A picture is worth a thousand words: What happens to women in Islamic countries

“A picture is worth a thousand words” is an English idiom. It refers to the notion that a complex idea can be conveyed with just a single still image or that an image of a subject conveys its meaning or essence more effectively than a description does.

During the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. we noticed the below photograph of American women holding posters of a Muslim woman in a burka made from the American flag. It is meant to depict unity with Muslim woman and to promote wearing of the burka, which is required by Islamic (shariah) law.

The poster is one of a series of five created by the Amplifier Foundation under the title “We the People.” The Amplifier Foundation website states:

WE THE PEOPLE CAMPAIGN

We the People is a nonpartisan campaign dedicated to igniting a national dialogue about American identity and values through public art and story sharing

The posters include: “Greater than Fear” (a woman is U.S. flag burka, seen below), “Defend Dignity” (depicting a women with a flower in her hair), “Protect Each Other” (depicting a black woman), “We the Resilient” (depicting a native American woman) and “We The Indivisible” (featuring two lesbian women).

All of those depicted in the Amplifier Foundation posters are at risk under Islamic law. A woman married to Mohammed is a second class citizen, a non-Muslim woman is considered an infidel, black women are being traded in the ISIS slave markets, native American women are also infidels and homosexuals are thrown off of roofs by the soldiers of Allah.

Perhaps the three women at the march have not read the column titled “Top ten rules in the Quran that oppress women” by James Arlandson. Here are a few of the rules in the Quran dealing with women:

The Quran in Sura (Chapter) 2:223 says:

Your women are your fields, so go into your fields whichever way you like . . . . (MAS Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an, Oxford UP, 2004)

. . . ‘If a man invites his wife to sleep with him and she refuses to come to him, then the angels send their curses on her till morning.’ (Bukhari)

I heard the Prophet saying. ‘Evil omen is in three things: The horse, the woman and the house.’ (Bukhari)

The share of the male shall be twice that of a female . . . . (Maududi, vol. 1, p. 311)

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The Women’s March used gender identity to promote cultural diversity to include women who are the wives or daughters of the followers of Mohammed in America. These women are “married to Mohammed.” What the  Amplifier Foundation does not understand is that Islam has misogynistic world view. A view that seeks to paint women of the entire planet in a misogynistic colors – black and blue.

The Quran in Sura 4:34 says:

4:34 . . . If you fear highhandedness from your wives, remind them [of the teaching of God], then ignore them when you go to bed, then hit them. If they obey you, you have no right to act against them. God is most high and great. (Haleem, emphasis added)

A reader sent us the below series of pictures to illustrate how women in various Middle Eastern countries dressed before and then after the imposition of Islamic laws upon women. Each of these pictures is worth a thousand words:

Clearly, once upon a time, these colorful dresses were created by women for themselves. So what has changed? Answer: Islamic laws have replaced Western values in these and other countries like Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Europe and parts of America.

Women who march without the understanding of what they are marching for is folly at best and dangerous at the worst. In this case, promoting Islamic law upon women is misogynistic and extremely dangerous. “American identity and values” are about women’s rights, freedom, equal justice under the law and religious liberty. All a missing under Islamic law.

The below picture makes our point better than thousands of words…

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