Fight the Patriarchy! (But not the real ones)
Millions of women are currently living lives of quiet desperation and degradation, suffering from systemic and serious violations of basic human rights. The Taliban just banned women from receiving an education in or working in the medical field, for instance. (In many provinces, women are not permitted to receive medical care from a man.) The future of healthcare looks bright for them!
This is only one small example of the official oppression they are experiencing. It is to our profound, collective shame that we have turned our backs on them. I have worked with Aayan Hirsi Ali to help expose female genital mutilation and other misogynistic practices and policies. Many seem to ignore these flagrant abuses of women because it is politically incorrect to question any of the many anti-female tenets of Islam. REAL, brutally enforced and institutionalized patriarchy is alive and well, and getting stronger because we do nothing to curb the crimes of the Mullahs and other Islamic governments. Hell, we even put the most egregious violators of human rights on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
There is a psychological theory postulating that many Third-Wave-Feminists in the West subconsciously and on a biological level are attracted to the strength of the Islamic Patriarchy as they watch Western men decline in masculinity, confidence, and competence. I don’t know, but the double standard is disgraceful. Women are beaten and imprisoned in several countries if they fail to cover their heads in public. If this happened in the West, it would inspire mass outrage and protest, and rightly so.
And this may happen soon. Sharia Law is now the de facto law in many cities in England. Multiculturalism trumps Human Rights. Oppression becomes equality in this Woke-Orwellian equation.
I need to do more to expose these crimes against women and humanity.
I don’t want to. I have a lot to do, and it won’t be fun, but very few women or anyone else in this country seem to care. Please join me in this important mission.
Murder, Mutilation, and (Forced)Marriage
Islam is an all-encompassing civilizational framework. It is not merely a religion, but also a culture and a political system.
Its political component has a unique interest in US and our behavior, irrespective of our interest in IT. Call this system - Political Islam. This interest in the Non-Muslim is so important that 51% of Islamic doctrine is devoted to the Kafir. Islamic doctrine is derived from the Koran, Sira, and Hadith. Translated as “Traditions”, Hadith are a record of Mohammed’s words and actions and are revered as one of the foundations of Islamic canonical law. The most authoritative collection is Sahih Bukhari. The Sira are biographies of Mohammed written after his death. Perhaps widely underappreciated is the fact that the Koran only comprises one-third of the tenets of Islam.
A major duality inside Islamic doctrine is male/female. There is one set of rules for men and another for women.
There is only one area in which men and women are treated equally — both sexes will be judged based on their lives on Judgment Day, but when a woman is judged, she will be judged on how well she obeyed her husband.
Only about 9% of the Koran and about 12% of the Sira refer to women. But there is more than enough in this Trilogy of doctrinal texts for us to understand how Muslim women are expected to behave from birth to death.
The politics of Islam also prove problematic to Kafir women, as its doctrine violates Western laws and systems, which are based on the principles of equality.
Koranic doctrine allows men to treat women in a dualistic way. Some verses praise the mother above all, but at the same time, 71% of the Koran text about women states that a female has a lower status than a male. In the Hadith, 91% of the text about women states that a woman has a lower status than a man.
According to the Islamic doctrine, every woman is lower than a man, and every Kafir woman is lower than a woman who follows Islam. Also, a Kafir woman can be used as a sex-slave and raped; (October 7th style) This is morally acceptable in Political Islam, as Mohammed himself had non-Islamic captives whom he used as sex-slaves.
The following are the three most egregious categories of institutional misogyny and human rights violations in my humble estimation (There are many more) practiced by Islamic societies. Since the most critical right you can deny someone is their right to exist, let’s start there:
“Honor” Killings
Women around the world suffer so-called “honor violence” at the hands of relatives to reclaim family “honor.” If a woman or girl is accused or suspected of engaging in behavior that could taint her family’s status, she may face brutal retaliation from her relatives that often results in violent death.
So-called “honor” crime is rooted in the Islamic culture of discrimination against women, and the deeply rooted belief that women are inferior to men, not human beings entitled to dignity and rights equal to those of men. Women’s bodies, particularly, are considered the repositories of family honor, and under the control and responsibility of her family. And large sections of society share traditional conceptions of family honor and approve of “honor” killings to preserve that honor. Typical reasons that you might be murdered in an Islamic state include; having premarital, extramarital or postmarital sex (in case of divorce or widowship), refusing to enter into an arranged or forced marriage, seeking a divorce or marital separation, being the victim of rape, and homosexuality.
Here are the facts:
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The UN estimates that around 5,000 women and girls are murdered each year in so-called “honor killings” by members of their families
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“Honor” killings are widely reported in regions throughout the Middle East and South Asia. Still, these crimes against women occur in countries as varied as Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan, Sweden, Syria, Turkey, Uganda, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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Like other forms of violence against women, “honor” violence against women may be considered a form of torture, whether enacted by the state or by an individual.
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While “honor” crime is committed predominantly against women and girls, “honor” crime is also on the rise against LGBT people, particularly gay men.
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In many countries, the punishment for “honor” crimes is inadequate or non-existent—laws either do not recognize them or have insufficient sentencing for them. And in countries where laws have been passed to curb “honor” crime (for example, in Jordan), such laws often go unenforced.
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According to the Iranian and Kurdish Rights Organization, “Honor Killings are on the rise”, especially in Europe and the US.
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
FGM is any procedure involving the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs and is often performed on girls between the ages of 4 and 14 to ensure their virginity until marriage. Female family members routinely hold down girls as their clitorises are sliced off with razor blades.
The World Health Organization reports that FGM has no health benefits and can cause several health problems. Immediately following the procedure, girls are at risk for severe pain, shock, bleeding, bacterial infection, and injury to nearby tissue. In the long term, girls and women who have undergone this procedure are at risk for recurrent bladder and urinary tract infections, cysts, infertility, and complications during childbirth. The psychological damage from the trauma is unfathomable.
Because this is a private ritual that occurs within the secrecy of the family, there is no way of knowing exactly how prevalent FGM is in the U.S. Research conducted by the CDC found that approximately 513,000 women and girls in the U.S. have either suffered the procedure or are at risk of FGM. This number approximately doubled between 2000 and 2014. The estimated number of girls at risk of FGM in the US has quadrupled since 1997.
FGM was criminalized by the federal government in 1996 and made punishable by up to ten years in prison.
In January 2013, the federal FGM law was amended by the Transport for Female Genital Mutilation Act, which prohibits knowingly transporting a girl out of the country to undergo FGM. The Act was designed to address the problem of “vacation cutting”, in which girls living in the United States are taken to their parents’ country of origin (typically during school breaks) to undergo the procedure.
Under this amendment, violations of the law carried a sentence of up to ten years in prison. FGM is also explicitly a crime in 41 states
Child Brides
It is common in Islamic cultures for parents to arrange marriages with their underage daughters and older men. Many of these unholy unions are forced on unwilling teenage girls.
Between 2000 and 2010, it is estimated that nearly 250,000 children as young as 12 were married in the United States, with most of these marriages being girls wed to adult men (source: Unchained At Last)
William & Mary Law Professor Vivian Hamilton has extensively studied the devastating effects of child marriage in the United States. In her 2012 report, “The Age of Marital Capacity: Reconsidering Civil Recognition of Adolescent Marriage,”
Her findings conclude that:
Marriages entered into before the age of 18 have a 70-80% likelihood of ending in divorce.
Women who marry before 19 are 50% more likely to drop out of high school than their unmarried counterparts and 400% less likely to complete college.
Women who marry young are 31% more likely to live in poverty later in life than women who delay marriage.
Women who married at 18 or before had a 23% greater risk of disease onset, including heart attack, diabetes, cancer, and stroke.
The fact that these ancient and barbaric practices are not only widespread but growing in numbers in 2025 is shocking and appalling.
Please help spread awareness of these issues to help these oppressed women. Thank you.
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