Sharia, the sanctioning of sexual perversion

Sharia Degradation of Women

By Eileen F. Toplansky

The unremitting degradation of women in most of the Mideast, Africa, and other parts of Asia where Islamic law plays a huge role is horrifying and appalling.  Islamic law endorses slavery, demands executions for apostasy, and condones the repression of women.

The debasement of women plays a critical role among Palestinian women where little girls live under a death threat of honor killing.  The male sexual abuse of female children is quite pervasive.  It traumatizes and shames women into obedience and renders them incapable of resistance or rebellion.  This degradation of women is not merely restricted to the Palestinian community whose lives have been repeatedly squandered by their terrorist leaders.  In Iran, for instance, the Islamic government does not recognize women as fully human.  In 1992 over 100,000 women were arrested in Tehran for "improper veiling" and "moral corruption."  Scores of pregnant women were flogged in public on the same charge.  Women appearing in public without traditional veiling are sentenced to up to 74 lashes.  As I write this, there is a worldwide protest concerning the injustice being meted out to Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani.  Unfortunately, she will probably be flogged to death.