A Critical Analysis of 'Real Islam'. Its People ... - Bukti dan Saksi

heaven for replacement untouched young girls to replenish the somewhat more soiled originals, but in any
case most Muslim women would certainly not qualify for that particular position as described. Once you
scratch the words ‘untouched, unspoiled virgin’ off your resume, my understanding is that it’s near
impossible to put them back.
Burquas symbolize to westerners the outwardly manifestation of repression for tens of Millions of
Muslim Women living in what amounts to Islamic bondage. This all-encompassing garment separates
women from all but close relations. They may not speak to others, travel alone or in the company of nonrelations,
hold leadership positions, vote, drive, attend school, or speak freely. Their lives consist of
servitude to their masters, at deadly peril. Some societies are less limiting, with women only confined to
wearing a hair covering and veil with other restrictions less pronounced, but even in these societies’
women’s rights and opportunities cannot be compared to western standards. All women in Islamic lands
subject to Sharia are subject to horrific punishments for promiscuity or adultery. Even in Saudi Arabia,
one of the more advanced, wealthy, and educated Arab Islamic lands, it is a common ploy for husbands to
end arguments with their wives by raising their finger and proclaiming "I divorce you, ...I divorce you, ...I
.…" Usually at about the second invoking of the official ‘three strikes and your out’ Islamic method of
divorce, women are on their knees begging the angry man for forgiveness and imploring them not to
repeat the fateful third ‘I divorce you’. These poor women degrade themselves because they know full
well how utterly alone they are in Islamic society without the benefits of property, rights, and substance
that they enjoy only through their continued association with their husband. At-Talaq is the title of Sura
#65 dealing with divorce. In its primitive sense, the Arabic word 'talaq' means ‘to dismiss’. Instant
divorce by uttering the word three times is a rampant practice in many Muslim lands. Under Muslim law
sending a talaqnama (a statement of divorce) is also enough to end the marriage, without seeking the
wife's opinion or consent, similar to saying talaq thrice. In an ever so subtle concession to worried wives,
in August 2001 Singapore's highest Islamic authorities declared that Muslim men may not accomplish
‘talaq’ via cell phone text messages. However, July 27th 2003 the Malaysian government decreed that a
man may indeed divorce his wife via text message.
Are there women who join Islam without either being born into the cult, forced into the organization,
or deceived into believing it is something entirely different? What inspires women to join? I really can’t
imagine.
As for women, the Qur’an 4:34 states that "men have authority over women". Sura 4:34 instructs that
that woman must be obedient to their husbands or be admonished (verbally abused), banished from the
bed (psychologically abused) and beaten (physically abused via wife-beating). This and other passages
clearly claim that women are inferior to men and their husbands have the right to scourge them if they are
found disobedient. It advises men to take a green branch and beat their wives (because a green branch is
more flexible and inflicts greater pain). (Qur’an 38:44). It teaches that women will go to hell if they are
disobedient to their husbands (66:10). It maintains that men have an advantage over the women (Qur’an
2:228). It not only denies women equal rights, it decrees that their witness is not admissible in courts of
law (Qur’an. 2:282). This means that a woman who is raped cannot accuse her rapist unless she can
produce a male witness.
There are further suras that make a woman's inheritance (4:11-12) worth half of a man's. These are
actual Islamic teachings which provide the basis for numerous misogynic cultural practices. The Qur'an
also states that if a women becomes captive in a war, her Muslim master is allowed to rape her (33:50),
and that women are "tilth" (property to cultivate) for their husbands (2:223). There are also numerous
hadiths which reflect poorly on women, including one in which Muhammad declares that most of hell's
population is female and that women are deficient in intelligence and piety (Bukhari, I:6:304). The Holy
Prophet allows men to marry up to four wives, and is licensed to sleep with slave maids and as many
'captive' women as he can acquire (Qur’an 4:3) even if those women are already married (as He himself
did). Furthermore, by the example of Muhammad, a man may take a pre-pubescent wife as young as 9
years old to his marriage bed. Although most countries limit such marriages to children 11-13 years old,
the practice of bedding younger girls is not unknown in some regions. Further, the insane practice of
genitalia mutilation and honor killings continues today in many Islamic lands and families.