Hitchens (via Betsy), writing about last week’s car bombs in the UK (emphasis added)
Only at the tail end of the coverage was it admitted that a car bomb might have been parked outside a club in Piccadilly because it was “ladies night” and that this explosion might have been designed to lure people into to the street, the better to be burned and shredded by the succeeding explosion from the second car-borne cargo of gasoline and nails. Since we have known since 2004 that a near-identical attack on a club called the Ministry of Sound was proposed in just these terms, on the grounds that dead “slags” or “sluts” would be regretted by nobody, a certain amount of trouble might have been saved by assuming the obvious. The murderers did not just want body parts in general but female body parts in particular.
I have posted on the effects of sexual rage and terrorism, on clerics who say that raped women are to blame because they’re not wearing chastity belts, on how breasts are sawed off manekins in Iran, how women have been killed for not wearing a veil, and on the practice of honor killings. According to U.N. statistics, more than 5,000 women and girls die across the world each year in so-called “honor killings.”
As the Muslim Women’s League Position Paper on “Honor Killings” explains (emphasis added),
The problem of “honor killings” is not a problem of morality or of ensuring that women maintain their own personal virtue; rather, it is a problem of domination, power and hatred of women who, in these instances, are viewed as nothing more than servants to the family, both physically and symbolically.
Dymphna has posted on how feminists are accepting female genital mutilation as part of “diversity”. The willful blindness of these feminists is absurd, if you don’t understand that the Jihadi movement is the proper heir of Marxism-Leninism.
Radical islamists are at war against women, against women education, against women themselves.
In Pakistan, Islamist extremists have bombed at least four girls’ schools and circulated violent threats warning girls to stay at home.
And then there’s the officially encouraged wife beatings, which are everyday and mundane by comparison, but still part of the war:
Hitchens continues (emphasis added),
The most noticeable thing about all theocracies is their sexual repression and their directly related determination to exert absolute control over women. In Britain, in the 21st century, there are now honor killings, forced marriages, clerically mandated wife-beatings, incest in all but name, and the adoption of apparel for females that one cannot be sure is chosen by them but which is claimed as an issue of (of all things) free expression. This would be bad enough on its own and if it were confined to the Muslim “community” alone. But, of course, such a toxin cannot be confined, and the votaries of theocracy now claim the God-given right to slaughter females at random for nothing more than their perceived immodesty. The least we can do, confronted by such radical evil, is to look it in the eye (something it strives to avoid) and call it by its right name. For a start, it is the female victims of this tyranny who are “disenfranchised,” while something rather worse than “disenfranchisement” awaits those who dare to disagree.
The war rages on.
Related
45 Muslim doctors planned US terror raids
A group of 45 Muslim doctors threatened to use car bombs and rocket grenades in terrorist attacks in the United States during discussions on an extremist internet chat site.
Police found details of the discussions on a site run by one of a three-strong “cyber-terrorist” gang.
They were discovered at the home of Younis Tsouli, 23, Woolwich Crown Court in south-east London heard.
One message read: “We are 45 doctors and we are determined to undertake jihad and take the battle inside America.
“The first target which will be penetrated by nine brothers is the naval base which gives shelter to the ship Kennedy.” This is thought to have been a reference to the USS John F Kennedy, which is often at Mayport Naval Base in Jacksonville, Florida.
The message discussed targets at the base, adding: “These are clubs for naked women which are opposite the First and Third units.”
Update, Friday 6 July:
Jihad’s Target: Women
Islam’s record of treating women is abominable. Islamic gender apartheid targets Muslim women for maximum punishment (lashing, stoning to death, political gang-rape, honor-murder) when they are in any way perceived or misperceived as even slightly independent (e.g. if they want to marry men of their own choosing, divorce dangerously abusive husbands, or simply attend college.) But, even when they have committed no such “crime,” many Muslim, Arab, and African women are genitally mutilated; most Muslim and Arab women are routinely beaten as daughters and wives. They are forced to “cover” their hair, faces, bodies, and threatened with maximum punishment when a wisp of hair or too much ankle is showing. They are forced to accept and embrace polygamy and purdah (physical sequestration).
These onerous practices have penetrated the West. Increasingly, masked and silent women are appearing on our streets; their presence is oddly menacing. At the very least, they clearly do not approve of your ways because they have chosen a visibly different path. The fact that some women may view hijab and niqab as a legitimate and humble expression of religious submission or freely choose to be modestly “covered” as a way of proclaiming themselves “off-limits” to western secular promiscuity does not change the fact that their presence also constitutes a walking advertisement for jihad.
The article is by Phyllis Chesler and Nancy Kobin. Phyllis Chesler is the author of
Obi’s Sister has more links.
Cross-posted at MNM
