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ISIS Women's Guide: 'Emasculation of Muslim Men... Tearing Society Apart'
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friends to like this.ISIS believes that girls can marry adult men when they are only nine years old; that "pure" girls should be married by the time they are 16 or 17; that motherhood is the sole purpose of female existence. The Manifesto was posted in Arabic last month on a Jihadist forum and crafted by ISIS's female militia Al-Khanssaa Brigade. Face and body veiling are mandatory for women—which is just as well since beauty parlors and shops selling fashionable clothes are the "instruments of the devil and must not be tolerated." A girl's education must end when she is fifteen—and that education will mainly focus on religion, Koranic Arabic and science, the Sharia laws about marriage and divorce, as well as knitting and cooking. There are some puzzling exceptions. "A woman may leave the house if she is going to study theology, if she is a woman doctor or teacher and if it has been ruled by fatwa that she must fight jihad or holy war." One marvels at the prospect of women doctors and teachers who are only allowed an eighth or ninth grade education. Or, will all the doctors be men? Will traditional Afghan rules apply– namely, when a woman is ill, her husband would visit the doctor on her behalf and describe her symptoms? Based on that description, the doctor would diagnose and prescribe. Edward Hunter, in his wonderful book, The Past Present: A Year in Afghanistan describes just such customs—and worse. And he was there in 1959, long before the Taliban arose.
Related Topics: Gender, ISIS, Islam, Islamic
Gender & Religious Apartheid, Muslim Women,
Sharia Law
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Friday, February 6, 2015
ISIS Women's Guide: 'Emasculation of Muslim Men... Tearing Society Apart'
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