Bridges to Truth about Islamic Marriage

Muzzammil Hassan unwittingly undermined the disinformation spewed forth by Bridges TV, his television station. His actions demonstrated the truth of the repressive and violent basis of Islamic marriages. Hassan's brutal treatment of his wife stands as just another tragic example in a historical legacy of Islam's misogyny, both verbal and physical. Whether the tales involve women resisting Islamic marriages or attempting to escape from them, sadly the fate of a woman is all too often the same: viciously violent death, usually at the hands of their husband or of her blood relatives.

These unions result from fathers arranging marriages for their daughters to the highest bidder or to whomever the father wants influence in future considerations. Marriage exists as a formal declaration of dominion of a man over a woman. It merely announces that a woman has submitted to the control of her husband and what compensation her father gained for relinquishing his authority over her. No thought is given to the "decadent, infidel notions" of "mutual respect", "consent", "romantic love" or "reciprocated affinity".

Why would Mohamadans hold any of those ideals with any esteem? After all, their namesake and role-model certainly did not. His early marriages to wealthy widows resulted from the need to indulge in his gold-digging urges. His later marriage to Aisha, a nine year girl, fed his pedophiliac desires. He collected numerous wives with casual avarice, only concerned with how his possession of them would satisfy his whims. A co-equal and monogamous relationship with a woman would have been viewed as an anathama to Mohamed ibn Abdullah just as representative democracy, use of underarm deodorant and daily bathing are to Islamists.

COPYRIGHT FEBRUARY 2009 BY CHARLES KASTRIOT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.