So good points which resume all about Islam and more about women's status after Muhammad

Submitted by A very concerned reader, Mar 17, 2021 at 07:40

Dear Dr Pipes,

I hadn't read this article of yours until very recently, and I decided to watch the documentary. I just wanted to let you know how much frustration I felt after watching it. How is possible that this documentary were released? All your article hits the nail on the head. I felt you made justice with every sentence when reading your very accurate points throughout the whole text but especially this:

"Some of their efforts are laughable, as when one commentator denies allegations about Muhammad contracting a marriage of convenience with a rich, older woman named Khadija: "He deeply, deeply loved Khadija." Oh, and his many marriages were "an act of faith, not of lust." How could anyone know this?"

Muhammad had a personality disorder among other illnesses which made him trespass any moral just to satisfy his hunger for frugal pleasure. An insatiable thirst that no woman could satisfied, as the fairy-tale of his nocturnal sex adventurous activities proved as narrated on the hadiths. I'm referring to his "capacity" to visit his nine (nine!) wives on the very same night! But yes, we have to believe that he loved them all...

And this;

"Other apologetics are more consequential. What Muhammad did for women, viewers learn, was "amazing" - his condemning female infanticide, giving legal rights to wives, permitting divorce and protecting their inheritance rights. But no commentator is so impolite as to note that however admirable this was in the 7th century, Muslim women today suffer widely from genital mutilation, forced marriages, purdah, illiteracy, sexual apartheid, polygamy and honor killings".

So well and rightly expressed, Dr Pipes. So much for the ignorance of these women who believe that they're treated like "pearls" and protected under the roof of their houses and excessive over-layered garments because they were given so many rights during the 7th century. But today, in Australia, they are still unable to get their Islamic divorce from their holy husbands who are just imitating their perfect role-model: Muhammad. So much for the ignorance and for keeping continuing their "exemplary" lifestyle. What a great legacy. More about this fact in these articles:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-19/islamic-divorce-advocates-call-for-urgent-review/9676258 (2018 article, but I'm a witness thanks to my job that this is a fact which is still an ongoing issue. A problem that no one wants to mention).

https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-18/abused-muslim-women-denied-right-to-divorce/9632772?nw=0

Thanks for speaking your sound mind. We definitely need your work to be spread.

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