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		<title>Obama, &#8216;The Prophet of Islam&#8217; and Slander</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 04:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>During his speech to the UN General Assembly yesterday (Tuesday, 9/25/12) Mr. Obama <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/world/obamas-speech-to-the-united-nations-general-assembly-text.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_moc.semityn.www">proclaimed</a>,</p>
<blockquote><p>The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.</p></blockquote>
<p>He rapidly cloaked this bold statement regarding Islam, alone, with a pretense of ecumenism, by <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/world/obamas-speech-to-the-united-nations-general-assembly-text.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_moc.semityn.www">adding</a></p>
<blockquote><p>But to be credible, those who condemn that slander must also condemn the hate we see in the images of Jesus Christ that are desecrated, or churches that are destroyed, or the Holocaust that is denied.</p></blockquote>
<p>This latter statement rings hollow. Mr. Obama and his State Department have never condemned, let alone actively sought to preclude—in real time and with specificity—the ongoing Muslim <a href="http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/">jihadist ravages</a> against Christians and other non-Muslims across the length and breadth of Islamdom, often perpetrated by so-called US “Muslim allies,” and/or purveyors of “moderate Islam.”  Even on the domestic front, one <a href="http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/wh-silent-over-demands-to-denounce-piss-christ-artwork.html">still awaits</a> any Obama administration commentary on the “Piss Christ” revival, an exhibit originally <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ">funded in part</a> by the National Endowment for the Arts—particularly in light of their endless condemnation of the previously marginal, amateurish video, “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAiOEV0v2RM">Innocence of Muslims</a>.”</p>
<p>Moreover, Mr. Obama, as is his (and his administration’s) wont, ignored altogether the virulent <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Legacy-Islamic-Antisemitism-History/dp/1591025540">Muslim Jew-hatred</a> borne of canonical Islam, that is both endemic and epidemic within Islamdom, and has nothing to do with “Holocaust denial.”  For example, when Mr. Obama delivered his June 4, 2009 <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-cairo-university-6-04-09">Cairo speech</a>, he opened by lavishly praising Al-Azhar University’s “thousand years” as “a beacon of Islamic learning.” Yet just 6-months earlier, a front page <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/10/world/middleeast/10cairo.html?pagewanted=all">New York Times</a> story (published 1/10/ 2009), included extracts from the Friday (1/9/2009) Al Azhar mosque sermon at this same pinnacle of Sunni Islamic religious education, pronounced by Egyptian-government appointed cleric Sheik Eid Abdel Hamid Youssef. Referencing well-established Antisemitic motifs from the Koran (citations provided, below), Sheikh Youssef intoned,</p>
<blockquote><p>Muslim brothers, God has inflicted the Muslim nation with a people whom God has become angry at [Koran <a href="http://www.quranbrowser.com/cgi/bin/get.cgi?version=pickthall+arberry&amp;layout=auto&amp;searchstring=001:007">1:7</a>] and whom he cursed [Koran <a href="http://www.quranbrowser.com/cgi/bin/get.cgi?version=pickthall+arberry&amp;layout=auto&amp;searchstring=005:078">5:78</a>] so he made monkeys and pigs [Koran <a href="http://www.quranbrowser.com/cgi/bin/get.cgi?version=pickthall+arberry&amp;layout=auto&amp;searchstring=005:060">5:60</a>] out of them. They killed prophets and messengers [Koran <a href="http://www.quranbrowser.com/cgi/bin/get.cgi?version=pickthall+arberry&amp;layout=auto&amp;searchstring=002:061">2:61</a> / <a href="http://www.quranbrowser.com/cgi/bin/get.cgi?version=pickthall+arberry&amp;layout=auto&amp;searchstring=003:112">3:112</a>] and sowed corruption on Earth. [Koran <a href="http://www.quranbrowser.com/cgi/bin/get.cgi?version=pickthall+arberry&amp;layout=auto&amp;searchstring=005:033">5:33</a> /<a href="http://www.quranbrowser.com/cgi/bin/get.cgi?version=pickthall+arberry&amp;layout=auto&amp;searchstring=005:064">5:64</a>] They are the most evil on Earth. [<a href="http://www.quranbrowser.com/cgi/bin/get.cgi?version=pickthall+arberry&amp;layout=auto&amp;searchstring=005:062">5:62</a>  /<a href="http://www.quranbrowser.com/cgi/bin/get.cgi?version=pickthall+arberry&amp;layout=auto&amp;searchstring=005:063">63</a>]</p></blockquote>
<p>Sheikh Youssef’s sermon was redolent with the canonical Islamic Jew-hatred that punctuated the 14-year tenure (1996 to March, 2010) of late Al-Azhar Grand Imam—Sunni Islam’s Papal equivalent—the late <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Legacy-Islamic-Antisemitism-History/dp/1591025540">Muhammd Sayyid Tantawi</a>. Tantawi’s 700 page academic magnum opus, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Legacy-Islamic-Antisemitism-History/dp/1591025540"><em>Jews in the Koran and the Traditions</em></a>, includes these words rationalizing Muslim Jew-hatred:</p>
<blockquote><p>[The] Koran describes the Jews with their own particular degenerate characteristics, i.e. killing the prophets of Allah [Koran <a href="http://www.quranbrowser.com/cgi/bin/get.cgi?version=pickthall+arberry&amp;layout=auto&amp;searchstring=002:061">2:61</a>/ <a href="http://www.quranbrowser.com/cgi/bin/get.cgi?version=pickthall+arberry&amp;layout=auto&amp;searchstring=003:112">3:112</a>], [see Al-Azhar  <a href="http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&amp;Area=sd&amp;ID=SP69104">Sheikh Saqr’s Koranic citations</a>] corrupting His words by putting them in the wrong places, consuming the people’s wealth frivolously, refusal to distance themselves from the evil they do, and other ugly characteristics caused by their deep-rooted lasciviousness…only a minority of the Jews keep their word…[A]ll Jews are not the same. The good ones become Muslims [Koran <a href="http://www.quranbrowser.com/cgi/bin/get.cgi?version=pickthall+arberry&amp;layout=auto&amp;searchstring=003:113">3:113</a>], the bad ones do not….[T]he Jews always remain maleficent deniers….they should desist from their negative denial…some Jews went way overboard in their denying hostility, so gentle persuasion can do no good with them, so use force with them and treat them in the way you see as effective in ridding them of their evil. <strong>One may go so far as to ban their religion, their persons, their wealth, and their villages.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Tantawi (in April 2002) also reiterated the Koranic depiction of  Jews as “<a href="http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&amp;Area=sr&amp;ID=SR01102">enemies of Allah, descendants of apes and pigs</a>,” and sanctioned the legitimacy of <a href="http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&amp;Area=sd&amp;ID=SP36302">homicide bombing of Jews</a>.</p>
<p>Consistent with this ugly, if widespread phenomenon, writing at the Muslim Brotherhood’s <a href="http://www.ikhwanonline.com/new/Article.aspx?ArtID=44097&amp;SecID=0">website</a> in 2009 (identified extracts translated by the <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/3758/morsi-election-cant-erase-radical-record">Investigative Project on Terrorism</a>), current Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi expressed the same Koranic Jew-hatred, decrying “the herd of Zionists, <strong><em>descendants of apes and pigs,</em></strong>” who were ostensibly usurping so-called Islamic land, i.e., Jerusalem—which Morsi viewed as  a grave offense to Islam. With apparent relish, <a href="http://www.ikhwanonline.com/new/Article.aspx?ArtID=44097&amp;SecID=0">Morsi</a> further predicted Israel’s <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/3758/morsi-election-cant-erase-radical-record">destruction</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>In the end the peoples will remain and the regimes disappear sooner or later, and the usurping intruding Zionist entity will disappear with them.</p></blockquote>
<p>This hateful Muslim rhetoric and the murderous behaviors it inspires (and inspired earlier, across space and time), originated with Muhammad, “the prophet of Islam,” whose putative “slander” Mr. Obama warned does not augur a viable future for the “slanderer.”  Thus, just before subduing the Medinan Jewish tribe Banu Qurayza and orchestrating the mass execution of their adult males, Muhammad invoked perhaps the most striking Koranic motif for the Jews debasement — he addressed these Jews, with hateful disparagement, as “You brothers of apes.”</p>
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		<title>Saleha Abedin and The Muslim Sisterhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 04:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew G. Bostom]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why our media's silence about Huma Abedin's mother represents a grotesque and dangerous dereliction of duty.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/ade.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-138184" title="ade" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/ade.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="315" /></a>Congresswoman <a href="http://bachmann.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=303218">Michelle Bachmann</a>, and four other members of Congress—Representatives Gohmert, Franks, Westmoreland, and Rooney—have all expressed legitimate concerns to the State Department  Inspector General (IG; and IGs of the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and Justice) regarding policies “enormously favorable to the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and its interests.” The five Representatives, in <a title="Powered by Text-Enhance" href="http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2012/07/22/saleha-abedin-and-the-muslim-sisterhood/">turn</a>, characterize these policies, more ominously (albeit appropriately) as “deeply problematic,” and even posing overt “…security risks for this nation, its people and interests.”</p>
<p>My colleagues <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/310198/questions-about-huma-abedin-andrew-c-mccarthy">Andrew McCarthy</a> and <a href="http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2188/SOS-Save-Our-Adults.aspx">Diana West</a> have each contributed thoughtful, irrefragable rebuttals to the uninformed attacks on these intrepid Representatives—particularly Congresswoman Bachmann—epitomized by the distressingly ignorant, hypocritical, and scurrilous remarks of “maverick” Senator John McCain. McCain’s non-sequitur, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlV3oQ3pLA0&amp;feature=related">Captain Queeg-like</a> Senate floor <a href="http://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressOffice.PressReleases&amp;ContentRecord_id=9acf4627-0fad-89d1-d5d3-dda642179bca&amp;Region_id=&amp;Issue_id=">diatribe</a> perseverated on his warped reconstruction of Congresswoman Bachmann’s passing query  about the State Department vetting process for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s aide, Huma Abedin.</p>
<p>I share the Congresswoman’s concerns based upon readily available, objective evidence (discussed below), and traditional, long established State Department protocols which screen the background of candidates for such sensitive positions in the diplomatic corps, to avert any potential “<a href="http://www.state.gov/m/ds/clearances/60321.htm#b">foreign influence</a>.”</p>
<p>During a February 2010 <a href="http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/02/136789.htm">speech</a> at Dar Al-Hekma College, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton acknowledged she visited the college at the <a href="http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&amp;contentID=2010021763651">behest</a> of her Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin, daughter of Dr. Saleha Abedin, the Vice Dean of Academic Affairs and founding member of the institution. Dr. Abedin’s remarks, elaborated on the pioneering efforts being made by Dar Al-Hekma to collaborate with international educational organizations and programs that might expand <a title="Powered by Text-Enhance" href="http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2012/07/22/saleha-abedin-and-the-muslim-sisterhood/">opportunities</a> for the Saudi Arabian college’s students and graduates.</p>
<p>So who is Dr. Saleha Abedin? According to <a href="http://www.worldwhoswho.com/public/views/entry.html?id=sl2176222">World Who’s Who</a>, Saleha Mahmood Abedin (b. 1940), is  a British sociologist, Muslim scholar and academic. She received her PhD from the  University of Pennsylvania in 1977, for a thesis entitled, “Islam and Muslim Fertility: Sociological Dimensions of a Demographic Dilemma.” Dr. Abedin is Director of the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs in London, and Editor-in-Chief of the Institute’s Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs.  She is also a Professor of Sociology at King Abdulaziz University Women’s College, Jeddah, and, as <a href="http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&amp;contentID=2010021763651">noted</a>, the Founder of Dar Al-Hekma College, Jeddah.</p>
<p>An investigative report by <a href="http://hobaheba.blogspot.com/">Al Liwa Al Arabi</a> (reported, in part, at <a href="http://www.aljazeera.net/mob/f6451603-4dff-4ca1-9c10-122741d17432/a0dd2ea2-24da-4095-bbf0-b9b70d134444">Al-Jazeera</a>, and translated via <a href="http://www.shoebat.com/2011/06/13/1202/">Walid Shoebat</a>) further revealed that Dr. Abedin—Huma’s mother—was an active member of the Muslim Sisterhood—the women’s “component” of the prototype modern (i.e., circa 1928), traditionalist Islamic jihad movement, the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Society-Muslim-Brothers-Richard-Mitchell/dp/0195084373/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1342925203&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Richard+P.+MItchell">Muslim Brotherhood</a>. According to the late (d. 1983) Richard P. Mitchell’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Society-Muslim-Brothers-Richard-Mitchell/dp/0195084373/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1342925203&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Richard+P.+MItchell">definitive</a> scholarly analysis of the Muslim Brotherhood’s origins, and initial quarter century of development, movement founder Hasan al-Banna,</p>
<blockquote><p><em>…made known his concern about the essential role of <a title="Powered by Text-Enhance" href="http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2012/07/22/saleha-abedin-and-the-muslim-sisterhood/">women</a> in his Islamic reformation, for if reform was to succeed, it must begin with the individual in his family context; the mother was thus a prime instrument of the reformation. Among the first projects was the creation of an “Institute for the Mothers of the Believers” in Ismailiyya. This “school.” In April 1933, became the first official “branch of the Muslim Sisters”… </em></p></blockquote>
<p>During a critical juncture in the Muslim Brotherhood’s history—subsequ ent to al-Banna’s assassination in 1949, and several years later, the aggressive Nasser regime campaign to dismantle the Brotherhood—an heroic female figure in MB lore emerged, Zaynab al-Ghazzali (d. 2005; although technically, despite having <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31408825">pledged herself</a> to al-Banna’s cause shortly before his murder, she <a href="http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/4183370?uid=3739888&amp;uid=2&amp;uid=4&amp;uid=3739256&amp;sid=21101098925111">remained</a> a member of the MB-independent, “Muslim Ladies Association”). Eventually imprisoned for 6-years in the 1960s, she served a year with thousands of Muslim Brothers, including the seminal MB ideologue Sayyid Qutb, before being sent to the women’s prison. Al-Gahzzali’s autobiographical prison memoir, “<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31408825">Return of the Pharaoh</a>,” elucidates her Weltanschauung. For example, before ultimately separating from her husband, Al-Ghazzali <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31408825">recounts</a> this frank discussion:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>I reached an agreement with Hasan al-Banna during the trial of 1948, shortly before he was martyred. I had decided, then, to relinquish the idea of getting married for ever, so that I would devote my entire life to da’wah [proselytizing, to disseminate Islam]. I cannot ask you [i.e., her husband] today to share with me this struggle, but it is my right on you not to stop me from jihad in the way of Allah. Moreover, you should not ask me about my activities with other mujahidin, and let trust be full between us. A full trust between a man and a woman, a woman who, at the age of 18, gave her whole life to Allah and da’wah. In the event of any clash between the marriage contract’s interest and that of da’wah, our marriage will end, but da’wah will always remain rooted in me.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Zaynab al-Ghazzali <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31408825">refused</a> to be broken by her imprisonment under Nasser, and enthusiastically <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31408825">imbibed</a> Qutb’s “revivalist” jihadism—a doctrine that simply recapitulated the classical jurisprudential features of this millennial old, uniquely Islamic institution, and quintessence of the Muslim creed:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>The Ikhwan are the same as the Muslim Ladies Group and the da’wah of Allah carries on and the word of truth is upheld forever. Nasir will perish, but the Word of Allah will persist. When our life-terms come to an end, the unjust will surely know what final destiny they are headed for. Allah’s religion will be upheld, and there will always be a group from the Muslim Ummah who will uphold truth, defend our religion, and make Jihad for His sake. This group will not be affected by those who oppose them until Allah establishes His Will. I pray to Allah to be from among those who enjoin truth and forbid falsehood, from those who show the Ummah its way to Allah. For these are the successors of the Prophet (peace be upon him), and it is the people who will revive this religion.</em></p>
<p><em>…We had decided, following Sayyid Qutb’s instructions and with the consent of al-Hudaibi [who succeeded al-Banna as the MB’s “Spiritual Guide”], to extend the period of education, training and planting of tawhid [monotheism] in people’s hearts, to thirteen years. This accorded with da’wah’s age in Makkah. The grassroots of the Muslim Ummah in Egypt were members of the Ikhwan who adhered to the Shari’ah of Allah. We were bound to establish all the commands mentioned in the Qur’an and the Sunnah inside our Islamic circle. Obedience was due to our sworn-in.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>In a 1981 interview with Valerie Hoffman (published <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/652064460">here</a>), Al-Ghazzali stated:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>The Brotherhood considers women a fundamental part of the Islamic call. They are the ones who are most active because men have to work. They are the ones who build the kind of men that we need to fill the ranks of the Islamic call. So women must be well educated, cultured, knowing the precepts of the Koran and Sunna, knowing world politics, why we are backward, why we don’t have technology. The Muslim woman must study all these things, and then raise her son in the conviction that he must possess the scientific tools of the age, and at the same time he must understand Islam, politics, geography, and current events … Islam does not forbid women to actively participate in public life … as long as that does not interfere with her first duty as a mother, the one who first trains her children in the Islamic call. So her first, holy, and most important mission is to be a mother and wife. She cannot ignore this priority. If she than finds she has free time, she may participate in public activities … Marriage is a sure Sunna … a mission and a trust in Islam…It is to preserve the human race, establish the family, build the man and the woman, to build the ruler, to bring about righteous government. </em></p></blockquote>
<p>Fittingly, when al-Ghazzali was asked what she would do if she came to power she replied that under Islamic rule Muslim women <em><strong>“would retreat to their natural domain as nurturers of the nation’s men.” </strong></em></p>
<p>Saleha Abedin, and her contemporary cohorts in the <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-muslim-sisterhood-visions-of-female-identity-in-the-new-egypt-a-754250.html">Muslim Sisterhood</a>, such as prominent Egyptian MB leader Khairat Al-Shater’s daughter <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-muslim-sisterhood-visions-of-female-identity-in-the-new-egypt-a-754250.html">Zahraa</a>, and <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20964211/egypt-presidents-wife-dont-call-me-first-lady">Naglaa Ali Mahmoud</a>, the wife of Egypt’s newly-elected President, the MB’s Mohammed Morsi, represent the living legacy of Zaynab al-Ghazzali.</p>
<p>But the fulcrum of Saleha Abedin’s own cultural jihadist universe—consistent with being a Muslim Sister—may well be serving as Chairperson of the International Islamic Committee for Women and Child (IICWC), in Amman, Jordan.</p>
<p>A clearly documented report at <a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/07/dont-let-the-facts-on-huma-abedins-family-get-in-the-way-of-attacking-michele-bachmann/">Legal Insurrection</a>, which simply quotes the IICWC website (in google translator Arabic to English translation of sections from this IICWC <a href="http://iicwc.org/lagna/iicwc/iicwc.php?id=617">post</a>), demonstrates how Dr. Abedin’s organization, as a champion of the Sharia over “manmade law,” <em><strong>vehemently opposes both</strong></em> laws which prohibit child marriage, and bans on the misogynistic barbarity of female genital mutilation (FGM)—an horrific scourge in major Muslim countries such as Arab <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/2011/02/03/egypt-lost-or-found/">Egypt</a>, and far flung non-Arab <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/09/indonesian_islam_and_nahdlatul_ulama_without_camouflage.html">Indonesia</a>, where FGM rates exceed 90% because Shafiite Sunni Islamic jurisprudence predominates in both Muslim countries.</p>
<p>It should be noted such Muslim “jurisprudential logic” is already shared by the US Muslim community. <a href="http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2012/03/14/mainstream-american-muslim-jurists-blueprint-for-undermining-americas-legal-system/">Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America</a> (AMJA)—Muslim legists in the US who train US imams, advise US Muslims, and are embraced by mainstream, institutional American Islam—also endorses both FGM and child marriage, in logical compliance with the Sharia.</p>
<p>IICWC website pronouncements notwithstanding, a far more comprehensive elaboration of Dr. Abedin’s traditionalist Islamic Weltanschauung—rigidly compliant with the totalitarian Sharia—can be gleaned from her vigorous efforts to assist in translating into English, editing, and publishing the <em><a href="http://www.iicwc.org/lagna/catig/products/fatma/">book</a></em>, <em><strong>Women in Islam: A Discourse in Rights and Obligations</strong></em></p>
<p>The inner flap of the book cover provides the following “erudite” discussion of author Fatima Umar Naseef’s (b. 1944) bona fides. She is described (quoting verbatim) as</p>
<blockquote><p><em>…an accomlished [sic] and renowned scholaar [sic], speaker, academic, educationist and social worker in contemporary Saudi Arabia. She has made outstanding contribution to the advancement of women’s education in the country. As head of the women’s section of King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah for eight years, and as professor of Islamic Shari’ah, and through her popular public lectures, she has inspired a generation of Saudi women. She has also published a number of books and articles on issues relating to Islamic Shari’ah, the position and status of women in society, and on the subject of their rights and Obligations.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>On the <a href="http://www.iicwc.org/lagna/catig/products/fatma/">back cover</a>, Saleha Abedin, who edited and supervised the translation of Naseef’s scholarly oeuvre, adds these observations for context:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>The overall objectives of IICWC include the promotion of knowledge regarding women’s issues. It fosters a publication program that is aimed to facilitate the collection as well as dissemination of information on women, family and society. The Committee is, therefore, pleased to launch its Book Series with its very first publication of the translation of the popular and well-received <a href="http://www.iicwc.org/lagna/catig/products/fatma/">book</a>, </em><strong><em>Women in Islam: A Discourse in Rights and Obligations</em></strong><em>, authored by a prominent Saudi scholar, Fatima Umar Naseef.</em></p>
<p><em>This book will be of special interest to students and scholars of Islamic law and women’s studies, as well as to that segment of the general public that is interested in women’s issues. It is a comprehensive study of the rights and obligations of women in society from the Islamic perspective, and also provides a comparison with other cultures, while examining the rights and positions of women in those cultures.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>What follows are a series of verbatim quotes from <em><strong><a href="http://www.iicwc.org/lagna/catig/products/fatma/">Women in Islam</a></strong></em>. These extracts provide <em>res ipsa loquitur</em>, pellucid illustrations of the traditionalist Islamic views being promulgated without any attempt to mollify, i.e., conceal from Western sensibilities, their bellicosity, liberty-crushing supremacism, and misogyny. I thank the <a href="http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/p19045.xml">Center for Security Policy</a> (CSP) for this selection of representative extracts, and have simply reproduced the CSP’s arrangement and parenthetical guiding observations, adding some commentary of my own.</p>
<blockquote><p><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Women Are Required to Wear the Hijab From Chapter 9—The Ethical Right (Hijab)</span></em></p>
<p><em>Sayyed Qutb has elaborated further saying, “The wisdom behind such restrictions is preventative; in different verses, Allah forbids women from intentionally drawing attention to their hidden adornments, thus arousing latent sexual desires. Allah says: ‘‘And let them not stamp their feet [in walking] so as to reveal their hidden adornments. “ [ 24:31] This order results from a deep knowledge of the human soul, its components and their interaction. Indeed, the imagination can be most dangerous in triggering sexual desires. The Noble Qur’an presents an exhaustive illustration of human nature and finally guides the believers to the way of repentance. Allah says: “Believers, turn to Allah together in repentance, that you may prosper. ‘[24:31] </em></p>
<p><em>[The author’s commentary elaborates on the Qutb quote on page 111:]</em></p>
<p><em>Al Tirmidhi [a collector of hadith, “traditions” of Muhammad]  narrated that the Prophet(s) said: “Every (unlawful) gaze is sinful, and every woman who perfumes herself and passes by the people so that they smell her scent, is sinning.” Allah has stressed the importance of such modesty in order to prevent ‘fitnah” (temptation). Therefore, a woman who does not abide by the above rules of modesty is committing a great sin indeed. The Prophet has clearly and strongly forbidden women from attending the mosque wearing perfume. He (s) said: “Any woman who perfumes herself should not pray ‘Isha with us.  Ibn Katheer [the classical Koranic commentator] narrates: “Women in the pre-Islamic period of ignorance used to walk around with silent anklets, but would stamp their feet in walking to inform men of their presence. Allah has forbidden the believing women from following their example and from intentionally revealing or suggesting their hidden adornments as well as wearing perfumed oil before leaving the house.” This verse, “Let them not stamp their feet [in walking] so as to reveal their hidden adornments”, is a prohibition of any movement that might stir men’s emotions and awaken their latent sexual desires since such behaviour contradicts the principles of modesty and discretion. In fact, regulations regarding the hijab are revealed in detail in Surat An-Nur.</em></p>
<p><em>[Page 115:]</em></p>
<p><em>Allah has made the hijab an obligation upon every believing woman in order to protect her chastity and preserve her dignity. Indeed, time has proven that adornment, free mixing of men and women and disobedience to divine wisdom can only lead to general corruption and dissoluteness,” which have manifested themselves in the following ways: an increase in the prevalence of adultery, sexually transmitted diseases, illegitimate pregnancies and divorce.</em></p>
<p><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Stoning for Adultery when Married; Lashing for Adultery when Unmarried Chapter 10—Religious Rights, Section IV</span></em></p>
<p><em>[Pages 127-129 deal with the requirement of stoning for adultery by a married person, and lashing for adultery by an unmarried person – with equal punishments for men and women.]</em></p>
<p><em>Fornication and adultery (zina): Allah says: “The female and male fornicator shall each be given a hundred lashes. Let not pity for them detain you from obedience to Allah, if you truly believe in Allah and the Last Day; and let their punishment be witnessed by a number of believers.” [24/2] Ibn Katheer said: “In this verse, Allah pronounces His sentence upon those who commit fornication. People of knowledge have studied this subject in detail. In applying the above sentence, they differentiate between the married adulterer and unmarried fornicator. All the scholars, except Abu Haneefah, agree that the sentence should be a hundred lashes for the unmarried, plus he should be expelled from their country for one year. Abu Haneefah believes that the fornicator should be given the choice to emigrate or to stay in his country. However, the majority of the scholars, have presented the evidence of the following narration and disagreed with Abu Haneefah: Abu Huraira and Zaid bin Khaalid narrated: While we were with the Prophet, a man stood up and said: “O Prophet, I beseech you by Allah, that you should judge us according to Allah’s Laws.” Then the man’s opponent got up saying, “Judge us according to Allah’s Law and kindly allow me to speak.” The Prophet said, “Speak”, He said, “My son was a labourer working for this man and he committed illegal sexual intercourse with his wife, and I gave one hundred sheep and a slave as a ransom for my son’s sin. Then I asked a learned man about this case and he informed me that my son should receive one hundred lashes and be exiled for one year and the man’s wife should be stoned to death.” The Prophet (s) said, “By Him in whose Hand my soul is, I will judge you according to the Laws of Allah (T). Your one hundred sheep and the slave are to be returned to you, and your son has to receive one hundred lashes and be exiled for one year. O Unais! Go to the wife of this man, and if she confesses, then stone her to death.” Unais went to her and she confessed. He then stoned her to death.” Also, Al-Qurtubi [another classical Koranic commentator, noted for his legalistic acumen] said: “In this verse (24:2), Allah has specified the two genders, male and. Female although, it would have been sufficient to use the generic word ‘the fornicator.’ But, it has been said that both men and women are specified in this verse in order to emphasise the fact that they should receive the same; punishment with no difference between the male and females.”</em></p>
<p><em>Hence it is clear from the above verse that the unmarried adulterer and fornicators should receive 100 lashes each, in a public place and before the crowd. Also, in this verse, Allah warns the Muslims not to compromise His Law and to carry out His sentence as described in the verse and to have no mercy upon those who transgress His set limits. Indeed, those who refrain from doing so are not true believers. The verse specifies the punishment of the unmarried fornicators only. However, the narration that follows, clearly specifies the punishment of a married adulterer or adulteress. If she or he confesses, he or she is stoned to death [rajmj. On this, have agreed all scholars and people of knowledge.’; In, order to avoid any compromise, delay or slackness in carrying out this sentence, especially since it is only stipulated in the tradition (Sunnah) and not in the Qur’an, Umar [the second “Rightly Guided” Caliph] said: “I am afraid that after a long time has passed, people may say, “We do not find the verses of stoning in the Holy Book”, and consequently they may go astray by leaving an obligation that Allah has revealed. No! I confirm that the penalty of rajm be inflicted on him who commits illegal sexual intercourse if he is already married and the crime is proved by Witnesses or pregnancy or confession.’’ ‘Umar added, “Surely Allah’s Messenger (s) carried out the penalty of Rajm, and so did we after him.” Hence, equity and justice between men and women manifest themselves in all the penalties related to fornication in the verse that follows. Allah says: “The fornicator (or adulterer) may marry only a fornicatress or an idolatress; and the fornicatress (or adulteress) may marry only a fornicator or an idolater. The believers are forbidden such marriages.” [24:3)</em></p>
<p><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Killing A Muslim Without Right: The Death Penalty Only for the Murder of a Fellow Muslim Chapter 10—Religious Rights B. Qisaas (Legal Retribution)</span>:</em></p>
<p><em>Allah has forbidden the deliberate killing of a human being, and reserved for those who do so an abode in Hell fire. As for those who kill unintentionally, Allah says: “It is unlawful for a believer to kill another believer except by mistake. He that kills a believer by mistake must free one believing slave and pay blood money to the family of the victim, unless they choose to give it up as charity. If the victim be a believer from a hostile tribe, the penalty is the freeing of one believing slave. But if the victim be a member of an allied tribe, then blood money must be paid to his family and a believing slave set free. If a man cannot afford to do this, he must fast two consecutive months. Such is the penance imposed by Allah: He is Knowing, Wise. He that kills a believer by design shall burn in Hell for ever. He shall incur the wrath of Allah, who will lay His curse on him and prepare for him a woeful scourge.” (4: 92/93)</em></p>
<p><em>The Prophet said: “The biggest of the great sins are: (1) to join others as partners in worship with Allah, (2) to murder a human being, (3) to be unkind to one’s parents (4) and to make a false statement.” It is unlawful to kill a Muslim except under three conditions. The Prophet said: “The blood of a Muslim who confesses that none has the right to be worshiped but Allah and that I am His Messenger, cannot be shed except in three cases: In retaliation for murder, a married person who commits adultery and the one who reverts from Islam (apostate) and leaves the Muslims.” The sanctity of a believing soul is precious indeed and it is utterly forbidden for a believer to deliberately kill his brother in Islam. The one who does so shall submit to the law of Qisaas stipulated by Allah. He says: “O believers, Qisaas is decreed for you in bloodshed: a free man for a free man, a slave for a slave, and a female for a female. He who is pardoned by his aggrieved brother shall be prosecuted according to usage and shall pay him a liberal fine. This is an alleviation from your Lord and Mercy. He that transgresses thereafter shall have a painful punishment.” [2:178]</em></p>
<p><em>Ibn ‘Abbaas [a companion of Muhammad and very early Koranic commentator} reported that: The Law of Qisaas was prescribed for the Children of Israel, but the Diyya (blood money) was not ordained for them. So Allah said to this Nation (Muslims): “O believers, Qisaas (legal retribution) is decreed for you in bloodshed: the free for the free, the slave for the slave, and the female for the female. He who is pardoned by his aggrieved brother (not wanting to kill the killer by accepting blood money in the case of intentional murder) shall be prosecuted according to usage and shall pay him (to the relative of the killed person) a liberal fine. This is an alleviation from your Lord and Mercy [in comparison to what was prescribed for the nations before you]. He that transgresses [i.e. kills the killer after taking the blood money) thereafter shall have a painful punishment.” </em></p>
<p><em>The following verse further clarifies the legislation, Allah says: “We decreed for them a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth, and for wounds Qjsaas. But if a man charitably forbears from retaliation, his remission shall atone for him. Those that do not judge in accordance with Allah’s revelations, it is they who are the unjust.” (5:45)</em></p>
<p><em>Consequently, the majority of the scholars have agreed that there is no difference between men and women in retaliation, and Ibn Qudaamah [another classical Islamic jurist, of the Hanbali school] said: “The man is killed for killing the woman and the woman is killed for killing the man.” This is the opinion of most of the religious scholars, including Al-Nakh’i, Al-Sha’bi, Al-Zuhri, ‘Umar bin Abdul’azeez, Maalik, People of Madinah, Al-Shaafi’ee, lshaaq, and others. It has been authenticated that the Prophet executed a Jewish man who had beaten an Ansari girl to death. Also, Abu Bakr bin Muhammad narrated that the Prophet sent a letter to the people of Yemen which contained religious obligations and rulings and he specified that “a man is killed for killing a woman.” The people accepted this fact since both men and women are human beings and each receives the penalty for defamation when one of them accuses the other of illegal sexual intercourse. Hence, killing one sex for the other is like killing one person from one sex for another person from the same sex, and in either case, nothing should be added to the Qisaas ordained by Allah, and is a religious obligation.” Men and women are thus equal in terms of qisaas, so a man’s blood can be shed for shedding a woman’s blood and vice versa.”</em></p>
<p><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Chapter 11—Political Rights: Freedom to Express One’s Opinion</span></em></p>
<p><em>[The author presents the definition of free expression under Islamic law: freedom is guaranteed as long as its intent is to advance the “general welfare” of the Muslim nation or the ummah. Page 145:]</em></p>
<p><em>Indeed, the truth is that to enjoin the good and to establish justice are the main characteristics of the Muslim nation. In fact, freedom to express one’s opinion is guaranteed in Islam as long as this opinion is expressed for the general welfare of the nation and does not lead to a greater evil being imposed on the Muslims in general, or to Fitnah (discord) being developed amongst themselves.</em></p>
<p><em>[Similarly, from page 147:]</em></p>
<p><em>Consequently, on the basis of the Qur’an and the tradition of the Prophet (s), freedom to express one’s opinion is an established right to be enjoyed by every Muslim woman as long as she abides by the rules and regulations of her religion in exerting this right, as we have seen from the above mentioned examples. Based on the Qur’an and the tradition of the Prophet (Sunnah), freedom to express one’s opinion is an established right of every Muslim woman.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Fulfilling Caliph Umar’s “Vision”</strong>?</p>
<p>A report today (7/17/12) in <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/gaza-christians-protest-forcible-conversions-1.451544">Haaretz</a> highlights the ongoing plight of Gaza’s tiny, fragile Christian minority. Their miniscule numbers have shrunk from a mere 3,<a id="_GPLITA_0" title="Powered by Text-Enhance" href="http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2012/07/17/christianitys-death-rattle-in-gaza/#">500</a> to about 1,500 since Hamas seized control in 2006,  dispersed among 1.7 million Gazan Palestinians, overwhelmingly traditionalist, Hamas-supporting Muslims.</p>
<p>Briefly ignoring their dangerous vulnerability, as they verge on extinction, Gaza’s beleaguered Christian minority has brought their latest predicament—forced conversions, the recrudescence of a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Legacy-Jihad-Islamic-Non-Muslims/dp/1591026024">millennial Islamic scourge</a> upon the region’s pre-Islamic, indigenous Christians—to <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/gaza-christians-protest-forcible-conversions-1.451544">public attention</a>.</p>
<p><em>Dozens of Gaza Christians staged a rare public protest Monday, claiming two congregants were forcibly converted to Islam and were being held against their will. The small but noisy demonstration showed the increasingly desperate situation facing the tiny minority. Protesters banged on a church bell and chanted, “With our spirit, with our blood we will sacrifice ourselves for you, Jesus.” </em></p>
<p>Indeed the <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/gaza-christians-protest-forcible-conversions-1.451544">current plight</a> of Gaza’s Christians reflects a continuum of destruction, persecution, and attrition of Middle Eastern Christianity—the legacy of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Legacy-Jihad-Islamic-Non-Muslims/dp/1591026024">Islam’s jihad</a>—that dates back to the reign of the second “Rightly Guided” Caliph Umar (r. 634-644 A.D.).  Not only did Umar wage devastating, sanguinary campaigns of jihad conquest, he also imposed limitations upon the surviving, vanquished Christians aimed at their ultimate destruction by attrition. The Arab historian al-Baladhuri indicates that Umar deported Christians who refused to apostasize and embrace Islam, and that he obeyed the order of Islam’s prophet Muhammad who advised: “there shall not remain two religions in the land of Arabia.”During Umar’s caliphate neither cities nor monasteries were spared if they resisted Islamic goals. Thus when the Greek garrison of Gaza refused to submit and convert to Islam, all were put to death.</p>
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<p>Samau’ al al-Maghribi converted to Islam from Judaism in 1163 C.E., and shortly afterward wrote an anti-Jewish polemic entitled <em>Silencing the  Jews</em>. Al-Maghribi’s “Silencing” — ostensibly a “philosophical” tract — employs Islamic Biblical criticism to characterize the Jews as ignorant, unreasonable, and hypocritical, complemented by their <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/04/antisemitism-in-the-quran-motifs-and-historical-manifestations.html">Koranic  depiction</a> as accursed prophet-killers who transgress Allah’s will, corrupt his message, and harbor the most intense hatred for the Muslims. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Islamic-Antisemitism-Sacred-History/dp/1591025540/ref=sr_1_3/102-8993833-1476108?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1179229261&amp;sr=1-3">Moshe  Perlmann</a> (d. 2001) translated al-Maghribi’s tract into English and was the preeminent scholar of Islam’s medieval polemic against the Jews. In his introduction to <em>Silencing</em>, Perlmann (in 1964) observed  that this literature was redolent with motifs from the Muslim creed’s  foundational texts:</p>
<blockquote><p>The <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/04/antisemitism-in-the-quran-motifs-and-historical-manifestations.html">Koran</a>,  of course became a mine of anti-Jewish passages. The <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/04/antisemitism-in-the-hadith-and-early-muslim-biographies-of-muhammad-motifs-and-manifestations.html">hadith</a> did not lag behind. Popular preachers used and embellished such  material.</p></blockquote>
<p>In an earlier study (published 1948) of 11th century Muslim  Spain — idealized, falsely, as the paragon of Islam’s ecumenism — <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Islamic-Antisemitism-Sacred-History/dp/1591025540/ref=sr_1_3/102-8993833-1476108?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1179229261&amp;sr=1-3">Perlmann</a> had described how such polemical tracts and sermons incited the mass violence which destroyed the Jewish community of Granada during the catastrophic 1066 pogrom. Its death toll of some 3000 to 4000 Jews exceeded the number of Jews reportedly killed by the Crusaders during their pillage of the Rhineland, some thirty years later, at the outset of the First Crusade.</p>
<p>Last week, the <em><a href="http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/03/12/tarek-fatah-from-an-ex-muslim-true-islamophobia.aspx">National  Post</a></em> of Canada published an editorial and subsequent <a href="http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/03/12/counterpoint-tarek-fatah.aspx#ixzz0i0LuT8v6">comments</a> (see comments section, 7:20 PM) by Tarek Fatah — self-proclaimed “<a href="http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/03/12/tarek-fatah-from-an-ex-muslim-true-islamophobia.aspx">hardened  secular Muslim</a>” and much-ballyhooed Muslim moderate — addressing Canada’s Jews and the Jewish community at large. Nearly 850 years after al-Maghribi, Fatah’s defamatory screeds abandon any façade of philosophical debate in his transparent effort to silence discussion of Islam by modern Jews.</p>
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