Because I am a Muslim and I promote Islam. The charge is “incitement”; my relationships with Nidal Hasan, Umar Farouk and some 9/11 attackers, and now I am accused of being linked to 14 cases. All this comes as part of the attempt to liquidate the voices that call for defending the rights of the Umma [Muslim nation].

They reject the principle of pride and demanding justice, they want to promote the principle of humiliation and compliance. They want to market the democratic and peaceful US Islam that calls for obeying the superiors even if they were traitors and collaborators, they want an Islam that recognises the occupation and deals with it, they want an Islam that has no sharia ruling, no jihad and no Islamic caliphate.

We call for the Islam that was sent by Allah to Prophet Muhammad, the Islam of jihad and sharia ruling. Any voice that calls for this Islam, they either kill the person or the character; they kill the person by murdering or jailing them, or they kill the character by distorting their image in the media. Source

MPAC.ie Comment: And who can deny the truthfulness of Al Awlaki’s statement? The media cast the voices of opposition to Muslim slaughter as extremist, politicians enact legislation to silence dissent and the murtadoon (apostates) are hailed as the moderates. They want to strip Islam of its essential tenets so that it is weak, feeble and ineffective, this is a palatable Islam for them – will you aid them in this ignoble undertaking? Your silence is inaction and wholly condemnable in the face of such blatant attacks upon the Ummah. Malcolm X once said, if you are not willing to die for freedom, then take freedom out of your vocabulary because you don’t really want it. Replace freedom with Islam and the message is equally clear!

When Rabi’a ibn ‘Amir (radiyallahu ‘anhu) went to the leader of the Persians. The leader asked him, “Why are you coming to our lands? If you are coming for money then we will pay every one of you a salary so leave us alone.” But Rabi’a said, “That is not why we are here. We are sent to free the creation from being slaves of one another to being slaves of Allah the Creator of the creation and from the oppression of religion to the justice of Islam and we want to deliver people from the narrowness of this world to the vastness of this world and the Afterlife.”

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‘Muslim Women don’t know what is good for them’ and so extreme feminists like Martina Devlin feel duty bound to tell them. Choice doesn’t come into it because in the myopic world of Devlin ‘Even those who claim to do it willingly are brainwashed.’ This of course was the same individual who expressed a desire to strip off for photographer Spencer Tunick in 2008.

Interestingly in that article speaking of her body she stated, ‘As a body, it does the job adequately, but doesn’t measure up to the oppressive image of perfection — other people’s perfection — impressed on me every time I flick through a magazine.’

Herein lies one of the many flaws in Ms Devlin’s skewed logic. For while she laments the incessant subjugation of women to the fashion industry’s notion of ‘perfection’, she feels no such compunctions in dictating to Muslim women what she considers freedom. Additionally Devlin has rallied against the restrictiveness she perceives in Islam, hypocritically insisting on freedom of interpretation of religion, while denying others the same right when she disagrees with it.

Devlin is of course entitled to her opinion, no matter how moronic it is, but to impose her narrow interpretation of what the Burka means is to become the very repressive monster she rallies against. There appears to be little consistency in her thinking. Ms Devlin may be the sort to flaunt her body as an expression of ’social freedom’, Muslim women do the opposite under the same flag and it’s incredibly patronizing for her to suggest otherwise.

For a balanced feminist perspective on the veil, take a read of Naomi Wolf’s Behind the veil lives a thriving Muslim sexuality

A woman swathed in black to her ankles, wearing a headscarf or a full chador, walks down a European or North American street, surrounded by other women in halter tops, miniskirts and short shorts. She passes under immense billboards on which other women swoon in sexual ecstasy, cavort in lingerie or simply stretch out languorously, almost fully naked. Could this image be any more iconic of the discomfort the West has with the social mores of Islam, and vice versa?

Ideological battles are often waged with women’s bodies as their emblems, and Western Islamophobia is no exception. When France banned headscarves in schools, it used the hijab as a proxy for Western values in general, including the appropriate status of women. When Americans were being prepared for the invasion of Afghanistan, the Taliban were demonised for denying cosmetics and hair colour to women; when the Taliban were overthrown, Western writers often noted that women had taken off their scarves.

But are we in the West radically misinterpreting Muslim sexual mores, particularly the meaning to many Muslim women of being veiled or wearing the chador? And are we blind to our own markers of the oppression and control of women?

The West interprets veiling as repression of women and suppression of their sexuality. But when I travelled in Muslim countries and was invited to join a discussion in women-only settings within Muslim homes, I learned that Muslim attitudes toward women’s appearance and sexuality are not rooted in repression, but in a strong sense of public versus private, of what is due to God and what is due to one’s husband. It is not that Islam suppresses sexuality, but that it embodies a strongly developed sense of its appropriate channelling – toward marriage, the bonds that sustain family life, and the attachment that secures a home.

Outside the walls of the typical Muslim households that I visited in Morocco, Jordan, and Egypt, all was demureness and propriety. But inside, women were as interested in allure, seduction and pleasure as women anywhere in the world.

At home, in the context of marital intimacy, Victoria’s Secret, elegant fashion and skin care lotions abounded. The bridal videos that I was shown, with the sensuous dancing that the bride learns as part of what makes her a wonderful wife, and which she proudly displays for her bridegroom, suggested that sensuality was not alien to Muslim women. Rather, pleasure and sexuality, both male and female, should not be displayed promiscuously – and possibly destructively – for all to see.

Indeed, many Muslim women I spoke with did not feel at all subjugated by the chador or the headscarf. On the contrary, they felt liberated from what they experienced as the intrusive, commodifying, basely sexualising Western gaze. Many women said something like this: “When I wear Western clothes, men stare at me, objectify me, or I am always measuring myself against the standards of models in magazines, which are hard to live up to – and even harder as you get older, not to mention how tiring it can be to be on display all the time. When I wear my headscarf or chador, people relate to me as an individual, not an object; I feel respected.” This may not be expressed in a traditional Western feminist set of images, but it is a recognisably Western feminist set of feelings.

I experienced it myself. I put on a shalwar kameez and a headscarf in Morocco for a trip to the bazaar. Yes, some of the warmth I encountered was probably from the novelty of seeing a Westerner so clothed; but, as I moved about the market – the curve of my breasts covered, the shape of my legs obscured, my long hair not flying about me – I felt a novel sense of calm and serenity. I felt, yes, in certain ways, free.

Nor are Muslim women alone. The Western Christian tradition portrays all sexuality, even married sexuality, as sinful. Islam and Judaism never had that same kind of mind-body split. So, in both cultures, sexuality channeled into marriage and family life is seen as a source of great blessing, sanctioned by God.

This may explain why both Muslim and Orthodox Jewish women not only describe a sense of being liberated by their modest clothing and covered hair, but also express much higher levels of sensual joy in their married lives than is common in the West. When sexuality is kept private and directed in ways seen as sacred – and when one’s husband isn’t seeing his wife (or other women) half-naked all day long – one can feel great power and intensity when the headscarf or the chador comes off in the the home.

Among healthy young men in the West, who grow up on pornography and sexual imagery on every street corner, reduced libido is a growing epidemic, so it is easy to imagine the power that sexuality can carry in a more modest culture. And it is worth understanding the positive experiences that women – and men – can have in cultures where sexuality is more conservatively directed.

I do not mean to dismiss the many women leaders in the Muslim world who regard veiling as a means of controlling women. Choice is everything. But Westerners should recognise that when a woman in France or Britain chooses a veil, it is not necessarily a sign of her repression. And, more importantly, when you choose your own miniskirt and halter top – in a Western culture in which women are not so free to age, to be respected as mothers, workers or spiritual beings, and to disregard Madison Avenue – it’s worth thinking in a more nuanced way about what female freedom really means.

And while you’re at it, why not read what Muslim women have to say on the issue of the hijab (hijab means to cover and includes the all the variations we witness in the Muslim world including the niqab and burka).

‘Israeli’ Jews have admitted to harvesting organs in the past. Several rabbis with close ties to ‘Israel’ have been arrested for organ and? human trafficking over the past year. Does Mr. West have a point?

Personally, we don’t think so. But the inordinate amount of praise and air-time does smack of a deliberate publicity campaign on the part of the Jews and their cohorts, no doubt trying to cover over a multitude of sins committed against their Palestinian neighbours. In considering motives, we should not forget their hideous and heinous campaign against the Palestinians. CNN and SKY can tout their Jewish credentials till kingdom come, but we will not forget or forgive until Palestine is free.

To begin: Undoubtedly the problems faced by Muslims, men and women, in kaafir countries are many; their situation in those countries is heartbreaking and brings tears to the eyes.

We have all heard and read about the hardships they are facing, especially the women. We have seen the falseness of these countries which claim to be civilized and free, but they impose hardship on the Muslims in their jobs and in their homes, and on women with regard to their hijab and their work. They allow complete freedom for same-sex marriage and sexual perversions, and freedom to abuse Islam and Muslims, but they impose restrictions on Muslims with regard to their practices and rituals.

Everyone who is able to leave such countries must not fail to do so, before there comes a day when he will regret missed opportunities and will have no control over his family’s affairs or his own affairs or be able to leave, after having lost his children to that permissive society which is devoid of all morals and virtues, where he lives his life working and striving, then he gives his children to the street and the church, and loses out in this world and in the Hereafter.

Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih al-‘Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:

Settling in a kaafir country poses a great danger to the Muslim’s religious commitment, morals, behaviour and etiquette. We and others have seen how many of those who settled there went astray and came back different from when they went; they have come back as evildoers, and some have come back having apostatized from their religion and disbelieving in it and in all other religions – we seek refuge with Allaah – denying it completely and mocking the religion and its people, past and present. Hence we must take measures to guard against that and stipulate conditions which will prevent people from following this path which leads to doom and destruction.

How can the believer be content to live in the land of the kuffaar where the rituals of kufr are proclaimed openly and rule belongs to someone other than Allaah and His Messenger, seeing that with his own eyes, hearing that with his own ears and approving of it, and even starting to feel that he belongs there and living there with his wife and children, and feeling as comfortable there as he does in the Muslim lands, even though he and his wife and children are in such great danger and their religious commitment and morals are in such peril? End quote.

Secondly:
It is not permissible for a Muslim woman to shed her chastity and hijab in the face of these temptations. The devils among mankind and jinn are forever trying to tempt women to join the ranks of the misguided. Whoever follows them will find this world attractive in his eyes and he will be distracted from thinking of the grave, the Hereafter and the meeting with Allaah, may He be exalted.

Unfortunately some of the muftis on satellite channels have contributed to women taking off their hijab on the grounds of study or work. There is nothing good in study or work that incurs the wrath and anger of the Lord, may He be blessed and exalted. Whatever worldly benefits can a woman get with her certification or salary, knowing that it is at the expense of reward in the Hereafter and the pleasure of Allaah? No one would do this except one to whom evil has been made to look attractive so he thinks it is good.

It is not permissible for a Muslim woman to uncover her face (there is a difference of opinion on this and the issue of choice is paramount, for Shaikh Al Albani’s treatise click here), let alone her hair, even on the basis that it is for study or work. That which is with Allaah is better and more lasting. Every Muslim should hasten to leave that darkness, and the scholars should help Muslim families to adhere to their religion and obey their Lord instead of helping them to accumulate wealth and worship dirhams and dollars.

Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn Baaz (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:

It is not permissible for you or for any other women to uncover in the kaafir lands, just as it is not permissible in the Muslim lands. Rather it is obligatory to observe hijab in front of non-mahram men whether they are Muslims or kaafirs, and indeed it is more essential in the case of kaafirs, because they have no faith to keep them from doing that which Allaah has forbidden.

It is not permissible for you or anyone else to obey parents or anyone else in doing that which Allaah and His Messenger have forbidden. Allaah says in His Book (interpretation of the meaning):

“And when you ask (his wives) for anything you want, ask them from behind a screen, that is purer for your hearts and for their hearts” [al-Ahzaab 33:53]

In this verse Allaah explains that for women to observe hijab before non-mahram men is purer for the hearts of all. And He says (interpretation of the meaning):

“And tell the believing women to lower their gaze (from looking at forbidden things), and protect their private parts (from illegal sexual acts) and not to show off their adornment except only that which is apparent (like both eyes for necessity to see the way, or outer palms of hands or one eye or dress like veil, gloves, headcover, apron), and to draw their veils all over Juyoobihinna (i.e. their bodies, faces, necks and bosoms) and not to reveal their adornment except to their husbands…”

[al-Noor 24:31]

Fataawa ‘Ulama’ al-Balad al-Haraam (p. 529).

Thirdly:

Husbands should help their wives to remain chaste, covered and modest. It is not permissible for them to tell them to take off their hijab for the sake of worldly matters such as study and work. If they have no choice and it is not possible and it is not easy for them to keep their women in full hijab, then it is permissible for them to uncover the face due to this necessity, such as in airports and passports, but they should make sure that the one who examines them is a woman.

As for those who want their womenfolk to take the hijab off altogether or unnecessarily, it is not permissible for them to do that. They should be proud of belonging to this religion and they should be proud of their wives and daughters being covered, especially when they see how the kaafir women dress, baring all and going to the extreme in wearing all kinds of fashions and colours. (Admin: Any man who permits his wife to uncover is a dayooth and accursed – such a person is not permitted to lead the prayers or sit in counsel over Muslim affairs, any woman who discards her hijab under force should divorce her husband and seek the pleasure of Allah)

It is not permissible for a woman to obey her husband if he tells her to go against the rulings on covering and hijab. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:

“There is no obedience if it involves disobedience towards Allaah; obedience is only in that which is right and proper.” Narrated by al-Bukhaari (4085) and Muslim (1840).

Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih al-‘Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked:

There is a man who is married and has children, and his wife wants to wear hijab but he is opposed to that. What advice can you give him, may Allaah bless you?

He replied:

We advise him to fear Allaah, may He be glorified and exalted, and to praise Allaah for having given him such a wife who wants to dress as Allaah has commanded, in clothing that will protect her from temptation. Allaah has commanded His believing slaves to protect themselves and their families from the Fire, as He says (interpretation of the meaning):

“O you who believe! Ward off yourselves and your families against a Fire (Hell) whose fuel is men and stones, over which are (appointed) angels stern (and) severe, who disobey not, (from executing) the Commands they receive from Allaah, but do that which they are commanded”

[al-Tahreem 66:6]

And the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) stated that men are responsible for their families, as he said: “The man is the shepherd of his family and is responsible for his flock.” So how can it be appropriate for this man to try to force his wife not to wear hijab and to dress in a haraam manner which will be a cause of temptation for her and others? Let him fear Allaah with regard to himself and let him fear Allaah with regard to his family, and let him praise Allaah for blessing him and giving him this righteous wife.

As for his wife, it is not permissible for her to obey him by disobeying Allaah, for there is no obedience to any created being if it involves disobedience towards the Creator.

Fataawa al-Mar’ah al-Muslimah (1/442, 443).

Fourthly:

With regard to a woman going out of her house, our sisters should note that the basic principle with regard to women is that they are to be honoured, and part of her being honoured is that her husband and children are to serve her. The husband is enjoined to spend on her. The idea of her staying in the home is only so that she can do a great work which no group of men could do, which is raising the children, serving her husband and house. These are great deeds. Hence she should not go out except in the case of necessity or urgent need, especially if she is in a kaafir country or a land that is not safe.

Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih al-‘Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:

Undoubtedly for a woman to remain in her home is better and is farther removed from fitnah (temptation) and evil. We are all aware of what happens when women go out in the marketplaces, and they cause temptation and are themselves tempted. If it is possible for her not to go out, this is what is required. If she must go out, then she should go out as the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Let them go out looking scruffy,” i.e., not adorned or wearing perfume. But they should not go out except in the case of need. … What I think with regard to this issue is that women should stay at home in all cases, and not go out except in cases of necessity, and if they go out in cases of necessity, they should not wear perfume or any adornment.

With regard to taking a mahram with her, undoubtedly that is better, but it is not essential so long as the matter does not involve travel. But unfortunately you see some people bringing their families to the tailor or shopkeeper, then the man stays in the car and the woman is the one who goes and speaks to the men, and fitnah may affect his family as a result. The man should be a real man, protective towards his family, and not do such things. If it is essential, then he should go with her and stand with her when she speaks to the man or the man speaks to her, or he should speak to his wife and then speak to the man.

Liqaa’aat al-baab il-Maftooh (117/question no. 2).

Fifthly:

For the one who wants sincere advice, the Islamic ruling is that one should not stay in kaafir countries.

Source: Islam Q&A

MPAC.ie Comment: Wise words from the Shuyook of Al Islam, spending your time, resources and wealth in dar-ul-kufr only benefits the kuffar IF you are not involved in Dawa’ah or seeking to establish Allah’s authority in this land. The vast majority of Muslims do nothing but lick the boots of the kuffar and at the same time place obstacles in the way of sincere Muslims, such ingrates should return (or be returned) to the lands from whence they came. Their harm will be reduced and the work of the Islamic Awakening here can continue unabated. And Allaah is the Source of strength.

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‘Women can wear what they want, they only dress like prostitutes because that’s how everyone dresses’. My 16 year old brother.

Islam is seen in the west as a big demon which wants to kill everything that moves and oppresses women. Let’s take a look at the latter for the time being. Let’s look at the facts, Islam was the first religion to give equal rights to men and women, women were given the right to vote in Arabia around the year 700, if you ask are Irish women oppressed? You will be laughed at, but yet they only got the right to vote in 1922, 1200 years after the women of Islam.

All you need do is look at the society in which we live and look to the youth, watch the films that young people watch, listen to the music they listen to and listen to the youth of Ireland as they talk on the bus or in the street and you get a very, very sad and hurtful picture. Women in this society are abused, used, neglected and treated like animals and the worst thing is, they believe they are free! They actually, genuinely believe there is nothing wrong with it, because they don’t have to cover their hair? This is the sad truth.

Women aren’t protected in this society. I feel if someone had the mentality that is portrayed by the Irish youth well then I feel women are very unsafe. What is the cause of this? Well women are supposedly ‘free’ in this society so what does that mean? It means the old sayings of ‘I don’t NEED a man to take care of me’! Now that’s all well and good, you may not need a man to take care of you, but would it not be nice? Instead of constantly trying to be better looking than all the other girls in the club, have the nicest hair, have the best make-up and least amount of clothes without catching pneumonia or instead of trying to impress a different bloke every weekend is it not nicer to have that special someone. Someone who will always think you’re the best looking girl, that you have the best hair, and that really doesn’t want you wearing as little clothes as possible because its not nice for you to be so cold. Is that not better?

The women in the Irish society will say they are free and have no restrictions on them that force them to do anything they don’t want to, but yet (we’ll take the debs for example) debs after debs, weekend after weekend, girls are literally forced (not physically of course) to pay stupid amounts of money for their hair and make-up and dresses. I asked a group of girls ‘why do you do this?’ the answer I received was ‘you just have to’. Is this not oppression? Is this not what everyone says Islam is? They honestly believe that there is nothing wrong with the way they are made pay extortionate prices for one day.

Ok, ok you may say ‘that’s the debs.Thats a once-off kind of thing’ and in the beginning I did agree with you, but it happens every day. In the media, on both the television and the silver screens we see these skinny women, wearing what seems as little clothes as possible being used like toys and the women of Ireland gladly entertain this ideology. Mimicking it in almost every way! It makes me very sad. Number one because it means I have to look away from the screen every 30 seconds and I miss half the film! And number two because they see this and say ‘I’m an independent woman, I can sleep with however I want’ and the young stupid men around her say ‘excellent, sleep with her and never see her again’! Welcome to equality and the ‘civilised’ west.

My next point I want to raise is the hypocrisy of this situation, which the Irish society and the west itself has created. If a woman sleeps with a different man every weekend she’s deemed, in this society ‘an independent woman and a free woman’, which is entertained by both men and women, but yet if she was to ask for money she’s deemed ‘a prostitute and a whore’. But in this society is the second woman not the more intelligent? Is she not the one who is actually gaining something from the society, and the levels of morality that the society has built?

Now lets look at the Islamic alternative and put these situations in an Islamic perspective. If a Muslim sister was going to her debs, shed number one save a lot of money because she wouldn’t have to get her hair done, now would she? This may seem a little thing but look, Muslim sisters are obviously less oppressed because when all the Irish sisters are feeling pressured to have the nicest hair and to constantly have a new hair-do, the Muslim sisters just throw a scarf on it! Now you know theres at least one sister out there going: ‘You tell ‘em!’. Now take the situation of the woman who sleeps with a different man every weekend. In islam this wouldn’t happen, number one because its not allowed, but also because there is no marriage in the west. Islam stresses marriage. Because if that woman had a husband she wouldn’t need to sleep with a different man every weekend and the second woman wouldn’t have to ask for money because she would have a husband to provide for her! They would both be safer because they wouldn’t be putting themselves in the situation of going out every weekend and being put at the risk of being abused.

To finish off I would just like to ask you to ask yourself one question… if a man is starting a relationship with a woman or is getting to know a woman and she has half a skirt and a low cut top on(which is common place) what is he going to be thinking? And if he cant even see her hair because he hasn’t got the right to, is he going to be thinking the same thing?

Bro. Eoin

Women as chattel