When Yassmin Abdel-Magied bellowed that Islam, to me, is THE most feminist religion, an idiot’s chorus of the Australian left-media honked agreement. “She is right,” barked The Guardian. The Bible of bourgeois, Double Bay feminists, Mamamia, almost broke their Jimmy Choos in their rush to defend Abdel-Magied and Islam.
Mamamia has also run a slew of fawning articles about how wonderful hijab is. “The beauty” of hijab, it cooed. It practically wet its knickers over a billboard with hijabis on it. Dolls in hijabs! Diverse and inclusive, it wittered.
Suddenly, though, hijabs aren’t quite as cool and inclusive as they used to be. Not since The Current Thing became noticing just how, well, un-feminist Islamic countries really are.
Protests began in Iran on September 16, prompted by the death of a 22-year-old woman who was dragged away and allegedly beaten by the morality police for wearing her hijab improperly.
Even more inconveniently, one of the most prominent Islamic countries in the world is showing that Islam is practising the sort of stuff even ancient Romans found distasteful. A century after the event, Tacitus relates with obvious aversion accounts of the murder of the children of Sejanus: as there was no precedent for the capital punishment of a virgin, she was violated by the executioner, with the rope on her neck… mere children as they were.
The “most feminist” Muslims are still practising the sort of horrific brutalities the West rejected nearly 2000 years ago.
Iran is one of the world’s last countries to execute “juvenile offenders,” with nine the age of criminal responsibility for girls, compared to 15 for boys.
But under Iranian law, you can’t execute a minor if they’re a virgin.
That roadblock has been solved in the past by marrying the girls off to prison guards to be raped the night before their murders.
THE most feminist religion, remember.
In 2009, a serving member of the paramilitary Basiji militia told The Jerusalem Post, he was forced to take part in such rapes.
“At 18, I was given the ‘honour’ to temporarily marry young girls before they were sentenced to death… I regret that, even though the marriages were legal. I could tell that the girls were more afraid of their wedding night than of the execution that awaited them in the morning,” he said.
“By morning the girls would have an empty expression; it seemed like they were ready or wanted to die.”
Activists and family members are reporting that it’s happening now, in 2022, alongside torture, beatings and horrific sexual abuse.
Mamamia
How cool and inclusive are those hijabs, now, Mamamia? Still blase about Sharia?
It’s THE most feminist religion, remember.