Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, the anti-Islamist Muslim activist, is outraged that the MSM have ignored or downplayed the Islamist elements in the beheading of a Muslim woman, allegedly by her TV executive Islamist husband. Excerpt:
Now almost five days since the beheading and murder of Aasiya Hassan, the media has been unfathomably silent. Local media covered it like they would any murder. And national media have remained tone deaf and silent. In a media industry where high-profile bizarre murders can quickly become an obsession dominating coverage (i.e. Laci Peterson and Natalee Holloway, to name just two), the avoidance of this story is beyond remarkable.
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Many of us trying to sound the alarm against political Islam and its insidious threat to Western secular democracy have been dismissed as "alarmist." Check out Bridges TV's YouTube channel (as long as it remains up) to get a firsthand sense of the type of programming and ideology it espoused. They focused on the same old trope as the rest of the Islamist organizations in the United States - victimization, blaming western foreign policy, and conspiracy theories. This is not to mention their typical apologetics and avoidance of any criticism of Muslim majority countries and their governments. Do not waste too much time looking for any exposés on the genocide in Sudan, the oppression of women by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, or the oppression of dissidents by the Egyptian, Syrian, or Pakistani dictatorships, to name just a few of the issues that a truly moderate and progressive American Muslim network would cover.
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So many of the human rights abuses in nations dominated by Muslims are atrocities committed by men against women. Laws excusing honor killings, rape, and domestic violence continue to remain part of the legal systems of many Muslim nations driven by governmental interpretation of sharia. Even in Germany, a judge ruled that a Muslim German man's abuse of his wife was permitted since it was a protected religious belief. That verdict was vacated a few weeks later, but highlights the abominable cognitive dissonance which many non-Muslims employ when dealing with this issue. The evidence is overwhelming that political Islam and Salafism - are theological constructs ossified in medieval mindsets and in need of deep reform.
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"an aberration." Peterk
TR: And Muslim men beheading their wives isn't an aberration? On a previous post on this matter I searched for stories of men beheading their wives and Muslims really weren't disproportionately represented.
All due respect, but you or Rod don't know what you're talking about on this. I'm not claiming I'm an expert or anything, but I do know some on this subject. I did take a class specifically on Radical Islam and Islamic cultures were one of the main areas I studied in college. From what I recall, and going by refresher searches, beheading is largely a punishment for armed rebels or opponents in war. When you look even at the Taliban you generally see them shooting women not beheading them. That's not any less barbaric, but that's not my point.
My point is making this Islamist just doesn't fit as far as I can see. I really just don't know of any Islamic tradition of beheading women. Even women who were armed rebels were, as I recall, more likely to be enslaved or exiled or simply executed. For that matter even "honor killing" is not precisely an Islamic practice. Don't any of you remember that Yazidi girl in Iraq who was honor-killed? The Yazidi are not any form of Islam, in fact Muslims consider them Satanists.
Find a Muslim man stoning his wife to death or burying her in a pit for adultery and than you got something.
Dr. Jasser is profoundly wrong when she argues that the threat to women in Islam is from extremist zealots. They are not the threat. Islam is the threat. Across the world, the Muslim people who engage in honor killings, beheadings, stonings, floggings, mutilations, child sex dressed up as mariage, - these are ordinary Muslims going about their ordinary lives, according to the ordinary doctrines of this hideous religion.
It is beyond doubt that Islam, through the Koran, requires all of its believers to pursue a course of murder and mayhem until every unbeliever is either killed or totally subjected to Islam. This is so with the single exception of the Jews. The Koran states quite plainly that in the case of the Jews only total annhilation will do. The suras of the Koran proclaim a woman to be stupid, devious, no more than property. Sura 4:34 allows a husband to beat her into submission. Sharia allows her to be beheaded or mutilated if she persists in brining shame to her husbnad or father. These doctrines are widely and overwhelmingly accepted. Finally, the doctrine of Taqiyya allows a Muslim to tell any lie necssary to advance the victory of Islam. This includes lying about the contents of the Koran and the Sharia laws, if necessary. These lies account for the ludicrous insistence that Islam is a religion of peace.
What is to be done? Oppose Islam. Those who endorse its tenets should not be allowed into the country. Educate yourself to the real doctrines of Islam and oppose them at every turn.Instist that the press report the umerous honornkillings that take place on AMerican soil. Our democracy is at stake. A woman lies dead on the floor, decapitated because of two hateful doctrines- the doctrine of Islam and the doctrine of political correctness.THe remedy is relentless truth telling and commitment to preserve and promote a free and compassionate society. If we standup to the vicious oppression of Islam, then Aasiya Zubair will not have died in vain.
In response to Hector, the practice of sati emreged long before the arrival of Muslim conquerers in India. From what I've read about the subject, it would seem that sati emerged for economic reasons -- when a man died, sati would ensure that the man's relatives would inherit his property rather than the wife. The practice has long been outlawed, but shrines to women who performed sati still exist in parts of India.
Regarding the Zubair killing, I think the Muslim world needs to take a hard look at its teachings and attitudes toward women. Domestic violence and femicide are by no means limited to the Muslim world, but Muslim cultures need to make strides in giving women rights and autonomy. Perhaps then, we'll see fewer honor killings and cases of horrific domestic violence like this.
I had the same thought this morning, I read it on page 15 of my newspaper. Just a column.
Why isn't the media running with this?
Ohh,,,, because its the religion of peace.
They should make "While Europe Slept" part of the curriculum in College.
"They should make "While Europe Slept" part of the curriculum in College."
In a class on polemics?
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