Pages: 1 2 |
|
 Print This Post
|
In Iran, men on a spiritual pilgrimage to Imam Reza’s shrine may buy a temporary wife in order to elevate the spiritual atmosphere. Putting aside the fact that this amounts to blatant prostitution, why is it that only men are afforded this benefit? Why can’t Muslim women travel to the brothel mosque and rent a sex slave husband by the hour?
Of course, these atrocities happened in the Middle East, certainly nothing like that could happen to the Muslim women of the United States … could it?
In New Jersey in 2008, a young girl was raped repeatedly by her Muslim husband. Upon a request for a restraining order, the (American) judge ruled:
This court does not feel that, under the circumstances, that this defendant had a criminal desire to or intent to sexually assault or to sexually contact the plaintiff when he did. The court believes that he was operating under his belief that it is, as the husband, his desire to have sex when and whether he wanted to, was something that was consistent with his practices and it was something that was not prohibited.
So rape is ok as long it’s practiced as part of religious freedom? Thankfully, the appellate court reversed the ruling and granted the restraining order.
No belief system that advocates brutality and subjugation toward women is just another religion. Talk is cheap. I can hear a thousand times that Muslim women are “free and liberated,” but that doesn’t make it true.
__
Jenny Erikson blogs at Candid Conservative and records a weekly radio show, The Smart Girl Report, for Smart Girl Politics on From the Right Radio. She lives in Southern California with her husband and their two young daughters.
