What is happening in Iran these days is world-historical. The entire country is rising up against a brutal, violent, repressive regime that the people of Iran have endured for over forty years, and the most courageous of all are little schoolgirls who have their whole lives ahead of them and thus the most to lose. Yet while practically the entirety of what used to be called the free world is cheering on the demonstrators who are standing unarmed against ruthless security forces, one imam in Texas is not happy at all. Yasir Qadhi, one of the most prominent Muslim clerics and Islamic apologists in the United States, recently likened the protests in Iran to protesting for the right to walk around nude in Texas. Yes, he really did.
The East Plano Islamic Center’s YouTube channel, EPIC Masjid (which has nearly 300,000 subscribers), recently posted a video of Qadhi explaining that to oppose Iran’s mandatory hijab law, which some women have received ten-year prison sentences for violating, is tantamount to opposing public indecency laws in the good old USA. Qadhi said: “In the last two weeks, I have been inundated with dozens of emails with one particular focus or theme… regarding the enforcement of the hijab in a particular country, and apparently, it caused the death of somebody and whatnot.” Qadhi explained that he wasn’t a political commentator, and so he said he wasn’t going to name the country or get into the political issues involved.
Qadhi said that he received a question from one of his followers, a high-school girl: “Is it true that our religion forces the women to wear the hijab? Can an Islamic government have this right? Shouldn’t worship be done freely?” Qadhi responded by warning about getting involved in hypothetical issues that are far beyond our own responsibility: “I am not responsible for something happening five thousand miles away.” He then launched into a lengthy critique of Western secularism, comparing it unfavorably to Islamic law, and argued that all countries, including those in the secular West, enforce codes of morality; they just differ in their content.
On that basis, Qadhi then advanced a curious argument: “Even in the West,” he explained, “there are laws against indecency, and there are moral prescriptions about what one can and should and must wear.” He added: “If you show certain parts of the body, and if you show certain organs of your body, you shall be fined, and if you continue to do so, you shall go to jail. Now, the issue therefore is not over, Can the state control what you can or cannot show. The issue is, How much can you show? So some Middle Eastern countries might have a lot more. And, uh, here in America, it is a lot less. But the notion of the state telling you a minimal amount that you can wear, that is pretty much universal.”
That’s true as far as it goes, but Qadhi is ignoring the fact that women have received draconian and disproportionate sentences for not wearing the hijab, and 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was killed in police custody after being arrested for not wearing her hijab properly in the eyes of the security forces. That already takes the protests in Iran far beyond any question of the right of the state to make laws regarding public indecency. Nor is brutality against Muslim women who dare not to wear the hijab limited to Iran. Aqsa Parvez’s Muslim father choked her to death with her hijab after she refused to wear it. Amina Muse Ali was a Christian woman in Somalia whom Muslims murdered because she wasn’t wearing a hijab. Forty women were murdered in Iraq in 2007 for not wearing the hijab. Alya Al-Safar’s Muslim cousin threatened to kill her and harm her family because she stopped wearing the hijab in Britain. Amira Osman Hamid faced whipping in Sudan for refusing to wear the hijab. An Egyptian girl, also named Amira, committed suicide after being brutalized by her family for refusing to wear the hijab. Muslim and non-Muslim teachers at the Islamic College of South Australia were told they had to wear the hijab or be fired. Women in Chechnya were shot with paintballs by police because they weren’t wearing hijab. Other women in Chechnya were threatened by men with automatic rifles for not wearing hijab.
Elementary school teachers in Tunisia were threatened with death for not wearing hijab. Syrian schoolgirls were forbidden to go to school unless they wore hijab. Women in Gaza were forced by Hamas to wear hijab. Women in London were threatened with murder by Muslim thugs if they didn’t wear hijab. An anonymous young Muslim woman doffed her hijab outside her home and started living a double life in fear of her parents. Fifteen girls in Saudi Arabia were killed when the religious police wouldn’t let them leave their burning school building because they had taken off their hijabs in their all-female environment. A girl in Italy had her head shaved by her mother for not wearing hijab.
In the face of all this and more, Yasir Qadhi scoffs at “this notion of fetishizing the hijab and the headscarf, and saying ‘Oh, they have the right to not wear it,’” and asks, “Well then, why aren’t these same people fighting for the rights of nudity here in Texas? Why aren’t they fighting for the rights of no man and woman — or sorry, every man and woman — to wear nothing in every single state in Europe and every single country and city across the world?”
Maybe because no one is killing those who are guilty of public indecency in Texas. In fact, sometimes they get to play James Madison’s flute. The issue in Iran is all about a barbaric, brutal, repressive regime that kills its own people. Qadhi is just obfuscating, although he does raise an important question: can someone who supports Sharia as fully as he does accept the existence of a secular society on an indefinite basis?
This report of the imam being furious about that revolt in Iran .The best reply to that is “Ho, is he now, poor fellow .
Well , an imam in Texas is furious that the women in Iran are standing up for their nature rights against that brutally oppressive and murderous Islamic tyrannical regime of Iran.
The fitting answer to that angry is “So what , so he’s mad, Who cares ,that’s his problem.”
That imams might be so conceited and even delusional as to feel that anyone cares what he thinks or that if he his “furious ” of not . To his rage it’s “OK so he’s mad, tough beans .”
So when the `UN Women’s organisation tells men to stop telling women what to do, wear, say and think are they referring to islamic dictators?
Those so called imams are the root cause of all terrorism.
No, the root cause of religious terrorism is the mysticism, super-naturalism, superstition, supernatural-faith-based claims of religion.
“I have said that faith and force are corollaries, and that mysticism will always lead to the rule of brutality. The cause of it is contained in the very nature of mysticism. Reason is the only objective means of communication and of understanding among men; when men deal with one another by means of reason, reality is their objective standard and frame of reference. But when men claim to possess supernatural means of knowledge, no persuasion, communication or understanding are possible…. no man or mystical elite can hold a whole society subjugated to their arbitrary assertions, edicts and whims, without the use of force. Anyone who resorts to the formula: “It’s so, because I say so,” [or “It’s so because God says so”] will have to reach for a gun, sooner or later.” – Ayn Rand
“Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.” Even the great Ayn Rand could not improve on the statement by Jesus Christ. If the whole world lived by that concept the world would be a very different place. But alas the world does not live by this rule, Indeed it cannot due to our own sinfulness. Selfishness is the rule, we generally prefer self interest aginst our neighbor, especially if it will cost us anything. Our relationship to God manifest in the flesh, Jesus Christ determines all.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.” John 3:16-21
“Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.”
What if you’re a self-loathing masochist who views his self as fundamentally depraved, unworthy, and evil by virtue of being born from Original Sin, who deserves pain, punishment, humiliation, and degradation for Original Sin? What if you’re seeking “suicide by cop”?
Should you do unto others what you would have them do unto you then?
“What kind of life, then, does the immortal soul require on earth? Self-denial, asceticism, the resolute shunning of this temptation. But isn’t it unfair to ask men to throw away their whole enjoyment of life? Augustine’s answer is: what else befits creatures befouled by Original Sin, creatures who are, as he put it, “crooked and sordid, bespotted and ulcerous”?… They [Christians] proceeded to create a society that was anti-materialistic and anti-intellectual. I do not have to remind you of the lives of the saints, who were the heroes of the period, including the men who ate only sheep’s gall and ashes, quenched their thirst with laundry water, and slept with a rock for their pillow. These were men resolutely defying nature, the body, sex, pleasure, all the snares of this life — and they were canonized for it, as, by the essence of religion, they should have been.” – Leonard Peikoff
Leftist fools like Hillary, jug-eared Barry, Ilhan Omar like to lecture their betters that women have the “right” to wear hijabs.
The truth is that they’re forced to wear that crap, and would like the right to toss ’em in the trash.
Speaking of trash, this imam would like nothing more than to implement laws forcing burkas, hijabs, loud-speakers to blare calls to prayer, No Go zones, Sharia law, and a tax to support jihad overseas (and here.)
Leftists don’t care as long as islamic cesspools don’t spring up in Martha’s Vineyard.
“Qadhi said that he received a question from one of his followers, a high-school girl: “Is it true that our religion forces the women to wear the hijab? Can an Islamic government have this right? Shouldn’t worship be done freely?”
Shouldn’t religious worship be done freely? That is a very interesting question indeed. The answer is a resounding NO! Not when a religion is taken seriously. Freedom and liberty are concepts derived from looking at reality, this reality, the natural, not supernatural, reality we live in.
But when you believe that there is a higher, supernatural, reality that supersedes, creates, controls, dominates, and is superior to this inferior, derivative, reality we live in, a supernatural reality beyond reason, that must be accepted on faith, and must be obeyed on faith, then the reason-derived concepts of freedom and liberty go out the window.
How can there be your individual freedom to worship a supernatural God in a supernatural dimension beyond your natural senses to perceive and your rational mind to comprehend any which way your individual mind and your reason chooses? There can’t be, not if you take religion seriously.
Religion, serious religion that is, requires and demands, a priesthood, a collective of shamans, that can allegedly claim to figure out what the supernatural consists of and what the will of the supernatural demands. Serious religion requires a priesthood, a body of shamans, a theocracy, to be obeyed on faith.
That brutal cruel oppressive misogynistic as well as murderous tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran is based on Sharia denies basic human rights is viciously harsh on all people, especially girls and women.
Furthermore, it should be made known that the actual origin of Sharia is revealed in a Time –Life book with the title MESOPOTAMIA: THE MIGHTY KINGS copyright 1995. The point is this what an outright liar Rasis is, for he said that he is “a defender of human rights.” For that future history book about the ancient pagan world of Mesopotamia informs the reader that “many Islamic laws resemble the Babylon and Assyrian forebears.” . page 150.
There is the above and other references imply that such pagan teachings were incorporated into the religion that Muhammad manufactured and then started. Thus, this further reveal that a lot of ancient paganism is part of the whole religion of Islam.
In other words, ancient paganism makes up much of Islam and it’s a hoax. Therefore, the Islamic “republic” of Iran is based in Islam and Sharia has its entire foundation build on a hoax.
“Pagan” is a blanket-statement term of disparagement used by Christians against all non-Christians. Similar to the Muslim term “kaffir”.
The Christians lynched Hypatia for being a pagan philosopher and pagan mathematician. Homer, Socrates, Hippocrates, Galen, Archimedes, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Thucydides, Pythagoras, Cicero, and many others who FOUNDED Western civilization were pagans. Do you have a problem with the RATIONAL achievements of those pagans other than they were not members of the Cult of Jesus?
It was the irrational, supernatural, mystical, invading, Oriental Cult of Jesus that gave the disparaging term “pagan” to the actual FOUNDERS of the rational and scientific aspects of Western civilization and then proceeded to destroy those rational and scientific aspects created by those pagans culminating in the one-thousand years of the Cult of Jesus Dark Ages.
Qadhi responded by warning about getting involved in hypothetical issues that are far beyond our own responsibility:”
He should be deported back to Iran immediately. I wonder what your Iranian brothers will think of you getting rich in the United States.
Finally, a relevant and sensible comment.
Would Robert Spencer write a book on the Catholic Martyrs of Islamic Spain and the Reconquista?