FORCED MARRIAGES IN BRITAIN

GUARDIAN:

Abducted. Abused. Raped. Survived
British Asian women are being pushed by their families into forced marriages, unprotected by the authorities. Rebecca Seal and Eva Wiseman meet the escapees

MUST SEE 5 MINUTE VIDEO! AND READ THE ACCOUNTS, TOO.

THIS PARTICULAR VIDEO-STORY IS ABOUT A SIKH WHO WAS FORCED INTO MARRIAGE BY HER MOTHER.

BUT REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT'S SIKH OR MUSLIM, FORCED MARRIAGE MUST BE ERADICATED.

EVEN BETTER: ALL ISLAMO-MISOGYNY MUST BE DEMOLISHED, TOO.

ABUSING THE UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN IS NOT A CULTURAL PREROGATIVE.

FORCED MARRIAGE AND ISLAMO-MISOGYNY CAN BE ERADICATED - WITHOUT A SHOT:

Muslims send their most assimilated children back to the worst areas to be forced into submission.

This practice is as bad as slavery.

IMHO: Islamo-misogyny is the sociological/psychological root cause of jihado-terror:

Children who are taught that it’s okay to do this and worse to their sisters (people of their own blood/their own family/their own tribe) will of course grow up to be able to commit genocide against infidels.

The civilized world must unite to ERADICATE islamo-misogyny.

This can be done without any wars:

Nations which permit forced marriage and islamo-misogyny should be shunned and banned from all international and multilateral organizations - including the UN, the WB, the IMF and WTO.

And then we might use coordinated international police force to interdict the perp's as they transport the victims: we need only remove all young Muslim women during their passage from one nation to another, and then isolate them in safety, and then offer them freedom and refugee status anywhere in the West if they claim to be traveling against their will.

It's that simple.

We can end this practice in a few years time.

With no bullets.

There is NO EXCUSE for the Left not to unite with the Right to achieve this.

There is NO EXCUSE for the Euros not to unite with the USA to achieve this.

I urge Bush and Rice and the GOP to adopt this policy.

We ended slavery; we can end forced marriage and islamo-misogyny.

WEF: PAKISTAN IS THE WORST NATION IN ASIA FOR WOMEN.

HEADLINE CORRECTED.

SCOOP-NZ/AHRC:

Despite the Pakistani government’s few efforts to improve the women’s situation, physical and sexual violence, honour killings, forced marriages and structural inequalities within the society still make Pakistan one of the worst countries in the world in terms of gender gap according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2009.

Pakistan is at the lowest bottom of the ranking among Asian countries and at 132 out of 134 countries.

GEE. I WONDER WHY AND HOW PAKISTAN HAS SUCH A PROBLEM!?!?

COULD IT BE.... ISLAM!?!?

YES.

WE HAVE POSTED ABOUT ONE ZILLION TIMES THAT THE ROOT CAUSE OF ISLAMO-TERRORISM IS ISLAMO-MISOGYNY. HERE, TOO.

• IF MUSLIM BOYS ARE RAISED TO FEEL THAT IT'S GOOD TO MURDER SISTERS AND THAT IT RESTORES FAMILY HONOR, THEN OF COURSE THEY WILL BE ABLE TO COMMIT GENOCIDE AGAINST INFIDELS.

• THE FREE WORLD CAN FORCE MUSLIMS TO REFORM THEMSELVES AND THEIR SOCIETIES AND THEIR CULTURES BY FORCING THEM TO END ISLAMO-MISOGYNY.

• ISLAMO-MISOGYNISTIC STATES SHOULD BE SHUNNED, BANNED: PROHIBITED FROM MEMBERSHIP AND PRIVILEGES OF ANY AND ALL WESTERN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: THE UN, THE WORLD BANK, THE IMF, GATT, ETC.

OUR PLAN - FROM YEARS AGO:

I think the key to winning the WAR is demolishing the ideology which motivates them to attack.

That is ISLAM.

I think there are a few non-military means of attacking that ideology we should use:

1 - ON CLASSICALLY LIBERAL AND STRICTLY HUMANITARIAN GROUNDS we can and should isolate all nations which permit islamo-misogyny. Kick them out of every Western club: the UN, the IMF, the World Bank, GATT/WTO. We should no more accept islamo-misogyny than accept slavery based on race.

Islamo-misogyny in the Muslim home is the matrix in which jihadism grows; it's the how they turn children into jihadis; it teaches them that a class of humans - women in their own family - are mere chattel. This is one of the first lessons they learn. They first learn to dehumanize the women in their family and then the men outside their tribe. After that they learn that the men and women outside their religion are - in their minds - justifiably targets of genocide.

As long as Muslim children learn islamo-misogyny Muslim adults will commit terror.

2 - We should stop buying anything from these nations. YES; ANYTHING -INCLUDING OIL. This means we have to build nuclear and coal power plants and wind farms etc. And it means we have to extract all the oil we can from ALL domestic sources. ALL - including ANWR.

3 - We need to demand that RELIGIOUS FREEDOM is available to all humans everywhere, and shun all nations which don't allow religious freedom. AND THIS MEANS SAUDI ARABIA, TOO.

4 - Military counter-attacks have a place to - we MUST stay on the offensive and be willing to use ANY weapon in our arsenal - and we have to make the enemy realize we will. ALL WEAPONS - AND HARSH/SEVERE INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES.

This will give us a better deterrent with many of them - especially the state sponsors who have some degree of "plausible deniability". For example, we have to tell Pakistan that if they cannot control the FATA that we shall consider it non-territorial and feel free to attack at will. (As it stands now, the Pakistanis get to have their cake and eat it, too: arguing we cannot have free-range in their territory, but then failing to police it themselves).

This strategy could actually win WW4.

BOTTOM-LINE: WE NEED TO LIBERATE ONE BILLION PEOPLE FROM THE HIDEOUS IDEOLOGY - AND WE CAN START THAT PROCESS BY LIBERATING THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST!

MUSLIM DEMOGRAPHY CONTINUED: polygamy, household size, and population growth

There're 2 more interesting charts in THE ECONOMIST's "POCKET WORLD IN FIGURES", 2005 Edition; Profile Books; London; 2005.

One is "BIGGEST HOUSEHOLDS" (on page 88), and another is "FASTEST GROWING POPULATIONS" (on page 17).

Of the 50 nations with the biggest average household size HALF are mostly Muslim nations - or nations with signficant Muslim minorities. The other half of the nations on the list are almost all African - and NORTH KOREA (and few nations in the South Pacific). Number's 1 & 2 - Kuwait and Saudi Arabia - average more than 8 people in each household; #3 Pakistan averages just over 7/household; #9 Jordan averages over 6/household; #38 Bangladesh averages just over 5/household; #45 Afghanistan averages 5/household.

Of the 20 nations with the fastest growing populations, 15 are mostly Muslim or have significantly large Muslim minorities. Qatar is the fastest growing population - growing at a rate of 9.6%/year! Syria is #19, and growing at 3.68% per year. (CONVERSELY: of the 20 SLOWEST growing populations, only one is Muslim: Afghanistan.)

These two demographic values (hosuehold size and population rate of increase) are related: large households are large because the women in the household are giving birth to many babies - and that OBVIOSULY causes that nation's population to increase!

What is not so obvious is why most of these fast "growing/large household" nations are Muslim. Could it be that POLYGAMY tends to increase the size of each household? That seems very likely. If a man has three wives and each has only two children with him (the average in the USA/household), then the household size - and population growth will be three times greater in the polygamous Muslim nation than the secular Western nation.

If Muslim nations adopted monogamy - this would reduce the size of each household, increase the wealth of each household/person, and reduce the rate of population growth of each mostly Muslim nation. These results would improve the QUALITY OF LIFE for all the citizens of these nations.

And it would increase the individual value of each woman, each wife.

I think that this would reduce "honor killings" - and this would increase the VALUE OF EACH LIFE in these cultures, which would reduce the appeal of jihadoterrorism.

I think that polygamy and misogyny are both expressions of jihadofascism, and I believe that if Muslim nations adopted monogamy and greater empowerment of women that this would eliminate a major "root cause" (or ENABLER) of jihadoterrorism: the systematic dehumanization of half their people - the women; (as I have previously blogged: an ideology which blesses "honor killings" of female family members is certainly going to permit murder and terror of "infidels".) If and when Islam eliminates the former, it can eliminate the latter.

UPDATE: Here are some links to a few articles about Muslim misogyny and its link to polygamy, "honor killings" and jihadoterrorism:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/4/23/184354.shtml
http://www.pacificnews.org/jinn/stories/6.24/001128-honor.html
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=244
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/000745.html?q=counterrevolution-net/vfr/archives/000745.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/766003/posts
http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/03/10/nhonor10.xml
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/001706.php
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/11/04/MN183529.DTL
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/378

A few of these links are to articles written BEFORE 9/11. Here's an excerpt from one:

... everything the world has learned in the past decade about why some countries develop and others stay mired in poverty shows that women can make all the difference. National standards of living improve -- family income, education, nutrition and life expectancy all rise, and birthrates fall -- as women move toward equality, ... When women's influence increases, these experts explain, it strengthens the moderate center, bolstering economic stability and democratic order. Women might serve as powerful assets in the West's attempt to counter Islamic radicalism. ... for the past 30 years, Islamic extremism has flourished throughout the Middle East. As women have been pushed out of the political and economic spheres, their traditional moderating role has declined. "This is the warriors' time," said Fouad Ajami, director of Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington. "The warriors, the martyrs -- they're all men. In this moment of history, with the world of the Arabs and the larger world of Islam on the boil, the whole question of women and women's progress is shelved." Angry young men, many of them unemployed, have seized the public arena from Algeria to South Asia and filled it with hate, intolerance and the abuse of women, Ajami said. "This is the class that is most hostile to women," Ajami said. "If this class dominates the Islamists, feminism and modernity are doomed." "The issue of gender is so crucial to progress and modernity," he said, "But if the cult of the martyr and the children of the stones on the West Bank, if that's the dominant cult, then what little place there was for women is shrinking."

[From an article by Barbara Crossette, and published in The New York Times - Sunday, November 4, 2001 - three weeks after 9/11.]

In this post - and my prior one on gender imbalances in Muslim countries - I have tried to argue that widespread misogyny and polygamy have had (and continue to have) a profound effect on socio-economic conditions in Muslim nations (probably as much a negative effect as anything else - the barbaric and backward practices derived from Islam's anti-female cultural attitudes contribute to their nation's poverty and ignorance) and their tolerance of tyranny, AND to their propensity for domestic and international violence. If and when Islam banishes polygamy and punishes misogyny, then Islam can end jihadofascism and jihadoterrorism.

UPDATE: click here to read more about misogyny in Saddam's Iraq.

UPDATE: CLICK HERE FOR AN ARTICLE BY AYAAN HIRSI ALI ON MISOGYNY IN ISLAM - FROM TODAY'S WSJ! EXCERPT: In every society where family affairs are regulated according to instructions derived from the Shariah or Islamic law, women are disadvantaged. The injustices these women are exposed to in the name of Islam vary from extreme cruelty (forced marriages; imprisonment or death after rape) to grossly unfair treatment in matters of marriage, divorce and inheritance. I have argued - in this post and a prior one - that Islam's cruel gender discrimination shows up in demographic data, and that this is a root cause of jiahoterror, arguing that if Muslims believe it is good to murder female family members, then of course they can commit terror agaisnt "infidels."

AND READ THIS NOW! (A post FROM A YEAR AGO - by Athena of TERRORISM UNVEILED. And this at OTB.

And... ROGER L. SIMON AGREES: "Women's rights are the very center of the War on Terror. In fact I would argue Islamofascism at its core is more than anything else an expression of rage against women and that Islam itself is not much better on that score."

Islamo-misogyny is Beginning to Get Attention

Exposing islamo-misogyny and proposing a non-military way of attacking it has been a campaign of mine.

EXCERPT:

I believe that the root cause of islamo-terrorism is islamo-misogyny: a people whose ideology teaches that woman must never be seen in public or have the freedom to dress as they please, and teaches its young men that it's okay (1) to beat their wiveS (PLURAL!), and (2) force their daughters to marry their cousins, and (3) kill their sisters for "dishonoring" their family, will of teach these same young men that it is okay to commit genocidal terror against infidels.

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This is why I believe that in addition to killing jihadists and to promoting democracy in Muslim states, we need to put pressure on Muslim states to accept and enforce the UN's Declaration of Universal Human Rights, and to extend full and equal status to women, and pressure them to:

(a) ban forced marriage, and
(b) ban polygamy, and
(c) ban consanguineous marriage).

If they fail to address these anti-humane practices they should be be expelled from the UN and banned from participation in any-and-all multi-lateral financial, international aid, and international trade groups - like UNICEF, UNESCO, the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO, etc.

I have previously posted several articles at this blog relating empirical evidence on the harmful nature of these pervasive practices. (Google it at this blog under "polygamy", "misogyny" and "endogamy".)

REPEAT: As long as their children are raised to accept terror within their own family, they will use certainly terror to settle all their differences with non-Muslims. And they will certainly condone genocide against infidels.

The pressure I suggest we use on this front would be non-military and diplomatic. And it would be applied universally so it would effect the entire ummah, every Muslim state, and every family. Therefore, liberals (even doves) have no reason - and therefore no excuse - not to support it fully.

...

BOTTOM-LINE: We should no more tolerate the radical misogyny permitted in these nations, than tolerate SLAVERY.

We need to begin to go on the offensive against islamo-misigyny.

It's nice to see a big blogger and a MSM newspaper cover it.

POWER LINE has the links. EXCERPT:

It seems to me that, as the Examiner puts it, "America should aggressively support and encourage such organizations and put the rights of women in Muslim countries front and center on the world stage at the United Nations."

WE MUST MAKE THIS FIGHT.

FOR THE CHILDREN.

THE FEMALE CHILDREN.

VIOLENT MISOGYNY IS STILL RAMPANT IN AFGHANISTAN - I WONDER WHY!?

ABC/AP:

KABUL, Afghanistan - March 15, 2007 - One woman committed suicide by setting herself ablaze after her father-in-law tried to rape her.

Another set herself on fire because her brothers would not let her marry, preferring that she remain their servant at home.

Yet another told her mother before she died that her husband beat her daily.

Testimony gathered by the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission documents how life for many Afghan women remains so bleak that some choose a horrific and painful death instead.

The group interviewed about 800 Afghans whose sisters, daughters and daughters-in-law have killed themselves by self-immolation to escape domestic abuse, forced marriage and other misogynistic social customs.

The report and anecdotal evidence from other rights workers suggests the phenomenon is growing, with desperate women sometimes mimicking what they have seen reported on TV. "It's really a big problem in Afghanistan," said Nabila Wafiq, who has researched the issue for the aid group Medica Mondiale, which has interviewed women who survived their self-immolation attempts.

THERE'S MORE...

THIS IS NOT AN AFGHAN OR INTRA-CULTURAL PROBLEM WHICH WE CAN IGNORE. THESE WOMEN ARE HAVING THEIR UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS TRAMPLED ON BY THEIR OWN FAMILIES - IN THE NAME OF ISLAM.

UNTIL ISLAM GETS RID OF ITS MISOGYNY, THE WEST WILL BE ATTACKED BY JIHADOTERROR - BECAUSE A CULTURE WHICH INCULCATES MISOGYNISM TO THE POINT OF ALLOWING TERROR ON ITS OWN DAUGHTERS AND WIVES, WILL OF COURSE TOLERATE OR EVEN DEMAND TERROR AGAINST INFIDELS.

IT IS TIME WE ACTED TO END THIS BARBARISM. ONCE AND FOR ALL TIME.

TO SAVE WOMEN FROM THE SYSTEMIC HORRORS WHICH DRIVE THEM TO SELF-IMMOLATION, AND TO SAVE OURSELVES FROM THE ISLAMIC MEN WHO TEACH THIS MISOGYNY TO THEIR SONS, WE MUST TAKE BOLD ACTIONS.

WE NEED ANOTHER WILBERFORCE - ONE WHO WILL SPEARHEAD AN INTERNATIONAL EFFORT TO ABOLISH ISLAMO-MISOGYNY.

(PERHAPS AYAAN ALI HIRSI OR WAFA SULTAN WILL EMERGE AS THIS ERA'S FREDERICK DOUGLAS, CHAMPIONING THE RIGHTS OF ISLAMIC WOMEN AND HELPING TO TEAR DOWN THE FILTHY IDEOLOGY WHICH ENSLAVES THEM, AND TERRORIZES THEM, AND DRIVES THEM TO COMMIT SUICIDE.)

MORE HERE. (AND HERE.)

(MORE ON ISLAMIC WOMEN BEING FORCED TO COMMIT SUICIDE TO "SAVE THE FAMILY'S HONOR" - AND TO PERPETUATE ISLAMO-MISOGYNY - HERE.)

TO LIBERATE THE WORLD FROM JIHADOTERROR WE MUST LIBERATE MUSLIM WOMEN FROM MISOGYNY

GATEWAY PUNDIT:

President George W. Bush freed the 50 million people living under these historically brutal regimes... And, President George W. Bush set 25 million women free from two of the worst womens rights abusers the world had ever known.

And yet you wouldn't know this from the supposed women's rights activists.... Today, 25,000,000 women are free from two of the most barbaric regimes in history thanks to George W. Bush. In fact, there has never been another world leader who has given so many women the gift of freedom.

And then, there's this letter-to-the-editor from the London Times:

If the parents of the young men who are attracted to this murderous martyrdom have lost control of their sons, then they must shoulder part of the blame. If the Muslims who choose to live in our society, with all its so-called tempting freedoms, do not protest against those who wish to destroy it, then how can they expect our tolerance? Why are the moderates not, in their hundreds and thousands, standing outside those mosques that are known to preach hatred, shouting “Not in our name” down their megaphones or “One, two, three, four, no more terror anymore”?

And where are the voices of the ordinary mothers and daughters and aunts from the Muslim community saying, “Enough. No more violence. No more deaths”, as did all those courageous women who helped to bring peace to Ireland? And if they, our Muslim sisters, are mute slaves to — or, worse, themselves in thrall to — the siren call of the death-wish culture, is there any hope for the rest of us?

WHERE ARE THEY?! I know where they are: they are afraid, and abused and battered.

I have long argued that in order to transform Muslim "culture" from a regressive, violent, xenophobic, Luddite, and anti-libertarian one, into a pluralistic, democratic, libertarian culture we have to do more than hold elections. We have to force them to end their backward and anti-humanitarian treatment of women, of their mothers, wives, and daughters. (For a complete explanation of the demographic and cultural effects of Muslim misogyny CLICK HERE.)

Basically, I have argued this for one simple reason:

A society which allows it's own women to be systematically deprived of their innate, inalienable universal human rights is of course going to be a society which will condone and even valorize terror and atrocities to people they define as outsiders, infidels. If they condone murdering their daughters, of course they will condone genocide of the infidel.

Liberating the Muslim women from their religiously inspired oppression is as important as was ending the slave trade. And it should be embraced by all civilized nations.

The civilized world could begin to do this by expelling nations which permit misogyny - (in the form of polygamy, endogamy, forced marriages, "honor-killings", and any and all forms of sedcond-class citizenship) - from all international organizations and all international aid.

This would begin the transformation of their "culture", and it would be the beginning of the end of the systematic and dehumanizing practices they condone, if not laud.

IMHO: Transforming Arab Muslim families from ones which condone wife-beating and honor-killing into ones which treasure all - regardless of gender - would truly begin to drain the swamp. The fathers, sons and brothers would become more humane and less sociopathic - and as a result they'd be less likely to become jihadoterrorists.

REPEAT: Liberating the Muslim women from their religiously inspired oppression is as important as was ending the slave trade. And it should be embraced by all civilized nations.

This would be an entirely non-militaristic, totally diplomatic/economic/cultural front of the GWOT, and it is one the doves should totally embrace.

[ASIDE: Not all Muslim culture is misogynistic. It is dominant in Arab and African Islam, but not in all of Asian Islam. For example, Indonesian has , by-and-large, liberated Muslim women. This proves it's possible. And even though there are many Indonesian jihadoterrorists - (the Bali Bombing was but one of their atrocities), it is less of a problem, over all, than in Arab nations. Especially when you consider that Indonesia is the most populated Muslim nation in the world. My feeling is that somewhat liberated Muslim Indonesian women help keep Islamism in check.]

UPDATE: THE AUTONOMIST and I are on the same page, and he has a brilliant post up about the same topic: how the root cause of jihadoterror is sexual misogyny and not bad economic prospects for Muslim men; [though - since prosperity is a by-product of liberty - Islamism, (which is fundamentally anti-libertarian), does adversely effect the local economy. Ending Islamism WILL make their econiomies better!] Here's an excerpt from THE AUTONOMIST:

French film maker Pierre Rehov will soon release his documentary "Suicide Killers," a film delving into the methods and motives of Palestinian suicide bombers.

Rehov interviewed both families of successful bombers and also imprisoned bombers whose bombs failed to detonate. What he found dispels the myth that Arab and Muslim terror bombing is driven primarily by economic forces and a desire to overcome the 'oppression' of the West.

Rehov suggests that suicide bombers are driven by the tenets of Islam and by the sexual misogyny it causes in the cultures where it is prominent.

I have always believed that the sick view of sexuality promoted by strict Islam is one of suicide bombing's prime motivators. Young males, living in Islamic societies where pre-marital sex with women is sometimes punishable by death, and raised by mothers who are treated like chattel, can't possibly have healthy outlooks on sexuality.

(Great minds think alike!)
RTWT. PLUS: He has a great graphic. too!
More HERE on liberating women - via Infidel Blogger Alliance.)

DID THE MUMBAI TERRORISTS HAVE TO BE STATE-TRAINED? NOPE...

The Mumbai terrorists didn't do anything which wasn't already done by other jihadists in Fallujah or Ramadi or so many other towns they took over using TERROR. So I think they might have easily been the enemy's Iraqi War vets, and not jihadist trained by rogues within Pakistan's ISI.

More importantly, I think hypothesizing about the terrorist's organization and organizational means is a total distraction.

I think the key to winning the WAR is demolishing the ideology which motivates them to attack.

That is ISLAM.

I think there are a few non-military means of attacking that ideology we should use:

1 - ON CLASSICALLY LIBERAL AND STRICTLY HUMANITARIAN GROUNDS we can and should isolate all nations which permit islamo-misogyny. Kick them out of every Western club: the UN, the IMF, the World Bank, GATT/WTO. We should no more accept islamo-misogyny than accept slavery based on race.

Islamo-misogyny in the Muslim home is the matrix in which jihadism grows; it's the how they turn children into jihadis; it teaches them that a class of humans - women in their own family - are mere chattel. This is one of the first lessons they learn. They first learn to dehumanize the women in their family and then the men outside their tribe. After that they learn that the men and women outside their religion are - in their minds - justifiably targets of genocide.

As long as Muslim children learn islamo-misogyny Muslim adults will commit terror.

2 - We should stop buying anything from these nations. YES; ANYTHING -INCLUDING OIL. This means we have to build nuclear and coal power plants and wind farms etc. And it means we have to extract all the oil we can from ALL domestic sources. ALL - including ANWR.

3 - We need to demand that RELIGIOUS FREEDOM is available to all humans everywhere, and shun all nations which don't allow religious freedom. AND THIS MEANS SAUDI ARABIA, TOO.

4 - Military counter-attacks have a place to - wee MUST stay on the offensive and be willing to use ANY weapon in our arsenal - and we have to make the enemy realize we will. ALL WEAPONS - AND HARSH/SEVERE INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES.

This will give us a better deterrent with many of them - especially the state sponsors who have some degree of "plausible deniability". For example, we have to tell Pakistan that if they cannot control the FATA that we shall consider it non-territorial and feel free to attack at will. (As it stands now, the Pakistanis get to have their cake and eat it, too: arguing we cannot have free-range in their territory, but then failing to police it themselves).

This strategy could actually win WW4.

CNN: AFGHAN WOMEN TERRORIZED BY ISLAMO-MISOGYNY

CNN:

Although strides have been made for women's rights in the post-Taliban era, many women are still made to feel like second-class citizens. (Watch the brutal reality of life for Afghan women Video)

Afghan laws stipulate that men and women have equal rights, these experts say, but they are just not recognized.

"There is a thinking of men in my country that women are not real, not complete humans," said Homa Sultani, an Afghan woman and human rights activist.

"That is why they think that if they are not complete humans, then they do not have the right to go to the doctor or the other rights, to get education."

The culture allows Afghan men to go even further, she said.

"Men think that they have the right to kill their wives because they think that when they get married, their wives, or maybe their daughters, [become] their private property and ... you can do anything -- you can throw them away, you can demolish them."

FIRST OF ALL, WE NEED TO LIBERATE THESE WOMEN, MUSLIM WOMEN EVERYWHERE - FROM ISLAMO-MISOGYNY BECAUSE THESE WOMEN -- OUR SISTERS - ARE HUMANS WHO DESERVE THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS AS MUCH AS OUR WOMEN DO.

SECOND OF ALL, TO DRAIN THE SWAMP, WE NEED TO ERADICATE ISLAMO-MISOGYNY.

AS LONG AS MUSLIMS RAISE CHILDREN IN HOMES WHICH CELEBRATE HONOR-KILLING OF THEIR OWN FLESH AND BLOOD, THEY WILL CERTAINLY ALSO BE RAISING CHILDREN WHO WILL COMMIT GENOCIDE AGAINST INFIDELS.

RTWT.

VIDEO OF IRANIAN ISLAMO-MISOGYNY HERE.

SHOCKER: 4000 forced Muslim marriages in Great Britain ever year!

HOT AIR: An epidemic of forced marriages in Britain

A quiet epidemic of missing teenagers has Britain questioning its multicultural beliefs and asking why authorities have not acted to protect these children. Only a few weeks after the Archbishop of Canterbury suggested that the British allow for shari’a courts for Muslims, a new study indicates as many as 4,000 or more Muslim teens and young adults simply vanish every year — forced into arranged marriages by family members through abduction, rape, and threat of death:

The figures have triggered a public debate about religion, archaic family traditions and British identity. The government now estimates that 3,000 forced marriages take place in Britain per year.

Even Khanum doubts these numbers. In Luton alone, each year sees 300 calls to an emergency telephone line for victims of forced marriages. “We’re dealing with something here that happens in secrecy,” Khanum says. She estimates that there could be about 4,000 cases nationwide each year of children and young adults who are forced to marry and taken out of the country, both against their will.

RTWT.

(Meanwhile, native Brits ow have their LOWEST marriage rate ever!)

They Muslims send their most assimilated children back to the worst areas to be forced into submission.

This practice is as bad as slavery.

IMHO: Islamo-misogyny is the sociological/psychological root cause of jihado-terror:

Children who are taught that it’s okay to do this and worse to their sisters (people of their own blood/their own family/their own tribe) will of course grow up to be able to commit genocide against infidels.

The civilized world must unite to ERADICATE islamo-misogyny.

This can be done without any wars:

Nations which permit islamo-misogyny should be shunned and banned from all international and multilateral organizations - including the UN, the WB, the IMF and WTO.

And then we might use coordinated international police force to interdict the perp's as they transport the victims: we need only remove all young Muslim women during their passage from one nation to another, and then isolate them in safety, and then offer them freedom and refugee status anywhere in the West if they claim to be traveling against their will.

It's that simple.

We can end this practice in a few years time.

With no bullets.

There is NO EXCUSE for the Left not to unite with the Right to achieve this.

There is NO EXCUSE for the Euros not to unite with the USA to achieve this.

I urge Bush and Rice and the GOP to adopt this policy.

We ended slavery; we can end forced marriage and islamo-misogyny.

WE MUST WAGE A DIPLOMATIC WAR ON ISLAMO-MISOGYNY. HERE'S STEP #1:

THIS BLOG HAS POSTED DOZENS OF TIMES ON ISLAMO-MISOGYNY.

ISLAMO-MISOGYNY IS THE ROOT CAUSE OF ISLAMO-TERROR.

SEE HERE AND HERE (PAKISTAN'S FEMALE PROBLEM - THEY'RE THE WORST IN ASIA AND IT'S WHY THEY RAISE SO MANY JIHADISTS), AND HERE, AND HERE, TOO, AND ALSO HERE, AND THIS TOO, AND THIS FROM 2007, A GOODONE FROM 2006.

THE ISLAMO-MISOGYNIST HOME IS THE SWAMP THAT MUST BE DRAINED.

MUSLIM HOMES WHICH RAISE THEIR MALE CHILDREN TO BELIEVE THAT THE FEMALES IN THEIR OWN FAMILIES ARE CHATTEL TO BE DENIED RIGHTS AND FREEDOM - AND TO BE TORTURED OR KILLED FOR VIOLATING FAMILY HONOR - ARE RAISING MALES WHO CAN DO WORSE TO NON-MUSLIMS.

IF WE CAN LIBERATE THE WOMEN IN MUSLIM NATIONS WHERE THEY ARE TREATED AS CHATTEL, THEN WE CAN END ISLAMO-TERROR.

WE SHOULD PASS A LAW - BASED ON ONE PASSED IN 1998 TO PROTECT RELIGIOUS FREEDOM (AND WHICH OBAMA SHAMEFULLY WANTS TO LET EXPIRE!!) - THAT ESTABLISHES AN AGENCY WITHIN THE US STATE DEPARTMENT TO MONITOR:

THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FREEDOM ACT OF 2012 (IWFA):

The agency would report on particularly severe violations of women's freedom and the systematic, ongoing, egregious violations of gender freedom, including violations such as:

• forced marriage, torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment;
• honor-killing
• denials of the right to life, liberty, or the security of women based on their gender
• economic sanctions, by the United States..

Issuing recommendations as to countries it believes should be designated as countries of particular concern for their gender liberty violations would be the United States Commission on International Women's Freedom, an agency to be created by IWFA to monitor the state of women's freedom around the world and provide policy recommendations to the president, the secretary of state and US Congress.

THIS SHOULD BE A NON-CONTROVERSIAL AND NON-PARTISAN BILL THAT SHOULD GET 100% APPROVAL IN CONGRESS.

WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS ARE UNIVERSAL AND ALREADY GUARANTEED BY THE UN'S DECLARATION OF UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS.

THIS IS JUST A MEANS OF ENFORCING IT, AND DOING IT IN A NON-KINETIC/NON-MILITARY WAY.

NATIONS THAT THIS NEW AGENCY DETERMINES ARE EGREGIOUS OFFENDERS WOULD BE ORDERED BY CONGRESS TO RECEIVE DIPLOMATIC AND ECONOMIC SANCTIONS.

MILLIONS OF WOMEN DESERVE THEIR INNATE RIGHTS.

AND MAKING SURE THEY HAVE THEM, WOULD NOT ONLY LEAD TO A GREAT NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM, BUT TO GREATER PEACE AND LESS TERROR.

ALL WOMEN EVERYWHERE DESERVE THEIR RIGHTS.

AMERICA SHOULD LEAD THE WAY.

2 PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE "SWAMP" IN WHICH ISLAMO-TERRORISM GROWS

LIBERALS LIKE TO SAY THAT ISLAMO-TERROR IS THE RESULT OF POVERTY AND IGNORANCE; THAT THEY ARE THE "SWAMP" IN WHICH TERROR GROWS.

BULLSHIT.

HERE ARE TWO PHOTOGRAPHS THAT DEPICT THE REAL "SWAMP" IN WHICH ISLAMO-TERROR GROWS - FOR TERRORISTS ARE NOT BORN; THEY ARE  TRAINED, AND THEY ARE NOT MERELY TRAINED IN TERROR-CAMPS, OR IN MADRASSAS. THEY ARE FIRST TRAINED IN THE HOME:

FIRST: RITUAL CHILD ABUSE:

MORE ON ASHOURA HERE.

SECOND: RITUAL ISLAMO-MISOGYNY:

MORE ON ISLAMO-MISOGYNY HERE.

AND HERE'S PROOF THAT WHAT GLOBAL JIHAD IS ALL ABOUT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH JEWS OR ISRAEL, OR NEOCONS, OR CAPITALISM, OR THE WEST:

MORE ON THE BUDDHAS OF BAMIYAN HERE.

IF WE REALLY WANT TO END GLOBAL JIHAD, THEN WE NEED TO END ISLAMO-CHILD ABUSE AND ISLAMO-MISOGYNY.

MUSLIMS WHO WANT TO END ISLAMO-TERROR - AND WHO WANT THE ISLAMO-TERRORISTS TO STOP BESMIRCHING AND DEMEANING THEIR RELIGION - SHOULD JOIN THIS EFFORT.

Islamo-misogyny: the crime which generates dysfunctional and pathological people capable of genocidal jihad

Dr. Sanity:

the treatment of women under Islam is not only the key to understanding the pathology of the culture, but also the key to developing an antidote to its most poisonous and toxic elements.

Unveiling the women of Islam and eliminating their second-class status; empowering them in the oppressive Islamic countries where their individuality and self-expression has been crushed-- may cause a ripple effect that could eventually alter a family structure that currently encourages the development of generation after generation of dysfunctional and pathological men and women.

RTWT.

We at TAB have proposed ways the West can use non-kinetic leverage to force a change.

More HERE.

The Astute Bloggers are totally opposed to islamo-misogyny. WE ARE ANTI-islamo-misogynists - "A.I.M."

We want to end jihad by ending islamo-misogyny. It's time to take AIM against jihadism.

LET'S ATTACK A SYMBOL OF ISLAMO-MISOGYNY: BAN THE BURQA

We can strike a blow against islamo-misogyny right here in the West; PIPES:

Once-exotic forms of Muslim women's head and body garments have now become both familiar in the West and the source of fractious political and legal disputes.

... The practice of covering the face derives from tribal customs that build on Islamic law, not the law itself.

For example, some tribeswomen in Saudi Arabia's Al-Kharj region put on the burqa at puberty, then never take it off – not for other women, not for their husbands, and not for their children. These family members typically see the woman's face only when viewing her corpse.

... Nothing in Islam requires turning females into shapeless, faceless zombies; good sense calls for modesty itself to be modest.

The time has come everywhere to ban from public places these hideous, unhealthy, socially divisive, terrorist-enabling, and criminal-friendly garments.

Pipes has details and links. RTWT.

I believe that the root cause of islamo-terrorism is islamo-misogyny: a people whose ideology teaches that woman must never be seen in public or have the freedom to dress as they please, and teaches its young men that it's okay (1) to beat their wiveS (PLURAL!), and (2) force their daughters to marry their cousins, and (3) kill their sisters for "dishonoring" their family, will of teach these same young men that it is okay to commit genocidal terror against infidels.

We need to begin to go on the offensive against islamo-misigyny. Banning these sexist garments would be a start.

We must make Muslim women feel free and safe enough to dress as they please, and to marry who and when they please.

U.N.-S.G. BAN KI MOON PROPOSES THE MEANS TO END ISLAMO-MISOGYNY - and with it islamo-terror

YAHOO/REUTERS:

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world body on Thursday to create a single agency to empower women and girls and fight for their rights.

In an address to mark International Women's Day, Ban said the 192-member United Nations should take the lead in the global battle with a fully funded new agency that combines the work currently done by three different U.N. bodies.

"Such a new body should be able to call on all of the U.N. system's resources in the work to empower women and realize gender equality worldwide," Ban said. "It should mobilize forces of change at the global level and inspire enhanced results at the country level."

A U.N. panel recommended in November that the U.N. Development Fund for Women, the U.N. Division for the Advancement of Women, and the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues be combined into one ambitiously funded agency. The combined budgets of the three units is currently less than $80 million annually.

Ban said much more needed to be done in the fight for women's rights, particularly in combating violence against women and girls around the world, which is the theme for this year's International Women's Day.

"Most societies proscribe such violence -- yet the reality is that too often, it is tolerated under the fallacious cover of cultural practices and norms, within the walls of the home," Ban told a U.N. International Women's Day event in New York.

"Or it is used as a weapon in armed conflict, condoned through tacit silence and passivity by the state and the law enforcement community," said Ban, a former South Korean foreign minister who became secretary-general on January 1.

Ban also suggested that the U.N. General Assembly discuss the problem of violence against women and girls once a year and that the Security Council establish a formal monitoring of violence against women and girls.

I THINK THIS COULD BE HUGE - IF HANDLED AGGRESSIVELY. I have long argued that these practices are banned by the UN Declaration of UNIVERSAL Human Rights.(MORE HERE.)

And I have further argued that the misogynistic practices - (described here in an article by American feminist Phylis Chesler) - are truly at the very core of jihadoterror:

Any culture which tells its young men that it is okay to abuse and even kill female family members (as in "honor killings"), will concomitantly tells them that it is okay to commit genocide against non-family members who are infidels (whether they are in a hatred sect of Islam or Jews or Christians or Hindus or Buddhists or atheists.)

Phrased another way: If a man will kill his daughter for his family's honor, then he will certainly kill or condone the killing of infidels.

REPEAT: If a boy learns in his home that it is okay for his father to beat his mother (and his half-brother's mothers, too), and kill his sisters - his own flesh and blood, members of his own race and believers in his own creed, then OF COURSE he is going to think it's just fine'n dandy to commit terror against infidels.]

REPEAT AGAIN: As long as their children are raised to accept terror within their own family, they will use certainly terror to settle all their differences with non-Muslims. And they will certainly condone genocide against infidels.

I think this is at the very core of the inhumanity of jihadism and radical Islam. This - more than economic hopelessnes, or nativism - is jihadoterror's ROOT CAUSE.

The UN should take a very aggressive position against misogyny, and demand that all misogynistic practices end. And it should threaten expulsion from the UN, economic sanctions, and banishment from all multilateral organizations, (like UNESCO, UNICEF, the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank, etc), to any and all nations which do not end these practices.

Nations and so-called cultures which permit these practices should not reap any benefit from any contact with modern, Western Civilization.

Previous TAB posts on ISLAMO-MISOGYNY HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE. More from Phyllis Chesler HERE and HERE and HERE.

SHACKLEFORD AT JAWA ARGUES THAT ISLAM AND ISLAMISM ARE 2 SEPARATE THINGS - I DISAGREE

THE JAWA MASTER: Islam isn't the problem, Islamism is.

Inasmuch as I've written hundreds of posts on Islamists and Islamism it's a bit tedious to have to do it one more time.

Islam is a system of beliefs -- a faith. Islamism is a political system in which there is no separation of church and state and religious law prevails. Islamists are those who believe in Islamism.

As a political matter I've got not problem with Islam or Muslims. If you want to pray five times a day, build a mosque in my neighborhood, and never know the delicious goodness of pork I really don't care.

It's only when you start demanding -- as a matter of legal requirement -- that I stop making fun of your prophet that your religion stops being a religion and quickly becomes a form of political fascism.

I'm not a Muslim so I am not in the business of deciding whether true Islam demands the implementation of sharia or not. Plenty of Muslims tell me that it doesn't. Others tell me it does. That's something for them to work out, not me.

I DISAGREE:

I asked Rusty to tell me if he thought Mohamed was just a Muslim who practiced the faith of Islam - or was he an islamist?

And to tell me the answer to this, too:

Was Bin Laden emulating Mohamed or being a bad Muslim? And tell me this: can you emulate Mohamed and be a bad Muslim?

Think about it.

The truthful answers to these questions tell you everything you need to know about Islam.

I argue that most MUSLIMS are good people - who do not emulate Mohamed, and most can't read Arabic and don't know much about their faith beyond what their harmless well-meaning local Imam tells them.

But recent history is replete with dozens if not hundreds and even thousands of cases in which these harmless Muslims were radicalized and became what you and many others call "islamists". They were radicalized because radicals could easily show them that Mohamed and the Koran and the hadiths and the Sura justifiedwhat you call "islamism".

MAYBE I AM WRONG? If I am then Shackleford - or anyone else for that matter - must show me how folks like Bin Laden and Zawahiri and Khomeini and Khameni and Nasrallah and the entire Supreme Council of Iran got Islam wrong; show me how they "misunderstand" islam.

Lookit folks, it's really simple - and even the VERY progressive pro-West, lesbian Muslim Irshad Manji gets it: Manji argues that what Islam needs is for the Koran and hadiths and the Sura to be taken FIGURATIVELY and not LITERALLY.

In other words, she tacitly admits that the Koran and the hadiths and the Sura are LITERALLY replete with horrible edicts - edits which, if taken LITERALLY, do implore the "believer" to commit misogyny, and terror, if not genocide. This makes it inherently incompatible with our civilization.

I think that admitting that Islam is inherently incompatible with Judeo-Christian Civilization, Western Civilization and the Enlightenment is important - but it's just the first step.

Muslims must take the next 1000 steps - and either radically alter their faith at its very core and foundation, or leave it in ash heap of history along with the many other religions people no longer practice. Until they do, thousands of dangerous islamists will be born or made every week.

WHAT CAN WE NON-MUSLIMS DO?

We do not need to go kinetic. Repeat: We do not need to go kinetic. We can do peaceful, non-violent political things - (things I have advocated for several years).

We can start by taking a serious step on the diplomatic front:

We could shun all nations which permit misogyny and thereby violate the UN's Declaration of Universal Human Rights. These nations - nearly all majority Muslim - should be kicked out of every international "club" and be forced to operate without trade or the World Bank or IMF or WTO until they change their laws ad basic practices and teachings. (This means countries like Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia would have to be shunned.)

We should no more accept islamo-misogyny than accept slavery.

That would be a good place to start.

THE SECOND FRONT: HOW TO FIGHT AND DEFEAT THE CULTURE OF JIHADOTERROR WITHOUT BULLETS, BOMBS OR BAYONETS

Gateway posted on a recent court case in supposedly moderate Qatar related to so-called Muslim "honor-killing":

Honor Killer in Qatar Pardoned for Strangling Sister

The young man's sentence is suspended as long as he does not commit the same crime again within three years. The Gulf Times reports:

The Qatar Appeal Court has commuted the three-year imprisonment sentence awarded to a Jordanian teenager to "one suspended year" for "strangulating his sister to death" as the upper court said there was no clinching evidence to prove that it was a case of pre-meditated murder.

The upper court’s decision means that if the convict repeated the offence within the next three years, the judgement will be carried out. The crime took place on March 25, 2005, in what is supposed to be a case of "honour killing".

As long as he does not strangle another sister, he will be a free man.

(Gateway has more - RTWT.)

Any culture which sanctifies honor-killings -- which is after all simply murdering one's own female flesh-and-blood -- is of course a culture which will allow rampant inter-tribal warfare (Hamas v Fatah, or Shia v Sunni, etc.), and it will of course promote genocide against non-believers.

Only Muslim cultures practice and permit this horrifying crime. It is simply the worst aspect of a radical MISOGYNY which pervades the contemporary Muslim world. This familial practice - and the attitudes which inform it - are the breeding ground of jihadoterror. These attitudes - and not poverty or a sense of injustice - are why the Muslims breed so many terrorists. As long as they raise male children who fervently believe they can GET AWAY WITH MURDERING THEIR OWN FLESH AND BLOOD (or wife-beating, etc), we non-Muslims will have a big problem on our hands.

This is why I believe that in addition to killing jihadists and to promoting democracy in Muslim states, we need to put pressure on Muslim states to accept and enforce the UN's Declaration of Universal Human Rights, and to extend full and equal status to women, and pressure them to: (a) ban forced marriage, and (b) ban polygamy, and (c) ban consanguineous marriage). If they fail to address these anti-humane practices they should be be expelled from the UN and banned from participation in any-and-all multi-lateral financial, international aid, and international trade groups - like UNICEF, UNESCO, the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO, etc.

I have previously posted several articles at this blog relating empirical evidence on the harmful nature of these pervasive practices. (Google it at this blog under "polygamy", "misogyny" and "endogamy".)

REPEAT: As long as their children are raised to accept terror within their own family, they will use certainly terror to settle all their differences with non-Muslims. And they will certainly condone genocide against infidels.

The pressure I suggest we use on this front would be non-military and diplomatic. And it would be applied universally so it would effect the entire ummah, every Muslim state, and every family. Therefore, liberals (even doves) have no reason - and therefore no excuse - not to support it fully.

I am not suggesting that this strategy be used against rogue nations for their militaristic and terroristic efforts - IOW: North Korea; Iran; and Syria. These rogue states deserve to be thrashed with the harshest means we have at our disposal - militarily if necessary. But applying this strategy to the rest of the Islamic world would separate the truly moderate Muslim states from the rogues and the phonies.

BOTTOM-LINE: We should no more tolerate the radical misogyny permitted in these nations, than tolerate SLAVERY.

MUSLIM DEMOGRAPHY RECAP: how widespread sociopathy arises from widespread endogamous polygamy and misogyny - and what can be done about it

Read my previous posts on the subject HERE and HERE and HERE. The facts in these posts make a pretty convincing case: these practices - the ethos which empowers them, and the social conditions which arise from them - are at the core of Radical Islam.

The ethos which has produced these anti-social social organizing principles enables and reinforces jihadoterror against the "infidel," for if you must marry within the family to retain property, and if you can reclaim honor by murdering a female family member, then you can certainly commit genocide against "infidels" with a clear conscience.

IMHO: We must force the backward nations which still permit the practices of endogamy, polygamy and misogyny to pass laws prohibiting them, and thereby begin to transform them from tribal societies based on xenophobia, to modern societies based on the rule of law and respect for the individual.

The internatonal communtiy could pressure these backward nations by withholding loans, insurance, and free-trade agreements from any country which allows endogamy, polygamy and misogyny. And we should also insist on an arms embargo, too. After all: these archaic practices are indefensible.

This aggressive but non-military plan is consistent with the UN's Declaration of Universal Human Rights. This document holds that ALL HUMANS EVERYWHERE are entitled to their innate, UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS. Just as we should intervene internationally to stop genocide or slavery, so to must we intervene to halt these archaic sociopathic anti-humane practices. As free people, we have a duty to liberate our tyrannized brothers and sisters everywhere. As potential victims of jihadoterror, we have a duty to protect ourselves and and children.

AND, YUP: this should include Iraq. And Saudi Arabia, too! And Jordan. The whole lot of 'em!

A CHALLENGE TO WOMEN EVERYWHERE: GO ON STRIKE FOR THE WOMEN OF IRAN

WOMEN EVERYWHERE SHOULD GO ON STRIKE FOR THE WOMEN OF IRAN.

FOR NEDA.

ALL WOMEN WHO WORK SHOULD STAY HOME AND HOMEMAKERS SHOULD REFUSE TO DO HOMEWORK

ISLAMO-MISOGYNY IS ONE OF THE ROOT CAUSES OF ISLAMO-TERROR.

ENDING ISLAMO-MISOGYNY WILL DRAIN THE SWAMP.

MORE ON ISLAMO-MISOGYNY HERE (SCROLL!) AND HERE AND HERE AND HERE AND HERE.

HOW WE'LL KNOW WW4 IS OVER

WHEN WILL W44 BE OVER??

I THINK THIS QUOTE SETS THE BAR AT EXACTLY THE RIGHT HEIGHT:

WE WILL HAVE TO FIGHT THIS WAR UNTIL...

...until the hate material is removed from sale and democratically accountable Muslim leaders emerge to contest the theologians of terrorism, anti-semitism, misogyny and homophobia

THE QUOTE IS FROM AN OP-ED BY A LABOUR MP - DENNIS MACSHANE; THE OP-ED IS PRIMARILY ABOUT ISLAMISM IN THE UK, BUT IT APPLIES TO WW4.

I THINK WE IN THE WEST OUGHT TO DEMAND THIS FROM ALL MOSQUES AND MADRASSAS HERE IN THE WEST, OR WE SHOULD CLOSE THEM DOWN AND DEPORT THEIR NON-NATIVE CLERICS FOR SEDITION.

MACSHANE ALSO WROTE THIS:

One of the constant lies of the current debate over terrorism is that it is all the fault of George Bush and Tony Blair.

The best-known Swiss in Britain today is Tariq Ramadan, the most interesting of Europe's political Islamists. He wrote recently that the 'invasion of Iraq, blind support for the insane policies of George Bush, British silence on the oppression of the Palestinians have a direct bearing on the deep discontent shared by many Muslims towards the West in general, and towards Britain in particular'.

Ramadan's views are standard tropes for many on the liberal-left in Europe.

... But as the families of those killed a decade ago remember those dreadful murders on the Nile, can Bush and Blair be blamed as the inspirers of the killing of Swiss tourists? Or what in 1995 inspired the Paris Metro bombing which killed eight?

... Something deeper is going on. To discuss this in religious terms is repugnant for many. But history is full of faiths sanctioning political murders to advance a cause.

The violence of faith takes many forms. A university report has just been published on the material available in British mosques, Muslim schools and bookshops. It reveals a violent brew of anti-semitism, misogyny and homophobia which inculcates a loathing for fellow citizens who do not conform to the rules of Islamist ideologues.

The report scrupulously quotes extracts from books and pamphlets widely available in mosque bookshops. The response of the Muslim Council of Britain was to attack the research. Instead of calling on mosques to empty themselves of such hate material, the MCB called for the report to be ignored. This arrogant dismissal does no service to Muslims.

• THE ARROGANT DISMISSAL SAYS ALL WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MOST OF THE MUSLIMS IN THE WEST.

• WE MUST CONFRONT THEM AND DEMAND ASSIMILATION, OR KICK THEM OUT AND CLOSE THEM DOWN.

ANYTHING LESS IS TANTAMOUNT TO SURRENDERING.

ISLAM: RELIGION OF GENDERCIDE

NATIONAL POST:

Jonathan Kay, National Post · Friday, Sept. 10, 2010

Thanks to an international outcry, Iranian officials apparently have "suspended" the death sentence against Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, convicted in 2006 for the crime of "adultery" (even though her husband already had died at the time of her allegedly "illicit" relationship). Yet her life remains hellish.

This week, it was reported that, even as she was waiting on death row, Ashtiani got 99 lashes for the further crime of appearing in a Times of London photo without a headscarf. (The Times now concedes that the photo actually was of another woman -- adding an additional level of surreal suffering to what already was a singularly pitiful case.)

This is on top of the 99 she got back in 2006, which would put her at a total of 198.

The only possible good news to be wrung from the woman's horror is the fact that the case has united the whole of the civilized world -- including Europe's otherwise morally relativistic intellectuals -- in unanimous condemnation of Iran's Medieval theocracy.

Even the most devout Euro-pacifist can only be horrified at the prospect of this regime possessing a nuclear weapon.

And yet Ashtiani is just a drop in the bucket when it comes to "honour killings" in Muslim societies.

An astonishing investigative report in Britain's Independent by celebrity left-wing journalist Robert Fisk (who has taken a laudable break from his America-bashing beat) concludes that the usual UN figure of 5,000 honour killings per year worldwide is off by a factor of at least four--and that the real number is about 20,000.

20,000/ YEAR x HOW MANY YEARS?

HMMM... 1431.

SO, THAT'S... HMMM: 28,620,000 MUSLIM WOMEN MURDERED BY MUSLIMS.

BY THEIR OWN MALE FAMILY MEMBERS.

AND BESIDES THE GENOCIDE, THINK ABOUT THE EFFECT OF THE THREAT OF THAT TERROR HAS ON THE WOMEN - THE YOUNG GIRLS.

AND WHAT IT TEACHES YOUNG MEN.

IT TEACHES YOUNG MUSLIM MEN THAT GENOCIDE IS OKAY - FOR IF IT'S OKAY TO MURDER YOUR OWN SISTER, THEN IT'S CERTAINLY OKAY TO MURDER NON-MUSLIMS.

• THE IDEOLOGY WHICH PROMULGATES MUSLIM MISOGYNY, GENDERCIDE AND AUTO-GENOCIDE IS THE PROVERBIAL SWAMP.

• IF WE WANT MUSLIM MEN TO BE DESENSITIZED TO THE APPEAL OF JIHAD, THEN WE HAVE TO ERADICATE MUSLIM MISOGYNY AND MUSLIM GENDERCIDE AND AUTO-GENOCIDE.

• NATIONS WHICH LET THESE CRIMES GO UNPUNISHED SHOULD BE COMPLETELY OSTRACIZED FROM THE MODERN WORLD.

• COMPLETELY.

• THIS WOULD BE THE MOST EFFECTIVE NON-MILITARY FRONT WE COULD OPEN IN WW4.

• THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN AS LONG AS WE HAVE FILTHY, WEASELY, ENEMY-APPEASING SC*MB*G POLITICIANS AND PUNDITS TELL US THAT ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE WHEN HISTORY AND THE DAILY NEWSPAPERS TELL US IT IS NOT.

ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF GENOCIDE - AND GENDERCIDE.

ISLAM REFUSES TO COEXIST WITH THE MODERN WORLD.

ISLAM SAYS "US OR THEM" AND THAT'S WHY WE HAVE ONLY TWO CHOICES:

FIGHT OR SURRENDER.

AND APPEASEMENT = SURRENDER, JUST MORE SLOWLY.

(PREVIOUS POST: ISLAM: RELIGION OF GENOCIDE.)

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