The Suffering of Muslims
The most obvious group of Muslims to suffer from outdated Islamic practices are women. Islam tells us that most of the people who go to hell are women because they are “ungrateful and they curse too much”. In many Islamic societies women seem to be in a living hell already. Some practices which are either written or implied in Islamic Doctrine and are not uncommon in Islamic societies are as follows:
1. Slavery: Women are considered to be the property of their fathers until marriage. At this point, they become the property of their husbands.
2. Forced Marriage: Women can be forced into marriage at a very early age. First cousin marriages are common in Islamic societies leading to high incidences of birth defects.
3. Beatings from the husband: Sanctioned in the Koran and commonly accepted in many Islamic societies.
4. Female Genital Mutilation: This horrific practice is sanctioned, or even compulsory in major schools of Sunni Jurisprudence. Very common in some Islamic societies and increasingly seen in “Western” countries.
5. Legal inequality: Women’s testimony is worth half that of a man’s in Sharia Law. Women receive half the inheritance of a man and no rights to child custody in a divorce case. Women are unable to initiate divorce and a man may take new wives without telling either his current wife, or his new ones.
6. Cruel and inhuman punishments: Stoning to death or severe floggings for adultery with a very low bar set for proof.
7. Spousal rape: Women have no right to refuse sexual intercourse with their husbands.
8. Honour killings: women are commonly murdered by close family members for disgracing the “honour of the family”. This may be through no fault of their own such as through rape.
Whilst Islamic societies may be skewed in favour of males, do not think that life is necessarily a bowl of roses for Muslim men. Here are a few of the issues they may have to deal with:
1. Religious freedom: Uniquely among the major religions of the world, Muslims are unable to leave Islam on pain of death. Whilst this is not officially enforced in “Western” countries, Muslims are still fearful that this sentence could be carried out by their co-religionists. If you are a Muslim who wishes to leave Islam and would like help, please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
2. Poverty: Islam is unsuited to the generation of wealth in a society. It was developed by Mohammed as a system of plunder and banditry. Islamic societies therefore struggle with poverty in the modern world. Even Muslims who migrate to rich countries find themselves financially disadvantaged compared to others.
3. Ignorance: Islam discourages critical thinking, non-Islamic education and denies the doctrine of cause and effect which is the basis of modern science and technology. Small wonder then that literacy levels in Islamic countries are so low. Even those who can read seem reluctant to do so. More books are translated into Spanish each year than have been translated into Arabic in the last 1400 years.
4. Banditry, corruption and lawlessness: commonly found in Islamic societies.
5. Despotic dictatorships: The only seeming alternative to Banditry and lawlessness is a ruthless dictatorship or theocracy. In recent times, non-Muslim countries have tended to gravitate towards democracy and the rule of law while Islamic societies haven’t. Islam considers democracy an abomination as it places man made laws above Allah’s god given laws.
Small wonder that so many Muslims are voting with their feet and flocking to Christian or secular nations. Unfortunately, Islam is entirely incompatible with these societies and only seeks to undermine the principles and culture that made them such excellent places to live. If Muslims wish to leave Islamic countries, we believe that they should leave behind the baggage of Islam which goes with it.