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Posted: 05 Sep 2009 06:55 PM PDT

More than 5000 women are victims of honor killings each year.
Most of those women are Muslim, and while most of them are killed in
Muslim countries-- more and more of them are being killed in Europe,
Canada and America. A 2007 study by Dr. Amin Muhammad and Dr. Sujay Patel
in Canada's Memorial Hospital observed that honor killing spreads when
those whose who practice it emigrate to Western countries.

Honor killings however are only the final act in the drama
of a Muslim woman's life. Before that she is expected to walk behind a
man, to be a second class citizen, to cover herself as much as possible in
order to deflect male desire and to take the blame for the sexual
intentions that men have toward her. She knows that if she fails to
deflect male desire, she may suffer a variety of penalties from
imprisonment to death. In countries like Saudi Arabia or Iran, those
penalties are imposed by courts. In countries like Afghanistan or
Pakistan, they are imposed by rough tribal justice. In the West, where
there is no Islamic court system or tribal courts, they are imposed by the
family.

The burka, the chador, the hijab or any of the other
covering garments are assigned to Muslim women to "protect" them from men,
and to protect men from them. These garments are meant to cover their
"Awrah", which in Arabic means nakedness, fault or defect. While for a
Muslim man "Awrah" is only the swimsuit region, a Muslim woman is entirely
"Awrah".

Al-Qadhi Ibn-Al-Arabi Maliki states: “And all of a woman
is ‘awrah; her body, her voice, and it is not permissible for her to
uncover that unless out of necessity, or need such as witnessing in
court, or a disease that is affecting her body…” [Ahkam Al Quran
3/1579]

Imam Al-Qurtubi stated went even further stating; “It is
forbidden for a woman to speak when non-related men are present and it
is forbidden for men to hear the voice of a non-mahram woman as long as
there is no need for that.”

What that means is that all of a woman is "a zone of shame"
and obscene. Even the sound of her voice is a form of "nakedness" or
"lewdness". Various Muslim authorities claim that this applies to even a
woman's fingernails and eyes. A woman who fails to dress this way is
behaving obscenely and is open to being assaulted, as the Koranic verse
which orders Muslim women to cover themselves makes clear.

"O Prophet! Tell thy wives and daughters, and the
believing women, that they should cast their outer garments over their
persons (when abroad): that is most convenient, that they should be
known (as such) and not molested." -Al-Ahzab:59
(Qur'an)

The key word here of course is "that they shall be known as
such and not molested". Conversely the failure to fully cover up (a
covering that Mohammed demonstrated by cloaking himself and leaving only
one eye uncovered in order to see) leaves them open to being molested
under the code of "she was asking for it."

In the wake of the
brutal Sydney gang rapes in which the perpetrators told the victims and
exchanged messages among themselves making it clear that the attacks were
motivated by the girls being Australian and Christian, Australia's top
Muslim cleric, the infamous Sheikh Hilaly delivered a sermon
stating;

"When it comes to rape, it’s 90 percent the woman’s
responsibility. Why? Because a woman owns the weapon of seduction. It’s
she who takes off her clothes, shortens them, flirts, puts on make-up
and powder and takes to the streets, God protect us, dallying. It’s she
who shortens, raises and lowers. Then, it’s a look, a smile, a
conversation, a greeting, a talk, a date, a meeting, a crime, then Long
Bay jail. Then you get a judge, who has no mercy, and he gives you 65
years."

"But when it comes to this disaster, who started it? In
his literature, writer al-Rafee says, if I came across a rape crime, I
would discipline the man and order that the woman be jailed for life.
Why would you do this, Rafee? He said because if she had not left the
meat uncovered, the cat wouldn’t have snatched it."

The "uncovered meat" were girls as young as 14, whom the
attackers brutalized for hours. Their crime was that they were meat, and
they had left themselves uncovered by failing to wear Chadours or Hijabs
to prevent themselves from being "molested".

This is the Muslim wolf that now stands growling outside the
feminist door. The wolf dictates that women in any country with a sizable
Muslim population have two choices, to cover up or be assaulted. By
covering up the woman accepts her inferiority to the male. Refusing to do
that could get her raped or killed. There is no third option within Islam.
In Iraq, in Kashmir, in Pakistan; women have had acid thrown in their
faces for not wearing the appropriate Muslim garb.

But why speak of countries under medieval
Islamic laws, when you can speak of the "Free West". A French survey found
that 77 percent of the women who wear Hijabs did so because of threats by
Islamist groups. 77 percent. France. We are not speaking about some
backward little Third World nation where the tribal elders decide what
goes. We are speaking of Paris, the glittering city of lights, the capital
of art and music. The birthplace of Republican Europe.

This is what
Hijab feminism looks like in France,

More often the girls were under orders from their
fathers and uncles and brothers, and even their male classmates. For the
boys, transforming a bluejeaned teen-age sister into a docile and
observant "Muslim" virgin was a rite de passage into authority, the fast
track to becoming a man, and more important, a Muslim man.... it was
also a license for violence.

Girls who did not conform were
excoriated, or chased, or beaten by fanatical young men meting out
"Islamic justice." Sometimes the girls were gang-raped. In 2002, an
unveiled Muslim girl in the cite of Vitry-sur-Seine was burned alive by
a boy she turned down.

Jane Kramer, Taking the Veil, New
Yorker

Despite that 77 percent number, American feminists insist
on fighting for "the right" of Muslim women in France and America to wear
the veil. They might as well be fighting for the right of women to be
barefoot and pregnant, since they are one and the same.

Much as
they might eagerly parrot the propaganda of the Muslim Student
Association, itself an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, regarding the veil
being liberating, the veil is a statement of female submission and
degradation. There is nothing feminist about being inferior. The hijab is
part of a larger agenda to force Muslims in the West, and even non-Muslims
to live under Islamic law. A law which states that women are inferior to
men.

In the process apologists for Islam like Karen Armstrong or
Noah Feldman misrepresent key Arabic words, for example defining "Awrah"
as beauty, or "Zina" as meaning only adultery, or seizing on whatever
property Sharia law allowed women to hold as feminist, while completely
ignoring the larger issue that women were considered inferior by Mohammed
and his men, and are considered inferior under Islamic law today. Not
simply in theory, but in fact. A fact that expresses itself in the rapes,
beatings and murders of women, both Muslim and non-Muslim, by Muslim men
on a regular basis.

Rather than confront the threat to women posed
by Islamic law, feminist authors like Naomi Wolf are instead claiming that
the wolf is really a misunderstood poodle. They have tried to transform
the Hijab into a statement of Muslim feminism, while completing ignoring
the fact that the Hijab only exists because Islamic law views all of a
woman as obscene and treats the woman's presence in the public sphere as a
source of Fitna and Zina, Discord and Immorality, that incites men to do
immoral things, including rape her. Under Islam the woman is a threat to
men that can only be rendered safe for men by fully covering her up and
keeping her apart from men as much as possible.

What does Naomi
Wolf think is an urgent issue? Based on her blog, it isn't women, but
Muslim men. Specifically defending the sort of Muslim men who kill women
who don't wear the veil. Wolf's blog is filled with posts fulminating
against Guantanamo Bay and the plight of the Taliban and assorted other
Islamists imprisoned there. The same men who if given a chance would have
a knife to her neck in minutes.

This spring in Pakistan's Sindh
province alone, 40 honor killings took place. One woman took refuge in a
police station, only to be handed over to her brother who killed her. A 14
year old girl was burned to death. Two women had acid poured on them after
being raped. Two women had their noses chopped off for violating family
honor. The Sindh province had been overrun by the Taliban.

Rather
than writing about any of these women, Naomi Wolf instead wrote demanding
to know "What Happened to Mohamed al-Hanashi?" Her article describes
Mohamed al-Hanashi as "a young man" who could shed light on many crimes.
Not the crimes of Islamist terrorists, but the crimes of the US in
detaining in Islamist terrorists. At no point in time throughout the
article does Naomi Wolf mention that Mohamed al-Hanashi was a member of
the Taliban. The same Taliban which mandated complete covering for women,
forbade women to be treated by male doctors or to get an education.

In April 2009, Sitara Achakzai, a leading women's rights activist
in Afghanistan, was murdered by the Taliban because she supported rights
for women. 3 days later, Naomi Wolf did not write about her. Instead she
wrote an article claiming that the American people had "blood on their
hands" over Gitmo and demanded that we hold Nuremberg Trials to determine
who gave the order to "torture" captured Al Queda and Taliban terrorists
in order to gain information about future attacks against
America.

Unfortunately Naomi Wolf, like most modern liberal
feminists had no interest in defending those women, only in defending
their abusers. While women were being murdered by the Taliban, she sweated
blood and tears to defend members of the Taliban. Finally in August, Naomi
Wolf went to a Muslim country, put on a headscarf and described how it
made her feel free. That seems like a reasonable preparation for the sort
of environment that Naomi Wolf and much of the feminist movement are
helping to create for women in the West.

In 1984 the Party's slogan is "Slavery is Freedom." The
political use of such an idea is that it is easier to enslave people, if
they believe that being enslaved makes them free. It is why every one
party Communist dictatorship made sure to call themselves a "Democratic
People's Republic". It is why the Muslim Brotherhood fronts understand
that it will be easier to sell Westerners on subjugation to Islam, if they
believe that this subjugation makes them free.

For almost a
decade, Wolf and those like her, have been assailing the brave men and
women who helped liberate women from the Taliban... while fighting for the
Taliban. In the name of freedom of course. The freedom of those who shot
up girls' schools, who threw teachers down staircases and beat women in
the streets. Now the Muslim wolf has its snout thrust into half of Europe,
into Australia, Canada and America. The honor killings continue to rise.
Bodies continue to show up in hospitals and morgues. The bodies of the
victims of Islam.