Isn’t it unfortunate for the apologist dhimmis like meatbrain that a Yemeni journalist would spell out for his exactly why in Islam there must be violence against women. It’s reassuring to know that the pious members of the religion of peace don’t want human rights organizations interfering with their ‘cultural norms’…and allow women to complain to the courts about the vicious behavior of wife beaters or men who kill their daughters, as in the case of Aqsa Parvez…or the newest case that took place in Irving Texas for the New Year; the shootings of Sarah and Amina Said by their father. And it was most certainly about honor; he had recently found out about Amina’s boyfriend and threatened to put a bullet in her head.

Slaying of popular teens stuns friends

Sarah Said was an avid tennis player known as a silly but bright student. Her 18-year-old sister, Amina Said, was often called “the girl with pretty eyes,” friends say.

The girls were well-liked and made good grades at Lewisville High School. Their father was strict and rarely let them spend time with friends. When Sarah, 17, recently met a boy at her job, she told a friend that her father would kill her if he found out.

Friends are now rethinking the way they understood that turn of phrase.

Robert Spencer:

Over the next few days, as more details emerge about the murders of Amina and Sarah Said, we will see Islamic spokesmen on TV (Ibrahim Hooper is probably sitting for make-up as you read this) explaining that honor killing is a cultural practice that has nothing to do with Islam, and of course above all the one thing we must avoid doing in the aftermath of these murders is entertain for even a moment the possibility that Islamic attitudes and atmospherics had anything to do with the deaths of these girls. And Alan Colmes will nod sagely and agree that Islamophobia is a terrible problem, and Sean Hannity will burble about the “hijacking of a great religion,” and Glenn Beck will assure us that the Qur’an teaches nonviolence, and a splendid time is guaranteed for all. No one will dream of holding the American Muslim community accountable for aiding and abetting the creation of a culture of violence against women. Oh no. That would be “Islamophobic.”

That term is getting to be completely ridiculous in light of reality.

And so this Yemen Times piece comes particularly ill-timed for Hooper and other Islamic spokesmen in the West, who spill large amounts of ink assuring us that oh no, no Muslim takes Qur’an 4:34, the Muslim holy book’s notorious verse commanding the beating of disobedient women, at face value. Oh no. No Muslim actually beats his wife, or if he does, he does it only with a toothbrush, and anyway, well, wife-beating is cross-cultural, isn’t it? It isn’t as if no American wife has ever been beaten.

*snip*

Anyway, in the Yemen Times today, Maged Thabet Al-Kholidy doesn’t say anything about toothbrushes, or everyone doing it, or anything at all except that women should be beaten when disobedient, because the Qur’an says so.

This is the culture that killed Amina and Sarah Said. This is the culture that killed Aqsa Parvez. This is the culture whose leaders persist in denial, obfuscation, and finger-pointing instead of honest dealing with the problem.

Read the rest. Also at Elder of Ziyon.

The author is too obtuse to ask whether, using his exact logic, women have the right to use violence against men who are straying from their upstanding, Islamic character or otherwise violating “social norms.”

It would seem to me that men in this culture go completely unpunished for their crimes against women and children.

There must be violence against women
By: Maged Thabet Al-Kholidy majed_thabet@hotmail.com

This title may sound strange, but it’s actually not just a way to attract readers to the topic because I really do mean what it indicates. Violence is a broad term, especially when used regarding women. In this piece, I want to shed light on those instances where violence against women is a must.

In that article, in the name of Islam, he justifies wife beating, honor killings and child abuse, but instead of calling these things by their real names, it’s about “preserving morals.”

But it’s not about Islam, no. Not at all.