Sadly, The Deceased Muslim Army Captain's Mother Is Wrong: Women Are Anything But Men's Equals Under Islam
Eric W. Dolan reports at RawStory of the response by the mother of deceased U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan to Trump: "All America felt my pain" -- except for Trump, whom she addresses:
After Trump talked about -- gag -- how he had "sacrificed," Ghazala Khan, the Captain's mother told ABC News:
"I don't think he knows the meaning of [the word] sacrifice, because when I was standing there all America felt my pain without saying a single word." she said. "Everybody felt that pain. I don't know how he missed that... Please Mr. Trump. Feel that pain and you will be better."Khan said she was upset to learn that Trump had criticized her for not talking during her husband's speech. She said she was in too much pain to speak out.
"I think my faith, Islam, has given us strength. All the men and women are equal in God's eyes," she added.
Sadly, women are anything but "equal" under Islam -- and the Quran is supposed to be the words of Allah, brought by the Angel Gabriel to Mohammed. It is thus to be followed unquestioningly and not interpreted as a historical document. (Christians are not going around slaughtering their neighbors for adultery.)
It is often the case that Muslims who do not go along with and are even opposed to the violence the Quran commands have no idea of what is actually in the Quran. This link gives Quran verses for women's lesser status, and explains:
The move to paint Islam as a pioneering force in women's rights is a recent one, corresponding with the efforts of Muslim apologists (not otherwise known for their feminist concerns) and some Western academics prone to interpreting history according to personal preference. In truth, the Islamic religious community has never exhibited an interest in expanding opportunities for women beyond the family role.The fourth Caliph, who was Muhammad's son-in-law and cousin, said just a few years after the prophet's death that "The entire woman is an evil. And what is worse is that it is a necessary evil."
A traditional Islamic saying is that, "A woman's heaven is beneath her husband's feet." One of the world's most respected Quran commentaries explains that, "Women are like cows, horses, and camels, for all are ridden." (Tafsir al-Qurtubi)
The revered Islamic scholar, al-Ghazali, who has been called 'the greatest Muslim after Muhammad,' writes that the role of a Muslim woman is to "stay at home and get on with her sewing. She should not go out often, she must not be well-informed, nor must she be communicative with her neighbors and only visit them when absolutely necessary; she should take care of her husband... and seek to satisfy him in everything... Her sole worry should be her virtue... She should be clean and ready to satisfy her husband's sexual needs at any moment." [Ibn Warraq]
...At best, Islam elevates the status of a woman to somewhere between that of a camel and a man.
Muhammad captured women in war and treated them as a tradable commodity. The "immutable, ever-relevant" Quran explicitly permits women to be kept as sex slaves. These are hardly things in which Muslims can take pride.
More here.
It helps none of us -- and keeps Islam from any (unlikely, unfortunately) possibility of reform -- by maintaining a fantasy notion of what Islam actually is.
UPDATE: This post started out as a comment I left at Raw Story -- which has deleted that comment. Two tweets from me about that to Eric W. Dolan at Raw Story. First tweet. Second tweet.
"Women are like cows, horses, and camels, for all are ridden." (Tafsir al-Qurtubi)
I like that line. I just can't think of a place to use it.
She said we are all equal in the eyes of God. Which means we each have our blessings and our duties. She takes hers, as interpreted, very seriously. What you're describing is equality in the eyes of Western Civ.
We can debate which is better. We're hardly any less violent and we don't have much of a unifying theme. I prefer to live here, but maybe that's just because I'm used to it and I live in a nice area.
Canvasback at July 31, 2016 8:01 AM
Frontpage has featured a series of informative pieces on "Fantasy Islam":
https://islamseries.org/fantasy-islam/
Lastango at July 31, 2016 8:03 AM
But you go ahead and vote for the woman/party who will haul more Muslims in, with even less checking of them. Because that makes sense.
momof4 at July 31, 2016 10:13 AM
I have to agree with momof4. I don't care for Trump; but the alternative is at best a bankrupt country when all these aliens are on welfare (most of them have no skill, no education and are unemployable) or at worst a country with anywhere from quasi to full blown sharia law do to political correctness and "tolerance."
Jay at July 31, 2016 5:05 PM
Sort of off topic . . .
These parents are being used by the left just as Cindy Sheehan was used before them.
I guess grief makes you blind to the motives of others.
charles at July 31, 2016 6:19 PM
It could be even worse than that, momof4. If Clinton is elected and gets to fill two seats on the Supreme Court (Ginsburg is likely to retire if the election goes the way she hopes) -- to say nothing of appointments to lower federal courts -- we can expect decisions in which employers, schools and universities, organizations, and municipalities are required to make more and more accommodations for Muslims in matters of dress on the job, location of liquor stores, gender of health care providers, broadcast calls to prayer that disturb the peace of non-Muslims, removal of pork products from school menus, etc., etc.
Szoszolo at July 31, 2016 7:14 PM
Yeah, momof4, I don't know why Amy is going for Hillary Clinton.
Amy, you say she is the adult candidate, but unfortunately, that's about as far as it goes with her. I figured you would be supporting Gary Johnson? Why not?
mpetrie98 at July 31, 2016 7:14 PM
I just wanted to point out that Captain Kahn was killed 12 years ago. Twelve....years.... ago......
I understand that you never really get over the death of a loved one, but if this mother is still so deeply grieving that she can't even speak about it in public, there is something else going on with the mother, like severe mental illness.
Chances are better that she knows her place, and the place for a Muslim woman is not behind the podium.
Trump obviously struck a nerve, with his Ham handed tweet, but this PC Democratic Party bullshit of deferring religiously to the Cindy Sheehans of this world, while simotaneously trashing the parents of the Bengazi defenders is a large part of what the rest of us, have had enough of.
Isab at July 31, 2016 8:45 PM
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