Showing posts with label The Afterlife. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Afterlife. Show all posts

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Buried Alive

At International Campaign to Stop Honour Killings today is a story entitled Iran: Woman buried alive for honour. Here are some key excerpts:

Iran's Ham-Mihn newspaper reported the case of an Ahwazi woman who was buried alive by her father in April. Villagers had accused her of having an extra-marital affair after she divorced her husband, prompting her father to kill her for the sake of family honour. He admitted killing his 22 year old daughter Nejat, but claimed she agreed to be buried alive and even helped to dig her own grave. After Nejat's mother learnt of the killing, her husband threatened to bury her alive if she reported the murder to the authorities. Nejat's two year old daughter has since been taken to an orphanage in Ahwaz City, according to the British Ahwazi Friendship Society.

This account of the killing has been confirmed by Iranian women's rights activists.


A translation from Farsi records images of the victim's last moments, as her father was burying her alive:

Nejat knew that in a society where misogyny is deeply rooted in tradition, where misogyny is promoted by the government, where the police covers the bodies of women to preserve the "honor" of the ruling bodies, she had to search for rescue in nonexistence. Her story is so painful that it can not be written.

So let one of the last images speak for itself:

This man said about the bitter moments that he buried his daughter alive: When I dug the hole, my daughter went towards it without saying a word and laid down in it. I did not feel well, but I thought I was doing the right thing. Initially, I used the shovel to put the dirt on her. She wasn't saying anything. She just stared at the sky. I threw the dirt on her stomach and chest, but she still did not say anything. She did not ask me not to do that. I looked at her in the last moment, before I covered her face with dirt. She called out to me and said 'Dad, please take care of my daughter."


Since their revolution, the Islamic leadership has made the Islamic Republic of Iran into a Hell on Earth for women.

Allah's Apostle said (edited for two typos):

"Then I saw the (Hell) Fire, and I have never before seen such a horrible sight as that, and I saw that the majority of its dwellers were women." The people asked, "O Allah's Apostle! What is the reason for that?" He replied, "Because of their ungratefulness." It was said. "Do they disbelieve in Allah (are they ungrateful to Allah)?" He replied, "They are not thankful to their husbands and are ungrateful for the favors done to them. Even if you do good to one of them all your life, when she sees some harshness from you, she will say, "I have never seen any good from you.'"


Obviously, the torments of the Fire seem to be a relief to some women after what they have to go through in the Islamic world on Earth.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Islamic Imperialism 102

(Related Links: Islamic Imperialism 101; Deal with the Devil)


Many people seem to underestimate the extent to which Islam is imperialistic.

Islam demands 1) your body, 2) your intellect, 3) your emotions, and 4) your very soul.

Islam is thus 1) corporal imperialism, 2) intellectual imperialism, 3) emotional imperialism, and 4) spiritual imperialism.

First of all, notice the words "Islam demands...." It is popular to quote from the Koran the following:
[2.256] There is no compulsion in religion; truly the right way has become clearly distinct from error; therefore, whoever disbelieves in the Shaitan and believes in Allah he indeed has laid hold on the firmest handle, which shall not break off, and Allah is Hearing, Knowing.


Yet, it is a tenet of traditional Islam to offer people the infamous triple choice: 1) conversion to Islam; 2) submission to Islamic rule, including the payment of an oppressive special tax and subjugation under stiflingly limited and revocable "rights" (dhimmi status or dhimmification); or 3) war and death.

Under Wahhabi Islam, the kind Saudi Arabia so eagerly spreads around the world, the choice has been simplified: 1) conversion to Wahhabi Islam, and strict compliance with its rules; or 2) death.

No compulsion? "Islam demands...."

Islamic Law, known as Sharia, establishes illegitimate rules regarding a person's body; it places unreasonable limitations on a person's liberty.

Any society has legitimate rules of behavior: do not murder; drive on this side of the road; etc.... These reasonable limitations on what kind of behavior is allowed are in place, so as to prevent one person's exercise of liberty from infringing on another person. If one takes the life of another person, one deprives that other person of his or her rights and liberty. By driving on one side of the road, one allows other people to feel a relative degree of safety driving on the other side of the road, so they can exercise their freedom to drive as well.

Islam establishes and enforces rules that limit a person's freedom, even though not abiding by those rules would in now way infringe on the rights or liberty of others. For example, when the call to prayer goes out, everyone must pray; this is not a choice. A person is not allowed to merely remain quiet and permit others to pray; one must face Mecca and go through the motions. Women's rights are particularly infringed; women must be covered in a veil, and they may move about in public only when fully attired and escorted by an appropriate male. A woman is not allowed to wear jeans and a blouse, and walk down the street alone, even though this would in no way infringe upon the freedom of others to do the same.

Islam's rules for a person's behavior are unreasonable and illegitimate. "Islam demands 1) your body...."

The answer to any question in the Islamic World is to be found in Islamic texts. Of course, not just anyone is free to interpret those texts; only certain leaders in the Islamic community may interpret them. Consequently, those who have authority to interpret the rules essentially make the rules and answer the questions. Deviation from the accepted truths of Islam is apostasy, punishable by death. This is especially true of Wahhabi Islam.

Certain things may not be questioned; notably, Islam itself may not be questioned, the Koran may not be questioned, the Prophet may not be questioned. This places even a good Muslim on shaky ground; even an innocent request for clarification of Muslim beliefs can be perceived of as questioning their legitimacy, and can result in one's execution.

Once the precedent is set that those who interpret the rules prohibit one line of questioning, the prohibition of other lines follows; it is a slippery slope. As legitimate debate becomes chilled, intellectual freedom becomes more constrained, until one no longer feels able to ask any question, no matter how innocent, for fear of how it will be perceived. Islam demands ... 2) your intellect....

Hand-in-hand with intellectual tyranny goes emotional tyranny. Those who interpret the rules tell you whom you may love, whom you must hate. This goes far beyond telling Muslims to hate infidels. A woman does not have the freedom to love the man of her choice, since she will likely never have a chance to meet many men, being so guarded by the males in her family. Ultimately, they decide who will be her husband.

Should she love her husband, or should she grow to love him, the relationship is completely undercut by the knowledge that by saying three words three times, he can end the marriage, but she does not have the same right. If he says "I divorce thee, I divorce thee, I divorce thee" it is over. If he says these words out of anger, the divorce is still accomplished; they may not legally remarry until she has been married to another man, and had sex with him, then been divorced from him.

If she dislikes her husband, if she can't stand him, if he abuses her, it does not end until he says "I divorce thee, I divorce thee, I divorce thee." The woman may be cast out, but she has no escape.

The fact that he can have as many as three other wives makes all other women in her life potential competitors; this constrains her freedom to have friends.

This also places undue burdens on the men, who, from an early age, are closely attached to their mothers, and to whom their mothers later look for protection against possible abuse of the husband. Deprived of true fathers in their lives, they become men, who are then deprived of true loving marriage with a wife, due to the dysfunctional atmosphere of Islamic matrimony. Many men never have any wife at all, since many women prefer to be the second, third or even fourth wife of a rich man than the only wife of a poor one.

Fathers, mothers, men, women, children -- all in the Islamic world suffer to some degree merely because of the existence of these rules, even if the rules are not enforced. "Islam demands ... 3) your emotions...."

This does not end with death. Only a good Muslim, who has successfully lived by the rules of Islam, gets into paradise; all others will be in the fire. And, what is paradise truly like, if people who do successfully live by these rules are there? "Islam demands ... 4) your very soul."

Islam demands 1) your body, 2) your intellect, 3) your emotions, and 4) your very soul.

Islam is not just 1) corporal imperialism, 2) intellectual imperialism, 3) emotional imperialism, and 4) spiritual imperialism.

Islam is absolute, complete, tyrannical, multifaceted slavery.

Islam is Hell.

Thursday, February 8, 2007

Walmart is Walmart, and Hell is Hell

It doesn't matter what door you go in, or what you're doing there: Walmart is still Walmart.

Many people go into Walmart every day and shop. A significant number of people go into Walmart every day and work. Some of the people who work there also shop there.

Most Walmarts I have seen have two main entrances; they often have a third entrance, in the lawn and garden shop, and they even have ways of getting in and out of the building in the shipping and receiving area. The entrances double as exits; there are also emergency exits.

Consequently, some people go in through one entrance and work in Walmart, while others go in through that same entrance, and shop there. Similarly, people are entering through the other entrances. Both the shoppers and the employees exit through these doors, as well. Some people arrive in the receiving area to deliver a truckload of merchandise, then leave Walmart through the same receiving area; these people are working there, but they may not be Walmart employees.

Regardless of how you get inside Walmart, and regardless of whether you are working or shopping, and, if you are working, regardless of who employs you or what your job is, if you are in Walmart, you are in Walmart. Walmart is Walmart.

Now that we have established that, let's address good Muslim jihadis, the "holy warriors", the "Mujahideen".

Let's say you have been a good jihadi, and died in holy war against the infidels. What does Islam promise you? A ticket to "paradise"; your sins are forgiven, and you get seventy-two virgins to have sex with. It does not matter whether they wish to have sex with you; consequently, you get seventy-two virgins to rape. Their virginity is renewable, so every time you rape a particular girl, you are raping a virgin. Just as their virginity is renewable, so is your sexual arousal permanent. No matter how many times you rape a virgin, you are ready to rape again; and, no matter how many times you rape a virgin, she is still a virgin to be raped again. You do not need to ask her permission; she is there for you. You have been a good holy warrior, faithful to Allah and the teaching of Allah's Apostle; you are in "paradise"; this is your reward.

What is this for the virgins? They may not like you; you might treat them badly and abuse them; they may not want to have sex with you. They are being raped and sexually assaulted. And, every time they are raped, it is a painful first time, since their virginity is renewed.

Consequently, are the virgins in "paradise"?

Logically, they must be in Hell. Remember, now, there are seventy-two virgins for each man in this "paradise" -- so, how is it that, proportionally, so many women are in Hell?

As Allah's Apostle explained it:

Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:

The Prophet said: "I was shown the Hell-fire and that the majority of its dwellers were women who were ungrateful." It was asked, "Do they disbelieve in Allah?" (or are they ungrateful to Allah?) He replied, "They are ungrateful to their husbands and are ungrateful for the favors and the good (charitable deeds) done to them. If you have always been good (benevolent) to one of them and then she sees something in you (not of her liking), she will say, 'I have never received any good from you."


Well, that clarifies where they get all those virgins from. They are in Hell's fire for ingratitude!

We know that the majority of those in Islam's Hell are women; the Prophet said so. Besides, we know based upon an analysis of how they are being treated that these virgins are in Hell.

And all this leads us to a question: If the virgins are in Hell's fire being raped for their ingratitude and other sins, where are the men who are raping them?

It doesn't matter what door you go in, nor does it matter what you are doing there.... If it's not Paradise for everyone, then it's not Paradise.