A few more from 10news.dk

“Love is based on — among other emotions and types of behaviour — a mutual feeling of equality, as true love is only possible when one does not force or fear one’s partner. To experience true love men and women within the Muslim culture must break the rules about gender inequality commanded by the Qur’an, Reliance of the Traveller and other Islamic texts. Islam is obviously a serious obstacle that makes it difficult — and in many cases even impossible — to many Muslim men and women to experience the happiness-giving, psychologically healing,bodily healthy and important feeling of love.

The widespread domestic violence and use of forced marriages — often of girls who are not even old enough to be either emotionally or physically mature to marry or who have reached puberty (here, here, here, here) — indicates the Islamic culture’s disregard of love. Fragile honour, fear of ostracism and commitment to cultural traditions and religious laws — not love — become the binding factor between many Muslim partners.”

Analysis: “Psychological Consequences of Islam’s Views on Women”

“We have killed all the children, now what do we do?“

Czech Republic: 24,500 sign petition against teaching Islam in schools and prisons

More articles, translations and news: 10news.dk

21 Replies to “A few more from 10news.dk”

  1. Muslim pensioner who paid two thugs £50 to throw sulphuric acid in his teenage Islamic convert ex-girlfriend’s face is jailed for 18 years (dailymail, Dec 19, 2014)
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2880709/Muslim-pensioner-paid-two-thugs-50-throw-sulphuric-acid-teenage-Islamic-convert-ex-girlfriend-s-face-jailed-18-years.html

    “A jealous pensioner who organised a horrific revenge acid attack on his teenage ex-girlfriend has been jailed for 18 years.

    Mohammed Rafiq, 80, paid two thugs just £50 to throw acid into the face of his former lover Vikki Horsman as revenge for her ending their relationship.

    Miss Horsman, who had converted to Islam for Rafiq, suffered horrific burns and has been left permanently disfigured by the attack.

    A court heard that the jealous pensioner had hatched a plan to blame an innocent man before ordering the pre-planned assault.

    Pakistan-born Rafiq persuaded Steven Holmes, 25, and Shannon Heaps, 23, to carry out the act and initially pretended he was also a victim after he too was splashed by the acid.

    All three were found guilty last week of causing grievous bodily harm with intent….”

  2. My instinctive reaction to this sort of argument about how horrible Islam is for women is always yes, yes, yes, yes, but.

    I know several Muslim couples who have better marriages, to all appearances, than the article suggests should be possible. Perhaps they manage it in spite of Islam, but they seem to manage, they do stay together, they do have families, and they don’t seem to be more miserable than anyone else.

    I’ve met numerous Western women in Muslim countries who are there for the men, toy boys or whatever. The motives it seems to me range across desperation to diversion, curiosity for novelty to sexual recreation to sexual greed. Or are these women actually exercising their Western genius for true love?

    Counter-jihadists generally look like fools trying to explain to audiences of Muslim women how lousy their lives are due to Islam. Not many seem to see it that way. They don’t want to be free of Islam, they just want certain freedoms within it that they may not presently have. Those women cheering Bill Gates in Saudi Arabia did not want to leave Islam, guaranteed. They wanted drivers’ licenses and more varied education and employment opportunities. But it’s a safe bet they also want Islam to dominate globally and not be dominated. Few will be thinking of leaving their religion.

    How is all that sexual equality working out in Europe? Are couples staying married? Are they having children? More than one? I thought Europe was dying.

      • I don’t mean to be harsh, but I’m deeply skeptical of any suggestion that we can save Western civilization from Islam by persuading Muslim women what a bad deal Islam is for them. Malala hasn’t left Islam, that I’ve heard, despite being shot in the face by it. Give her a Nobel Prize and she gives the money to Palestinian terrorists. But even that doesn’t get her admired in Pakistan, since she’s had too much to do with the kuffar, and I seem to remember that Muslim women in England were slagging her off. Muslim women like Muslim men are too indoctrinated to save on the whole. The people we need to focus on saving are ourselves.

        • Don C
          Please BE harsh. You are one of the best pointers to the nakedness of the emperor (you remind me of Daniel Greenfield) – I personally see their “nudity”, but mostly I dont have the courage to point it out.

          When trying to make my rampant ‘islamophoooooobia’ more “acceptable” to some interlocuteurs, I loudly pity the “poor muslim women” and thereby often commit a double lie:

          1. while some of my best friends are women I find this contrived and often hypocritical “sisterhood solidarity” repulsive, so no, I dont take the label of “feminist”, in fact: the more militant “feminists” frighten me.

          2. Certainly none of my “best friends” are muslim women and I dont like them when they adopt what I know to be the political act of showing a rude finger to the West, i.e. wearing the veil.

          Malala, btw, got on my nerves even before she joined the “Conga Line of Suckholes” who seem to get the peace prize lately. Saying such things, I am killing Bambi, but I only feel safe enough to do it here (thanks Vlad for the hospitality), and “you, Don C. made me do it” 😉

          The short version of this ^^^ : on (short) reflection: you are right and I have saved your comments above in a file which I will consult in future.

        • Rita, good grief. We shall have no mention of my profane and feeble efforts in these comments in the same breath as the sacred name of Daniel Greenfield. I read everyone else here, including and especially yourself, with more profit than I find in my own reactions to these issues, which is essentially the same reaction every day, an unprintable string of obscenities I struggle to find substitute words for. But I appreciate the kindness, and am grateful always as well to Vlad and his team for lighting and keeping burning this lamp in the darkness that does seem to grow.

          Eddie and Patsy are women I’ve worked with for years in the Middle East, who I have been friends with and who drive me up the wall. Especially the last few years. The war is too far advanced to be sleeping with the enemy, I feel. I know they’re lonely or bored or aging or addicted, and picking up Arab men is easy, but there are limits. And the young good-looking girls who go in for Muslims! History will not be kind.

        • I wrote this before reading both you and Rita this morning. So your added-value hasn’t been absorbed into my comment.
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          Right, Don, I don’t see a mass exodus of Muslim women from the RoP either. Pakistan and Afghanistan are not Arab countries, can’t be taken as representative for any number of reasons. Egyptian schoolgirls act silly and laugh plenty despite the hijab.

          Observant Jewish adults dress modestly, so I’m fairly relaxed with a range of apparel idiosyncrasies. I don’t remember ever seeing my father’s naked elbows. Mobs of half-naked self-flagellants disgust me more viscerally than short clips of fresh corpses.

          I’m not all that liberated myself. Traditional roles were modeled for me in the most positive way. Mum was the sun for her children and we were her worlds. My parents adored each other. Never an “empty nest” – they luxuriated in one another’s company just like newly-weds right up to their passing.

          I won’t tolerate abuse of the vulnerable anywhere within the bounds of my civic responsibility. Plenty of battered women here, we may be a tad hypocritical about the mote in our own eye.

          FGM – banned in Boston and I don’t want to waste resources policing that sort of thing. If they must marry and bear children while still children themselves, let them do it elsewhere.

          That said, I don’t want them in my face anymore than they want me. I don’t have any illusions about their desire or ability to change.

          They do not believe I am human. They may be practiced hypocrites, but I don’t want the Evil Eye focused on me and mine.

        • Someone I was listening to a while back observed that stable marriages and families has been something the upper classes in America have quietly been doing, or gone back to doing, leaving the plebes to the wreckage of broken homes and single childless adulthood and diminishing social capital. So I suppose the future will be fought over or shared between them and the non-integrating immigrant settlers. It’s hard to have skin in the game if you’re not going to have any skin.