'Palestinian Authority' appointed Imam gives television tips on how to beat your wife
What's most amazing about this is not that it happened, but the reaction of the naive westerners to a glimpse of true Islamic behavior.
Hassan Al-Laham is the top Muslim spiritual leader for Gaza appointed by the 'moderate' 'Palestinian Authority.' (No, this guy isn't even appointed by Hamas, even though he's in Gaza). Official 'moderate' 'Palestinian Authority' television carried this lesson by him informing husbands how to beat their wives... and get away with it.
Let's go to the videotape.
This video, which Fox News calls 'shocking' (Hat Tip: Memeorandum), is actually more than three years old (where was the media for the last three years?). Shocking? Hardly. Certainly not to anyone at all familiar with Islam.
But there's much more to this interview than the short clip you just saw.
Explaining that divorce must be a last resort in Islam, Al-Laham laid out the four steps that should come first.
"Allah said: Warn them [the wives], and separate from
them, and hit them, and bring an arbitrator from his family and an
arbitrator from her family," he said.
Al-Laham, whose title makes him the top spiritual
leader appointed by the Palestinian Authority, then went into detail
about how a husband should hit a wife.
"Not hitting that will bring the police, and break her hand and cause bleeding, or hitting that makes the face ugly," he said.
The hitting should "be like a joke," even reinforcing "the love and friendship" between the couple, he said.
I don't know about you but I can tell you that if God Forbid I hit my wife, it would not reinforce the love and friendship between us. And my guess is that most Muslim women would tell you - if they felt safe talking about it - that being beaten by their husbands does not reinforce love and friendship.
So why is the West so shocked by this? Because Muslims get a free pass from the Western media. They're considered so 'exotic' and 'cool' that they can do no wrong.
The world needs to wake up to this misogynistic cult.
Here's another example. Let's go to the videotape.
Okay, that one was staged. But it was staged to make a point. Abuse of girls and women happens all too much in the Arab Muslim world. It's time to stop giving them a pass on it.
Apparently believing that Deif survived the
Israeli strike, Widad’s mother Zeian Asfura, 61, told London’s Sunday
Times in an interview published Sunday: “Should Deif request the hand of
any of my other daughters, I will happily consent and even if she, too,
is martyred I will consent to the third.
“It is an honor to have Deif a husband to any of my daughters and be a father to their children,” Asfura added.
Hamas claims that Deif survived Tuesday’s assassination attempt, but has produced no sign of life.
Asfura said that when she consented to the
marriage in 2011, she realized the possible consequence. “When I agreed
the marriage, I in effect consented to a fate of martyrdom for my
daughter,” she said.
Something tells me that she did not ask her daughters before making that statement.
In 2012, of about 17,000 marriages were registered in the courts of the
Gaza Strip, 35% were cases in which the brides were under 17 years old.
These marriages are concluded without the courts knowing the girls’
real ages. Meanwhile, about 2,700 divorce cases were registered in the
same year, and in 25% of these the wives were underage, Bakr Azzam, a
lawyer specializing in Sharia issues, told Al-Monitor.
Mariam explained that due to her young age she wasn’t capable of meeting the demands of married life.
“I was taken away from my small toys, taken out of my school forcibly
and delivered to my husband whom I had only seen once, in front of the
judge who officiated my marriage contract,” she added.
Mariam recently ran away from her husband’s house and returned to her
father's, after concluding that she could not bear to stay with her
husband. He dates other women under the excuse that his wife is young
and thinks like a child, not living up to the intellect of a man of his
age. Mariam’s husband also beats her whenever they have an argument.
“When I told my father about this, he told me, ‘This is normal and most young people are facing such a situation these days,’ but I did not accept it,” she said.
Mariam, who now wants a divorce, is not the only underage girl who was
forced to marry despite her physical and mental unreadiness for marital
life.
Sarah had a similar experience, but for different reasons.
As she spoke to Al-Monitor, Sarah looked at a photo of herself
when she was still single. She had a bright face and childlike
features. Today, however, she has become a girl with a scrawny body, a
slim face and caved-in eyes that look very tired.
“I got married when I was 16 years old. My father and my brothers
forced me to marry a 17-year-old boy so that they would not have to pay
my living expenses and could get rid of my father’s accumulated debt,”
she said, her face somber.
She pointed out that marital problems began only one week into the
marriage due to the demands, made by both her husband and his family,
that a girl of her age could not meet. “My family did not take into
account the fact that I was still a child,” she said.
But I'm sure that if we give them a 'state' they will stop treating their daughters as property to be bought and sold.
Viral video: 11-year old Yemeni girl runs away from home to avoid forced marriage
11-year old Nada al-Ahdal has run away from home because her parents are trying to force her into a marriage.
Here's an interview with her. Let's go to the videotape. More after the video.
That video has more than 5,000,000 hits in two days, which is pretty amazing. But what it doesn't say is to whom her parents want to marry her off and why. Is it money or something else?
The answers to those questions are not entirely clear, but this post implies that it probably had to do with money, and that the suitor was at least an adult.
A video,
posted on YouTube, shows an 11-year-old Yemeni girl called Nada
al-Ahdal recounting how she escaped her parents who wanted to force her
to marry. Nada comes from a modest family and is one of eight siblings.
Fortunately for her, her uncle Abdel Salam al-Ahdal, a montage and
graphics technician in a TV station, decided to take her in when she was
three years old, to live with him and his aging mother, away from her
parents.
Nada was not an only child at home. Her uncle had also taken his
other nephew under his wing, as the boy’s own father couldn’t afford his
son’s medical requirements. Abdel Salam was thus responsible for
bringing up two children. He personally took care of keeping them, and
his frail mother, clean and well-fed.
Nada grew up in this caring environment, went to school, and learned
English during the summer vacation. She has her own Facebook page, was a
gifted singer, and took part in musicals. However, her happiness was
cut short when someone came to ask her parents for her hand in marriage.
The man, a Yemeni expatriate living in Saudi Arabia, did not care about
the girl’s age. Her parents were happy because the prospective groom
worked abroad and was rich.
Abdel Salam tells NOW: “When I heard about the groom, I panicked.
Nada was not even 11 years old; she was exactly 10 years and 3 months. I
could not allow her to be married off and have her future destroyed,
especially since her aunt was forced to marry at 13 and burnt herself. I
did all I could to prevent that marriage. I called the groom and told
him Nada was no good for him. I told him she did not wear the veil and
he asked if things were going to remain like that. I said ‘yes, and I
agree because she chose it.’ I also told him that she liked singing and
asked if he would remain engaged to her.”
The groom recanted the engagement and told the girl’s parents he did
not want their daughter anymore. Nada’s parents, looking forward to a
hefty bride price, were disappointed.
Nada had an 18 year-old sister who had been engaged many times. Her
parents accepted each new proposal and took a partial downpayment for a
bride price. They would then postpone the marriage until the groom had
enough money, eventually ending each engagement, not returning the
money. The same story would start all over again with another suitor,
and so it was that she had had nine fiancés.
After Abdel Salam succeeded in warding off Nada’s first
husband-to-be, her parents came from Zubaid on a visit to Sana’a and
asked for their daughter to stay with them until mid-Ramadan. Abdel
Salam agreed only to learn from the parents days later that Nada had
disappeared.
At one point Nada escaped and tried to return to her uncle. When she
got back to Sana'a, she was scared he would take her back to her mother.
He found out afterwards that Nada’s mother wanted to marry her off
again but did not tell him as she feared he would “scare away” the
suitor as he had done the first time around.
A close aide of 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud AbbasAbu Mazen has apparently carried the 'follow the prophet' meme a little too far. According to InLightPress (link in Arabic), the unnamed aide stands accused of raping an unnamed minor. Challah Hu Akbar explains:
The official is a senior official who is reportedly “very close” to Mahmoud Abbas. According to the report, Palestinian officials have been trying for months to solve the issue with the family of the assaulted girl. The family has rejected all monetary offers.
InLightPress did not publish the names of the victim or the suspect.
The report says that in the upcoming reshuffling of Salam Fayyad’s government, the official under suspicion will likely be pushed out.
Lauren Booth wants brother-in-law indicted for war crimes
Just be happy she's not your sister-in-law (Hat Tip: Soccer Dad via Twitter)....
Former prime minister Tony Blair’s sister-in-law Lauren Booth, a rights campaigner and Muslim convert, said on Wednesday that he should be tried for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq.
Booth, the half-sister of Blair’s barrister wife Cherie, is in Malaysia for lectures organised by Viva Palestina, a British-based organisation associated with controversial politician George Galloway.
Asked whether Blair should be arrested and sent to the International Court of Justice in The Hague for war crimes, Booth replied: “Absolutely. He misled the British people and took Britain to war on a lie.”
The conflict in Iraq was “an offence”, she told reporters after a speech at a Malaysian university, saying it was organised well in advance between Blair and the United States leadership.
In case you need any proof of Ms. Booth's lack of sanity....
“Muslim women are not oppressed, it is Western women who are oppressed… Western women are bored, lonely and oppressed.”
Abu Dhabi television report on early marriage in the Arab world
Here's a report from Abu Dhabi television on early marriage in the Arab world.
Let's go to the videotape.
An 'old maid' at 16? Well, I guess I have two 'old maids' in the house right now (they are 19 and 16). I'd better go break the news to them.
Sorry, but there's a lot more to marriage than being able to do chores. And they ignore the most egregious thing about these early marriages (it's hinted at in the interview with the mother/grandmother): These 11-16-year old girls are often married off to men in their 60's and 70's. That's why so many of them become young widows. It often ensures that if there are sons, they will grow up without a father figure in the house. I wonder if that has anything to do with how many of them become terrorists. That would be an interesting (and politically incorrect) avenue for inquiry.
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