Friday’s a good day for news about those tolerant, feminist Muslims.
First, let’s take a look at Yvonne Ridley’s claim that Islam is more feminist than the American feminist movement of the 1970s. I’m thinking not.
Women Under Attack in Iraq, Afghanistan
UNITED NATIONS (AP) – Women are facing increasing violence in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia, especially when they speak out publicly to defend women’s rights, a senior U.N. official told the U.N. Security Council.Noeleen Heyzer, executive director of the U.N. Development Fund for Women, called on for fresh efforts to ensure the safety of women in countries emerging from conflicts, to provide them with jobs, and ensure that they receive justice, including compensation for rape.
“What UNIFEM is seeing on the ground – in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia – is that public space for women in these situations is shrinking,” Heyzer said Thursday. “Women are becoming assassination targets when they dare defend women’s rights in public decision-making.”
But they’re just cultural issues, right, Yvonne?
Then there’s the so-called “moderate” Australian imam who said that women are to blame for rape, and now says he was misinterpreted and his remarks were taken out of context.
Sheik Taj Aldin al Hilali denied he was condoning rape when he made the comments in a sermon last month, and apologized to any women he had offended, saying they were free to dress as they wished.
Um, no. You can read his remarks here. He was pretty clear about it being the fault of a woman who dares to go outside, alone, and not wearing the veil.
“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.”
“If you get a kilo of meat, and you don’t put it in the fridge or in the pot or in the kitchen but you leave it on a plate in the backyard, and then you have a fight with the neighbour because his cats eat the meat, you’re crazy. Isn’t this true?”
“If you take uncovered meat and put it on the street, on the pavement, in a garden, in a park, or in the backyard, without a cover and the cats eat it, then whose fault will it be, the cats, or the uncovered meat’s? The uncovered meat is the disaster. If the meat was covered the cats wouldn’t roam around it. If the meat is inside the fridge, they won’t get it.”
“If the woman is in her boudoir, in her house and if she’s wearing the veil and if she shows modesty, disasters don’t happen.”
“Satan sees women as half his soldiers. You’re my messenger in necessity, Satan tells women you‘re my weapon to bring down any stubborn man. There are men that I fail with. But you’re the best of my weapons.”
And by the way: Ew. What a disgusting analogy. I have another one. When you take a man’s meat, and make it really tiny, he has all kinds of problems with women. Say, buddy, just how big are you?
In other news, Muslims are royally peeved that the newspaper that published the Danish Mohammed cartoons was found innocent of libel (and who, may I ask, could they have libeled, seeing as Mohammed is not alive to bring suit?). But here’s the part that is not getting much play.
“It is not up to the court to decide if Muslims will have hard feelings or not,” Ameer ul-Azeem, spokesman for Jamaat-e-Islami, told the Associated Press news agency.
The AP has actually dropped that quote from its later stories. Because it illustrates perfectly the absolutely arrogant attitude that the world must bend itself to Muslim beliefs, whether or not we follow them—or else. The threat is always implied.
However, he’s right. It’s not up to the court to decide if Muslims are offended. It is up to the court to decide whether offending Muslims has broken any laws. Guess what, bub? It didn’t.
Happy Friday, and tune into MEMRI for the translations of all the Friday sermons in Islamaland that call for the deaths of the sons of apes and pigs (that would be Jews and Christians, for those of you who haven’t been to MEMRI yet).