Now Women Will Behead Those Who Insult Muhammad!

By Sumit Paul, New Age Islam 7 September 2022 “Women are often more religious and ritualistic. But they're also less fanatic than men. When a woman shows traits of zealotry and religious cruelty, it's a dangerous trend. This shows the violent streaks of a religion that needs to curb its fundamental zeal...." - A British cop dealing with the increasing fanaticism among the Muslims in England Photo: The Sentinel ----- This pertains to the news in NAI that young girls in Pakistan’s Lal Masjid are being taught how to behead people who insult Muhammad. In a video doing the rounds on social media, a teacher is seen demonstrating to young girls wearing Burqa how to hold and use a sword to behead people. Through this exercise, the girls are being taught that those who ‘insult’ the Prophet will have only one punishment, and that will be decapitation. Girls, dressed in pink, can be heard raising slogans and glorifying decapitation. There's a famous Urdu adage, Kharbooze Ko Dekh Kar Kharbooza Rang Badalta Hai. Seeing Muslim men's increasing zealotry and self-proclaimed ownership of Muhammad, the fair sex in Islam is also following suit and behaving in a ghastly manner. What I've observed having interacted with Muslim men and women of all hues is that Muslim women (esp. Sunni Muslim women) are particularly fanatic. One everyday example will illustrate this escalating fanaticism among Muslim females. A couple of Muslim male friends of mine still say ' Khuda Hafiz ' instead of the most nauseating Tableeghi benediction, Allah Hafiz. But all the Muslim women, even 'educated' ones, whom I know will make it a point to say Allah Hafiz. Just one Dr Salma is an exception, but then, she's a nominal, non-Namazi Muslim. An Arab neurologist based in the US, whose name I can't recall at the moment, is of the view that when a woman becomes religiously ultra-sensitive, she starts behaving in an eccentric manner and surpasses even male fanatics in the intensity of her religious zeal. This analysis holds water. An ex-Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali said the same thing. When she was a Muslim and living in Somalia, Salman Rushdie's book ' The Satanic Verses, ' hit the stands and the hell broke loose. She (Ayaan Hirsi Ali) admitted that she herself wanted to decapitate Rushdie for insulting Muhammad. Such was the overwhelming spell of Muhammad and Islam on a young and religious woman's psyche who today feels terribly embarrassed to recall those days of pathological sickness when she followed Islam without applying her brains. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is now a Dutch citizen who condemns Islam, Muhammad and all man-made religions. This trend of renewed religious indoctrination of Muslim women, using and urging them to decollate anyone daring to cast a slur on Muhammad must be stopped. All the Muslims shall have to understand that a man born more than 1400 years ago in the desert of Arabia cannot and mustn't be so dear and infallible for any follower as to kill anyone for criticising him. This whole theologically murky and manipulative business of Prophethood must also be abolished. To quote Dr Bimal Krishna Matilal, the Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at Oxford, “Prophethood is a sham and considering all religious characters, belonging to various faiths, as greater and more divine than humans is a primitive belief that belittles the basic dignity of every individual." Are Muslims and followers of other faiths, sects and cults listening and cogitating over this? Perhaps not, because human brain is collectively mortgaged. ----- A regular columnist for New Age Islam, Sumit Paul is a researcher in comparative religions, with special reference to Islam. He has contributed articles to world's premier publications in several languages including Persian. URL: https://newageislam.com/radical-islamism-jihad/women-behead-insult-muhammad/d/127897 New Age Islam, Islam Online, Islamic Website, African Muslim News, Arab World News, South Asia News, Indian Muslim News, World Muslim News, Women in Islam, Islamic Feminism, Arab Women, Women In Arab, Islamophobia in America, Muslim Women in West, Islam Women and Feminism