Let's all celebrate Muslim Women's Day!
From 2019
Dear T,
I don't know exactly what we're supposed to do for Muslim Women's Day, but my guess is that we give them what Mohammed did. This means their testimony is worth only half a man's; that we can beat them if they talk too much; that their husbands get off lightly for cheating and the women get far worse for it; that we force them all to wear blankets; and that if any woman's enjoying her marriage, we allow three other women to live in-house and bang her husband.
Whether this is for or against them is hard to say; but it's what they want, or at least what they say they want — and is anything worse than being told you’re an Islamophobe? So yes, I’ll help — gladly.
In my opinion Islamic women deserve a day much less than the men do anyway. Put yourself in some poor Saudi man's shoes, for instance. Ask yourself why they lock their women up and don't allow them out alone. Or why they didn’t let them drive for so long. Why do they cover them head-to-toe, and not allow them to speak in public? Why don't the Iranians let them into soccer games? Why are honor killings punished so lightly in Yemen? You get the idea once you see a Muslim activist like Linda Sarsour get on a bullhorn, or hear a speech from Ilhan Omar. Is the average Muslim chauvinist a bully, or a victim? Are these rules for his dominance, or for his safety?
I just ask you to consider the evidence.
The founder of Muslim Women's Day, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, began her women's crusade as all Muslim women must — an act of mental failure based on a gross misconception of her identity. She was 13 at the time of 9/11 and living in New Jersey, probably the worst time and place to be an American Muslim, when her family decided, for obvious reasons, to move her back to Jordan. It was there she gained an immense respect for herself as a second-class person, and when her mom got sick she brought this respect back to the United States.
She began to wear the hijab — not out of religious duty, but as an act of defiance: like Catholic boys wear MAGA hats, but more socially acceptable to Democrats who believe in gay marriage, in killing your unborn kid, in dressing like a cheap whore*, in getting trashed on bad gin, in having a woman wear the pants in the family, and are against beating girls silly or trading them as sex slaves. It has yet to be explained how anyone can hate Catholicism for being illiberal but love Islam; but this is America, and Democrats can't even define “a woman," so we're giving it a shot.
Amani's website, MuslimGirl.com, is a testament to her failure to read or understand the Qur'an, or the Hadiths, or follow any serious Imam. She seems, like the worst American Christians, to lack any ties to tradition or dogma or her prophets, and uses her religion to advance her own opinions instead of conforming her opinions to her religion — the true sign of a narcissist and a liar. On her site you'll find articles devoted to Rami Malek, a man recently made famous by his portrayal of Freddie Mercury — who sang about thick-bottomed girls and died by laying hairy-bottomed boys. Freddie would have been jailed or killed in any Muslim nation today or any other day; but this is apparently beside the point. Beside this there's an article on The Millenial Muslims who Smoke Marijuana, and a tasteful essay called How Islam Became My Safe Trans Space. She says Americans hate Muslims, but spends her time championing things Muslims hate about Americans. To be completely honest, a quick look at her site made me like America less, too.
She says "I think I've become very blatantly aware of the certain privileges... that I have that other individuals don't, that other Muslim women in other parts of the world might not necessarily have access to." Why don't they have the privilege? Conveniently, no answer is given. She says "Our theme for this year is ‘Muslim women talk back to violence’ so, whether it's gun violence or a #MeToo or #TimesUp movement, these are obviously themes that impact women from all backgrounds, across the board.” Conveniently, no mention is made of Surah 4:34, which expressly permits wife-beating; or that the best places to be a woman, save maybe some places we colonized, are all consistently in the white West; and the worst places, save maybe India and Hollywood, are all run by Islamists. Compared to the Egyptian even the Italian is a eunuch.
She says, speaking of the Muslim women she features from around the world, that "our philosophy is that nobody is voiceless, they're just voices that are more systematically silenced than others." Which system is silencing them? Again, not the slightest pretense of an answer. We wish someone would shut her up, at this point, but freedom means the freedom to be a moron; a bed we've made for ourselves, and which we continue to lie on.
I imagine at this point that maybe someone, some nice, well-behaved, respectable Muslim lady, is reading this and thinking — hey! This skank has nothing to do with me! And maybe she’s right. Maybe most Muslim ladies are angels getting a shitty end of a deal; and now, with these 5% or less of the rowdiest, stupidest, most arrogant floozies, they have to suffer double by guilt of association. If this is the case I understand you. We ex-Brits, after all, fought a war over taxation without representation. You apparently need one over representation without representation — a far more embarrassing ordeal, I think.
If this is the case then I’m sorry, and I beg you, an angel in double distress, to 1) forgive me for lumping you in with the loudmouths who "represent” you, and to 2) please save yourself and leave Islam — not for feminism, or atheism, or even Americanism, but something more tasteful and dignified for a good woman. I mean in this case joining the Catholics, or the Mormons.
Yours,
-J
*To say someone dresses like a hooker isn't saying she's dressing like a hooker. It's saying she's dressing like a cheap hooker — a street-walker, the bottom of the barrel. The best hookers, who fetch a good market price, dress and carry themselves like ladies.
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