Men are allowed to perform honor killings on women. An honor
killing is when a man kills a woman because she has violated his honor. A
Muslim male must control the sexuality of the females in his household or he is
dishonored. The Qur’an speaks at great length about women’s rights (lack of
them). Among them women are to receive half the amount of inheritance of a
male. In a court of law it takes testimony of two women to equal testimony of
one man. If a woman testifies against a man and he denies the accusation, then
the testimony has no weight at all. In Islamic court this makes cases of rape
impossible to prove.
Muhammad commented that he had seen Hell and the great
majority of its inhabitants were women. Why were they there? They had not fully
appreciated their husbands. In the same hadith, it is stated that women were
spiritually inferior to men and women are not as intelligent as men. This
treatment extents to the afterlife too where men become sexual deviants and
women remain subjugated and servants of men.
Then there is the Burqa / head-to-toe covering that often
includes the face. Some Islamic women say that it is not really required.
Again, we encounter dualism (or contradiction). We know this much: Muhammad
made all of his wives wear a veil. So although there is not a universal
commandment that says women should wear a burqa, we do know that from other
precedents…Muhammad’s life and emulation of it is the highest pinnacle of
Islamic behavior. Burqa is therefore expected of obedient Muslims.
Another aspect of Islam is polygamy. The Qur’an is quite
clear on polygamy. A man can have up to four wives. There is also the travesty
of stoning. Sharia law is very technical about stoning. It even denotes the
stones should to be chosen so they do not kill immediately. They have to be big
enough so that when enough of them are thrown, they will kill the victim. Death
by stoning is meant to be a torture that the entire community participates in.
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