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Nov 29
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Despite what the left would have us believe, there are real differences between those living in Western (overwhelmingly Christian) society and those in the Muslim world. A look at how many Muslim men treat their own wives and daughters, may shock you. The fact that these men are almost always allowed to get away with it, will anger you.
Brutal treatment of women and young girls is rampant throughout the Muslim world. The abuse and murder is condoned by Muslim governments. Muslim women are regularly subjected to beatings at the hands of their husbands, for a host of reasons. They may suffer a savage attack for having an affair, or for simply disobeying their Muslim husband’s daily orders.
It is also perfectly socially acceptable within the Islamic community, for a father to beat his daughter. The young girl may have spoken with a boy of whom the father does not approve, or forgotten to cover her face in public.
While the physical abuse of one’s spouse or child is taken very seriously by American police officers and courts, the practice is ignored by even the so-called ‘moderate’ Muslim states. The term ‘domestic abuse’ does not exist within the Muslim world.
A few years ago, a book entitled “The Islamic Woman” was published which detailed beating techniques to be imposed on Muslim women–at the hands of their abusive husbands. The book’s author is a Muslim Imam living in Spain, named Mohamed Kamal Mostafa.
“The Islamic Woman” instructs men to hit women “on their hands and feet, making sure to use a cudgel that is not too thick so as not to leave permanent scar tissue.” Mostafa also warns his fellow Muslims to “inflict blows that are not too strong nor too hard, because the aim is to make them suffer psychologically.”
Murder is also inflicted upon Muslim women by their husbands, fathers, and brothers. The practice is called “honor killings.” A Muslim woman or young girl will often be killed by a male family member, after she is believed to have committed an act which defies Islam.
In February 2009, in Orchard Park, NY, Muslim television executive Muzzamil Hassan, was arrested and charged with murder, after allegedly beheading his wife Aasiya.
After several incidents of domestic abuse, Aasiya Hassan filed for divorce, and secured an order of protection against her husband. A few days after divorce papers were filed, she was beheaded. Her remains were left in the offices of the television station she and her husband owned, near Buffalo.
Muzzamil Hassan has been held without bail since his arrest, and is currently awaiting trial.
Despite the horrific nature of this crime, Aasiya Hassan’s murder has received very little media attention.
On New Years Day 2008, in Irving, TX, two Muslim girls, Amina Said, 18, and her sister Sarah, 17, were allegedly shot to death by their father Yaser, in an apparent “honor killing.” Amina had been accepted to Texas A&M University, and was planning to become a doctor.
Their father was enraged because the two girls had boyfriends.
Shortly after the murders, the girls’ aunt, Gail Gartrell, told reporters, “This was an honor killing.” She said that Yaser Said had been physically abusing the girls, and upon discovering the pair had boyfriends, he had threatened to kill them. Their mother took the girls and ran. “She ran with them,” said Gartrell, “because she knew he would carry out the threat.”
Yaser Said is still at large.
In 2005, a Kuwaiti man confessed to the murder of his own teen aged daughter, he believed that the girl was having sex. The father, Adnan Enezi, had just returned from a pilgrimage to Mecca, the day he killed his daughter.
He tied and blindfolded 14-year-old Haifa, then slit her throat. He did this in front of her two brothers and one sister. As it turned out, the girl was in fact still a virgin, as was determined in an autopsy.
In 2003, a Jordanian man was sentenced to one year in prison, for the murder of his own sister. The young woman became pregnant as a result of being raped by a neighbor. Her family then decided that she must marry the rapist. Before the forced marriage could take place, word of the pregnancy spread throughout the community. The woman’s brother returned from a trip to slurs and jeers, his male friends were calling him the “brother of a slut.”
According to the Jordan Times, the man was so angry with his sister over the fact that she had been raped and impregnated, he slipped into her room at night and strangled her with a telephone cord.
The Jordanian paper published excerpts of the court’s rulings. They are as follows: “The victim’s actions were an unlawful and dangerous act that brought disgrace and shame to her family. He (the brother) could no longer control himself and became very angry. It does not matter that the defendant killed his sister hours after returning from Aqaba. He was still under the influence of extreme anger, which caused him to lose his ability because of the unlawful act committed by his sister.”
In Muslim society, it is always the woman who is wrong…even when she has been raped!
Until recently, the nation of Jordan did not bother to prosecute, nor even question a man who committed an “honor killing.” Though many are now put on trial, the sentence usually ranges from one month to one year.
Can you imagine a man convicted of murdering his sister or daughter in the United States, receiving a one-month sentence? Even the most liberal among us would consider taking the law into their own hands. The murderer would not last a week after his release, and the judge would be chased from the bench. However, the “practitioners of peace” have a free hand to abuse and even kill their women.
The Jordanian government passed legislation in order to reduce sentences for those convicted of “honor killings.” The law explains that leniency is recommended for acts committed in a “fit of rage,” which was brought on by an “unlawful action” by the murder victim.
The nation of Jordan considers itself to be a moderate Muslim state.
There are thousands of these so-called “honor killings” which take place in Muslim countries every year. The United Nations reports the annual number at 5,000. However, it is believed that most of them go unreported. Muslim women are brutalized daily by their own family members. However, this fact of life in the Islamic world is completely ignored by the liberal left in this country.
You will never hear a spokeswoman from the National Organization for Women, nor from the ACLU speak about these atrocities.
Those on the left, which includes this nation’s mainstream media often tell us that the majority of Muslims are good and decent people. I would like to know if the majority of Muslim women feel that they are living in decent societies. I would like to ask these women their opinion of a community and a religion which sanctions their torture and murder.
Unfortunately, these women will never be allowed to speak.