Equality for Muslim Women Will Be the Death-Knell of Islam

Equality for Muslim Women Will Be the Death-Knell of Islam

Sunday, 17 March 2013 08:21 Jake Neuman

Egypt warns giving women some rights could destroy society

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Egypt's ruling Muslim Brotherhood warns that a U.N. declaration on women's rights could destroy society by allowing a woman to travel, work and use contraception without her husband's approval and letting her control family spending.

The Islamist party of President Mohamed Mursi outlined 10 reasons why Muslim countries should "reject and condemn" the declaration. The Brotherhood, which was elected to power in June, posted the statement on its website, http://www.ikhwanweb.com/

The Muslim Brotherhood said the declaration would give "wives full rights to file legal complaints against husbands accusing them of rape or sexual harassment, obliging competent authorities to deal husbands punishments similar to those prescribed for raping or sexually harassing a stranger, give girls sexual freedom, legalize abortion, provide teenagers with contraceptives, give equality to women in marriage and require men and women to share duties such as child care and chores, equal rights to homosexuals, and provide protection and respect for prostitutes" and "equal rights to adulterous wives and illegitimate sons resulting from adulterous relationships."

 

The Muslim Brotherhood should, indeed, be worried, not because equal rights for women would not destroy society, it will destroy what they care more for, namely Islam.

The United States and all democratic societies have achieved prosperity by granting women equal rights. It was the Second World War that led to the economic transformation of women. While men from the USA, Canada and Britain marched to war by the millions, women left their homes by the millions, heading to the factories to become machinists, welders, electricians, carpenters, millwrights, plumbers, truck drivers etc. They labored on machines, toiled with wrenches and hammers, saws and screw drivers to manufacture planes and tanks, ships and guns. Without women the victory of democracy over Nazism and the Japanese Imperialism would have been imperiled.

Today women occupy high positions in all professions.

It is illegal for a husband to have sex with his wife against her will. Spousal rape is rape. "No” means “No" is a legal right for women.

Article 36 of the new draft of Egypt’s post-revolution Constitution, concerning women’s right and freedoms, contains an additive, saying “men and women are equal, so long as this equality does not violate Islamic laws.”

Lawyer Sobhi Saleh, Muslim Brotherhood figure and member of the Constituent Assembly in charge of drafting Egypt’s post-revolution Constitution stated: “Whoever objects to this bit will be objecting to the Islamic faith and wreaking havoc unnecessarily. Those who protest have to know that there is no absolute equality between men and women in Islam and inheritance is an example”.

In Islam, married women are the property of her husband. He can and is, indeed, obligated to use violence to control his wife. Wife beating is sanctioned by God and the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (Quran 4:34):

Men (Muslims) are in charge of women (Muslimah), therefore Allah has made the Muslim (men) to excel the Muslim (women), and because Muslim (men) spend of their property, so good women (Muslimah) are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah has guarded. As for those women (Muslimah/wives) from whom you fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and beat them. Then if they obey you, seek not a way against them…

Pickthall: “and scourge them”
Yusuf Ali: “(And last) beat them (lightly)”
Al-Hilali/Khan: “(and last) beat them (lightly, if it is useful)”
Shakir: “and beat them”
Sher Ali: “and chastise them”
Khalifa: “then you may (as a last alternative) beat them”
Arberry: “and beat them”
Rodwell: “and scourge them”
Sale: “and chastise them”
Daryabadi: "and beat them"
Asad: “then beat them”
Dawood: "and beat them”

There are four reasons for which men can beat their wives: 1) “if she refuses to beautify herself for him,” 2) if she refuses sex when he asks for it, 3) if she refuses to pray or perform ritual ablutions, and 4) “if she goes out of the house without a valid excuse”. Also, Muhammad’s example is normative for Muslims, since he is an “excellent example of conduct” (Koran 33:21). According to Sahih Muslim 2127, Once the Prophet went out at night after he thought she was asleep, but she followed him surreptitiously. When Muhammad saw her, recounts Aisha, “He 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?”

Elsewhere, Aisha herself said: “I have not seen any woman suffering as much as the believing women.” (Sahih Bukhari 7.72.715)

Sharia Law mandates the oppression and subjugation of women. 

Wife beating – “[A husband] may hit her, but not in a way that injures her, meaning he may not break bones, wound her, or cause blood to flow.”  (Section m10.12)

Honor killing – “The following are not subject to retaliation: a father or mother for killing their offspring, or offspring’s offspring. (Section o1.2(4))

• Women over the age of puberty are not permitted to leave the house without covering the body (except face and hands). (Fatwa 667, Part No. 17, Page 142-150)
• Women are not permitted to travel without a spouse or male relative. (Fatwa 12139, Part No. 11, Page 38)
• Women are not permitted to be alone with men who are not relatives or spouses, and the punishment for such "indecency" is whipping or stoning. (Fatwa 9693, Part No. 12, Page 381 & 382)
• Women are not permitted to speak softly to a man or otherwise provoke his desire with letters, phone calls or glances, the punishment of which is whipping or stoning. (Fatwa 9693, Part No. 12, Page 381 & 382)

Nearly half of the Saudi and Egyptian women suffer beatings by their husbands or other male family members.

To give Muslim women equal rights would mean the denying of the validity of verse 4:34, also of 4:34, and many other teachings as not being from God, but were fabricated by Muhammad. The imprisonment of Muslim women – their subjugation and oppression and denial of their humanity and equality – is the divine foundation of Islam.

The liberal world—the UN, the Western societies and others—must fight for the rights of Muslim women to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. To prevent the enslavement of women, Sharia Law must be exposed, discredited and resisted. All anti-woman teachings of the Quran and Hadith must be condemned and rejected. The rights of women must be enforced and protected through the Rule of Law and a Constitutional Amendment: Universal Declaration of the Total Equality of Women. The liberal world must immediately ratify this Amendment and take a firm stand toward its ratification by all 57 Muslim nations. In this Proclamation, each anti-woman teaching of the Quran and Sharia Law must be condemned and made illegal. By doing so, and establishing these rights—denied  by Islam—as “Constitutional”, we are reinforcing our rejection of Sharia Law and the Quran, making it impossible for Muslims to undermine the democratic rights of women in the United States and worldwide. This Amendment and rights of women must be taught to student in schools in every country. Nations that refuse to implement such a Constitutional Amendment for ensuring equal rights and dignity of women should be thrown out of the international community.

Keeping women subjugated and imprisoned is the primary cause for the worldwide resurgence of Islamic radicalism and violence. Therefore, those of us, involved in the battle against Islam, must champion a worldwide movement for the total and complete equality between men and women. We are not in conflict with Muslims, but with Islamic teachings that inspire Muslim men to subjugate and denigrate women of their own faith and beyond. If the Muslim women are able to attain their liberty and dignity, Islamic radicalism will die; so will Islam, like Nazism and Communism.

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Jake Neuman is the author of “Islam and Sharia Law Are Treason: Jihad Is Treason” and “Prophet Muhammad (AKA ALLAH): Monster of History.” (free download)