Women in Islam

Articles examining the role, status, and dignity of women within Islamic sources compared with biblical teaching, addressing common Muslim claims and misunderstandings.

Muhammad’s Jewish Sex-Slave Members Public

According to the Sunni traditions, Muhammad had at least two sex slaves that he did not marry, namely, a Christian Coptic girl named Mariyah and a Jewish concubine named Rayhanah. I have written at length about Mariyah so here I will focus on Rayhanah. Here is what a modern biography

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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Islamic Procreation As Sex Jihad Members Public

According to the so-called authentic Sunni narrations, Muhammad disliked and discouraged his followers marrying barren, infertile women. Rather, he preferred and commanded them to marry young virgins and fertile women so that there would be a greater number of Muslims than non-Muslims.     67 Wedlock, Marriage (Nikaah) (10) Chapter: The marrying

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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AISHA’S WRATH & JEALOUSY Members Public

The sunni traditions illustrate Muhammad’s shameful failure as a husband, resulting in bitter jealousy and rivalry among his multiple wives. This is particularly true in the case of his child-bride Aisha, who was only 9 when her marriage consummated, and who was left a childless widow at the young

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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A GOAT’S JIHAD ON STONING & SUCKLING Members Public

The sunni Islamic traditions contain some rather silly and embarrassing narrations, which have caused many a Muslim shame and humiliation. Take, for example, the claim that Muhammad ordered a woman to breastfeed a mature young man a number of times in order to make him her foster-son! Or the fact

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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ISLAM & ARABIC MASCULINE PRONOUNS Members Public

According to Muslims authorities, masculine Arabic words often include both males and females, unless the context suggests otherwise. For instance, here’s what the translator of Imam Nawai’s commentary on Sahih Muslim states: 1. The pronouns in this hadith apply generally, which means they include men and women. If

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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AISHA: THE SEMEN SCRAPER Members Public

According to the allegedly sound narrations of Sunni Islam, Muhammad’s child-bride Aisha is reported to have stated that she not only saw her husband wash semen off his clothes with water, but that she herself would either wash or scrape off Muhammad’s semen stains with her nails.   I

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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ISLAMIC WIFE BEATING Members Public

The Islamic sources testify to the physical abuse which Muslim women underwent at the hands of their husbands. For instance, a man beat his wife so badly that he broke her arm in the process: 13 Divorce (Kitab Al-Talaq) (734) Chapter: Regarding Khul’ Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu’minin: Habibah daughter

Sam Shamoun
Sam Shamoun
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DOES NISA NEVER REFER TO MINOR GIRLS? Members Public

The Quran in a disgusting fashion permits marital relations and divorce with premature, prepubescent minors: And those of your women (nisa-ikum) as have passed the age of monthly courses, for them the ‘Iddah (prescribed period), if you have doubts (about their periods), is three months, and for those who have

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Sam Shamoun
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