Emulate the Prophet

This caught my eye:

A prominent female Afghan journalist has been gunned down inside her home near Kabul, the second such slaying in five days.

Unidentified gunmen fired seven bullets into Zakia Zaki, head of a local radio station, as she slept with her eight-month old son last night. She died instantly.

It turns out that while it may be the second death of a female journalist in 5 days, it's a part of an ongoing pattern of intimidation and murder, directed at women and girls who have the temerity to speak publicly, or to simply go to school.  So much of this is shocking to Western sensibilities: it should be leaving us gasping, but the very groups that are most vocal in this country about real and imagined affronts to female liberty are dumb about the barbarity of this ideology, Islamofascism.

One of the basic premises of radical, fundamentalist Islam is that a return to the old ways, untainted by Western influence, will herald a resurgent hegemony of Islam.  After all, how can you go wrong by emulating the prophet?  In fact, Mohammed is "the perfect man" and to emulate him is a duty of the devout Muslim.  So, whoever murdered this mother with her baby at her breast has a place in Paradise, as does the commander who ordered the assassination.  This has happened before, you see, about 1400 years ago, a time, scholars tell us, when Mohammed extended "unheard of" rights to females.  Well, the prophet giveth and the prophet taketh away.  Property rights were extended to women, as a means of maintaining matrilineal tribal power.  But alas! free speech and freedom of religion died in the Arabian Peninsula as the necessary casualties of Mohammed's Allah-inspired conquest. 

March 624: Asma bint Marwan

Asma was a poetess who belonged to a tribe of Medinan pagans, and whose husband was named Yazid b. Zayd. She composed a poem blaming the Medinan pagans for obeying a stranger (Muhammad) and for not taking the initiative to attack him by surprise. When the Allah-inspired prophet heard what she had said, he asked, "Who will rid me of Marwan’s daughter?" A member of her husband’s tribe volunteered and crept into her house that night. She had five children, and the youngest was sleeping at her breast. The assassin gently removed the child, drew his sword, and plunged it into her, killing her in her sleep.

The following morning, the assassin defied anyone to take revenge. No one took him up on his challenge, not even her husband. In fact, Islam became powerful among his tribe. Previously, some members who had kept their conversion secret now became Muslims openly, "because they saw the power of Islam," conjectures Ibn Ishaq.

Source: Ibn Ishaq, pp. 675-76 / 995-96. [Muhammed's Dead Poets Society]

You know who comes off the best in this tale, besides Asma?  The assassin.  Yeah, he was disloyal, and a murderer, but he did spare the child!  The husband: a coward, disloyal, not a man in any real sense.  Imagine, you're a woman with five kids and you have the mental wherewithal, not to mention the guts, to compose poetry about the burning cultural issues of your time.  And you're surrounded by a bunch of gutless wonders who will throw you under the camel as soon as convenient. 

Where are all of my friends over at WomanSpace?  Oh, sorry, they're busy developing their hypothesis about how the Crucifixion of Jesus is really menstrual envy.  So important, so central to our understanding of how Christianity is the Oppressor religion that has stomped on The Goddess and caused untold heartache to the bearers of the double X chromosome.

My dream is that paradise is populated with Radfems and Mohammed's worthiest emulators. 

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The Left are totalitarians first and foremost, defending their putative enthusiasms only when there is no conflict with the advancement of their primary ideology.

They willingly turn a blind eye to Islamic offenses against modern pieties because Islam currently looks a better route to universal slavery than Marx and Engels exercise in economic illiteracy.