women! Give charity, for I have seen that you form the majority of the people of Hell.’ They asked, ‘Why is that, O Messenger of Allah?’ He replied, ‘You curse frequently and are ungrateful to your husbands. I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religious commitment than you. A cautious sensible man could be led astray by some of you.’ The women asked, ‘O Messenger of Allah, what is deficient in our intelligence and religious commitment?’ He said, ‘Is not the testimony of two women equal to the testimony of one man?’ They said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘This is the deficiency in her intelligence. Is it not true that a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menses?’ The women said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘This is the deficiency in her religious commitment.’” — Sahih Bukhari 304
Another statement attributed to Muhammad: “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.” — Sahih Bukhari 4.54.460
“Islamophobia undermines and weakens women’s rights,” by Jaya Padmanabhan, San Francisco Examiner, October 18, 2021:
In research studies, rarely have Muslim Americans been asked how prevailing attitudes toward Islam affect their identity and shape their worldview. So Elsadig Elsheikh and Basima Sisemore, two UC Berkeley researchers, decided to conduct a national survey of “people living with Islamophobia, documenting their collective experiences and registering their voices.” Their findings are in the recent report “Islamophobia Through the Eyes of Muslims.”
About 3.45 million Muslims reside in the United States. The Bay Area has the largest concentration of Muslims, totaling 250,000 people or about 3.5% of the area’s population. Explaining why the survey was critical, Elsheikh said prejudice and discimination against Muslims in the United States is not well understood. “Islamophobia has a long history. It did not emerge after 9/11, but 9/11 amplified it,” he said.
For Sisemore, it was unsettling to learn from the survey that Islamophobia affects Muslim American women more than Muslim American men.
The study from UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute surveyed 1,123 Muslims living and working in the United States. Over 60% of the respondents were immigrants and most were college graduates who spoke English fluently. While 42 states were represented in the survey, almost a third of the participants came from California.
Results indicate most Muslims in America believe women are more at risk of experiencing Islamophobia than any other group. That stands to reason as Muslim women, particularly those who wear the hijab (a headscarf covering hair and neck) or niqab (covering head and face but not the eyes), are seen more obviously as practitioners of the Islamic faith.
Case in point: Even while President Donald Trump criticized the four vocal women Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives — the “Squad” of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib — he focused much of his Islamophobic ire on Ilhan Omar, the hijab-wearing, Somali-born Muslim lawmaker.
“Muslim women are seen as belonging to an external or opposing culture, which is to say, Islam or the East, and the prevailing narrative is that Islam is at odds with Western ideals and democratic values,” said Sisemore.
The study revealed Islamophobia makes it difficult for Muslims, especially Muslim women, to build community. More women (82%) admitted feeling inhibited than men (76.4%) when asked about forming friendships and community ties. Notably, 68.8% of women participants reported Islamophobia prevents them from building social connections with other U.S. Muslims.
Nine out of 10 women surveyed admitted to censoring their speech or actions for fear of how people might respond or react to them. “They try to stay away from speaking their minds when it comes to general issues of society,” dreading it could lead to expressions of hate or violence, said Elsheikh.
One of the drivers of Islamophobia, according to both El Sheikh and Sisemore, is the media’s portrayal of Muslim women as downtrodden and needing to be saved by Western culture and ideals….
PMK says
They surveyed 1,123 MUSLIMS living and working in the US. How exactly did “Islamophobia” prevent any of them from building community? Now they’re saying they want to be friends with non-Muslims? Since when?
somehistory says
Is this the same campus where Mr. Ami Horowitz asked for funding for the taliban to be able to attack America? And students were willingly giving him money for that purpose?
If mozlums don’t like it here….which they do but don’t…they are free to leave. Just put that burka/scarf/hee job/ over their nose and mouth, board a plane and wait for a pilot to be cleared for takeoff.
When the average person feels persecuted, threatened, unwanted, unwelcome, hated, disliked where he lives, he gathers funds and moves to a better location.
mozlums pretend to feel ” persecuted, threatened, unwanted, unwelcome, hated, disliked” in the U.S. but they don’t make plans to leave….it seems they all have lots and lots of money to spend on big cars, nice houses, expensive clothing…they just whine, complain and lie, lie and lie in order to force change.
They don’t really want to be welcome, wanted, or liked…they want opposition because it gives them more to whine and lie about and to keep demanding change.
tim gallagher says
What a load of utter bullshit. Islamophobia weakens women’s rights! No, it is Islam, that barbaric, backward load of misogynistic crap, that weakens women’s rights. Anyone that genuinely wants to advance women’s rights and give girls and women a better life, would surely like to get rid of Islam, which is clearly the most misogynistic ideology, by far, that is still polluting the human race and crushing women’s rights wherever it holds sway..
Walter Sieruk says
Brigitte Gabriel , who is an Arab woman who used to live in the Middle Eastern nation of Lebanon but now migrated by legal means to the USA and is likewise a legally and officially and American citizen had well explained by Brigitte Gabriel in her book, entitled THEY MUST BE STOPPED in Chapter 9 of the title “Islam’s Contempt for Women” which informs its reader on page 171 “Control of behavior and disregard for human life are key elements in Islamic ideology.”
In addition, on the next page it further reads” Women in Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.”
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Doomer says
Those Leftists,professors and students,believe in what is,de facto a religion: the ideology of Social Justice.
In the book “Live not by lies” (2020)by Christian author Rod Dreher, and the title is that of a speech by Russian
Nobel winner in literature Solzhenitsyn, he interviews atheist intellectual James Lindsay.
This Lindsay is an ardent atheist crusader,having written ”
Everybody Is Wrong About God”(2015) and ”
God Doesn’t; We Do: Only Humans Can Solve Human Challenges”(2012). But in 2020 came out his book with atheist Helen Pluckrose, where describes Leftist thought,
in “Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody “.
Lindsay tells Dreher that Social Justice warriors believe in a RELIGION.
They are Leftist,Marxist,communist, anti-capitalism. They believe progress,according to their definition of it, is inevitable, it is a law.
Their beliefs, which they believe AS fanatically in, as Muslims do in the Quran are:
1.Central fact of human existence is power, power relationship.
2.No such thing as objective truth, only power.
Those who hold power decide what is true or false.
3.Identity politics is based on intersectionality.
All are divided into oppressors and oppressed, with variations
That is why they attack the redpill and redpill 2.0 movement so viciously, saying lies about its ideas, calling it nihilistic,
when it is realistic. Or saying it is far-right, in effect,saying nazi, when lots of people of color accept the redpill ideas. I think the main reason they hate the redpill SO much is because it tells people of color to
1.Concentrate on your mental,psychological health,
2.Then your physical health, and then financial health, only or mostly for
YOURSELF,
not for your race, ethnicity, etc. Forget that, become, the best version of yourself, for your own personal satisfaction, at your rate, in what your passion is.
gravenimage says
UC Berkeley study claims that ‘Islamophobia undermines and weakens women’s rights’
…………….
Ah…right. It’s not as though FGM, child marriage, forced marriage, wife beating, polygamy, marital rape, the “Triple Talaq”, summary divorce for Muslim men only, women’s testimony being worth half that of men, unequal inheritance rights, women being under the thumb of a “Mehram” who determines if they can get an education or leave the house, keeping of sex slaves, “Honor Killings”, and stoning women to death–all orthodox Islam–in any way weakens women’s rights…sarc/off
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
Any word on how far Left universities like UC Berkeley are doing as far as attracting alumni donations?
gravenimage says
I’ve had a hard time finding solid information, James.
But I know that while I’ll donate to very specific programs and goals, I don’t donate to UC Berkeley in general. It makes me sad that this is not an option, but I won’t fund a lot of this insanity.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
Thank you for your reply.
I’m assuming, of course, that somewhat older graduates were not brought up in a “Far Left” environment – and are likely to be at least somewhat closer to being classic JFK liberals or even centrists.
Someone, somewhere must be tracking this stuff…
gravenimage says
I’m sure they are, James. I’ll let you know if I find out anything else. Important to know.
gravenimage says
Elsadig Elsheikh has also railed against anyone who dares oppose the brutality of Shari’ah law, and he also excoriates anyone for opposing terrorism:
https://belonging.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/haas_institute_legalizing_othering_the_united_states_of_islamophobia.pdf
And Basima Sisemore is at the “Othering & Belonging Institute”–jargon even in the organization’s name; not a good sign.
Pet Charles says
It would have been useful if there was a question that asked women if they wore a hijab at all times or whether they noticed that it is only when they wore their hijab that they noticed the alleged discrimination.
Perhaps even more useful, the authors should be asked how many in their sample were from Afghanistan. It would e interesting to see if women from Afghanistan believe that they are being discriminated against in the US because they are female. I expect to hear the Afghans being referred to as “Brown people” and soon we will learn that their religious rights are being violated in the areas where they are being held for processing before being released into the US population.
rubiconcrest says
The article appeared on 10/18 and there are no comments. Either no one read it, everyone who did had nothing to add or hopefully everyone who read it saw it for what it was … another Islam whitewash that has everything backwards from Islamophobia on.
Jim says
Twisted logic of pro-Islamists resembles the twisted logic of the far left. Islamic attacks on the West arouse fear of Islam, and this is supposed to hurt Muslim women. But sharia hurts Muslim women and also non-Muslim women. So really it is Islam that hurts Muslim women. But the left is more than willing to parrot the Pro-Islamic version.
Prabhakar Shetty says
“Inversion of reality” is their hallmark. Expose their hypocrisy and infinite crimes and lies.
Paul says
Were the study to have substituted, Omarophilia, for, islamophobia, its conclusions would be more correct.
OLD GUY says
I learned a long time ago that you can make a University study come out almost anyway you want it to. U.C. Berkeley has a far left reputation, so no surprise it would find the Islamopocbia would weaken Women’s rights. Maybe they should now do a study of how Islam may harm women rights. Na, can’t do that it might show the truth about Islam’s violence against women and young girls. I wonder if the TAX payers paid for this study? If we did it’s just more waste of our money.