Is Islamic Law "Islamophobic"?
On an entry on DhimmiWatch, Canadian woman held against her will in Saudi Arabia by her husband -- "under Saudi law, she is his property" Robert Spencer asks a very good question:
I've often noted that Islamic law relegates women to the status of commodities, and have been called "Islamophobic" as a result. But in this story, we're told that "under Saudi law, she is his property because she is the mother of his children." And Saudi law, of course, strictly adheres to the norms of Islamic Sharia. Does that mean that Islamic law is "Islamophobic"?
Here's the story from CanWest news service:
MONTREAL -- A high-level representative of the federal government has met with Nathalie Morin, a 24-year-old Quebec woman who claims she is being held against her will in Saudi Arabia.Deepak Obhrai, parliamentary secretary to Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon, met with Morin and her Saudi husband, Abdallah Ramthi Al-Bishi, in Saudi Arabia on Dec. 22 to mediate in the couple's dispute, a Foreign Affairs spokesperson told Canwest News Service last night.
He could not say what the next step might be. Ottawa has said in the past that Canadians in Saudi Arabia are subject to its laws. Morin met Al-Bishi in Montreal when she was 17 and when he was a Concordia University student...
Morin's mother has said her daughter is unable to leave because, under Saudi law, she is his property because she is the mother of his children.
And people wonder why I worry about the spread of Islam. Enter a Muslim country as a woman, and there's a good chance you've suddenly relegated your rights to those of a suitcase. Check the luggage tag to see who owns you.
How could any western woman consciously and deliberately marry into a culture like that?
Woman must be out of her damn mind...
Snoop-Diggity-DANG-Dawg at February 2, 2009 9:10 AM
Deepak Obhrai is a sniveling dhimmi. Before the Civil War, thousands of fugitive slaves followed the Underground Railroad all the way to Upper Canada (today's Ontario). Outraged slave-owners demanded that Canadians return their stolen property, and threatened dire consequences if they didn't. Upper Canada's Governors, in a most polite way, told them all to go fuck themselves, as Canada rejected slavery & the notion that one man could be the property of another.
Yet here we are, in the 21st century, and a Canadian government official is wringing his hands and telling the world that under Islamic law, a Canadian woman & her children are her husband's property, and she just has to accept it. If the ghosts of Upper Canada's Governors could hear this, they would shove their bayonets up his ass.
Martin at February 2, 2009 9:33 AM
Snoop, that's exactly it. I am related to someone who has married a muslim man and is now proud to be the first wife of two.
Kendra at February 2, 2009 10:15 AM
Because western women are, on balance, idiots.
Look at how many women go back to abusive husbands or boyfriends every year.
Look at the sales of all the bogus diet pills, facial creams, etc.
American women have, by and large, had the intelligence beaten out of them. A perfectly sensible five year old girl will be a gibbering idiot by the time she gets her "Women's Studies" degree.
I'll leave it as an exercise for the class to determine what happens in between.
Twain leaves a hint: Never let your schooling interfere with your education.
brian at February 2, 2009 11:33 AM
Any western woman who marries a Muslim man is a brain-dead bitch. It's not the business of Western governments to rescue people from their own idiocy, but it's definitely in their interests to reject Sharia & Islamic norms. There are already neighborhoods outside Paris where even Carla Bruni would not dare set foot unless she was wearing a hijab & walking 3 paces behind Sarko. If Western politicians are too cowardly to publicly reject Islamic norms on women, then the growing numbers of Muslim immigrants won't hesitate to use intimidation & violence to try and force those norms on the rest of us.
Martin at February 2, 2009 1:16 PM
one of the scary part is many moslem men and moslem women pretended to be fully westernised and many unsuspecting, vulnerable, western people got taken in by the islamic false pretence.
WLIL at February 3, 2009 5:19 AM
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