Until the advent of materialism and 19th c. dogma, Western Civilisation was superior to anything Islam had developed. Islam has not aided in the development of the modern world; in fact civilisation has only been created in spite of Islam. Proof of this resides in the 'modern' world and the unending political-economic and spiritual poverty of Muslim states and regions. Squatting on richer civilisations is not 'progress'. Islam is pagan, totalitarian, and irrational.
Western Feminists steeped in nescient anti-Western dogma, have always hypocritically, ignored the brutality of Muhammad’s cult towards women. Nary an outburst against Muhammad’s cult from the Feminists shrills and shills. Untutored in the ways of Muhammadan beliefs, the Western Feminist will usually ingest the crass stupidity of apologist Karen Armstrong and her ilk, and ‘admire’ the liberating effects of Muhammad’s cult on women. Some go on to claim that Muhammad himself was a feminist and freed women. A rather odd claim considering that Muhammad had a harem of 24 wives and sex slaves, married a 6-year-old and stated that a woman was half the value of a man.
Expressions of Muhammadan misogyny and savagery towards women include: Female Genital Mutilation, Child Bride Marriages, Polygamy, Wearing of bags in public as tokens of submission to men, the lack of legal equality, and the prolific Muslim justification for sex slavery.
None of these practices were allowed in Christian Medieval Europe, with the one exception being that of royal families who married off their young sons and daughters, for dynastic alliances and political largesse. Even that practice was challenged by the Medieval Church and was entirely a secular process which found no favour within the Church (and one largely ignored by those committed to rewriting history and debasing Medieval Christianity). It is the Western Catholic Church which freed women.
Medieval Christianity outlawed slavery including overturning the chattel status of women, which is still rife within Muslim societies today, and which still includes: polygamy, the female family member’s legal ownership by men and the formal sex-slavery of women including Infidel women (which the ‘right hand possesses’ within a harem) and Muslim concubinage (both inside and outside the harem). None of this is allowed in Western states, simply because Western states have a Christian heritage.
Sexual relief is a prime plank of the male dominated Muslim cult. It is rather incredible that any woman wilfully and consciously joins and submits herself to the Al-Lah cult of sexual deviancy. Islam is a cult and one aspect of the Muslim cult, which is prevalent in many other cult groups, is sanctifying for the leadership and the male faithful, the unbridled lust for, and use of, female bodies. The moon cult of Mecca is completely unfriendly and even hostile to women and we find this hostility expressed in Sharia Law and Koranic ritual.
One of the mainsprings of Muslim imperialism and the spread of the cult which attracted untutored and rough hooligans was the Koranic fact that women were inferior to men, that sex slavery was expected and protected; and that a woman was merely a beast whose fields were to be ploughed, to quote Mohammed. He also said that women were stupid and beast-like [Bukhari (6:301) - "[Muhammad] said, 'Is not the evidence of two women equal to the witness of one man?' They replied in the affirmative. He said, 'This is the deficiency in her intelligence.'"] The Muslim animus towards the female runs long deep and is a profound aspect of Islamic imperialism and cult behaviour.
We see this in the Koran. The sample of 12 verses and 1 entire Sura below, clearly depict women as inferiors and sex objects. These verses are supported by 14 Hadiths which confirm that women are to be subjugated by men, and to obey men [Muslim men that is].
Assessing women to be pure enough for the cult:
Sura 60 is an entire chapter devoted to women who apparently fled to Mohammed to take up the cause of Allah. These females had to be devout in their worship to the moon idol and were means tested for such. This Sura outlines how you 'investigate' the woman to make sure she is good enough for the cult. Only females dedicated to Mohammed and his cult of Allah could join Muslim society.
Men rule
Qur'an (2:228) - "and the men are a degree above them [women]"
Qur'an (24:31) - Women are to lower their gaze around men.
Only Men are Gods
Qur'an (53:27) - "Those who believe not in the Hereafter, name the angels with female names." Angels are identified in Sura 74 to be men including the 'Magnificent 19' or early companions of Mohammed. El-Lah or Al-Lah is of course the chief male deity or 'God'. Women are not a part of the angelic hordes.
Legal status:
Qur'an (2:282) - (Court testimony) "And call to witness, from among your men, two witnesses. And if two men be not found then a man and two women." This clearly states that women possess half the legal status of a man.
This means that if a woman is raped, she will need 2 men to support her allegations, if not she will be guilty and can be stoned to death, depending on the jurisdiction.
Inheritance
Qur'an (4:11) - "The male shall have the equal of the portion of two females" (see also verse 4:176).
Women are unclean
Qur'an (5:6) - "And if ye are unclean, purify yourselves. And if ye are sick or on a journey, or one of you cometh from the closet, or ye have had contact with women, and ye find not water, then go to clean, high ground and rub your faces and your hands with some of it"
After a man has some contact with a female he must wash himself, to purify himself, and erase that contact. This is why you might see Muslim men refusing to shake hands with Kufar women for example. They don't want to sully their perfect selves.
Plough your wives
Qur'an (2:223) - "Your wives are as a tilth unto you; so, approach your tilth when or how ye will..." The wife is a sex tool to be used at will by the man. Some believe that this verse is also referencing the joys of anal intercourse. If this is what Muhammad meant, however, then it would appear to contradict what he said in Muslim (8:3365).
Polygamy
Qur'an (4:3) -"Marry women of your choice, Two or three or four"
Sex slaves are good
Qur'an (4:24) and Qur'an (33:50) - A man is permitted to take women as sex slaves outside of marriage.
This verse distinguishes wives from captives (those whom they right hand possesses). It is hard to know how many sex slaves Muhammad had in his harem, but 20 is the estimate (along with 4 official wives).
Hypocritically of course Mohammed ordered Arabian and Muslim women to cover themselves and hide their feminine qualities and allures, though there is disagreement about how much 'covering' is appropriate [the Koran says covering the breasts is mandatory 24:31]. As well there are Islamic laws related to temporary marriage and contractual sex which can be found here which reinforce the hegemonic status of men over women.
An immutable fact is this: there is not one single verse in the Koran, or the Hadiths which describe a woman as a human being, equal to a man; intelligent, caring, riven by doubt, afflictions and perhaps even evil intentions; but nonetheless a thinking, cognitive, loving, redolent human character.
A straight reading of Muslim texts reveals the theology to be misogynistic, sexually obsessed, and defamatory toward and with, the female gender.
What 'prophet' of 'God', or in the case of Islam, Baal the Meccan moon deity; does not have a harem? What speaker of morality, ethics and immaterial spirituality does not cover himself in the flesh of many women, as well as in gold and silver ? Mein Koran makes it very clear that women are the property of men [see here]. Sura 2, the longest chapter is full of misogyny and the demand that men control women.
The reason is Muhammad's own life and his own debauched existence. He acted as if female ownership by men, truly was a revelatory 'fact' given to him by Baal. It was simply part of Arab-Meccan culture of course, enshrined as 'divine' by a lustful, sex-addled luxuriant posing as a man of religiosity. Sadly, since Moslems must believe that Muhammad is mankind's ultimate example, it only stands to reason that viewing females as flesh toys for men, inferior, subservient and of no real value will permeate the Moslem cult.
This is why more than half of Moslem women are illiterate, 10.000 daughters are slaughtered each year, wife-beating is common, and women in Moslem countries have limited rights to private assets, transport, or any action independent of men [a trenchant critique is summarize in now-atheist Hirsi Ali's book, Nomad]. Hence the bed sheets pious Moslem females must wear, in order to denote their chattel status, now wafting and on parade throughout the Western world – a sure sign of imperialism if there was one.
Ali Dashti, a noted Moslem 'scholar', [or science fiction writer, which in regards to Islam, would be the same thing]; lists what are in his view, Muhammad's wives, as backed up by Mein Koran, Mein Hadith and Mein Sira. Other investigations have identified 2-3 more wives, or sex-slaves, but in any event 22 is quite enough to drive home the main point that women are merely tools to be used by Moslem men for various purposes:
Khadija
Sawda
Aesha [had sex with Muhammad at the age of 9, was betrothed to him at age 6]
Omm Salama
Hafsa
Zaynab of Jahsh
Jowayriya
Omm Habiba
Safiya [a Jewish princess, taken and raped by Muhammad on the same day the Moslems attacked her village and killed her husband, father and brothers, noted for her great beauty].
Maymuna
Fatema
Hend
Asma of Saba
Zaynab of Khozayma
Habla
Asma of Noman
Mary the Christian [purportedly Muhammad's favorite concubine, which caused political problems of jealously within the harem as reported in Mein Koran]
Rayhana
Omm Sharik
Maymuna not of Hareth
Zaynab [#3]
Khawla
Numbers 17 and 18 were according to Dashti, concubines. The last 4 were women who for some reason just joined the harem out of their great love for the Arab Fuehrer. The first 16 are considered to be officially the wives of Muhammad, and many of these women are mentioned in Moslem sources, including passing through a marriage ceremony.
If your leader and prophet had 16 wives, 2 sex slaves, and 4 other concubines, was deemed 'holy' and grand; and was the torch bearer of the 'true religion'; what then might your attitude to women be ? One reason why Islam is a gigantic failure is its attitude and even hatred of the female. Obey Mein Koran. Serve the man. Ask for his approval on everything. Allow him as many wives or sex-slaves as he likes.
Curiously Muhammad in Mein Koran only allows the average Moslem male 4 wives or sex slaves. Of course he could have whatever number he desired. It is rather curious that fascisms always speak in such a manner. Restrictions for the acolytes and cult members. Illimitable freedoms and prerogative for the leadership.
Mein Koran and Muhammad's cult is in large part, a sex cult. It is also of course a fascist-pagan cult of death and violence [see the Moslem world any day of the week for more info]. But sex slavery, the lure of women, concubinage, along with gold and plunder, were the animating forces of Muhammad's cult in its early days. Indeed sheep have more value than women in Mein Koran. ISIS and other barbarians are simply trying to recreate that 'utopia' for Moslem men. Consider a recent spate of rapes of Infidel women by ISIS [many thousands have been sold into sex slavery]:
Reported the Times’ Rukmini Callimachi: [PJ Media]
In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old girl, the Islamic State fighter took the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a sin. Because the preteen girl practiced a religion other than Islam, the Quran not only gave him the right to rape her — it condoned and encouraged it, he insisted.
Both before and after he raped her, he prostrated himself in Islamic prayer:
“He told me,” the girl recounted, “that according to Islam he is allowed to rape an unbeliever. He said that by raping me, he is drawing closer to God.”
This was no isolated incident. A fifteen-year-old girl who had been forced into sex slavery recalled: “He kept telling me this is ibadah” – that is, worship of Allah. “He said that raping me is his prayer to God. I said to him, ‘What you’re doing to me is wrong, and it will not bring you closer to God.’ And he said, ‘No, it’s allowed. It’s halal.’”
All this is reminiscent of Hamas’ statement: “Killing Jews is worship that draws us closer to God.”
Baal is not God. It is the moon deity of Mecca and in the Old Testament it is associated with evil, and cults of criminality, including the Canaanites who in the name of Baal, performed child sacrifices, condoned sex slavery and all forms of sexual deviancy. [hey, sounds like the modern world!]
But remember, the 97% consensus expert opinion is that ISIS is not Islam, and Islam is not savage, barbaric, or interested in sex slavery, concubinage, or raping Infidel women. When ISIS quotes that raping women is sanctioned by the Al Lah thing, it is a mis-quote and mis-translation. That is all. The fact that Muhammad had sex with a 9 year old, and had between 15-24 wives or concubines must be ignored, as must be the rape and sex slavery of millions of non Moslem women in 1400 years. After all the experts declaim; who is to say that 7th century Bedouin barbarism is not as 'good' or 'moral' as the culture of today ? After all we do abort 3 million fetuses in the West each year....