On the Islamic war against women and the West’s poor response:
One of the most troubling and worrying situations that we find in the West is the almost complete silence – especially by liberal women and feminists – as to how Islam treats women. Islam is NOT pro-women. We have 1400 years of history to make this crystal clear. Yet so many in the West choose to remain totally blind to this and totally deceived about it.
I have written often on this topic – here are just a few earlier pieces:
Seven books (of many) that can be mentioned here are the following:
Chesler, Phyllis, An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir. St. Martin’s Press, 2013.
Chesler, Phyllis, The Death of Feminism: What’s Next in the Struggle for Women’s Freedom. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. (about feminism’s lack of response to militant Islam)
Hirsi Ali, Ayaan, The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam. Atria Books, 2004, 2015.
Hirsi Ali, Ayaan, Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights. Harper, 2021.
Robinson, Stuart, The Hidden Half: Women and Islam. CHI Books, 2017.
Spencer, Robert, Holy Hell: Islam’s Abuse of Women and the Infidels Who Enable It. Bombardier Books, 2025.
Sultan, Wafa, A God Who Hates: The Courageous Woman Who Inflamed the Muslim World Speaks Out Against the Evils of Islam. St Martin’s Press, 2009.
So here I will briefly mention the other three. Many of you know the story of Ayaan Hirsi Ali. The Somali-born woman was once a Muslim, then moved to Europe and became an atheist, but now she has converted to Christianity. Her story is told in Infidel: My Life (2007), and Nomad: From Islam to America (2010).
In The Caged Virgin she says this in the Preface:
About twelve years ago, at age twenty-two, I arrived in Western Europe, on the run from an arranged marriage. I soon learned that God and His truth had been humanized here. For Muslims life on earth is merely a transitory stage before the hereafter; but here people are also allowed to invest in their lives as mortals. What is more, hell seems no longer to exist, and God is a god of love rather than a cruel ruler who metes out punishments. I began to take a more critical look at my faith and discovered three important elements of Islam that had not particularly struck me before.
The first of these is that a Muslim’s relationship with his God is one of fear. A Muslim’s conception of God is absolute. Our God demands total submission. He rewards you if you follow His rules meticulously. He punishes you cruelly if you break His rules, both on earth, with illness and natural disasters, and in the hereafter, with hellfire.
The second element is that Islam knows only one moral source: the Prophet Muhammad. Muhammad is infallible. You would almost believe he is himself a god, but the Koran says explicitly that Muhammad is a human being; he is a supreme human being, though, the most perfect human being. We must live our lives according to his example. What is written in the Koran is what God said as it was heard by Muhammad. The thousands of hadiths-accounts of what Muhammad said and did, and the advice he gave, which survives in weighty books—tell us exactly how a Muslim was supposed to live in the seventh century. Devout Muslims consult these works daily to answer questions about life in the twenty-first century.
The third element is that Islam is strongly dominated by a sexual morality derived from tribal Arab values dating from the time the Prophet received his instructions from Allah, a culture in which women were the property of their fathers, brothers, uncles, grandfathers, or guardians. The essence of a woman is reduced to her hymen. Her veil functions as a constant reminder to the outside world of this stifling morality that makes Muslim men the owners of women and obliges them to prevent their mothers, sisters, aunts, sisters-in-law, cousins, nieces, and wives from having sexual contact. And we are not just talking about cohabitation. It is an offense if a woman glances in the direction of a man, brushes past his arm, or shakes his hand. A man’s reputation and honor depend entirely on the respectable, obedient behavior of the female members of his family.
These three elements explain largely why Muslim nations are lagging behind the West and, more recently, also lagging behind Asia…. (x-xi)
She also says this in the Preface:
The adherents to the gospel of multiculturalism refuse to criticize people whom they see as victims. Some Western critics disapprove of United States policies and attitudes but do not criticize the Islamic world, just as, in the first part of the twentieth century, Western socialist apologists did not dare criticize the Soviet labor camps. Along the same lines, some Western intellectuals criticize Israel, but they will not criticize Palestine because Israel belongs to the West, which they consider fair game, but they feel sorry for the Palestinians, and for the Islamic world in general, which is not as powerful as the West. They are critical of the native white majority in Western countries but not of Islamic minorities. Criticism of the Islamic world, of Palestinians, and of Islamic minorities is regarded as Islamophobia and xenophobia.
I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet these cultural experts fail to notice that, through their anxious avoidance of criticizing non-Western countries, they trap the people who represent these cultures in a state of backwardness. The experts may have the best of intentions, but as we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. (xvii-xviii)
Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rightsby Hirsi Ali, Ayaan (Author)
In Prey, she says this early on:
As a Somali arriving in the Netherlands in 1992, I was shocked to see young women alone on public transport and in bars and restaurants. I had grown up knowing that to step outside the house without covering my head and body, or without a male relative to escort me, would make me a target for harassment and assault. But in Holland, women freely walked the streets at night without men to chaperone them, their hair uncovered, wearing whatever they pleased. (p. 5)
But she also soon found that in many major European cities, some areas are no-go zones for women, with only men freely moving about in public. This of course nicely illustrates the principle that ‘if you import a people, you import their culture’. She shares plenty of detail and evidence about what is happening in Europe:
Young people in Western societies have grown up with the assumption that gender equality is a given. They did not have to fight for basic equality and are often oblivious to its being undermined around them. Even when they are confronted with the erosion of women’s rights in the street, they sometimes apologize for criticizing their attackers. In court, victims of sexual assault appearing on the witness stand have to insist that they are not racists. Almost every woman I interviewed in the course of researching this book felt obliged to begin with a caveat: “I’m not against migrants,” “I’m from the Left,” or “I am not racist.” (p. 228)
She says this in her Conclusion:
The pendulum is swinging back toward misogyny as liberal Europe changes to accommodate migrant cultures. Adaptation is happening, but it’s happening the other way around. Progress is not only not inevitable; in this case, it is reversing.
In writing this book, I have come to the conclusion that we need a new women’s movement, one that views the world not in terms of multiculturalism and intersectionality but in universal terms and that, in the spirit of John Stuart and Harriet Taylor Mill, is prepared to stand up for the rights of all women. (p. 274)
As to Robert Spencer’s new book Holy Hell, the American expert on Islam primarily looks at the British rape attacks by Muslims. These grooming gangs have so often been ignored and/or under-reported by the authorities and media there.
He begins by noting how the West is undergoing a rape crisis: rape rates in so many European cities have greatly increased in recent years – correlated with the rising number of Muslims coming into Europe. He says this might seem somewhat counterintuitive, since rape rates in Muslim countries are rather low. How do we explain this?
The answer is twofold. One is that many rapes go unreported in Muslim countries because the behavior involved simply isn’t considered a crime. Islamic law, based on words attributed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad himself, forbids a woman to refuse sexual intercourse to her husband under any circumstances. With such a rule in place, how can a rape ever even be said to have occurred? It never could in the context of a marriage; it could only take place when a man forces himself upon a woman who is not his wife.
The second reason is as shocking as it is unmistakable: the Islamic religion forbids the rape of Muslim women, but it does not forbid the rape of non-Muslim women. In fact, the Qur’an specifically allows for this as a legitimate sexual outlet for Muslim men. And such activity doesn’t make its way into crime statistics, as it is not considered to be a crime at all.
In light of these two factors, it’s no surprise whatsoever that rape rates in Muslim countries would be low to nonexistent, but that mass Muslim migration into Europe would account for the continent’s new rape crisis. (xv-xvi)
And he discusses ‘rape as a weapon of war’: “In one sense, Islam is not unique in this. Numerous cultures throughout history, and in our own age, accept rape as a justified weapon of war.” (p. 18) He goes on to give some examples of this and then writes:
Islam is unique even in comparison to the acceptance of rape as a weapon of warfare in other cultures, for it combines all of these motivations. Infidel women are taken as the spoils of war, but the goal is ultimately the expansion of the Islamic community and the diminishment of the infidel community. And so rape of infidel women is also useful as a means to humiliate the defeated infidel force, as well as a means of social control and to aid in the redrawing of ethnic boundaries. On top of all that is the divine sanction given to it all. Rape of infidel women in a jihad war is not just something the commanders permit, as a means to humiliate the infidels. It is a holy act. (p. 19)
After some 250 pages describing the Islamic views on women, and analysing in detail the British grooming gangs, he says this: “[T]he West has a choice. It can continue to allow the proliferation of this ideology that will result in the victimization of more of its women, or it can take action against it.” (p. 276)
And he reminds us that “this is not now and has never been a question of ‘racism’ or ‘Islamophobia’. It’s a question of survival. If a culture allows what happened in Britain to continue, and stigmatizes action against it, that culture is not long for this world, and that’s why Britain’s demise is at hand.” (p. 277)
His final words are these: “This is the choice Europe faces. This is the choice Canada faces. This is the choice the United States faces. Either make it clear that Islam’s abuse of women is intolerable and unacceptable, or acquiesce to it and surrender. Which one will they choose?” (p. 280)
And we can add Australia here as well.
Postscript: She has made my case!
And right on cue, as I was about to publish this piece, the best bit of evidence to back up what I have been saying here just appeared on the social media. It seems another woke, white, Western woman was convinced that there is no Islam problem in Europe.
Happy New Year to you Bill.
God bless you for your continued faithfulness in your writing.
I wonder if the influencer changed her mind and had an epiphany, or whether she rationalised it as her fault, or just an aberration?
Many thanks Troy. She will likely blame it all on Trump and keep on her merry ignorant way!
They are almost as deluded as the gays for Gaza.
Quite so Ken.
Most people in the West believe the burqa is not Islamically mandated.
For a realty check, read Quran 24:31
Only permitted > “one eye or both eyes for necessity to see the way”
https://noblequran.com/surah-an-nur/