Allah's Rapists
Published: February 12, 2009, 11:16 AM
After we ended our "Hearts of Darkness" series by defining what people call the "War on Terror" as the "Fight Against Barbarism," we were reminded how few Americans realize just how barbaric the barbarism we're fighting can be. The Herald Sun, an Australian newspaper, received a story from their Baghdad correspondent which began:
A woman suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers has confessed to organizing their rapes so she could later convince them that martyrdom was the only way to escape the shame.
Most Muslim rape victims would rather die than try to live with the shame. European women of Muslim descent, brought up in a rather more permissive culture but expected to marry in a traditional way, are signing up for hymen restoration surgery so that they can find husbands; many Islamic men are serious about wanting to marry virgins. In traditional Islamic culture, a non-widow non-virgin is essentially unmarriageable.
Westerners have little if any appreciation of how desperate a woman can become when she has no prospect of marriage and no other means of support. We've pointed out that for millennia, women, who couldn't hunt because nursing babies cry and scare away the game and who weren't strong enough to farm, depended on men to feed them. In Islamic cultures where women aren't allowed to go to school and can't get jobs, being unable to marry is a death sentence.
Samira Jassam, 51, was arrested by Iraqi police and confessed to recruiting the women and orchestrating dozens of attacks.
Women are generally less prone to violence than men are so it's harder to persuade them to kill themselves, even to please Allah. The reward for men who martyr themselves killing non-Muslims is 76 virgins; what good would that do a woman?
On the other hand, women aren't searched as closely as men and their traditional robes are convenient for hiding explosives, so they're more likely to be able to deliver their bombs to the target than men are. In arranging for potential recruits to be raped so that they would essentially have no future, Ms. Jassam sought to make it easier for her to persuade them to become suicide bombers.
In a video confession, she explained how she had mentally prepared the women for martyrdom operations, passed them on to terrorists who provided explosives, and then took the bombers to their targets.
The "verse of the sword" in the Koran states that Allah requires faithful Muslims to kill or enslave non-Muslims. In recruiting women to become suicide bombers, Ms. Jassam was fulfilling the will of Allah stated in the Koran, by enslaving Muslim women and persuading them to kill themselves and other Muslims as a means of murdering what few infidels might be in the vicinity.
By recruiting the 80 women who carried out at least 28 attacks, she was responsible for killing more people than if she'd committed suicide herself. In addition to killing more people, her strategy meant that she didn't have to die to serve Allah, a definite up-side to her interpretation of the Koran's instruction.
Her strategy was equally beneficial to the men who helped her "recruit" the women - they didn't have to die a martyr's death to get access to virgins, they had them provided right here in this life!
We wonder why this sort of thing doesn't get much mention in our mainstream media. Mr. Bush is no longer our President; admitting that there are unsavory aspects to Islam would no longer provide aid and comfort to Mr. Bush and might serve to inform Americans what we're up against.
We also wonder what American feminists think of this. Raping a woman to destroy her future and make it easier to recruit her as a suicide bomber would seem to fall under the feminists' definition of "chauvinist male exploitation," yet they appear utterly unconcerned.
Islamic neighborhoods are becoming no-go areas for non-Muslims in Britain and Canada. Genital mutilation continues, and "honor killings" occur in Europe when Muslim girls date non-Muslims. Muslims are serious about wanting to practice sharia law wherever they migrate.
Given that women would bear the brunt of any imposition of Muslim customs, why aren't prominent American women saying anything about it? Or do they simply think it can't happen here? It's already happening in Europe, that shining light which American liberals are always saying we should emulate.
What about non-violent Muslims? When a Christian zealot bombed abortion mills on the grounds that abortion was murder, his vigilante actions were roundly condemned by mainstream Christians. In stark and despicable contrast, almost all Muslims are silent about their barbaric co-religionists. As Italy's Prime Minister Berlusconi pointed out, Islam needs a reformation to end their current wave of barbarism just as Catholicism needed a Reformation to end the Inquisition. It's going to be extremely difficult for our irreligious leadership elites to cope with faith-inspired Muslim barbarism in the meantime.
If arranging rapes of innocent girls so as to con them into becoming suicide bombers isn't barbaric, evil, and inhuman, then the words have no meaning; and if we're not going to protest this horror, we have no right to protest anything at all.