Women Attacked, Violated, Disempowered, and Silenced Under Sharia

The following report by Clare Lopez was published last month by Sharia TipSheet.

Women Attacked, Violated, Disempowered, and Silenced Under Sharia

by Clare M. Lopez

The stories we bring to you this month focus on the status of women who live under Islamic Law (sharia). The Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan are among the world’s regimes under which some of the most horrific human rights abuses against women occur. Islamic Law consigns women to a second-class status under which the rights of men are accorded a superior status. Such unequal treatment derives from the Qur’an, which allows Muslim males to marry up to four women in addition to those “that your right hands possess” (i.e., sex slaves, Q 4:3) and to grant male children inheritance “equal to that of two females” (Q 4:11). In Surah 4:34, the Qur’an tells Muslim men that if they “fear disloyalty and ill conduct” from their wives, they should admonish them, refuse to share their beds, and “beat them”. Muslim men are told in Q: 2:223 that “Your wives are as a tilth unto you; so approach your tilth when or how you will” (no such thing as marital rape under sharia). [Editor’s Note — ‘tilth’ is cultivated land ready to seed.]

Regarding the requirement that women must cover their hair and wear concealing clothing, this derives directly from Surahs 28:31 and 33:59, which connect covering up with not being “molested” (i.e., raped, by Muslim men). In this spirit, the IRI is cracking down on women and girls who have been in the forefront of the uprising against the Tehran regime since the September 2022 murder by the so-called “morality police” of the young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, for supposedly allowing some hair to show under her hijab.

Next, regimes in Afghanistan and Pakistan are restricting the rights of women and girls to attend school/university—to confine them to the home where they are more closely under the domination of husbands, brothers, and sons but also to limit their ability to pursue a professional career outside the home.

Finally, we’ll recall that the Ayatollah Khomeini infamously said that “There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam.” Well, apparently under the Taliban in Afghanistan, that goes double for music during Ramadan.

Previous posts by Clare Lopez at Sharia TipSheet:

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2 thoughts on “Women Attacked, Violated, Disempowered, and Silenced Under Sharia

  1. I am irreligious, with privately held tendencies somewhere between agnostic and atheist. That having been said, is Sharia really worse than Clown World? Can we rationally, objectively, make that claim?

  2. Yes’ Sharia is worse than clown world. Whatever you mean by “clown world.”
    I am not forced to participate in anyone’s “clown world”.
    I can go to University, or not, play music, or not, wear black drapes, or not, etc.

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