MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

Ending violence against women, treating them as equals and giving them the same human rights that Western women enjoy would very likely lead to the destruction of Islamic society. But because treating women as equal members of society and granting them rights would be completely un-Islamic, it will never happen. This statement from the Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi’s Islamist supporters should be eye-opening to their leftist enablers and other lobotimized liberals. Unfortunately, the selectively colorblind have also become the masters of selective hearing …

“When I stood on the door of hell, I saw most of its inhabitants were women” – Prophet of Islam, Mohammed, Sahih AlBukhari, 5196

Daniel 11:37a, “Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women …”

Patrick Kingsley, The Guardian – “Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood have claimed that a UN declaration calling for an end to violence against women will lead to the ‘complete disintegration of society’.

Delegates at the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York have spent the last fortnight debating the wording of a declaration that would condemn violence against women. The brotherhood, whose close allies control Egypt’s parliament and presidency, slated the declaration in an online statement on Thursday – calling it a decadent and destructive document that undermined Islamic ethics by calling for women to work, travel and use contraception without their husbands’ permission.

In a 10-point memorandum, the brotherhood also criticised the declaration for granting women sexual freedom, allowing Muslim women to marry non-Muslims, granting equal rights to homosexual people, and allowing wives full legal rights to take their husbands to court for marital rape.

‘This declaration, if ratified, would lead to complete disintegration of society, and would certainly be the final step in the intellectual and cultural invasion of Muslim countries, eliminating the moral specificity that helps preserve cohesion of Islamic societies,’ the brotherhood ‘s statement claimed.

The remarks drew a furious response inside Egypt. Soad Shalaby, a spokesperson for Egypt’s National Council for Women, said: ‘How would this declaration lead to a disintegration of society? On the contrary, it will lead to women’s integration within society.’ …

‘We’re asking them to stop using religion and culture to undermine negotiations and to justify violence against women,’ said Lynn Darwich, a spokesperson for the Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies, who is attending the conference in New York.” Read more.

• Flashback: Egypt’s New Government: Women Need Not Apply
• Flashback: Covered, Confined, Cursed: The Place Of Women In Islam
• Flashback: Arab Women Joining Women’s Rights Movement: Revolutions Topple Dictators, But There Remains ‘A Dictator In Every Household’
• Flashback: Women’s Rights In Egypt: Islamist Parliament Members Introduce Several Controversial Draft Laws That Will Bring Egypt Back To Middle Ages If Passed

By Matti Friedman, The Times of Israel – “On Tuesday, the struggle of Jewish women fighting to worship with prayer shawls at the Western Wall in Jerusalem received renewed attention when protesters at the holy site were joined by several new members of Knesset, spotlighting Israel’s ongoing policy of imposing Orthodox practice on all worshipers at the wall.

But in the coming years a different battle over Jewish prayer, one unfolding a few paces away, is likely to be of more significance — a growing debate over whether Jews should be allowed to pray on the Temple Mount itself.

The desire to pray on the Mount, also the site of Islam’s third-holiest shrine, has found more acceptance among mainstream rabbis in Israel over the past decade, spreading gradually from a tiny fringe to a broader religious public. The numbers of Jews actually visiting the Mount for religious reasons is still tiny — no more than several thousand a year, according to police estimates — but inching upward, and the sacred enclosure is slowly gaining in importance as an issue of religious and political meaning for religious Zionists, a group with outsize ideological and political clout in Israeli society.

That could make it a flashpoint inside Israel and an inflammatory issue for local Muslims and the entire Islamic world.

If the issue comes to the fore, it will be in part thanks to the activities of Moshe Feiglin, once a figure from the margins of the Israeli right and now a member of Knesset from the ruling party, Likud. On the way to his swearing-in ceremony at parliament last month, Feiglin went to the Temple Mount, where he had been detained by police in January for violating the prohibition on Jewish prayer. Early this month he was there again, freshly armed with parliamentary immunity, striding around the sacred enclosure with the purposeful air of a landlord and causing a stir when he tried to go into the Dome of the Rock, where entry is limited solely to Muslims. He has promised to be back.

Few places on earth are as potentially explosive as the Temple Mount. The shrine has been especially tense in recent weeks, with protests erupting twice after communal Friday prayers. Riots on the Mount have tended to involve protesters throwing rocks and chairs, but last week, for the first time in memory, a Palestinian threw a Molotov cocktail, pitching it from inside the al-Aqsa mosque and setting a policeman’s leg on fire. The officer was lightly wounded.

Muslims believe the Mount is where the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven in a mystical night journey recounted in the Koran, and call it the Noble Sanctuary.” Read more.

Whether it’s a bill they’re signing or a book they’re endorsing, many politicians often fail to do some basic leg work before running to wield the mighty pen: reading it first. Many have obviously failed to read the Qur’an before endorsing Sharia Law in America and the rise of Islamism, so why should we expect anything different? …

See: Every Woman Is INFERIOR To Men In Islam
See: Top Ten Rules In The Quran That Oppress Women
See: UK: Muslim Beating Wife Tells Police His Islamic Religion Allows It
See: ‘Beat’: Islamic Marriage Guide At Toronto Store Tells To Beat Their Wives
See: Muslim Cleric: Islam Teaches A Man To Beat His Wife So That She’ll Treat Him With Kindness, Respect, And Know He Is Superior

Qur’an Sura 4:34, “Men have authority over women because [Allah] has made the one superior to the other… Good women are obedient… As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them. Then if they obey you, take no further action against them…”

Qur’an Sura 38:44, “And take in your hand a green branch and beat her with it, and do not break your oath …”

Hadith – Abu Dawud, 2142, “The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: A man will not be asked as to why he beat his wife.”

By SHAWN JEFFORDS – “TORONTO — A letter of support from Ontario’s labour minister appears in the latest edition of a book on Islam which condones men physically punishing their wives.

The letter from Liberal Yasir Naqvi appears in the reviews section of Islam: Balancing Life and Beyond.

The book says it is within the tenants of Islam to ‘lightly’ strike your spouse if she exhibits ‘serious moral misconduct.’

Naqvi congratulates author Suhail Kapoor on the release of the new edition.

‘I admire your drive to reach out to the public and promote values of tolerance, understanding and respect,’ Naqvi said in the letter.

Kapoor told QMI Agency he wrote Naqvi asking for a review of his book. When he received a response to his request more than two years ago, he asked permission to reprint it and said it was granted by the Ottawa-Centre MPP’s office.

But Naqvi said Monday he hasn’t read the book and didn’t authorize use of his response.

Naqvi said he has never read Kapoor’s work and has brought forward several private member’s bills to help victims of domestic violence.

‘I strongly condemn violence against women,’ Naqvi said in a statement to QMI Agency. ‘I believe that abuse of any kind is unacceptable and I do not share the views expressed in this book.’

In a chapter, entitled ‘Does Islam Allow Wife Beating?’ Kapoor outlines the circumstances under which it is appropriate for a man to punish his wife using ‘light’ slaps on the wrist with a small wooden stick.

‘That is part of my faith. That is what the Qur’an says…'” Read more.