The United States is, by far, the world’s largest producer of online pornography, accounting for nearly 25% of all such material. Rounding out the list of the top five porn-producing countries are the United Kingdom (5.5%), Germany (4.9%), Brazil (4.8%) and France (4%). Of the top 15, a dozen are western countries, the three outliers being Japan (3.8%), India (3.2%) and Turkey (1.8%). In total, more than 60% of all online pornography features western performers.
One might think that, given the western provenance of most of this material, it is also being consumed by a predominantly western audience. This, however, is not the case. Some of the world’s top consumers of online pornographic material are, in fact, to be found in Muslim countries. According to Google – by far the most popular search engine used by consumers of online pornography (83.5%) – Pakistan tops the list of countries whose citizens perform pornography-related searches. Of the top 8 such countries, 6 of them are predominantly Muslim states, including Egypt, Iran, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. While many of these countries have strict laws prohibiting the production and consumption of pornographic material, the advent of the smartphone has made controlling porn-related internet traffic virtually impossible – something an increasing number of Muslim men regularly exploit.
Muslims in Pakistan, Iran, Egypt, Malaysia, Indonesia, Turkey, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates also search for beastiality porn more than any other demographic worldwide, with particular interest in donkeys, dogs, horses, cows, goats, snakes, monkeys, elephants and – yes – bears. The deeper one digs into the Google data, the worse it gets: the search term “child porn” is the second most popular porn-related search in Turkey, being topped only by Pakistan, which leads the world in searching for the terms “children sex”, “sexy child”, “sexy children” and, unsurprisingly, “rape”. Other disturbing terms searched in connection with porn include “father daughter” and “bother sister” – ranked numbers 4 and 5 in Syria; “mom” appears in Egypt’s top 10 porn-related search terms. Equally revealing is the finding that the second most common language used to search for homosexual pornography is Arabic, with the terms “gay man”, “gay sex”, “gay girl” and “homo sex” topping the list. In fact, “homo sex” is the top porn-related search term in Indonesia, home to more than 200 million Muslims.
Obviously, pornography is a universal problem. In fairness, depraved Muslims would not be consuming so much pornographic material if depraved westerners were not producing so much of it. Like the Arab sayf ḏū ḥadayn, however, that argument cuts both ways: if Muslim men were not so ready to click links to pornographic sites, increasing their revenue, there would be less such material produced in the West. The simple truth is that no modern culture or society can claim to be spotless when it comes to the scourge of pornography. Some are producers, some are consumers, most want nothing to do with it, but everyone is affected by it in one way or another.
This problem would perhaps remain a largely moral one were it not for the fact that Europe is currently being flooded by men of predominantly Muslim background whose only knowledge of western women is what they have learned by watching internet porn. Khaled Diab of The Guardian reports that porn is largely responsible for the mischaracterization, common among Arab Muslims, of western women as “oversexed, promiscuous and having revolving doors in their knickers.” He states:
“In fact, many Arab men, particularly those with little contact with the West, have this fantasy of western women that comes straight out of Playboy magazine or the grainy images of pirate pornos.”
He quotes an Arab friend as saying:
“A typical Egyptian male is a firm believer that any western woman is an easy catch and would not mind at all having sex with complete strangers.”
Not wanting to single out Egyptians, Diab reveals that similar views are held all over the Arab Muslim world. One Portuguese colleague told him:
“From my personal experience, the worst Arab men I found were the ones from Saudi Arabia. They think that all foreign women are prostitutes and they try to treat them like that.”
Given that this is the mentality of some – and perhaps many – of the Muslim men currently entering Europe in droves, incidents like the one which took place in Cologne, Germany on New Year’s Eve 2015 – where more than 1,000 women were sexually assaulted and/or harassed by groups of immigrants of African and Arab descent – should surprise no one. While shocking in its extent, the incident is by no means isolated. Wherever Muslim immigration has increased, reports of sexual assault and rape have increased dramatically. Sweden, for example, which has prided itself since the 1970’s on having one of the most immigrant-friendly policies in Europe, is now widely acknowledged to be the rape capital of the West. The Muslim child sexual exploitation rings in Great Britain, in which well over 1,000 young, predominantly western girls were abused as sex slaves by groups of Muslim, predominantly Pakistani men, is but another shocking example of the same phenomenon.
What is perhaps most troubling, however, is the reaction of western political and cultural elites to this growing problem. Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker responded to the New Year’s incident by suggesting that the victims were at least partially to blame for what happened, going so far as to call for guidelines on how western women must change their behavior if they are to avoid such treatment in the future. Professor of Anthropology Dr. Unni Wikan suggested that the sharp increase in cases of rape in her native Sweden was largely due to the provocative manner in which Swedish women dress themselves, saying “Norwegian women must take their share of responsibility for these rapes,” and “realise that we live in a multicultural society and adapt themselves to it.” To the shame of Great Britain, it has been widely acknowledged that investigators regularly ignored reports made by the victims of the Rotherham child prostitution ring because they worried about the possibility of appearing racist and/or xenophobic toward Pakistani Muslims.
In the rare event of a public figure venturing forward to acknowledge some modicum of responsibility, that acknowledgement invariably takes the form of a collective mea culpa on the part of the West. It is our general failure to be “welcoming” and “open to the other” which is at root of the cultural conflicts currently threatening to tear Europe apart. Even prominent men in the Church have taken up the cause of limitless Muslim immigration, using the humanitarian good will of the European peoples against themselves as the means of their own cultural demise. As German Cardinal Rainer Woelki said while celebrating Mass over a carefully staged seven-meter-long refugee boat perched on the steps of the Cologne Cathedral – mere meters aways from where hundreds of women were sexually assaulted by Muslim immigrants only a few months prior: “Someone who lets people drown in the Mediterranean also drowns God.” Obviously, the Germans have lost nothing of their skill in crafting powerful slogans meant to browbeat the populace into submission.
In a way unforeseen by any of the members of the global financial and political elite, however, the peoples of Europe have begun to push back. One very powerful signal in this regard was the recent vote by 52% of the British electorate to leave the European Union – largely over the issues of border control and immigration policy. Financial independence and national sovereignty, while grand ideals, leave the common man largely untouched. It is when he recognizes an imminent threat to his wife and children that he is compelled to act. The tired self-accusatory excuses of the western liberal left are no longer effective in pacifying the populace in the face of an invading culture of sexual assault and rape.
Blame is to be placed – first and foremost – on the Muslim religion itself. While pornography is a significant contributing factor today, Muslim views of western women as sex objects are a tradition which can be traced back to that paragon of Muslim orthodoxy, the Prophet Mohammed, himself. Nadia Maria el-Cheikh, in the work Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs, relates a story in which Mohammed used the “white-complexioned blondes, with straight hair and blue eyes” of Byzantium to tempt a new convert to help him wage jihad against the capital of the Eastern Empire, asking him, “Would you like the girls of Banu al-Asfar?” – the Arabic term used to refer to the “unbelieving Caucasians” of Byzantium and Rome. To another potential jihadi, he posed the question, “O Abu Wahb, would you not like to have scores of Byzantine women and men as concubines and servants?” to which Wahb responded:
“O Messenger of Allah, if I see the women of the Byzantines, I fear I will not be able to hold back. So do not tempt me with them.”
El-Cheikh explains that the hope of capturing Byzantine women – who became Islam’s version of the femme fatale – as sex slaves is a theme running through early Arabic literature:
“Our sources show not Byzantine women but [Muslim] writers’ images of these women, who served as symbols of the eternal female – constantly a potential threat, particularly due to blatant exaggerations of their sexual promiscuity.”
Examples of this include descriptions of European women as “the most shameless in the whole world”, “finding sex more enjoyable”, and “prone to adultery.” To a mind religiously and culturally disposed to viewing western women as “willing whores”, therefore, the flood of western pornography which has inundated the world over the last 50 years has only solidified that view into an absolute conviction.
Does this in any way excuse the individual Muslim who commits such acts? Absolutely not. But it does help to explain why so many Muslim men view western women as fair game for sexual conquest: they learned it from their Prophet.
Blame must also, of course, be placed squarely upon the shoulders of the ideological leaders of the libertine sexual revolution – especially those who mainstreamed pornography under the cover of “freedom of (artistic) expression”, such as Hugh Hefner, Larry Flynt and Bob Guccione. Prior to the publication of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy, pornography was cheaply produced and difficult to obtain. By the end of their careers, it had been transformed it into a multi-million dollar, high-glamor industry with product placement in nearly every convenience store and newspaper stand around the world. But, for all their moral depravity, these were ultimately businessmen who viewed pornography as a lucrative commodity to be bought and sold like any other. The truly ugly defenders of sexual immodesty are the so-called “sex-positive” feminists who promote the notion that pornography is “empowering” to women.
Wendy McElroy, a self-described “individualist anarcho-feminist”, argues that pornography “benefits women, both personally and politically.” In regards to the personal “benefits,” she writes:
“Pornography strips away the emotional confusion that so often surrounds real world sex. Pornography allows women to enjoy scenes and situations that would be anathema to them in real life. Take, for example, one of the most common fantasies reported by women: the fantasy of ‘being taken’, of being raped. The first thing to understand is that a rape fantasy does not represent a desire for the real thing. It is a fantasy. The woman is in control of the smallest detail of every act. Why would a healthy woman daydream about being raped? There are dozens of reasons. Perhaps by losing control, she also sheds all sense of responsibility for and guilt over sex. Perhaps it is the exact opposite of the polite, gentle sex she has now. Perhaps it is flattering to imagine a particular man being so overwhelmed by her that he must have her. Perhaps she is curious. Perhaps she has some masochistic feelings that are vented through the fantasy. Is it better to bottle them up?”
So, rather than dispelling the Muslim myth of the western willing whore, McElroy doubles down: they actually fantasize about being raped.
Joining the “sex-positive” ranks of McElroy are some big names in feminism: novelist and poet Kathy Acker (née Lehmann), academic and social critic Camille Paglia, and Megan Andelloux, founder of the Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health, just to name a few. Ellen Willis, considered one of the pioneers of the “sex-positive” branch of feminism, argued that “the claim that ‘pornography is violence against women’ [is] code for the neo-Victorian idea that men want sex and women endure it.”
Well-known activist and author Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who was raised a devout Muslim, recently released a short film asking the question, “Why don’t feminists fight for Muslim women?” Given the views of “sex-positive” feminists like McElroy and Willis, the answer should be obvious: not only do they not care about Muslim women; they don’t care about western women, either. If a woman is offended by the sexual advances of an immigrant, she’s actually suffering under the oppression of the patriarchy which turned her into a prude, and to portray her as the victim would be to perpetuate the image of the defenseless and sexually repressed female. Besides, she secretly fantasizes about being raped by him, anyway. So what’s the big deal?
Snark aside, the reason modern feminists largely refuse to stand up to Islam is because doing so would force them to acknowledge that they are not the oppressed suffragettes they regularly portray themselves to be. As blogger Janet Bloomfield notes:
“What radical Islam does is remind feminists that if patriarchy were a real thing in our culture, if misogyny were a real thing, if men hated women and wanted them chained in basements, we would be chained in basements. In actual fact, Western men are the most indulgent, permissive, tolerant men you will find anywhere on the planet, and in the face of real misogyny, whining feminists end up looking like petulant toddlers tossing expensive toys out of their designer prams complaining they are oppressed.”
Opposing actual Islamic aggression toward women – even western women – is simply bad for the feminist narrative. So it is quietly ignored – or, in the case of new wave radical feminism – excused. As old-school German feminist Alice Schwarzer recently remarked with an appreciable degree of consternation, “many of the so called ‘post-feminist’ Internet feminists who are for pornography and prostitution are in favor of the head scarf and even the burqa. They say this is all about the free choice of women.”
And thus feminism and Islam, which one could be forgiven for assuming should be mortal enemies, become bedfellows, aligned through their mutual hatred for the Christian West and their willingness to sacrifice the welfare of women and children to achieve their socio-political ends.
Despite the claims of Wendy McElroy, any normal person should have a hard time believing that there is anything close to a statistically significant number of women who secretly fantasize about being raped. While many “studies” were produced in the 70’s and 80’s which claimed to document precisely that, more recent analysis suggests that fantasies in which a woman is consensually overpowered by a desireable male are not and should not be referred to as “rape” fantasies at all, but are instead expressions of the natural relationship between the sexes, i.e. a woman’s healthy desire for an assertive and physically powerful male partner. When consent is removed from the scenario, the number of women who report erotic – as opposed to aversive – “rape fantasies” becomes negligible. And while one may speculate as to the underlying causes of this residual element, we can be sure of this: by willfully ignoring the threat that Islam and Muslim culture pose to women everywhere, feminists are doing everything right if their goal is to facilitate such a nightmarish fantasy becoming a reality. For an increasing number of European women, it already has.
Well done. Thank you for discussing this topic, the link between pornograpy, the West, Islam and feminism. It is about time someone did. Truly a scourge is upon us.
The Hadith about Byzantine women is inauthentic and was written hundreds of years after the death of Prophet Muhammad and has n basis in the Quran.
The claim about Muslim search for porn has been shown to be a myth:
http://www.dawn.com/news/1158698
Most visits to the two top pornography sites in the world come from America, India, Japan, United Kingdom, Germany and Brazil. Four out of these six countries are Christian societies:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/pornhub.com
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/xvideos.com
According to German police, refugees have a lower rape rate than German citizens:
http://www.thelocal.de/20151113/police-refugees-commit-less-crimes-than-germans
Feminists in the Muslim world criticize the likes of Daesh all the time.It’s normal that feminists in Europe and North America criticize misogyny in their societies, while feminists in Asia and Africa criticize misogyny within their societies.
The Quran says that both men and women are equal: “The believing men and believing women authority of one another. They enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong” [9:71] And the Quran also commands men to treat women with kindness: “And live with them in kindness.” [4:19].
The Quran prohibits taking women as sex captives as it says that prisoners of wars must either be freed or ransomed: “when you have thoroughly subdued them, bind a bond firmly (on them): thereafter (is the time for) either generosity or ransom” [47:4]
The Bible permits raping and taking women as sex slaves: ” As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your enemies.” [Deuteronomy 20:14]
“2 “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything. 3 If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him. 4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free. 5 “But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’ 6 then his master must take him before the judges.[a] He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.” [Exodus 21:2-6]
“Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by sleeping with him. 18 But all the young girls who have not known a man by sleeping with him, keep alive for yourselves.” [Numbers 31:17-18]
Great article!
One comment and one quibble:
1. One of the notable things about Islam is how some supposedly “conservative” views on sex and marriage seem to go hand in hand with a sort of theologically grounded violent pornographic hedonism–at least for males. Some examples might be Muhammad and his fellow fighters’ behavior treatment of slaves, concubines and captured women (which set the example for ISIS), the religious promise that if you’re a faithful male Muslim, you’ll get 72 virgins forever, the Shia practice of Nikah Mut’ah or temporary marriage, which can shade into prostitution and so on. I think part of the problem is that, as far as I can tell, there is no systematic or general theological theory about sex–what it’s for, why sometimes it’s morally bad and sometimes morally okay, etc. All the rules are simply extrapolations from the deeds and sayings of the highly-sexed but also “devout” Muhammad, without a lot of rhyme or reason.
2. I think the link between feminism, pornography and Islam is a bit more complex than the article implies. As you know, there’s a big split among feminists on pornography, which tracks the split between “left-wing” and “individualist” feminists. This yields all sorts of permutations for attitudes towards Islam, some of which are logically consistent and some not. One surprising thing for me, as an ex-big-L Libertarian and still quasi-small-l libertarian is how sympathetic or at least blind many libertarians are to the threat of Islam. I wouldn’t have expected it and I don’t really have an explanation for it other than that many libertarians have an unholy fixation with not being labeled “conservative.” McElroy is a good example of this, but I’m not sure her blind spot regarding Islam has much to do with her views on pornography. On the other hand, Camille Paglia is at least a quasi-Islamophobe.
Thanks for commenting, Oakes. Obviously, this topic easily merits a much more detailed examination than I could offer in one short article. I wanted to hit a few key data points and at least establish the possibility of a complex relationship – a ménage à trois, if you will – between feminism, pornography and Islam in the mind of the reader. It’s a discussion which needs to take place on a wider stage and with far more participants – one reason I really appreciate Steve having decided to run it here. The finer distinctions in the feminist camp, for example, – hinted at in the mention of Alice Schwarzer – is something I considered going into, but instead decided that I would rather provoke a reaction from anti-porn/anti-Islam feminists in the hope of getting them to talk about this issue and perhaps even distance themselves from the “sex-positivists” than simply give them a free pass. Thoughtful comments like yours are exactly the kind of thing I am hoping will come about from the article, leading to good discussion of this serious problem.
Spot on about Camille Paglia…read her books back in the 80’s and found much to not like, but she understands the game today can be life or death for women.
Alot of gobble-de-gook “hey look at me and my brilliance” crap. One only has to go back to the Old Testament and READ and UNDERSTAND that human sex was for a legitiate couple in the eyes of the laws of their times for pro-creation and to cleave together as one,
and to allow the physicalpleasure with each other, too!
Man/Woman in their arrogance and distorted thinking have chosen to allow this loss of self-control, to perpetuate this ever-increading mental disease and sickness.
“In a way unforeseen by any of the members of the global financial and political elite, however, the peoples of Europe have begun to push back”. Or maybe that is really the goal! Bring in the chaos to have an excuse to acquire broad powers and lastly tirany.
For sure the German men did not push back many weeks ago in Cologne when a hundred or so German women got off the train and onto the platform…where there were a few hundred Syrian men who groped, or raped on the platform.
Methinks the German men must hate their women or enjoy a free live porn show…. or the nincompoops would have taken down the Syrian men en masse.
As for Sweden being the rape capital of Europe for eons, the Swede women can thank themselves for wanting the state as a substitute daddy/husband figure.
All that feminism is coming home to roost…good luck ladies on retracement of present. Your feminism gave you the highest suicide rates of men forever, and now you have no men with balls to protect you from koranimals…good luck!
This fake Feminist Wendy McElroy and friends are the product of the Sexual Revolution. They love perverse sex, therefore, they could careless about the Muslims raping Western women.
Mass immigration of Muslims to the West is invasion in ancient terms–kill the men, rape the women, enslave the children. Liberals are dragging us all toward civilizational suicide. That is why I am a fascist. Liberals must be forcefully removed from power and deprived of their political and legal rights. If you’re not AltRight, you’re not paying attention. Will to power, bros. Save your wives, sisters, mothers, and daughters from savages–by any means necessary.
Agree that this is an invasion, but fascism is not the cure! Fascism is also totalitarian.
It’s not an invasion. Nobody is carrying arms and nobody wants to fight. For example according to German police refugees have a lower crime and rape rate than German citizens:
http://www.thelocal.de/20151113/police-refugees-commit-less-crimes-than-germans
Most of these people are legitimate refugees in distress or economic migrants, nothing more and nothing less.
An invasion is what the Christians did to the native populations of North and South america and Oceania.
Good article, but I wouldn’t lump Camille Paglia in with some of the other names you put up there. I’m sure she’d be in agreement with you that mass migration from the middle east is a madness of out masochistic self-hating culture.
If a Mohammedan can do whatever they want to an infidel, the issue of porn or impressions of an American woman is sorta beside the point.
Muslims (not “Mohammadans”) are not allowed to do whatever they want to an infidel. The Quran commands to treat peaceful non-Muslims with kindness and justice: “God does not forbid you from those who do not fight you because of religion and do not expel you from your homes – from being righteous toward them and acting justly toward them. Indeed, God loves those who act justly.” [60:8]
It commands regarding peaceful non-Muslims exactly as Muslims: “and do not say to one who gives you [a greeting of] peace “You are not a believer,”” [4:94]
It commands rescuing non-Muslims if they seek refuge in us even when they are fighting us and that we should escort them to a safe place: “And if any one of the polytheists seeks your protection, then grant him protection so that he may hear the words of Allah . Then deliver him to his place of safety. That is because they are a people who do not know.” [9:6]
And it commands taking the initiative of peace and mending relations with our enemies: “And not equal are the good deed and the bad. Repel [evil] by that [deed] which is better; and thereupon the one whom between you and him is enmity [will become] as though he was a devoted friend. But none is granted it except those who are patient, and none is granted it except one having a great portion [of good].” [41:34-35]
Christianity teaches hate and violence against non-Christians: “Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship is there between light and darkness? 15 What agreement does Christ have with Beliar? Or what does a believer share with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols?” [ 2 Corinthians 6:14-16]
“13 That testimony is true. For this reason rebuke them sharply, so that they may become sound in the faith, 14 not paying attention to Jewish myths or to commandments of those who reject the truth. 15 To the pure all things are pure, but to the corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure. Their very minds and consciences are corrupted.” [Titus 1:13-15]
“And whoever does not provide for relatives, and especially for family members, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” [1 Timothy 5:8]
“17 “Harass the Midianites, and defeat them; 18 for they have harassed you by the trickery with which they deceived you in the affair of Peor, and in the affair of Cozbi, the daughter of a leader of Midian, their sister; she was killed on the day of the plague that resulted from Peor.”” [Numbers 25:17-18]
“10 When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. 11 If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you. 12 If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. 13 When the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. 14 As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your enemies. 15 This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby. 16 However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. 17 Completely destroy[a] them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you. 18 Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the Lord your God.” [Deuteronomy 20:10-18]
“20 When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city. 21 They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.” [Joshua 6:20-21]
“3 Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”” [1 Samuel 15:3]
“Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by sleeping with him. 18 But all the young girls who have not known a man by sleeping with him, keep alive for yourselves.” [Numbers 31:17-18]
“He said to them, “But now, the one who has a purse must take it, and likewise a bag. And the one who has no sword must sell his cloak and buy one.37 For I tell you, this scripture must be fulfilled in me, ‘And he was counted among the lawless’; and indeed what is written about me is being fulfilled.” 38 They said, “Lord, look, here are two swords.” He replied, “It is enough.” [Luke 22:36-38]
The Hadith about Byzantine women is inauthentic and was written hundreds of years after the death of Prophet Muhammad and has n basis in the Quran.
The claim about Muslim search for porn has been shown to be a myth:
http://www.dawn.com/news/1158698
Most visits to the two top pornography sites in the world come from America, India, Japan, United Kingdom, Germany and Brazil. Four out of these six countries are Christian societies:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/pornhub.com
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/xvideos.com
According to German police, refugees have a lower rape rate than German citizens:
http://www.thelocal.de/20151113/police-refugees-commit-less-crimes-than-germans
Feminists in the Muslim world criticize the likes of Daesh all the time.It’s normal that feminists in Europe and North America criticize misogyny in their societies, while feminists in Asia and Africa criticize misogyny within their societies.
The Quran says that both men and women are equal: “The believing men and believing women authority of one another. They enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong” [9:71] And the Quran also commands men to treat women with kindness: “And live with them in kindness.” [4:19].
The Quran prohibits taking women as sex captives as it says that prisoners of wars must either be freed or ransomed: “when you have thoroughly subdued them, bind a bond firmly (on them): thereafter (is the time for) either generosity or ransom” [47:4]
The Bible permits raping and taking women as sex slaves: ” As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your enemies.” [Deuteronomy 20:14]
“2 “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything. 3 If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but if he has a wife when he comes, she is to go with him. 4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free. 5 “But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free,’ 6 then his master must take him before the judges.[a] He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life.” [Exodus 21:2-6]
“Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by sleeping with him. 18 But all the young girls who have not known a man by sleeping with him, keep alive for yourselves.” [Numbers 31:17-18]
Big picture
Commander William Guy Carr’s in his Pawns in the Game, exposing a satanic conspiracy
to control the world, lists the following Illuminati goals [therefore also of freemasonry, the agentur/vehicle] toward their pursuit for world domination:
1. Abolition of ALL ordered national governments.
2. Abolition of inheritance.
3. Abolition of private property.
4. Abolition of patriotism.
5. Abolition of the individual home and family life as the cell from which all civilizations have stemmed.
6. Abolition of ALL religions established and existing so that the Luciferian ideology of totalitarianism may be imposed on mankind.
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It is easy then to understand the why of contraception + abortion, divorce, feminism, women working away from the home, the proliferation of pornography, the homosexual agenda + gender ideology, writing euthanasia into law, fomenting of religious and racial tension, multiculturalism, etc. Islam is of diabolical origin and therefore pornography would be even more devastating in such a culture.
Excellent article!
In addition to that, prophet Mohamed promised to faithful Muslims a heaven with 70 virgins waiting for each one of them. This is surely one of the reason why do Muslim men desire to anticipate the promise here on earth.
On feminism and rape fantasies – the quoted Wendy McElroy’s ‘research conclusions’ are false and A. Kinsley style ‘sounded and firm conclusions’.
A timely article on an important topic.
War makes for strange bedfellows and the “NWO” has declared war on the West. Therefore, any enemy of the West is promoted, regardless of their apparent contradictions. For example, abortion, mass immigration, islam, feminism, queerification, promiscuity, illegitimacy, “equality”, “diversity”, divorce, global warming and all the other societal ills with which we are too familiar. Each of these evils does its bit (large or small) to cut us off from our Catholic moral past and prevent a return.
Sadly, we have yet to fully appreciate that our enemies constantly subject us to massive psychological warfare and so society can’t even perceive the attacks (even saying it’s happening gets dismissed as conspiracy looney tunes). In the UK, shortly after the report on Rotherham’s industrial-scale child abuse was published a group called Animal Aid secretly filmed the abuse of sheep in an islamic slaughterhouse. Animal Aid said that while some haters may have used the footage as a pretext to stir up hate for islam, the sheep’s welfare was paramount. The UK establishment reacted immediately and sanctioned the slaughterhouse and its staff.
So the moral order in the UK runs thus: 1) animal rights 2) islamic relations 3) young girls’ welfare
St. Benedict pray for us.
Well I could respond to this with a very lengthy response, I will try to keep it brief.
First, I have not read any personal male culpability in which one not only views porn, but in any of their twisted assertions that women because of pornography are to be blamed for sexual assaults. I am very disappointed that the over sexualized male attitudes and their sense of entitlement is not noted as being a direct cause of assaults on women.
Second, as Henriette Reker goes, I am too dumbfounded that someone such as herself would even state such an erroneous statement. The ignorance is similar to Rep. Akin statement regarding the legitimacy of rape by stating that a raped woman is able to biologically prevent insemination if it was a true rape. I would really like to know how such people even get into positions of power and decision making when they can be so colossally, and totally ignorant.
Third, this muslim tradition of their treatment of women in general, including the assault of women to the gang rape of their own daughters because some other male family member caused disgrace to the family, to everyday injustices and violence must be confronted for what they are, crimes of the highest magnitude.
Fourth, the capitulation of western leaders, groups, that turn their eyes away from the onslaught women have endured, to the point of blaming the victim is an outrage. Their social experiment to integrate two distinct cultures by shaking this proverbial snow globe of a planet, has as it basic principle the collateral damage done to innocent people. Decent people being sacrificed on the “altar” of diversity, all the while they themselves are insulated from this reality. Anyone who even brings up the notion of holding the perpetrator accountable, or curbing the influx of like minded people are silenced with word b.o.m.b.s. like racist, (insert your word here)-phobe.
Finally, those that suggest pornography is liberating female sexuality, are ivory tower dwellers who themselves are sequestered from the reality of the violence from pornography. Why do men of any culture watch it, because they derive more than just sexual pleasure, they feel empowered by it. This must come to and end, but let me be perfectly clear. It is not because of what women wear, it is not because we are independent in society, it is not because we “ask” for it, or the mere fact that because we are women we have a sign that reads “rape me I like it”. It is because men have no respect for women, porn has warped even decent men, men have not been taught to control themselves, and the male entitlement of take what we want is prevalent. So please, stop blaming women for what others do to them, or do the screams of victims have no meaning.
Quote from article: “Snark aside, the reason modern feminists largely refuse to stand up to Islam is because doing so would force them to acknowledge that they are not the oppressed suffragettes they regularly portray themselves to be.”
Indeed—quite insightful.
Apparently they’re is a penchant for and acceptance of homosexual sex between a man and a cross dressing man.
Islam is a chastisement for the Christian world, always has been. So God is once again using it to wake up Christians and one of the wake up calls is for the immodestly dressed women in the west. I’m not saying anything about the rapes which can’t be justified in any way but you do have to wonder about the way some of these women dress. One conservative radio personality was even complaining that the new muslim mayor of London has forbid advertising on city buses with women in bikinis. I AGREE with the muslim mayor of London on this point! I was in Paris in 2011 and they had ads on the walls of bus stops with topless women.. in formerly Catholic France, such a thing would have been scandalous even a few decades ago.
So yes, God’s chastisement for Christians is coming again and we can’t say it’s not deserved if you doubt it, just walk through any public place these days, what the women wear from showing skin, exposed breasts hanging out, skin tight clothes, yoga pants, where’s the dignity? Where’s the modesty? Look at the old movies from the 30’s every woman wore a scarf over her head when out in public, I’m certainly not making a case for hijabs but holy cow, western society has slipped pretty far if you compare where we are today and it seems to be a never ending whoreish race to the bottom.
Mahommedansim is the most depraved and pernicous death cult invented by the human mind . Mahommed is considered the “perfect model of human conduct”. If he did it, it is perfectly legitimate. There is no such thing as the golden rule in Mahommedanism (I use this traditional term because the Koran and the Sunnah are more about Mahommed than abot Allah. He is also a monster and an out and out gangster. We urgently need to get this message through to Muslims as they urgently need the Gospel and to now Jesus Christ. There are Evangelicals who are attempting to do this type of evangelization as is also Fr. Zaccharias Botros, a Coptic priest who has a huge audience for his Cable TV program in Arabic, and has many secret converts to Christianity. There is a $60 million bounty on his head and he lives in hiding in the U.S. Why can the Catholic Church not do somehing like this and quite the ridiculous statements which characterize Francis’s statements about Islam. Then there is the US Bishops Conference bringing many muslims into the country as refugees. The bishops generally follow the winds coming from Rome and these days they are totally confusing regarding Islam also.
Actually there is a version of the “Golden Rule” in Islam
A Bedouin came to the prophet, grabbed the stirrup of his camel and said: O the messenger of God! Teach me something to go to heaven with it. Prophet said: “As you would have people do to you, do to them; and what you dislike to be done to you, don’t do to them. Now let the stirrup go! [This maxim is enough for you; go and act in accordance with it!]”
— Kitab al-Kafi, vol. 2, p. 146
That’s from the Hadith, which are collected sayings of Mohammed. This is from the Qu’ran:
“Woe to those… who, when they have to receive by measure from men, they demand exact full measure, but when they have to give by measure or weight to men, give less than due”
— Quran (Surah 83, “The Dealers in Fraud”, vv. 1–4)
Why do I think that this is wrapped in something unsavory?
Prejudice?
Well… These lines are part of the Islamic mandate to kill non-Muslims… And while there is in fact worse than that, when someone is a member of the group who explicitly wants me dead… Well then yeah… I may be a little prejudiced.
Are you not?
Except that Muslims mean other Muslims when they talk and write about ‘people’ in the Koran, the Hadith and the Sunna. Certainly not Christians, Jews or atheists, who are not considered fully human. Jews for instance are seen as ‘Apes and pigs.’ But I guess you just forgot to mention this.
http://www.meforum.org/3545/islam-hatred-non-muslim
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This makes sense and explains a lot. The Sultan of Brunei is an interesting case to study to.
“One very powerful signal in this regard was the recent vote by 52% of the British electorate to leave the European Union – largely over the issues of border control and immigration policy. Financial independence and national sovereignty, while grand ideals, leave the common man largely untouched. It is when he recognizes an imminent threat to his wife and children that he is compelled to act.”
Interesting points you raise. I voted “Brexit” primarily on the grounds of national sovereignty, and a desire to sever the links with that ideological, undemocratic, corrupt, anti-Catholic institution which sees itself as the incarnation of a Christless Christendom. I live in an area where muslim immigration has had no impact as yet and we are still 95% plus native Englishmen. Immigration generally is just not an issue round here where issues of sovereignty have been identified as the main motivation for Brexiteers.
However, vast areas of the north of the country, which would normally toe the line of the Labour Party (remainers), voted overwhelmingly to get out – 65-85% for Brexit. These areas are, coincidentally or not, also those places where muslim immigration has been highest, and where most of the muslim paedophile rings have been operating. Muslim immigration has not primarily been an EU phenomenon – most of them coming from the old British Commonwealth. But the average punter is unlikely to make such a distinction, seeing the EU as the main reason why we have no control over our borders.
So I think you may have hit on an important connection in the recent vote for Brexit and why the pundits and chattering classes totally failed to see it coming. Despite the Likes of George Soros piling his money and influence into the “remain” campaign, the people voted against the NWO. I hope that this is just the first small step in rejecting this godless order and that we see many more following through.
I know de Mattei recently wrote an article about Brexit which basically concluded: “But you still have a society which voted for same sex “marriage”!” However, he was incorrect in his assertion – the British people were never allowed a vote on SSM – it was imposed on us by our politicians despite public petitions being against it by a margin of 10 to 1. In the current climate, I wonder how it would have turned out if we had been allowed the vote?
Sickening! Islam us a disgusting ‘religion’ and pornography is disgusting.
For the record:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/07/islamic-state-jihadists-laptops-filled-with-porn
Thanks for putting the link here. Steve notified me of this when it was published – just a few days after the article above, and too late to be incorporated. But a fantastic corroboration nonetheless.