Thank Allah for Little Girls

"The average woman is born into near slavery, leads a life of drudgery, and dies invariably in oblivion. This grim condition is the stark reality of half our population simply because they happen to be female." —Findings of a 1985 Pakistani governmental commission investigating the status of women in that country

It is disturbing that many Catholics have adopted a philosophical preference for Islam over Judaism. Furthermore, in some instances, some prominent Catholics have even made the unfortunate suggestion that there is much commonality between the true Faith and the religion of Islam.

I have to believe that in doing so, they have little or no idea what Islam preaches or how its followers manifest their faith in the real world. It's time for an expose of what the Koran and Islamic Law actually teach, and how that teaching is applied by its proponents.

It is not enough to simply say that life for Moslem girls is harsh and leave it at that. Catholics must come to some understanding of what life is really like for young girls in Islamic countries, so no reputable Catholic may ever again make the absurd claim of commonality between the Mohammedan religion and the one, true Catholic Faith.

One grisly practice that is common in most Moslem countries is female circumcision, or, as the Western medical authorities have more aptly named the practice, female genital mutilation (FGM). Without going into graphic detail, this process involves the removal of female genitalia.

According to the World Health Organization, "female genital mutilation is normally performed by traditional practitioners with crude instruments, such as knives, razors, blades and broken glass, usually without anaesthetics." 1 This report finds that, though some girls are mutilated at birth, "most girls are mutilated between the ages of 4 and 12." 2

Not only is this practice completely medically unnecessary, barbaric, and unethical, it carries significant health risks. The WHO report continues:

"The practice of FGM often leads to complications. Short term complications include severe pain, shock, hemorrhage, urine retention, ulceration of the genital region and injury to adjacent tissue. Hemorrhage and infection can cause death. Long-term complications include cysts and abscesses, keloid scar formation, damage to the urethra resulting in urinary incontinence, dyspareunia (painful sexual intercourse), sexual dysfunction, urinary tract infection, infertility and childbirth complications." 3

Why do Moslems promote a practice which is clearly so damaging? It is seen as a way of controlling sexual appetites. Since a girl who has undergone mutilation experiences no pleasure in the marital act, she has no reason to seek it; therefore, her virginity is preserved until her wedding night. In other words, Moslem men are willing to risk the lives of young girls for no other reason than to ensure the status of their young brides.

It is estimated that between 100 and 150 million women have undergone this dreadful practice, almost entirely within Moslem countries.

Western Moslems and Moslem sympathizers are quick to point out that female circumcision is not required by the Koran. That is true. However, it has long been maintained by many Islamic scholars that Mohammed himself did recommend the practice. Further, the Reliance of the Traveler, a classic manual of Islamic sacred law, states that circumcision is "obligatory for both men and women."

While the practice might ritualistically survive among tribes of other faiths, it thrives in Islamic countries. Many Islamic clerics view it as essential for women, and they tirelessly promote the procedure.

When Egyptian health authorities attempted to ban female circumcision in 1995, they met major opposition from Islamic clerics. Inter Press Service reported that Egyptian Sheikh Yussuf el-Badry, in an attempt to establish Islamic Sharia law, sued the health agency for ordering the ban. Eventually, Egyptian authorities overturned the ban and legalized the practice. El Badry saw this as a major victory for Islam.

Most Moslem women understand the danger of the practice, and it is routinely performed against their wills. Many of these women have attempted to escape before they were mutilated. The best known example of this is the case of Fauziya Kassindja, a Moslem girl from West Africa, who immigrated to the United States. 4 Due to her tribulations, the United States government now grants political asylum to those women who are fleeing Islamic authorities in order to avoid mandatory mutilation.

Another item which makes Islam reprehensible is the protection of men who forcibly violate women. Under Islamic Law, a man cannot be convicted on a charge of rape unless it happens in the presence of four male witnesses who are willing to testify against him. In the course of my research, I have not been able to discover a single instance in which four men testified against one of their own. A Moslem man can freely rape women without worry of conviction, and this happens constantly in Islamic countries. To make matters worse, if a Moslem woman charges a man with rape and she is unable to find four male witnesses to testify against him, she is then charged with fornication. In countries under Islamic law, the punishment for fornication is death.

Further, this situation of a woman facing a fornication charge for a rape committed against her is hardly rare. As a matter of fact, it has been estimated that a whopping 75% of women in Pakistani prisons are there on trumped-up fornication charges 5 —and many of them are under ten years old! Simultaneously, the real criminals, the rapists, walk free.

The term "living hell" is often overused. Yet, without an appeal to this cliche, it is difficult to summarize the predicament of young girls in Islamic countries. Had Hobbes' been referring to their lives, he would have been considered prescient with his quip that life is brutish and short. It is impossible to read about these young girls and not be moved by pity.

In many Islamic countries, other than the alleged crime of fornication, the most common crimes are insignificant or nonexistent violations of the Koran, and many of these crimes are punishable by death. A significant percentage of crimes in Islamic countries are capital crimes. Decapitation is common.

Young girls who are sentenced to death in Islamic countries present a problem for Islamic authorities. Islamic clerics and rulers, unsatisfied with a mere penalty of death for the accused, wish to ensure that these women will suffer eternity in hell as well. However, quite a number of the accused girls are virgins, and Islam teaches that virgins go to Paradise upon their deaths. As a solution this problem, in order to ensure the damnation of the accused, Islamic authorities will often order the prison guards to systematically rape female prisoners before they are killed. According to Amnesty International, this practice is widespread in Islamic countries. There is no way of knowing the exact number of such cases, but suffice it to say that under the Khomeini Revolution in Iran, twenty thousand girls and women were executed in the first three years of the Ayatollah's rule. 6 And Khomeini was a strict follower of the Koran.

During Khomeini's rule, the minimum age for the death penalty for girls was nine years old, and all these girls were systematically raped before they were executed.

All this to ensure damnation. All under the sanction of law. All because of the teachings of the Koran.

What this all adds up to is a very unpleasant picture. Those girls who are in prison on fornication charges are actually victims of rape. The remaining female prisoners are raped to ensure damnation. It is no exaggeration to say that Islamic countries are nations of rape victims.

All practicing Moslems revere Mohammed as the great prophet—the greatest man who ever lived, or who could ever live. They seek to imitate him in every conceivable way. This is bad news for women in Islamic countries, for Mohammed had a penchant for little girls. When Mohammed was little over fifty years of age, and already had at least nine wives and countless concubines, Mohammed took a new six-year-old wife named Aisha, although Moslem historians claim that he did not consummate this marriage until Aisha had achieved the ripe old age of nine. 7

Of course, defenders of Mohammed and Islam will argue that it was a "long time ago," and girls used to marry younger then. Let's table that argument for a moment and fast forward to the Islamic world of today. There is an old saying: "Times change." In the case of the Islamic faith, it would be more accurate to say: "Times don't change." In imitation of the prophet Mohammed, Moslem men marry girls at the age of nine (and younger) all the time.

After the Revolution in Iran, girls as young as seven were allowed to be married, with the approval of a physician, who could testify to her sexual maturity. But even this minor stipulation was eventually dropped. Jan Goodwin reports on an interview she conducted with an Iranian physican regarding this situation:

"In villages where child marriage is most common, doctors don't even see the girl, she told me. "They just take the family's word that she is physically mature enough to marry. Consequently, we have had very young girls badly injured when they have had what amounts to forced intercourse. Infection sets in and they have died. Only with girls under seven did the Ayatollah say that sex was forbidden." 8

This problem of pedophila is not specific to Iran. Pedophilia is not an Iranian thing—it's an Islamic thing. Time magazine recently reported that in Afghanistan and Pakistan, they found that two-thirds of second grade girls "were either married or betrothed." 9

And they are not engaged to boys of the same age in a cute little arrangement ceremony. Typically, they are engaged or married to men four or five times their age. One ten-year-old girl in the camp was engaged to a man of sixty. 10

Partially due to the fact that these girls have already undergone the sexual mutilation of female circumcision, and partially due simply to their juvenile biological makeup, these children suffer immensely when they are married. In Egypt, honeymoon centers have been built outside communities "so that the screams of the brides will not be heard." 11

There is no nice way to say it: Moslems across the world are practicing pedophiliac rape, a most vicious form of child abuse, and nothing in their behavior contradicts "true Islam." Since 9/11, we have constantly heard Moslems tell us that people such as these "are not practicing true Islam." However, the men who pedophile nine year old girls are practicing true Islam. Anyone who would argue otherwise either does not understand the Islamic faith or is lying.

Allah likes slavery, and he doesn't discriminate between little girls and anyone else.

The Koran teaches: "Blessed are the believers who...restrain their carnal desires (except with their wives and slave-girls, for these are lawful to them)." 12 Islam teaches: "For if a man purchases a slave girl, the purchase contract includes his right to have sex with her." 13 Islamists have for centuries preached that the rape of child slaves is perfectly commendable in the eyes of Allah.

In modern times, Islamic countries practice widespread slavery. In the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, child-slavery is common, as are slave raids. The revolutionary Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army practices child sex-slavery and military slavery on a wide scale. Although not technically a Moslem entity, the LRA receives military and logistical support from the Islamic country of Sudan. 14

In Sudan, slavery is a way of life. According to a recent report conducted by the American Anti-Slavery Group:

"Accumulated evidence suggests the re-emergence of two particular forms of slavery. The first is the women and child slaves used to look after cattle and perform domestic and sexual services for Arab tribesmen in regions bordering southern Sudan and the Nuba Mountains; the second involves children who are captured and dispatched to military training camps or hard-line Koranic schools where, it is alleged, attempts are made to transform them into Muslims who are prepared to fight in the "holy war" against the south." 15

It would be imprecise to say that only Moslems practice slavery today. However, it would be precise to say that the Islamic authorities are obeying the their religion in taking slaves, beating them, mutilating them, and raping them. All this is blessed by their religion.

Imagine for a moment the life of a young Christian girl in an Islamic country, such as Sudan.

She is abducted from her parents in a slave raid at the age of four. She is given a new Islamic name and, under gunpoint, forced to pray as a Moslem. At age five, she is forced to undergo the torture of mutilation. At age six, she is engaged to a man ten times her age. At age nine, she is married and repeatedly forcibly raped. For the next year, she is beaten daily. At age ten, she is forcibly raped by another Moslem man, and is sentenced to death because of a charge of fornication. The night before her death, she is raped by a prison guard and assured that she will spend eternity in hell. The next day, she is whipped with lashes until she dies.

During her life, none of her perpetrators have once violated Islamic law. Everything she was subjected to was sanctioned by the "most merciful Allah."

This is not an overdramatization. This is real life. This is the biography of millions of girls. The fact that this is so horrific does not mean that it is not happening in numerous countries to thousands of girls as you read this right now.

Islam is the enemy of these millions of girls, and we do a supreme disservice to them by attempting to reconcile the Islamic faith with the true Catholic faith. Instead of trying to figure out how we can get Moslems more land, discussing how much we all have in common, and having interfaith services with Islamic revolutionaries, it is time we expose Islam for what it is: the sworn enemy of Jesus Christ.

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ENDNOTES:
1 (World Health Organization Press Release, UN AGENCIES CALL FOR END TO FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION, April 9, 1997)
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 Kassinjia, Fauyiza, Do They Hear You When You Cry, Delta, 1999.
5 Robert Spencer, Islam Unveiled, San Francisco: Encounter Books, p. 91.
6 Jan Goodwin, Price of Honor, Boston: Plume, 1995, p. 115.
7 Spencer, 47.
8 Goodwin, 113, 114.
9 Spencer, 48.
10 Spencer, 47.
11 Goodwin, 335.
12 quoted in Spencer, 63.
13 quoted in Cati, Married to Mohammed, Lake Mary, FL: Creation House Press
14 Amnesty International, 1 March 1999, Solidarity Action for Universal Rights: Uganda
15 The American Anti-Slavery Group, Slavery in the Sudan: A Challenge to International Law

To you and the rest who are indignant as to comparing male and female circumcisions as unfair: you need to ask yourselves if there is an outcry of males and its representatives in Hollywood as far as the brutality, and the barbaric tradition of male circumcision of boys! The answer is no. Since there is no outcry on the male side, then it must be ok for a few days old boy to have some body cut a piece of his sensitive part of his anatomy - just for the heck of it. There has been a report in the American Journal of Medicine about the loss of pleasure the circumcised male suffers versus the uncircumcised men. But hay, Oprah said circumcising women is barbaric, and Oprah don't give a sh*t about males circumcised or not - perhaps she is a lesbo! If their balls fall off because of cancer, it does not matter to Oprah, and her activist feminists stupid audience. When did you see the buddy system encouraged for guys? Hey Bob, you want to examine my balls for lumps? Or have guys demonstrate on TV how to examine their balls! Of course NEVER! In the case of women, it is a different story, we even show their boobs on the tube, and encourage them to get together and feel each other breasts! Guys don't count. I am not supporting the barbarian Moslem circumsising little girls, and I don't support our culture either for doing an unneeded mutilation on the little infent boys. To you the suffering of the little boys don't count, only the suffering of the little girls. I am a better person - since I don't approve of suffering to both genders.

Yeah, sure. You could amputate other parts of his body as they can get cancerous too.

You make it seem as if it is the same as cutting off my child's ear so that I can save him/her from an ear infection. Not the case. However I would consider cutting off the bottom part of the ear lobe if someone told me it might save his/her hearing.

You stated many interesting points about the history of pagan beliefs from that region. And I've seen them before. I've always found it interesting that they maintained the Ka'ba. And that the Koran says the verses of the Koran were forced out of Mohammed.

Anyway. Back to the Catholic Church quotes.

What I am seeing them say is that Moslems are correct in as much as they recognize a Creator. The fact that they have completely misidentified Him and His nature is something not discussed in those quotes.

I don't see any acceptance of their beliefs beyond the very basics. Creator. Prayer. That much they have right.

I wish you could explain how good you feel vs. someone that has been circumcised.

I've BEEN circumcised - as a baby, no choice in the matter. I can only go by secondhand information here. But all that secondhand info is consistent.

I wonder how many adult men have been circumcised. Enough to make a good study?

I don't know the numbers. The ones I've heard of, were converts to Judaism, so maybe someone more familiar with Judaism can provide that info.

I don't see any acceptance of their beliefs beyond the very basics. Creator. Prayer. That much they have right.

Lumen Gentium Chapt II 16:

Finally, those who have not yet received the Gospel are related to the People of God in various ways.[18] There is, first, that people to which the covenants and promises were made, and from which Christ was born according to the flesh (cf. Rom. 9 :4-5): in view of the divine choice, they are a people most dear for the sake of the fathers, for the gifts of God are without repentance (cf. Rom. 11:29-29). But the plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Moslems: these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind's judge on the last day.

Let me repeat: "...and together with us they adore the one, merciful God..." This statement is incorrect. They do not adore the merciful God Of Abraham. They worship Allah, the hater of all Gods people. The one that commands the murderof all Christians and Jews. This is clearly not the God of Abraham.

Clearly the ignorance of Islam is not covered by Rom. chapter 1, which clearly states that for worshipping the wrong God, there is no excuse.

Mmmmm.

Well, I've seen the "moon god" theory disputed. Frankly, I haven't actually looked at the underlying evidence closely enough to accept one theory or the other.

I do know that Lebanese Christians say the word for God in their language is Allah.

Anyway, if Moslems knowingly worship a "moon god" then, yeah, the Catholic Church does not understand what they are doing and incorrectly characterizes the nature of their worship. If Moslems worship the God of Abraham, then they worship the only God that exists.

As compared to how women would live in a Biblical-law society

Nice try ignoramus.

The US is based on the culture and laws of the Bible. Woman's standing in this culture is the result of the honor given to woman in the Judeo-Christian faith.

Well, I Googled for "Mohammed's father" and "Mohammed's grandfather" and didn't find anything like Allah in their names. But that was just a quick peek at a few Web pages.

I'm less concerned about what Moslems believe than what the Catholic Church thinks they believe - which led to the document statements you posted. And my original quibble about the article posted and the lack of footnotes or quotes for the "many Catholics" statement.

I'm outta here for the weekend! Good posts, D Rider!

It was actually Mo's uncle not Grandfather -sorry. The majority of the web is filled with Islamic sites on those topics. add Archeology or something like that to your search, otherwise you'll never get past all the Islamic BS.

Over the centuries there has been a tension between the true Catholic Faith and the Catholic Church as a political power center. Some popes (and the cardinal that put them there) have been men of God, some have been very evil men, philanderers and even murderers. So as you can imagine, that bad doctrine during periods of "other agenda" takes time to fix. But there always remain those faithful, though sometimes they have been killed for it.

Because of this, I choose to separate faith from church, and compare teachings of the Church with scripture. Of course, this same thing got more than one Catholic Bishop, Priest and Monk burned at the stake. But when the Church contradicts scripture, who are we to believe? man or God?

The US is based on the culture and laws of the Bible. Woman's standing in this culture is the result of the honor given to woman in the Judeo-Christian faith.

So you support women being subservient, not allowed to teach, not allowed to wear gold jewelry and not being allowed to braid their hair. That is biblical law, but it is very unamerican. If you're talking biblical law in general, do you support stoning of disobedient children?

What you refer to as Biblical Law, was not Law at all.

It was custom, something subject to change. Even at the time of the New Testament, it was purely voluntary, not forced, unlike what is being propounded in Islam. There is no choosing by thse women in Afghanistan or saudi Arabia.

What the Islamists want imposed is Sharia. They have made no secret of their desire to bring the West under their heel and imposed it everywhere.

Where is a similar call for what you erroneously call Bibilical Law to be imposed ? Your analysis merely serves to delineate the difference between Christianity and Islam, in that Christianity is a faith of freedom of conscience, not forced conversion and forced adherence to their Sharia laws, as is Islam.

It was custom, something subject to change.

That's what you say. With a simple reading of the Bible, those prohibitions sound a lot like law to me. What, are you allowed to pick and choose now? Do you cover your head and not speak in church? Out of style now, huh? Okay, I think the 10 Commandments were custom and not law, so let's do away with obeying those too.

There is no choosing by thse women in Afghanistan or saudi Arabia.

Interestingly, this is exactly what you described between custom and law. Women covering themselves is considered by many Muslims to be custom, plus the fact that a woman cannot be forced by anyone to wear it -- punishment for not wearing is done by Allah after she dies. You are talking about male-dominated misogynistic implementations, kind of like what Christianity had back when organized religion was in power.

Your analysis merely serves to delineate the difference between Christianity and Islam, in that Christianity is a faith of freedom of conscience, not forced conversion and forced adherence to their Sharia laws, as is Islam.

That freedom for the average woman has existed only since organized Christianity lost its political power over the people through the governments it controlled. I don't believe you would enjoy your status under law and custom 500 years ago. The problem isn't that Islam is suppressing these women, as that will happen with any theocracy dominated by men.

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