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A God Who Hates Women-The painful tale I have to tell-after having lived in Muslim countries
Frontpagemagazine ^ | 12-28-2015 | Dr. Majid Rafizadeh

Posted on 12/28/2015 4:40:17 AM PST by SJackson

A God Who Hates Women

The painful tale I have to tell -- after having lived most of my life in several Muslim countries.

A God Who Hates Women is the title of my latest book, a memoir. I was driven to write it to counter the unfounded claims of many Western pro-Islam or Eastern Islamist scholars.

In detail, I reveal how Western Muslims scholars are not educated or informed enough, but rely on fallacies created to give the illusion of wisdom. Unlike these so-called scholars or Western imams, I lived most of my life in several Muslim countries. I grew up in both dominant Muslim sects, predominantly Shia and Sunni nations (the Islamic Republic of Iran and Syria).

Rather than depicting fantasies and baseless theories, I attempt to show readers, through my firsthand experiences, what life in a Muslim country or under the Sharia law is actually like. Although this book focuses mainly on Islam, oppression and women, my next upcoming book, "The Renegade: Memoir of Struggle, Defiance and Enlightenment," sheds light on the untold truth about Islam, and many things I have remained silent about.

For a woman who lives in a Muslim society or under Shari'a law, "choice" is an alien word. Inequality, violence, injustice, abuse, and discrimination are daily nightmares.

Some women become tools of the dominant Islamist culture: they join the system to please the authorities and to get rewards. Others have found no way to survive other than to be forcefully subjugated, controlled and dehumanized.

Many Western pro-Islam and Eastern Islamist scholars argue that Islam is the "religion of peace" and that Islam respects women. They add that Islam has raised women's socio-political and socio-economic status in the society.

One of the most common examples that Muslim scholars focus on to try to show that Islam supports women is the story of Khadijah bint Khuwaylid, the businesswoman and wife of Muhammad. One writer who brags about Islam's impact on women argues that Khadijah is a Muslim woman who "was a successful and esteemed business woman." She goes on to list further examples of this woman's supposed independence: "She turned down many marriage proposals," "She asked the Prophet to marry her," "She was an ideal wife; theirs was a true love story," etc.

The argument that Khadijah is an example of Islam is altogether anchored in fallacies. Khadijah is paraded around as an example of how Islam influenced women to be strong. But the fact is that Khadijah was not the product of Islam. She was the product of pre-Islam or what Muslims call Jahiliyyah (the state of ignorance of guidance from Allah).

There was no existence of Islam when Khadijah proposed to Muhammad, when she was a businesswoman, independent and rejected other marriage proposals. She was raised in the Jahiliyyah era. She could do all of the things mentioned and be a free woman because there was no institution of Islam yet. It wasn't until she was in her late fifties, only a few years before her death, that Muhammad came up with the religion of Islam. In fact, after he instituted the religion of Islam, she became restricted socially and the great independent businesswoman was transformed into a housewife.

The writer who perpetuates the myth of Khadijah is repeating whatever the imams are preaching here in the US. I heard these kind of arguments, word for word, from other imams teaching in schools in the Middle East where they tried to brainwash me.

Reportedly, Khadijah even made Muhammad sign a contract that he would not marry anyone else as long as she was alive. After Khadijah, Muhammad went on a marriage spree, as his Islam allowed it. After instituting Islam, his wives were the first to have to wear scarves, they couldn't talk to strangers face to face, etc. This is how Islam began influencing and controlling women gradually. Like the Islamic State, Islam emphasizes slavery, particularly the possession and selling of captive women. And this is what the Islamic State bases its behavior on. It was only in the pre-Islamic era that women were mostly free and could even initiate divorce.

Some of the questions that I seek to pursue in this memoir are: How does the religion of Islam contribute to the act of subjugating and dehumanizing human beings? Specifically, how and why are women treated like second-class citizens? Can endurance and courage overcome the daily abuse caused by this religion? In order to reveal the answers to these questions a myriad of my own memories and firsthand experiences are woven together in this story, as I guide the readers through the mire of religion and culture.

A God Who Hates Women is a journey through an endless maze of Islamist violence and civil war. It's a journey through a battlefield riddled with archaic cultural, religious demands and explosive emotions. It is a journey that one woman (my mother) navigates with bravery and determination as she fights against an Islamist and patriarchal society in an attempt to survive. The book illustrates the underlying character of Islam and leaves no question about the actual value of women in this society.

Finally, I would like to ask the imams to answer the real questions, which are: What is the role of women in a Muslim society, both before and after Islam was instituted? What is the actual Islamic doctrine on women? Legally speaking, women are the second-class citizens in almost all cases, court testimony, inheritance, child custody, etc. This is what Allah clearly states in the Quran. How many Muslim girls in Muslim nations are deprived the right to choose their own husbands? How many young girls under the age of thirteen are forced into marriage due to the legal framework of Islam? How many are deprived from working because their husbands or brothers follow Islamic doctrine, which dictates women's first priority is to please their husbands? How has Islam facilitated and encouraged these oppressions? How many Muslim girls are allowed to choose another religion without facing repercussions?

I hope I have shed light on these questions in A God Who Hates Women by touching on troubling issues with clear and detailed clarifications, in an attempt to combat the misinformation that is being promoted as truth.



TOPICS: Editorial; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: agodwhohateswomen; book; islam; majidrafizadeh; women
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To: Bulwyf

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21 posted on 12/28/2015 5:49:32 AM PST by Chickensoup (Christ is coming to us tonight. We are less alone tonight than any other night of the year)
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To: Blennos

Some of these military age male Muslims have basically
just left their wives in Syria & other places to fend for
themselves while they march off in waves to “spread Islam”.
- Many of the wives were quoted as being pretty pi$$ed off
about it, too.


22 posted on 12/28/2015 5:51:40 AM PST by Twinkie (Kneel at the cross, Jesus (Yeshua) will meet you there.)
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To: SJackson

Islam is irrational-—Thomas Aquinas stated that it was for ignorant carnal men. No one was more informed or more rational than Aquinas for hundreds of years.

All irrational “beliefs” (faiths/religions)==Eastern, islam, satanism, atheism, Marxism, Hinduism, etc. are irrational and contradictory.

Only the non-watered down Christian religion embeds Natural Law (the use of Reason/Science/logic to discern Truth/Bible which is the ONLY kind which can affirm God’s Laws (Truth). Our Constitution is based on Natural Law Theory and why only Christianity is in line with our “Justice” System.

What makes us human is the ability to use “Reason” and apply Love to ALL human beings/life. Just Laws have to be Rational or they are “Null and Void”. (Justice Marshall).

Islam is only an emotional “faith”—there is no Free Will (thinking) allowed, it is all memorization and hate of the Other and hate of Truth/Natural Laws and God’s Design of the human body.

All islam is a satanic, illogical, evil, sexist (homosexual) belief system of puerile, ignorant people. It is exactly as irrational as the homosexual cultures of Sparta and Japan— the Samurai “faith” and today’s homosexual Afghan “culture”. They are puerile and can’t abide true diversity (truth/natural law).

True diversity (and maturity) is being able to love “the Other”. It is why Christianity created the Age of Reason and Modern Science——it created the most Just, most equal, most Rational (flourishing) systems for all human beings——not just males who lust after males/boys.

Christianity elevated women to a degree NEVER possible in ALL OTHER cultures-—because of Jesus Christ and his LOVE for Mary and respect for ALL women. No other religion respects women, motherhood and children and God’s Design of the human body as Jesus did. No other “faith” is as Rational or historical or can be “proven” true, as the Christian reasoned “faith”.

As good Christian apologists know, blind faith is evil and inhumane. It is why only Christianity could produce a Mind like Newton’s or Jefferson’s-—only people raised understanding the Bible could be rational/understand truth and human nature so they could actually predict the future.


23 posted on 12/28/2015 5:56:48 AM PST by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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To: bray

American Feminists don’t see Moslem women as actually human. In that other valid culture they are on the level of cattles and sheep therefore their treatment by Mhammedan men is proper and acceptable. On the other hand paynim women are not actually animals so they are not subject to animal cruelty strictures.


24 posted on 12/28/2015 7:01:31 AM PST by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberali sono feccia.)
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To: Travis McGee

That one is a keeper. Can I print it off and stick it on my fridge? My liberal family members will love it.


25 posted on 12/28/2015 7:33:58 AM PST by deadrock (I is someone else.)
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To: SJackson
The muslim god sends women to hell and men to heaven.

So, we can infer that the virgins in heaven are really young boys.

26 posted on 12/28/2015 7:34:33 AM PST by Slyfox (Ted Cruz does not need the presidency - the presidency needs Ted Cruz)
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To: xp38
Just the colour black instead of reflective white seems cruel for their garb in hot climates. Most of the sheets the males wear seem to be white.

I cannot imagine how stifling it must be to wear a full-body black covering in such intense desert heat. Women are unlucky to be born in such a society. As others have pointed out on this thread, these women are regarded as little more than animals.

27 posted on 12/28/2015 7:38:54 AM PST by Blennos
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To: SJackson

I am sure we will see her on “The View” where the gaggle of gloating geese always come to the defense of women.


28 posted on 12/28/2015 8:38:25 AM PST by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: Twinkie

A lot of them are also losers who have little prospect for getting a wife because the alpha males can have four of them.


29 posted on 12/28/2015 9:36:55 AM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: SJackson

Islam is the creation of a mortal psychotic pervert. There is no other possible reason for the foundation of Islam.


30 posted on 12/28/2015 10:02:29 AM PST by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: savagesusie

Agreed, savagesusie. You nailed it. Both G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc have pretty strong indictments for Islam, too. You’re in good company.


31 posted on 12/28/2015 11:43:43 AM PST by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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To: savagesusie

It is really very simple.

Christianity: Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men

Jewish: Shalom (shah-LOHM) Hebrew. Literally, peace.

Islam: Convert, be a slave or die.


32 posted on 12/28/2015 12:50:05 PM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: SJackson

A young mother has been mutilated and murdered by the Islamic State’s women-only ‘morality’ police after attempting to breastfeed her screaming child under a tree in the ISIL stronghold of Raqqa, Syria.
Read more at
http://www.9news.com.au/world/2015/12/28/16/04/isil-kill-mother-for-breastfeeding-baby-in-public


33 posted on 12/28/2015 1:36:06 PM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: Travis McGee

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34 posted on 12/28/2015 1:41:41 PM PST by Pelham (Muslim immigration...the enemy is inside the wire.)
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To: piasa

No, the hijab is a quick easy way to distinguish muslim women from nonmuslim women. Since rape is used as a form of warfare for muslims, the hijab allows the males to know which women can be raped and which women cannot be raped. This is a perfect way to keep the nonmuslim population under constant fear. A mullah in Australia caused a controversy when he said that women who were not covered were like uncovered meat—”If a cat eats the uncovered meat you cannot blame the cat.” The mullah gave the secret away which caused a furor in the Australian community.


35 posted on 12/28/2015 1:49:21 PM PST by cradle of freedom
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To: rockinqsranch

Many cult leaders are psychotic perverts consider Jim Jones and Charles Manson.


36 posted on 12/28/2015 2:01:17 PM PST by cradle of freedom
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To: cradle of freedom

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/muslim-leader-blames-women-for-sex-attacks/story-e6frg6nf-1111112419114

In the religious address on adultery to about 500 worshippers in Sydney last month, Sheik Hilali said: “If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats or the uncovered meat?

“The uncovered meat is the problem.”

The sheik then said: “If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would have occurred.”

He said women were “weapons” used by “Satan” to control men.

“It is said in the state of zina (adultery), the responsibility falls 90 per cent of the time on the woman. Why? Because she possesses the weapon of enticement (igraa).


37 posted on 12/28/2015 2:05:44 PM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: Fred Nerks

Thanks. Notice he said that if a woman was in her room and wearing her hijab then nothing would have happened to her, so she has to basically be a prisoner if she wants to be safe from rape.

If the series of rapes that occurred were done against Australian women, which I believe was most likely the case then we have a case of a race crime as well as a rape.


38 posted on 12/28/2015 3:28:08 PM PST by cradle of freedom
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To: Chickensoup

Just saw the bump, read the article. This is why I have a hard time understanding why there are devout moslem women. They aren’t even humans according to the Koran.


39 posted on 12/28/2015 3:50:12 PM PST by Bulwyf
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To: cradle of freedom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_gang_rapes

The Sydney gang rapes were a series of gang rape attacks committed by a group of up to fourteen Lebanese Australian youths led by Bilal Skaf against Australian women and teenage girls, as young as 14, in Sydney Australia in 2000. The crimes, described as ethnically motivated hate crimes by officials and commentators,[1][2][3] were covered extensively by the news media, and prompted the passing of new laws. The nine men convicted of the gang rapes were sentenced to a total of more than 240 years in jail. According to court transcripts Judge Michael Finnane described the rapes as events that “you hear about or read about only in the context of wartime atrocities”.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilal_Skaf

He commenced his sentence in Sydney’s Long Bay Correctional Centre, but was soon moved to maximum security in Goulburn Gaol after prison officers uncovered plans by fellow inmates to inject him with HIV infected blood.

In March 2003, he was charged with writing a threatening letter to Corrective Services Commissioner, Ron Woodham.[1] The letter had been found in an internal prison mailbox. The letter said: “Don’t take this as a threat but if all Muslims aren’t released by January 2003 Australia and citizens will be in danger of bombing”. White powder had been put into the letter.[1]

While awaiting a court appearance for the letter incident, in July 2003, drawings of gang rape were discovered in Skaf’s prison cell. The drawings depicted violence and rape against his once loyal fiancée, who had ended their relationship in March 2003. After she had cut off ties with Skaf, she was subjected to threatening phone calls and letters. She now says he can “rot in hell”.[14][15]

According to Corrective Services Commissioner, Ron Woodham, Skaf has not shown remorse for his crimes. Woodham also says Skaf has warned prison officers to be careful outside of work, as they may be shot.[14]

In April 2015 it was reported that he had been attacked by 3 other inmates in jail and had sustained minor head injuries.[16]


40 posted on 12/28/2015 3:51:02 PM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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