Posted on 02/19/2005 8:46:33 AM PST by MikeEdwards
The Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) is, in a word, professional. MEMRI links to Canada Free Press and it’s a source of pride that they sometimes pick up and post some of our stories.
That’s how I rate MEMRI on a professional basis. But it is in my personal life that the Institute, albeit unknowingly, shed light and understanding on something that has been plaguing me.
About a year ago, I discovered that someone close to me was being beaten by her husband. "Someone close to me" is the only way I can identify this young Muslim bride, because of my fear of bringing more trouble on her head.
The tearful late-night telephone call that came to me from the Muslim bride was a total shock, as I had understood she was happily married. Her call was more frustrating than shocking because there didn’t seem to be any way for me to help her solve the situation. Because I have known her parents for a long time, I immediately wanted to call them. The bride told me that if I did that, her situation would become worse. In my initial frustration, I even wanted to arrive unannounced at her apartment--with friends in tow. This unannounced visit, I naïvely thought, would perhaps frighten her husband into good conduct.
I had convinced myself that since she had grown up in Canada that she was really westernized at heart, and therefore could be spared the brutalities of a physically abusive husband. . . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Quick! Call NOW!
Oh, I forgot. They don't care about the plight of women when done by Muslims.
The Prophet in the Quran
Sura 4:24
How do you get women of today to put up with such crap?
Depends on when and where, I suppose. Which do the women fear more? The beatings, or being ostracized by her family and community. Not to leave out being condemned by her religion/God should she resist or not submit to her husband's discipline? Wonder where a disobedient wife goes when she dies? Rear em up that way and I suppose the submission and guilt becomes deeply, deeply conditioned.
One example where the "interference" of the state is called for . . . The victim must believe she deserves the bad treatment.
Now the Muslim can go and seek redress at a Canadian Sharia court... where hopefully the enlightened Imam will instruct the husband to beat her more lightly.
"Wonder where a disobedient wife goes when she dies."
Al-Hadis, Vol. 3, p. 137) Abu Sayeed al-Khodri reported that Mohammed was talking to a group of women when he said, "... I see the majority of you will go to Hell." The women asked why, to which Mohammed responded, "You often curse and are ungrateful to your companions." He then told them they had a basic defect in their nature, to which they responded, "How?" Mohammed answered, "Is not the attestation (knowledge and witness) of a women only worth half of a man's? And that is on account of her short intelligence."
More to read:
http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate/libido.html
I cannot even tell my wife to stop watching Dr. Phil or Oprah!
Mohammed , what a nice sweet guy he was ...
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