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The Violent Oppression of Women in Islam
FrontPage ^ | October 5, 2007

Posted on 10/17/2007 10:52:10 PM PDT by Posting

The Violent Oppression of Women in Islam  
By Robert Spencer and Phyllis Chesler
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, October 05, 2007

The booklet that you are about to read details some of the principal ways in which women suffer in the Islamic world – often with religious and cultural sanction. Many of these crimes against women, such as wife-beating, are ordained by the Qur’an itself; others, such as female genital mutilation and honor killing, are praised by Islamic clerics and hallowed by Islamic culture. That feminists in the West remain silent about this deeply ingrained and institutionalized mistreatment of women, and even ally with groups that have devoted themselves to the spread of Islamic law that justifies this mistreatment, is one of the unconscionable scandals of our time.

This article is a segment of a series being run as part of our nation-wide campus effort, Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, which will be held on 200 university and college campuses on October 22-26. Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is a national effort to focus on all the victims of Islamo-Fascist Jihad -- as well as to counter the lies of the academic Left, which seeks to deny the evil, and even the very existence, of our enemy in this terror war. In this way, Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week hopes to educate American students and to enable them to rally to defend their country.

In terms of the booklet of our subject today, its cover is a still photograph that epitomizes Islamic oppression of women, and it has come to also epitomize the Western feminist non-response to it. The picture comes from a Dutch film called De Steen (The Stone), directed by Mahnaz Tamizi, and features the actress Smadar Monsinos. The Stone dramatizes the barbaric treatment of women in Islamic countries. It accurately depicts the reality of Islamic Sharia law regarding adultery: when a couple is caught in adultery, the man is jailed while the woman is stoned to death.

It is a telling indication of the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the Left that it has fastened upon our use of this picture to try to discredit Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, since the photo does not depict an actual event – as if women weren’t being stoned to death under Sharia law in Iran and some other Muslim countries today. In reality, eight women are currently in prison in Iran awaiting death by stoning for the crime of adultery. A mother was sentenced to be stoned to death in Iran for adultery just last week. It is typical of the Left to try to cast opprobrium not upon those responsible for these harsh realities, but upon us who are trying to draw attention to them in the name of human rights.

It may have seemed inconceivable that feminists and their allies would defend those who bury women in the earth and kill them by throwing large stones at them, but that is the ultimate thrust of the Left’s outcry against our use of this picture and against Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week in general. Such are the ironies of our troubled age.

In this booklet are realities that should be of paramount concern not just for feminists in the West and their allies on the Left, but of all those who are concerned with the universality of human rights and the dignity of every human being.

To read this booklet, click here.


TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: honorkillings; islam; jihad; muhammad; muslims; oppression; rop; sharia; theocracy; women

1 posted on 10/17/2007 10:52:13 PM PDT by Posting
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2 posted on 10/17/2007 11:00:35 PM PDT by VOA
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FR *bookmark*


3 posted on 10/17/2007 11:04:02 PM PDT by Dad yer funny (FoxNews is morphing , and not for the better ,... internal struggle? Its hard to watch)
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To: Dad yer funny; firebrand; nutmeg; rmlew

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4 posted on 10/17/2007 11:29:43 PM PDT by Yehuda ("Land of the free, THANKS TO THE BRAVE!" (Choke on it, pinkos!))
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“It may have seemed inconceivable that feminists and their allies would defend those who bury women in the earth and kill them by throwing large stones at them, but that is the ultimate thrust of the Left’s outcry against our use of this picture and against Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week in general. Such are the ironies of our troubled age.”

The feminists are in a silent pact with the Islamofascists to put a permanent end to Western patriarchy, thus in turn completely obliterating Western society.

The problem with this is that the Islamofascists will eventually return the favor by putting a permanent end to feminism as practiced by these very same hags. The Jihadis view feminists the same way they view all women — and will treat them accordingly once they are no longer of any use. Eastern Civilization will once again get it’s due.

Four to five generations from now, women will be longing for the same type of freedom afforded by former Western civilization while cursing their great-grandparents for hand-delivering them into Sharia-enforced bondage.


5 posted on 10/17/2007 11:59:52 PM PDT by John Williams ("Religion without the liberating Spirit of God is nothing but spiritual bondage.")
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It may have seemed inconceivable that feminists and their allies would defend those who bury women in the earth and kill them by throwing large stones at them,

This is precisely why so many in the Iranian American community, myself included, have become bitter anti-liberal advocates and activists.
6 posted on 10/18/2007 12:25:08 AM PDT by parisa
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To: John Williams
Four to five generations from now, women will be longing for the same type of freedom afforded by former Western civilization while cursing their great-grandparents for hand-delivering them into Sharia-enforced bondage.

I wish more women -- AND men -- would look at the example of Iranians to realize where they are heading.

Only one generation after the islamist takeover of that land and the Iranians are longing for the freedoms and rights they had before '79 and which they so blindly threw away because of their virulent, ignorant, media driven, hate for the Shah. And today all they have left is to curse their parents' and grandparents' generation for hand-delivering them into Sharia ruination.

From my humble perspective I see many parallels between elements that brought about the ruin of Iran during the late 1970s and today's events in the US, and it truly makes me shudder.
7 posted on 10/18/2007 12:58:07 AM PDT by parisa
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The Left simply refuses to recognize the existence of anything interfering with their agenda...such as stoning of women, etc.. In their beady little minds the goal is all and how you get there is immaterial. As the goal is ultimate dem. power and defeating republicans for another fifty years, they’ve chosen to hang a Vietnam War type defeat around Bush’s neck, will do anything to achieve America’s loss in Iraq. The Turkey/genocide vote and predictable Turkish outrage is just the most recent example of how far they’ll go. Manipulation, the big lie, American lives lost — they don’t care. They’d put Jack the Ripper up for President if they thought he’d win.


8 posted on 10/18/2007 3:43:05 AM PDT by hershey
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To: Posting; All
For Islam, a Religion of Peace®? The Most Damning links-- click the picture:

Watch the videos, read the links, ponder the quotes.
Wake up, and smell the Jihad...

9 posted on 10/18/2007 3:49:01 AM PDT by backhoe (Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
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Disgusting.


10 posted on 10/18/2007 4:15:38 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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Where is the outrage from all the women’s groups? They say nothing about this because it would be akin to criticising another culture, something they absolutely cannot do, because then most of their other ideas would start to become unravelled.


11 posted on 10/18/2007 5:04:31 AM PDT by Catholic Canadian ( I love Stephen Harper!)
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To: Catholic Canadian

Wake up, boys and girls.
Feminists LIE.
Their words LIE.
Their actions LIE.
Their writings are all LIES.
Their motives are always LIED about.
There is no TRUTH in them.

They are the enemy, and must be treated as such.


12 posted on 10/18/2007 5:11:24 AM PDT by Flintlock (-)
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To: Posting
Publishing a photo from a movie and presenting it as real, without doing some research, was a real blunder. Let the Dan Rather’s of the world exist only on the left, OK?

Yes, savagery and subjugation of women is rampant in the Muslim world. Yes, idiots like Olbermann can’t seem to get their small minds around that fact, because they are too busy hating their own. Sloppy acts like this, however, are inexcusable.

13 posted on 10/18/2007 5:18:47 AM PDT by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: Yehuda

They are the worst “cafeteria” people in existence. “Cuckoo clock in hell” describes them perfectly. Cafeteria Catholics are saints compared with them.


14 posted on 10/18/2007 11:05:30 AM PDT by firebrand
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