Religion of Peace update: rape and abuse is A-OK!
If Imam Feisal Rauf (the man behind the proposed Islamic mosque at Ground Zero in New York City) had his way, all of America would be “Sharia-compliant.” So it’s important that we, as Americans, understand just what Islamic law encompasses.
It isn’t pretty.
Islamic court: OK to beat wife if no marks leftA man can beat his wife and kids as long as he leaves no physical marks, the United Arab Emirates’ highest court has found.
The judgment came after a man slapped his wife and kicked and slapped his daughter, according to Abu Dhabi’s The National newspaper.
In the case debated by the Federal Supreme court, the daughter was bruised on the hand and knee, while the wife’s lip and teeth were injured.
According to the court, the injuries showed that the man had over-stepped his rights under Shariah, or Islamic law, the newspaper reported. He had originally been fined 500 United Arab Emirates dirhams ($136), but appealed the case twice.
At 23, the daughter was deemed too old to have been disciplined, the newspaper said.
According to Shariah law, a man can beat his wife and children as long as he has first tries unsuccessfully to discipline them by admonishing and then abstaining from sexual relations with his wife.
Islamic scholars don’t agree on the definition of “beating” but they do agree that it should not be too severe.
“Although the (law) permits the husband to use his right (to discipline), he has to abide by the limits of this right,” Chief Justice Falah al Hajeri wrote in the ruling released Sunday, according to The National. “If the husband abuses this right to discipline, he cannot be exempted from punishment.”
With such misogynistic abuse codified within the Religion of Peace, no wonder “honor killings” are a horrific regular occurrence within the Muslim community. Just last week, a 13-year old was beaten to death by her father for failure to heed the Muslim call to prayer
Unfortunately, officially sanctioned violence against women doesn’t stop there. According to Sharia Law, Muslim men are allowed to rape their wives if beating them doesn’t suffice.
U.K. cleric: Rape is impossible within marriageA leading Muslim cleric has sparked controversy in Britain by claiming that it is impossible for men to rape their wives.
Sheikh Maulana Abu Sayeed, who is president of the Islamic Sharia Council, told a website that “sex is part of marriage” and suggested that husbands who commit such acts should not be prosecuted.
“Clearly there cannot be any rape within the marriage,” he told The Samosa website. “Maybe aggression, maybe indecent activity… Because when they got married, the understanding was that sexual intercourse was part of the marriage, so there cannot be anything against sex in marriage. Of course, if it happened without her desire, that is no good, that is not desirable.”
Sayeed runs Britain’s largest network of Islamic sharia courts, The Independent reported.
Rape within marriage has been illegal in Britain since 1991.
Sayeed told The Samosa that if husband “does something against her wish or in a bad time” that he “may be disciplined, and he may be made to ask forgiveness. That should be enough.”
When contacted by The Independent, the cleric added: “In Islamic sharia, rape is adultery by force. So long as the woman is his wife, it cannot be termed as rape. It is reprehensible, but we do not call it rape.”
This sickening abrogation of human rights under Islamic law is on the rise in America, as seen in New Jersey just a few months ago:
Muslim husband rapes wife, judge sees no sexual assault because Islam forbids wives to refuse sexMuhammad said: “If a husband calls his wife to his bed [i.e. to have sexual relation] and she refuses and causes him to sleep in anger, the angels will curse her till morning” (Bukhari 4.54.460).
He also said: “By him in Whose Hand lies my life, a woman can not carry out the right of her Lord, till she carries out the right of her husband. And if he asks her to surrender herself [to him for sexual intercourse] she should not refuse him even if she is on a camel’s saddle” (Ibn Majah 1854).
And now a New Jersey judge sees no evidence that a Muslim committed sexual assault of his wife — not because he didn’t do it, but because he was acting on his Islamic beliefs: “This court does not feel that, under the circumstances, that this defendant had a criminal desire to or intent to sexually assault or to sexually contact the plaintiff when he did. The court believes that he was operating under his belief that it is, as the husband, his desire to have sex when and whether he wanted to, was something that was consistent with his practices and it was something that was not prohibited.”
Luckily, the appellate court overturned this decision, and a Sharia ruling by an American court has not been allowed to stand. This time.
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