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Talaq - Islamic Divorce by saying "I divorce you" three times
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2019-06-22T22:55:44.152Z
Alan Lake
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<h1 class="article__heading">Fierce debate as Modi government reintroduces Muslim ‘triple talaq’ divorce bill</h1>
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<h1 class="article__heading">Fierce debate as Modi government reintroduces Muslim ‘triple talaq’ divorce bill</h1>
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<div class="article__summary summary">The party of Indian PM Narendra Modi faced tough opposition as it made another attempt to push through a bill that would criminalize divorcing a woman by saying the word ‘talaq’ three times.</div>
<div class="article__text text"><p>The draft legislation, known as the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, was tabled by Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad at a session of the new parliament on Friday as lawmakers gathered for the first time since the BJP party claimed a landslide victory in May’s general elections, winning 303 seats in the 545-member lower house.</p>
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<p><em>“This is not a question of religion but about justice to women. This is a question of dignity of women and we are committed to protect it,”</em><span> </span>the minister said, as he threw his weight behind the contentious legislation.</p>
<p>The bill envisions a jail sentence of up to three years and a fine for men who divorce their wives by invoking an Islamic practice known as the ‘triple talaq,’ which has been outlawed in India since August.</p>
<p>Despite being confirmed as illegal by the Supreme Court, the ‘triple talaq’ has remained widely used, with Prasad reporting on Friday that over 200 cases have been registered since it was banned.</p>
<p>The motion to introduce the bill drew scathing criticism from the Indian National Congress and other opposition parties, but was passed with 187 votes against 74 in the lower house, with many MPs abstaining.</p>
<p>The vote was preceded by heated exchanges among members, with Congress MP Shashi Tharoor calling the bill<span> </span><em>“discriminatory.”</em><span> </span>The lawmaker argued that it<span> </span><em>“does nothing to protect Muslim women but punishes Muslim men.”</em><span> </span>Tharoor said that he believed the law to be one-sided, as it exclusively focuses on Muslim husbands<span> </span><em>“but exempts other men who desert their families without taking responsibility.”</em></p>
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<p>Asaduddin Owaisi, leader of the All India Majlis Ittehad ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) party, echoed the criticism and similarly denounced the bill as<em><span> </span>“discriminatory.”</em></p>
<p><em>“I would like to ask the government [why] they have all the love for Muslim women. Why don't they have the same sentiment for Hindu women of Kerala? Why are you against Sabrimala?”</em><span> </span>he<span> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/aimim_national/status/1142005095858462720" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said.</a></p>
<p>Owaisi<span> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/aimim_national/status/1142003046672564224" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">argued</a><span> </span>that by jailing the men, the bill would only leave women penniless.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em>The husband will be three years in jail then who is going to pay for the maintenance? Are you going to give money for the maintenance? This is against rational nexus.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Modi’s party introduced the bill in December last year and it was passed by the lower chamber of the parliament, the Lok Sabha, but was met by fervent opposition in the Rajya Sabha, the upper chamber. However, the law has been enforced through two executive orders, in September last year and in February, while it awaits approval by the legislature.</p>
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Islamic Jihad on Christian Nuns: A History by Raymond Ibrahim
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2013-12-07T00:02:07.530Z
Alan Lake
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<h1 class="title">Islamic Jihad on Christian Nuns: A History</h1>
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<h1 class="title">Islamic Jihad on Christian Nuns: A History</h1>
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<p>Yet another phenomenon with a long paper trail in Islamic history has just taken place, even as the Western “mainstream”—<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/surreal-and-suicidal-modern-western-histories-of-islam/">little acquainted with true history or reality</a>—dismisses it as an aberration. <a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Maaloula:-Islamist-rebels-abduct-12-nuns-from-the-St-Thecla-Orthodox-monastery-29701.html">Asia News</a> has the details:</p>
<blockquote><p>Islamist rebels have kidnapped a group of nuns from the Greek Orthodox monastery of St Thecla (Mar Taqla) in Maaloula [an ancient Christian community where Christians were earlier <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/video-al-qaeda-attacks-two-syrian-churches-to-cries-of-allahu-akbar/">forced to convert to Islam or die</a>]… “Armed men burst in the monastery of St Thecla in Maaloula this afternoon [Dec. 2]. From there, they forcibly took 12 women religious,” Mgr Zenari said …. Neither the nuncio nor the Greek Orthodox Church know [the] reason behind the kidnapping.</p>
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<p>The “reason behind the kidnapping”? Sexual abuse and rape certainly should not be discounted, as these have been the lot of thousands of women abducted by U.S.-sponsored “freedom fighters” in Syria. Indeed, a <a href="http://www.masrawy.com/news/mideast/general/2013/november/30/5771529.aspx?ref=extraImgclip">new report</a> issued by the National Reconciliation Commission in Syria states that some 37,000 women have been raped since the war started.</p>
<p>To keep the jihad in Syria alive, pro-war Islamic clerics have issued any number of fatwas, or Islamic rulings, permitting sexually-frustrated, female-deprived rebels to rape women. Most of these are based on the simple fact that Islam permits jihadis, based on the example of their prophet, to copulate with any captured woman—or, in the words of the Koran, “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/are-slave-girls-in-islam-equivalent-to-animals/">what your right hands possess</a>” (see “The Jihad on Christian Women: Abduction, Rape, and Forced Conversion,” pgs. 186-199 in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621570258/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1621570258&linkCode=as2&tag=uhurnetw-20"><em>Crucified Again</em></a><em> </em>for detailed information).</p>
<p>One cleric <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/new-fatwa-permits-rape-of-non-sunni-women-in-syria/">permitted</a> the abduction and rape of any Syrian woman, provided she is not Sunni. Yet apparently because there are still not enough women for the jihadi hordes, many of whom are foreigners—one Christian child was <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=702528903105203&set=a.606595286031899.1073741825.523332254358203&type=1&theater&notif_t=like">recently raped by 15 men before being killed</a>—<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/aids-and-pregnant-tunisian-girl-recounts-her-sex-jihad-in-syria/">Sunni Muslim women</a> are also being targeted through <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/sex-jihad-and-western-disbelief/">sex jihad</a> <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/islamic-doctrines-justify-sex-jihad-with-video/">fatwas</a>.</p>
<p>So would such jihadis and their clerics have any special respect for Christian nuns?</p>
<p>The fact is, raped nuns is a phenomenon that goes back centuries. According to Muslim historian Taqi al-Din al-Maqrizi (1364-1442) during his raids on Egypt, Caliph Marwan II (r.744–50) “made captive a number of women from among the nuns of several convents. And he tried to seduce one of them.” The account describes how the enslaved nun tricked him into killing her, by claiming she had a magic oil that make skin impenetrable: “She then took some oil and anointed herself with it; then stretched out her neck, which he smote with the sword, and made her head fly. He then understood that she preferred death to defilement.”</p>
<p>Writing in the 10<sup>th</sup> century, the Coptic chronicler Severus ibn Muqaffa records that “the Arabs in the land of Egypt had ruined the country…. They burnt the fortresses and pillaged the provinces, and killed a multitude of the saintly monks who were in them [monasteries] and they violated a multitude of the virgin nuns and killed some of them with the sword.”</p>
<p>After the Islamic conquest of Constantinople in 1453, according to <a href="http://facingislam.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-fall-of-constantinople-29-may-1453.html">eyewitness accounts</a>, “Monasteries and Convents were broken in. Their tenants were killed, nuns were raped, many, to avoid dishonor, killed themselves. Killing, raping, looting, burning, enslaving, went on and on according to tradition.”</p>
<p>Such is history—<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/the-historical-reality-of-the-muslim-conquests/">expunged as it is in the modern West</a>, even as it repeats itself today. Thus, in August 2013, after torching a Franciscan school in Egypt, “Islamists,” in the words of the <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-islamists-hit-christian-churches-235144103.html">AP</a>, “paraded three nuns on the streets like ‘prisoners of war’” and “Two other women working at the school were sexually harassed and abused as they fought their way through a mob.”</p>
<p>Indeed, the rise in attacks on Christian nuns throughout the Islamic world further demonstrates that they are no more inviolable than other “infidel” women:</p>
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<li>Somalia: In response to <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/warning-quote-history-at-your-own-risk/">Pope Benedict’s historical quotes</a> which, like so many other things—<a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/26873/Rioting-protestors-demand-execution-of-teddy-bear-teacher">including teddy bears</a>—so enraged the Islamic world, Muslims in Somalia shot Leonella Sgarbati—a 66-year-old nun who had devoted 30 years of her life working in Africa—in her back. Her <a href="http://www.webdiocesi.chiesacattolica.it/cci_new/PagineDiocesi/AllegatiTools/222/suor%20Leonella%20Sgorbati.pdf">last words</a> before dying in hospital were: “I forgive; I forgive.”</li>
<li>Pakistan: In September 2012, gunmen on motorbikes dressed in green (Islam’s color) opened fire on the St. Francis Xavier Catholic Cathedral in Hyderabad, murdering at least 28 people. Their <a href="http://www.persecution.org/2012/09/19/outrage-over-anti-islam-film-worries-christians-in-pakistan/">immediate target was a nun</a>, Mother Christina.</li>
<li>Libya: In February 2013, after the fall of Col. Gaddafi, Islamic rebels <a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Islamists-chase-nuns-from-Libya,-people-pray-for-their-return-27021.html">threatened Christian nuns</a>into fleeing the nation. They had been there since 1921, focused primarily on helping the sick and needy.</li>
<li>Philippines: In an <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1341510/Six-people-wounded-bomb-attack-Roman-Catholic-Church-priest-celebrates-Christmas-Day-mass.html">article</a> discussing a Christmas Day church bombing in a Muslim-majority region, we learn that the jihadi group responsible “has been blamed for several bomb attacks on the Roman Catholic cathedral in Jolo since the early 2000s and for kidnapping priests and nuns.”</li>
<li>Guinea: In June 2013, during a <a href="http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2013/07/2629362/">mob-led frenzy</a>, Christians and their churches were <a href="http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2013/07/2629362/">savagely attacked</a> in the Muslim-majority nation—with some 95 Christians slain and 130 wounded—including “the quarters of the nuns, [which] was looted before being torched.”</li>
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<p>The above examples come from five countries that have little in common with one another—neither race, language, culture, nor economics—only Islam.</p>
<p>That alone <em>should</em> say something.</p>
<p>But no matter. Far from discussing Islamic history and doctrine, and how they tie to current events, the predominant Western mentality simply dismisses Muslim violence as the West’s fault, or, in the <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/andrew-harrod/karen-armstrongs-911-british-empire-blowback-thesis/">recent words</a> of ex-nun Karen Armstrong, “We did this.” Armstrong—<a href="http://www.meforum.org/2159/are-judaism-and-christianity-as-violent-as-islam">who quit the nunnery only to engage in pro-Islamic mummery</a>—insists that what’s needed is for us to focus more on “Muslim pain, Muslim suffering.”</p>
<p>Such, according to the leftist mentality, are the “real” reasons why, wherever Muslim-majorities live near non-Muslim minorities, from the dawn of Islam till today, the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/the-rape-and-murder-of-pakistans-christian-children-2/">latter are under attack</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/the-islamic-jihad-on-christian-nuns-a-history/">http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/the-islamic-jihad-on-christian-nuns-a-history/</a></p>
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Islamic honor killing in Jordan: father murders pregnant unmarried daughter
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2009-10-19T13:19:48.000Z
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Islamic apologists will again assure us that honor killing has nothing to do with Islam and is a cultural practice followed by a wide variety of peoples -- and yet Muslim girls keep getting killed in disproportionate numbers. No one, of course, dares to confront the root of the problem by pointing out such inconvenient truths as the fact that a manual of Islamic law certified by Al-Azhar as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy says that "retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human…
Islamic apologists will again assure us that honor killing has nothing to do with Islam and is a cultural practice followed by a wide variety of peoples -- and yet Muslim girls keep getting killed in disproportionate numbers. No one, of course, dares to confront the root of the problem by pointing out such inconvenient truths as the fact that a manual of Islamic law certified by Al-Azhar as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy says that "retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right." However, "not subject to retaliation" is "a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring's offspring." ('Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2).<br />
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In other words, someone who kills his child incurs no legal penalty under Islamic law. In accord with this, in 2003 the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that "Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values."<br />
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"She got pregnant outside marriage, so father killed her: police," from AFP, October 19 (thanks to Andrew):<br />
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A Jordanian man was charged on Sunday with premeditated murder after allegedly stabbing to death his 22-year-old daughter because she became pregnant outside wedlock, police said.<br />
"The father and his brother took the girl on Saturday to a doctor because she suffered stomach pains, and everybody was surprised to learn that she was six months pregnant," a police spokesman said.<br />
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"On their way home, the father stabbed the girl with a sword 25 times in her stomach, killing her immediately as well as her unborn baby boy."...<br />
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Murder is punishable by the death penalty in Jordan but in such cases of the so-called "honour killings" a court usually commutes or reduces sentences, particularly if the victim's family urges leniency.<br />
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In the past, parliament has refused to institute harsher penalties.<br />
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Around 15-20 women are murdered each year in Jordan in the name of honour, despite government efforts to fight such crimes. So far this year, 17 cases have been reported.<br />
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<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/10/islamic-honor-killing-in-australia-father-murders-pregnant-unmarried-daughter.html">http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/10/islamic-honor-killing-in-australia-father-murders-pregnant-unmarried-daughter.html</a>