Muhammad’s sayings about women:

1“A nation headed by a woman shall never succeed”,
2”The worst sin and distraction from virtue that I have left for man is woman”,
3“When I stood on the door of hell, I saw most of its inhabitants were women”,
4 “Women lack brain and religion”,
5 “If I have commanded kneeling for somebody, I would command a woman to kneel for her husband”,
6 “If a man summoned his wife for intercourse and she refused, the angels will curse her till the dawn”,
7 “If a man summoned his wife for intercourse, she has to respond even if she was above the furnace”.
“The husband has the right to have sex with his wife even if she is above the camel”
8“A woman shall not fast without the permission of her husband”

Beating of women

In his Quran and Hadith Muhammad legitimised the beating of a wife in the event of any dispute.  Violence, beating and physical power become the basis of marital relationships and traditions in the Muslim society for solving any problem.
Muhammad said in his Quran: “As to those women on whose part ye fear disloyalty and ill-conduct, admonish them (first), (next) refuse to share their beds, (and last) beat them; but if they return to obedience, seek not against them means (of further punishment)9”.

So first the husband has to advise his wife, if she is not convinced, he shall abandon her sexually. If this doesn’t work, finally he has the right to punish and beat his wife. 

In the last part of the sentence, the fairness of Muhammad is shown by saying “If the wife accepts the husband’s conditions, the husband shall stop beating her, because if he continues, this is cruelty”. And Muhammad is against cruelty! Muhammad himself had beaten his wife Aisha, hitting her on the chest10. Muhammad also said “The man has to hang his whip in a place where the whole family can see it” 11 and further, “Man shall not be questioned as to the reason why he beats his family” 12.
Muhammad’s orders of Female Circumcisions.

Muhammad adopted the Bedouin tradition of cutting away the clitoris by saying that circumcision is an obligation for men, and an honorable deed for women13. Muhammad explained the reason behind cutting away the clitoris: a woman may ejaculate before the man!!  Why is this a problem? Because it will lead her to conceive a boy with female traits.14  This is what Bedouins try to avoid for their sons, as the woman is a symbol of weakness for Bedouins, they want their sons to be strong, fierce and violent.

Forced marriage

One of the most dishonest and unjust legislations of Muhammad against women is that of forced marriage. Muhammad said: “If a man fabricated the acceptance of a woman to marry her by bringing two false witnesses to confirm the marriage, then if the judge confirmed that marriage, although the man and the two witnesses knew that the woman did not accept the marriage herself, the marriage is to be considered legal and valid” 15.

This means that if a man proposed to a woman but she refused to marry him, the man can bring two false witnesses to certify that this woman is his wife, so his marriage shall be considered legitimate and  the man has the full right to rape this woman as his wife. The woman shall not object to marrying him even if the marriage was fake, she is still forced into it, as this marriage is legalized by Muhammad. This law reflects Muhammad’s hatred for women. Any woman can be attained as a legal wife in any way and method, even if it means the use of cheating and forgery.

Muhammad legitimised adultery with a prostitute in his Quran by saying:  “Seeing that ye derive benefit from them, give them their money as agreed; but if, after the money is paid, ye agree mutually (to vary it), there is no blame on you”16. This means that if a Muslim man admires a woman that is not his wife, he is not considered sinful to entertain himself with her, provided she is willing and he pays her an agreed amount of money. In one saying he has permitted the temporary whoredom.17

Stoning women

The Bedouin punishment of adultery was whipping and exiling for one year. As Islam developed out of Bedouin thought and belief, Muhammad legitimised this punishment and quoted it in his Quran:

“The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication, flog each of them with a hundred lashes” 18 Muhammad said that the inspiring angel informed him about this punishment.

The first time that Muhammad witnessed the punishment of stoning was when the punishment was being carried out against an adulterous Jewish woman19. He was astonished by the punishment and went to Jewish schools to learn more about it. Abdullah bin Salam, a former Jew who became a follower of Muhammad accompanied him. The Jews refused to tell him the truth regarding this punishment as they were aware of his intention of quoting all these details in his Quran and claiming it was an inspiration from the angel, so the Jews said they bind adulterous individuals, leave them in the sun and beat them and claimed there was no mention of the stoning punishment in the Torah.

Abdullah bin Salam challenged them by saying: “Liars!”  Muhammad started to beg for an answer from the Jews about this punishment, saying “I ask you in the name of God, who gave the Torah to Moses, I ask you in the name of he who rescued the Israelis from the pharaoh’s punishment by parting the sea, providing clouds as shade and sent down to you Manna and quail” 20.  Muhammad kept begging until one of the Jews started to read the Torah while hiding the stoning chapter under his hand21, he read above and underneath his hand without reading this chapter.

Abdullah bin Salam took off the Jewish man’s hand saying “What are you hiding here?” The Jew answered “It is the stoning punishment”. From that moment Muhammad knew that the punishment of adultery is stoning, but he did not know its details, so Muslims have to refer to the Torah for that. Muhammad said in his Quran: “It was us who revealed the Torah: therein was guidance and light. By its standard have been judged the Jews, by the Prophets who bowed (as in Islam) to Allah's Will” 22.

Furthermore Muhammad said: “My decisions and judgments are based on what is written in the Torah” 23. Due to Jewish refusal, Muhammad did not quote the stoning punishment in his Quran. Muhammad practiced by himself the brutal and cruel punishment of stoning and legitimised it in Islam24.

The Muslim clergymen are now confused about the legitimisation of this punishment, as there is no quote in the Quran.

Muhammad despised women and discriminated against them even in the punishment of adultery. The adulterous man stands in the middle of a yard surrounded by Muslims who stone him.  If he is lucky and the first stones are not fatal, he can run and escape. His punishment is complete and if he survives, it is considered as Allah’s will to rescue him. On the contrary, the adulterous woman shall be placed in a large hole and buried to the line of her shoulders, this hole shall be in the middle of a yard, surrounded by Muslims who stone her, but the woman can not escape, so Muhammad can ensure her death. 

Muhammad claimed that the inspiring angle – the ghost – used to visit him several times a day and informed him of everything going on around, like conspiracies for his assassination, especially if  plotted by Jews, such as Bani Natheer’s clan.

If this is the case, why did Muhammad beg for an answer from the Jews about the punishment of adultery? Why do we have to read the Torah to apply this punishment? And why did Allah send Muhammad and his Quran if we have to follow the Torah?

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