Posted: 10/05/2016 at 2:54pm
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Why ‘Infidel’ Women are Jihad’s Greatest Victims
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harsh, Islamic law is still harsher for women. According to the Koran,
men have “authority” over women and may beat them for disobedience
(4:34). According to Mohammad, the prophet of Islam, women are less intelligent than men — two women are needed to equal one man’s testimony — and the majority of hell’s population consists of women, who are further likened to donkeys and dogs in their ability to distract a man from his prayer and thereby annul it. What,
then, is Islam’s view of women who are “infidels”? They are at best
“meant for one thing, the pleasure of the Muslim man,” as one Muslim told a
group of young Christian girls in Pakistan before terrorizing and
murdering one. In the Koran, (e.g., 4:24), non-Muslim women seized in a
jihad can be bought and sold as sex slaves for Muslim men, as the
Islamic State—not to mention America’s “good friend and ally” Saudi Arabia—have been doing. Emily Fuentes, communications director for Open Doors, a human rights organization that advocates for persecuted Christians, said: Unfortunately,
more and more women are the target of [Muslim] terrorist groups. There
are numerous international incidents of women being kidnapped, raped,
and forced to convert from Christianity to Islam by radical extremist
groups…. Many are also sold on the open market. This brutality is not
only occurring in the Middle East but in Africa and in many other
places. In many of these countries, women are subject to persecution
because they are considered second-class citizens because of their
gender. As minorities in both gender and faith, Christian women face
double the persecution. Although we don’t have an exact number, we know
that millions of women are being persecuted…. In these Muslim-dominated
countries, Christian women are systematically deprived of their freedom
to live and are denied basic human necessities.
Christian
women are double damned: as non-Muslims, they are barely tolerated
“infidels”; as women, they are even more inferior than their already
despised male counterparts. Add to this the facts that women are
physically weaker—and physically more attractive—than men, and, at least
outside the West, more passive than men, and it becomes clear why they
are the greatest recipients of Islamic abuse. By now, the plight
of non-Muslim females in the grips of ISIS is well known. Since
conquering Mosul in June 2014, the caliphate has executed as many as 250
captive non-Muslim girls (mostly Yazidis and Christians) for refusing
to be sex slaves. Most recently, 19 Yazidi girls were placed in iron
cages and burned alive in front of a crowd of hundreds, for refusing to copulate with jihadis. According to a report that appeared one day after Open Doors highlighted the plight of non-Muslim women: Religious
minority women under IS control are often repeatedly sold from jihadi
to jihadi. Once militants get tired of raping and abusing one particular
girl, they usually sell them off to one of their militant buddies so
they can rape and abuse them at their own pleasure.
One escaped Yazidi girl explained how
“she was bought and sold by eight different jihadis… We were put on
display [in sex slave markets]. Men came in and looked at us like
objects. It was like a car showroom…. Women were bought for cash — as
little as $20, or exchanged for things like mobile phones, or given away
as gifts.” She was raped at least three times a day for over 16
months by countless ISIS fighters, forced to take contraceptives and
abortion-inducing drugs, and repeatedly tried to kill herself to escape
the abuse. Her account is typical, and has been made by many other escaped non-Muslim girls. Other
recent reports tell of “one 8-year-old girl who was also bought, sold
and raped by eight different militants in a span of 10 months”; of
another “sex slave who set herself on fire to
prevent from being raped”; of a couple who, after their children were
abducted by ISIS, answered their door to find a plastic bag containing
the body parts of their daughters and a video of them being tortured and raped; and of Christian and Alawite women being raped and slaughtered by ISIS jihadis invading their village. But
such Islamic abuse of women is hardly limited to groups such as ISIS or
Boko Haram — a Nigerian-based organization that also defines itself in
exclusively Islamic terms and is notorious for abducting, enslaving,
raping and murdering Christian girls. Approximately 700 Christian and
300 Hindu girls are abducted, enslaved, and raped in Pakistan every
year. These are very large numbers considering that Christians and
Hindus each make up only one percent of the nation’s Muslim-majority
population. Just
four days after Open Doors made its remarks about the plight of
Christian women, two Muslim men in Pakistan invaded the home of a
Christian woman while her soldier husband was away serving in the army.
They tied and gang raped her while
threatening to slaughter her two-year-old infant daughter if she did
not comply. According to the 30-year-old woman: “The men treated me like
an animal, telling me I was a worthless Christian…. They said Christian
women are all whores and they would come back and repeat their
debauchery if I ever told anyone.” Because she is both a female and an infidel in a Muslim-majority nation, the police and the law did nothing for her. That same week, five more Christian girls were kidnapped, converted to Islam, and forced to “marry” their captors. There are many more examples of rape and sometimes murder of Christian girls — and sometimes Christian boys —
in Pakistan. After a 9-year-old Christian girl was raped by a Muslim
man who boasted of having “done the same service to other young
Christian girls,” local residents explained: Such
incidents occur frequently. Christian girls are considered goods to be
damaged at leisure. Abusing them is a right. According to the [Muslim]
community’s mentality it is not even a crime. Muslims regard them as
spoils of war.
A similar situation prevails in Egypt. In July 2012, U.S. Congressman Chris Smith testified about
the “escalating abduction, coerced conversion and forced marriage of
Coptic Christian women and girls. Those women are being terrorized and,
consequently, marginalized.” The late and often diplomatic Coptic Pope Shenouda III, the head of Egypt’s Christian community, highlighted this
proclivity back in 1976: “There is a practice to convert Coptic girls
to embrace Islam and marry them under terror to Muslim husbands.”
Between 2008 and 2013 alone, nearly 600 cases of abduction, rape, and
forced conversion of Christian women have been documented in Egypt. The
situation has only gotten worse since, as per the title of a 2012 report: “Abductions and Forced Conversions of Christian Coptic Women in Egypt Dramatically Increase.” If young women are sexually targeted, older women are sexually degraded. On May 20, a 70-year-old Christian woman in
Egypt was stripped naked, spat upon, and paraded in the streets of
Minya to jeers, whistles, and yells of “Allahu Akbar” (“Allah is
Greatest”) by an angry Muslim mob. Two days before the Open Doors report was published, Muslims in Uganda beat and raped a
22-year-old Christian woman because she accused a mosque leader of
murdering her father due to a religious argument. A month earlier, the
13-year-old daughter of a mother who left Islam and converted to
Christianity, was raped by local Muslims and told: “This is the second warning to your mother for disgracing the faith of the Muslims.” It
should be noted that even in Europe, it is the indigenous females who
are suffering the most from the influx of Muslim migrants. Exponentially
higher numbers of sexual attacks and rapes are being committed, often
on the same logic that prevails in the Islamic State or Pakistan. In the words of a Muslim migrant in Germany who stalked, cursed, and groped a woman: “German women are there for sex.” A
final important point: while non-Muslim women are targeted more than
non-Muslim men for sexual reasons, that does not mean that they are
targeted less than men when it comes to non-sexual forms of Muslim
persecution, such as attacks on “blasphemers” and “apostates.” Chivalry
is an alien concept to Islam; when it comes to terrorizing and putting
infidels in their place, the religion of Muhammad is strictly
egalitarian. In Pakistan for example, the most notorious blasphemy case
involves a Christian woman, Asia Bibi,
who has been in prison on death row since 2009; and when a Christian
couple was accused of desecrating a Koran, both husband and wife were burned alive. More recent accounts that surfaced around the same time that Open Doors highlighted the plight of Christian women include: - Indonesia: In what was described as “an unprecedented use of Shari’a on a non-Muslim,” a 60-year-old Christian woman was publicly caned 30 times for selling alcohol.
- Islamic State: A Christian woman was executed by Islamic militants for refusing to deny her faith in Christ. ISIS also threatened a group of Dominican nuns, demanding they either convert to Islam or pay jizya,
tribute (based on Koran 9:29). “The elderly sisters [fled and] began to
suffer heart attacks and heart failures from the stress of the mass
exodus. Over the past 18 months, 23 of them died, sometimes up to three
deaths a week. ‘They died of a broken heart,’ said Sister Huda.”
- Uganda: A Muslim man strangled his wife to death for leaving Islam and converting to Christianity. Another Muslim man beat and threatened to butcher his wife while shouting “Allahu Akbar” because of her conversion to Christianity.
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seldom hears of the reverse, of a Muslim wife killing her husband for
apostasy, due to the lack of authority women have in the Muslim world. It
is for all these reasons that non-Muslim women—physically weaker and
physically more desirable than men—are perfect targets: for nowhere else
can Islam’s hate for “infidels,” and females in general, best combine and vent itself than onto non-Muslim women. Reprinted with author’s permission from Raymond Ibrahim
Source: Breaking Israel
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Edited by News Room on 10/05/2016 at 2:55pm
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