Islamic Gender Apartheid

Islamic Gender Apartheid

By Phyllis Chesler, FrontPageMagazine

(A speech for the 12/14/05 Senate hearing organized by the American Committee for Democracy in the Middle East.)

According to one Iranian dissident, “being born female is both a capital crime and a death sentence.” Today, the plight of both women and men in the Islamic world, and in an increasingly Islamized Europe, demands a sober analysis and a heroic response. In a democratic, modern, and feminist era, women in the Islamic world are not treated as human beings. Women in Iran and elsewhere in the Islamic world are viewed as the source of all evil. Their every move is brutally monitored and curtailed. The smallest infraction – a wanton wisp of hair escaping a headscarf – merits maximum punishment: Flogging in public, or worse. This is happening in Iran even as we speak. In 2005, a hospital in Tehran was accused of refusing entry to women who did not wear head-to-toe covering. In 2002, in Saudi Arabia, religious policemen prevented 14 year old schoolgirls from leaving a burning school building because they were not wearing their headscarves and abayahs. Fifteen girls died.

(Read the rest of this powerful speech)

Posted by Ted Belman at December 16, 2005 04:07 PM

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1. Bill Levinson said:

If an Iranian woman expects to be stoned to death on the say-so of her abusive husband (as described in this article), she should be educated on ideas like pouring lighter fluid or gasoline on him as he is sleeping and then tossing in a match, or slitting his throat as he is sleeping. They can only stone her to death once, and she will at least make the world better by one less sand ape before that happens.


In describing the conduct of Islamofascists, words like "femicide," "rape," "child molesting," "incest," and "child rape" should be used as frequently as possible to evoke hatred and contempt for these vermin.

Posted by: Bill Levinson on December 16, 2005 05:00 PM

2. rocky said:

Bill, sure, let's call a spade a spade.
A difficult thing both in civilized societies stinking of political correctness and in Islamic societies gripped by fear.
Is there no normal country in the world?

Posted by: rocky on December 17, 2005 01:17 AM

3. Reaper said:

As Islam and its radical elements are on the rise, the future outlook could very well be: Women across the globe treated like second class citizens or property, beaten on the slightest whim by the men in their lives or the religious police and not allowed a decent education or proper hospital care. They will all look like walking window drapery, covered from head to toe. All people will be forced to pray five times a day. There will be no music, no books other than that which pertains positively to the Qur'an, no museums, no sculptures, no paintings and no food, other than that which is sanctioned by the Qur'an. Health care for all will move significantly backward, with the return in force of the old diseases. No health codes, no anti-earthquake code buildings. No such thing as preserving forests or wildlife. Just drudgery. Now...there will be numerous naysayers and as history has often shown, the naysayers will get their way...until the sh** hits the fan. For those that refuse to believe such a thing can happen:
The Qur'an tells its followers to be patient and that when they have the upper hand, they are to show only harshness toward Christians, Jews and other non-followers.
It also tells its followers to seek out non-Muslims, attack and slay them in every kind of ambush. The Qur'an reads as a mandate for global conquering by all means necessary.
As for the present and Iraq, as the Shia are the majority population, we can expect an alliance with Iran and the Palestinian Hamas. It's only going to get worse as the numbers grow.

Posted by: Reaper on December 17, 2005 03:06 AM

4. MohammedTo reapaer said:

''The Qur'an tells its followers to be patient and that when they have the upper hand, they are to show only harshness toward Christians, Jews and other non-followers''

Where have you found this?
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''It also tells its followers to seek out non-Muslims, attack and slay them in every kind of ambush. The Qur'an reads as a mandate for global conquering by all means necessary''

Again where have you found this?
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Posted by: MohammedTo reapaer on December 18, 2005 11:44 AM

5. rocky said:

Mohammed,

Reaper is not making this up. You choose to ignore the wrong side of your religion in order to present a good image of Islam to your audience.

If and when reaper tells you where he found it, you will come up with other verses telling how good islam is.

Basically islam is a dragon with many heads, one like you telling us that "it is so good", and the other the head that may murder us or insult us or hate us because we are infidels.

Now I see the good and pleasant head in you, but tomorrow i may get on the bus and be maimed, wounded or murdered by the bloodthisrty head.

I have walked through the street in an islamic country and overheard people saying (I know perfectly the language), "there is an infidel's neck! Let's cut it!"

Now, faced with the dragon of islam, can you please tell me which head I am likely to meet first?

Mohammed no argument of yours is going to make me lower my guard against islam. I know it well, and I feel threatened by it.

Please don't waste your time answering me.

I prefer the straightforwardness of the "Qul yahaa ayyuhal kafiruun..." sura, than your diplomatic talk, trying to make me lower my guard against the many-headed dragon.

Posted by: rocky on December 19, 2005 03:33 AM

6. MohammedTorock5 said:

I will answer you though you request not to just tell the "Qul yahaa ayyuhal kafiruun..." sura that you prefer to my ''diplomatic talk'' as you said is saying this:
[109.1] Say: O unbelievers!
[109.2] I do not serve that which you serve,
[109.3] Nor do you serve Him Whom I serve:
[109.4] Nor am I going to serve that which you serve,
[109.5] Nor are you going to serve Him Whom I serve:
[109.6] You shall have your religion and I shall have my religion

First it is for the kaffirun, not people of the book, since we worship the same God they worship(see2.136) contrary to al Kaffirun. Besides, it is another indication that there is no oppression in Islam! Looks like you have th wron translation.


2:136 say ye: "we believe in Allah, and the revelation given to us, and to Abraham, Isma'il, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus, and that given to (all) prophets from their Lord: we make no difference between one and another of them: And we bow to Allah (in Islam)."


Posted by: MohammedTorock5 on December 19, 2005 10:36 AM

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