Part 8 of the series - Understanding Islam: For Such A Time As This

1. Understanding Islam: For Such A Time As This
Women, Marriage, Sexuality, and Sharia Law 1
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Understanding Islam:
For Such A Time As This
Lesson 8: Women, Marriage, Sexuality, and Sharia

2. Understanding Islam: For Such A Time As This
Women, Marriage, Sexuality, and Sharia Law
Review: Saudi Arabia & International Terror
• World’s largest funding source for Salafist jihadism
• Joins with Qatar, Kuwait and UAE to pump funds into
terror groups around the globe
– al Qaeda, ISIS, Taliban, al Nusra Front, among others
– Built over 1500 mosques around the world and thousands of
madrassas
– Reward scholars and journalists who promote Islamic extremism
tied back to Wahhabi teachings
– Home to Osama bin Laden, 15 of the 19 attackers of 9/11, others
• “Saudi donors and unregulated charities are major source
of financing to … terrorist groups over the past 25 years
– 2005 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Dept. State
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3. Understanding Islam: For Such A Time As This
Women, Marriage, Sexuality, and Sharia Law
Review: Iran and International Terror
• Along with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, Iran is a leading
exporter of jihadists and funding source for terror
– Hamas, Hezbollah
– Iranian Revolutionary Guard fighting in Syria
• Fighting ”proxy” war in Syria, and fighting ISIS in Iraq, to
extend the “Shi’a Crescent” from Iran to the
Mediterranean
– Aligned with Alawite Shi’a sect of President Assad in Syria
• Aligned with Russia against U.S in multiple venues
• Diplomatic relations with North Korea
– Armed with the cash to purchase illicit nuclear and missile
technology, missile components
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4. Understanding Islam: For Such A Time As This
Women, Marriage, Sexuality, and Sharia Law
Material in This Lesson
• Women
• Marriage
• Sexuality
• Divorce
• Female mutilation
• Honor killings
• Homosexuality
• Sharia law
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5. Understanding Islam: For Such A Time As This
Women, Marriage, Sexuality, and Sharia Law
The Qur’an and Women
• Surah 2:228
– “Women shall have rights similar to the rights against them, according
to what is equitable; but men shall have a degree over them.”
• Surah 4:11
– “To the male a portion equal to that of two females.”
• Surah 2:282
– “Get two witnesses out of your own men, and if there are not two men,
then a man and two women such as you choose, for witnesses.”
• Surah 4:3
– Men may marry two, three or four wives. Muhammad had special
dispensation to marry as many women as he wished.
– Muhammad married Aisha at age six, consummated marriage age nine.
Gave his own daughter Fatima in marriage to Ali at age twelve.
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6. Understanding Islam: For Such A Time As This
Women, Marriage, Sexuality, and Sharia Law
The Hadith and Women
• Hadith 1268
– “The prophet used to visit all his wives in an hour round, during the day
and night and they were eleven in number… the prophet was given the
strength of thirty men.”
• Hadith (three occasions)
– Muhammad said “I was shown the Hell-fire and that the majority of its
dwellers are women.”
– “Bad omen is in the women, the house and the horse… after me I have
not left any affliction more harmful to men than women.”
• Hadith 3826
– “Muhammad asked some women, ‘Isn’t the witness of a woman equal
to half that of a man?’ The woman said ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘That is
because of the deficiency of the woman’s mind.’”
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7. Understanding Islam: For Such A Time As This
Women, Marriage, Sexuality, and Sharia Law
Muhammad’s Special Marriages
• From the Hadith (recited by Abu
Umama)
– Muhammad had super-normal marriages
– After his flight to heaven, Muhammad told
Khadija at her death bed “Oh, Khadija,
know that God has wedded me to Mary,
Christ’s mother in paradise.”
• Muhammad repeated this to Aisha
– “Oh, Aisha, didn’t you know that God
Almighty in heaven wedded me to Mary
the daughter of Imran, to Kulthum,
Moses’ sister, and to Assiya, wife of the
Pharaoh.”
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8. Understanding Islam: For Such A Time As This
Women, Marriage, Sexuality, and Sharia Law
Role of the Wife in Islam
• Surah 3:14
– “Fair in the eyes of men is the love of things they covet: women and
sons; heaped up hoards of gold and silver.”
• Surah 66:5
– “It may be, if he divorced you that Allah will give him in exchange
consorts better than you.”
– A man can threaten divorce if his wife is not meeting his sexual needs.
• Hadith, attributed to al Hakem
– “Wives are playthings, so take your pick.”
• A man may marry a woman who is not Muslim
– But Muslim woman may not marry outside Islam. See Surah 5:5
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9. Understanding Islam: For Such A Time As This
Women, Marriage, Sexuality, and Sharia Law
Sex and Marriage
• Surah 2:223
– “Your wives are as a tilth (field to be plowed) unto you, so approach
your tilth when and how you will.”
• Surah 4:43 and Surah 5:6: Women are by nature unclean
– A man may not touch a woman before prayer (some say this reference
is to sexual contact, not skin contact)
• Comment by Ali (Qur’an commentary)
– “Sex is not a thing to be ashamed of, or to be treated lightly, or to be
indulged in to excess…. We must never forget our souls, and that we
are responsible to Allah.” “It was the carnal-minded men who invented
the doctrine of original sin. (See Psalm 51:5) This is entirely repudiated
by Islam, in which the office of the father and mother is held in the
highest veneration. Every child of pure love is born pure. Celibacy is
not necessarily a virtue, and may be a vice.”
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10. Understanding Islam: For Such A Time As This
Women, Marriage, Sexuality, and Sharia Law
Marriage and the Hadith
• Temporary marriages
– While “on expedition” (jihad) with provision of a dower
• “We were on expedition with Allah’s messenger and we had no women with
us. We said: ‘Should we then have ourselves castrated?’ The Holy Prophet
forbade us to do so. He then granted us permission that we should contract
for a temporary marriage for a stipulated period giving her a garment for
dowry.” (Hadith 3243)
– Sunni regard this temporary marriage as unlawful. Shi’a still practice this
in Iran. Has been justification for what we would call prostitution.
• Prohibitions
– Do not marry an unbeliever (female). Prohibition relaxed for men
– Parties of unequal social rank or status
– Trading daughters or sisters in marriage
– Remarrying divorced wife until she has been remarried, had sexual
intercourse with new husband, and then been divorced
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11. Understanding Islam: For Such A Time As This
Women, Marriage, Sexuality, and Sharia Law
Divorce
• A man may divorce a woman by simply declaring his intent
• A woman may only divorce a man with a strong reason in court
– Must give up her dowry as a result
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• Divorce according to Surah 2
– 2:228: Waiting 3 menstrual periods
– woman may be pregnant
– 2:229: Divorcing a woman twice
– 2:230: Remarrying after divorce
– 2:231: Do not mistreat women as
you divorce them
– 2:236: Divorce before
consummating a marriage

12. Understanding Islam: For Such A Time As This
Women, Marriage, Sexuality, and Sharia Law
Talaq!
• Talaq! = male-initiated divorce
– Pronounce the word three times and first
phase of divorce begins
– Sexual relations must cease for three
menstrual periods
– Man may not force woman out of house in
this time, or abuse her
– If couple has sexual relations, the divorce
decree is null and void
– Can only do the talaq process three times.
Then man must wait until woman remarries,
and subsequently divorces, in order to
remarry her
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The Qur’an condemns
divorce but provides many
rules for how and when.

13. Understanding Islam: For Such A Time As This
Women, Marriage, Sexuality, and Sharia Law
Personal Law Issues
• Child custody
– Traditionally, children belong to the father, but the mother has
the right to care for them as young infants
– Age of loss of custody differs by nation. Many set it at 7 years for
boys, and at puberty for girls
– Some Islamic nations are extending rights for mother in cases
where deemed in the child’s interest
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• Inheritance
– Mothers, daughters, and
wives are guaranteed an
inheritance
– Man’s inheritance is to be
twice that of the woman’s

14. Understanding Islam: For Such A Time As This
Women, Marriage, Sexuality, and Sharia Law
Beating of Women
• Qur’an allows marital punishment
• Husband is commanded to train his wife
– Surah 4:34: “Husbands are the protectors and maintainers of their
wives”
• Husbands may beat wife or withhold sexual favors
– Surah 4:34: “As to those women on whose part ye fear disloyalty and ill-
conduct admonish them first, next refuse to share their beds, and last
spank them lightly.”
– Hadith 7.62.77: “’What rights does the woman have with the man?’ He
(Muhammad) replied, ‘He should feed her if he eats, clothe her when
he dresses, avoid disfiguring her or beating her excessively or
abandoning her except at home.’”
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15. Understanding Islam: For Such A Time As This
Women, Marriage, Sexuality, and Sharia Law
The Other Side Reminds Us That…
• From Complete Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Islam
– A woman’s property cannot be seized by her husband
– Women cannot be denied the right to an education
– Ruining a woman’s reputation is a criminal act
– Forced marriage is prohibited. Arranged marriages are good.
– Woman can file suit in court and provide sole testimony
– Women can initiate divorce
– Women get automatic custody of young children after divorce (suckling
children)
– Spousal abuse is a punishable offense
– Women receive equal pay for equal work
– Women can vote and stand for civil office
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16. Understanding Islam: For Such A Time As This
Women, Marriage, Sexuality, and Sharia Law
Female Genital Mutilation
• Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
– Medical term: Clitorectomy
• Partial or complete removal of genitalia
• Women sew girl’s skin together with thorns
or thread, then bind the girl’s legs together
for 2-12 weeks
– 130M women affected worldwide
– 2M women affected per year
– Openly practiced in Africa
– Secretly practiced in Middle East
• Egypt, Somalia, Guinea
• Mali, Sudan, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone
• Saudi Arabia, Oman, Jordan, UE
• Parts of Iraq (up to 60% of girls)
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17. Understanding Islam: For Such A Time As This
Women, Marriage, Sexuality, and Sharia Law
African FGM In Women Ages 15 - 49
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Source: WHO, Demographic Health Survey, 2000

18. Understanding Islam: For Such A Time As This
Women, Marriage, Sexuality, and Sharia Law
Honor Killing: Violating the Namus
• The namus of a man is violated if:
– His daughter is not dressed "appropriately"
– If he tolerates an offense by his daughter without reaction.
– Daughter failing to serve meal on time, or refusing arranged marriage
– Daughter seeking a divorce, or narrating a dream of infidelity
– A song being dedicated to a female family member on the radio
– Being raped
• In the most conservative interpretations, if a woman is raped, she is not
seen as a victim. Instead, it is considered that the namus of the whole family
was violated, and to restore it, an honor killing of the raped woman may
happen (estimated 5,000 victims yearly)
• In other cases, the raped woman may, under social duress to
restore namus, commit forced suicide.
• In Pakistan acid is thrown on the victim's face to disfigure them rather than
being murdered.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Kj7MV_38EA
Video: Honor killings in the U.S.

20. Understanding Islam: For Such A Time As This
Women, Marriage, Sexuality, and Sharia Law
Homosexuality and Sharia Law
• Seven countries worldwide authorize capital punishment for
homosexuality on the grounds of Sharia law
• Saudi Arabia
– 2,600 lashes and 6 years in prison
• Iran
– Up to 4,000 homosexuals executed since 1979, including beheadings
– 100 lashes for first act of lesbianism. Three acts of lesbianism results in
a death sentence.
• Afghanistan
– Regularly executed homosexuals under Taliban rule
• Under Muhammad
– Throw them off a building
– If a tall building cannot be found, use a cliff
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21. Understanding Islam: For Such A Time As This
Women, Marriage, Sexuality, and Sharia Law
The Difficult Reality
• Sexual abuse
– “In practice, however, suppression and unavailability of liaison between
males and females outside the prearranged wedlock has produced
latent sexual tension in Islamic societies that has sought and found
release in homosexual intercourse through the centuries. Male and
female prostitution and same-sex practices—including the abuse of
young boys by their older male relatives—have been rampant in Islamic
societies from the medieval to the modern period.”
– “It should be emphasized that those societies stress a distinction
between the sexual act itself, which was deemed acceptable, and
emotional attachment, which was unpardonable”
• Sources: “Islam's Love-Hate Relationship with Homosexuality,” by Serge
Trifkovic, FrontPageMagazine.com, Jan 24, 2003; Sword of the Prophet,
Trifkovic, 2002, p. 170
• 84,000 prostitutes, 250 brothels in Tehran. Source: NY Times, 23 June 2002
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22. Understanding Islam: For Such A Time As This
Women, Marriage, Sexuality, and Sharia Law
Sharia law
• “The way” … “the path to the water source”
– A system of divine law
• Deals with many aspects of daily life
– Politics
– Banking
– Politics
– Economics
– Business
– Family
– Sexuality
– Hygiene
– Social issues
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23. Understanding Islam: For Such A Time As This
Women, Marriage, Sexuality, and Sharia Law
Branches of Sharia
• Ritual worship
– Purifications, prayers, fasts, charities and pilgrimage
• Transactions and contracts
• Morals and manners
• Beliefs
• Punishments
• Human interactions
– Financial transactions as applied to Sharia-compliant Islamic finance
– Endowments
– Laws of inheritance
– Marriage, divorce, and child care
– Foods and drinks (including ritual slaughtering and hunting)
– Penal punishments
– Warfare and peace
– Judicial matters (including witnesses and forms of evidence)
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24. Understanding Islam: For Such A Time As This
Women, Marriage, Sexuality, and Sharia Law
Sharia Departs from Human Rights
• Freedom of speech
– No matter of freedom with respect to criticism of the Prophet Muhammad.
Considered blasphemy.
– "The Qur'an says that Allah curses the one who harms the Prophet in this
world and He connected harm of Himself to harm of the Prophet. There is
no dispute that anyone who curses Allah is killed and that his curse
demands that he be categorized as an unbeliever. The Judgment of the
unbeliever is that he is killed.” (TV interview, Sharia law proponent)
• Homosexuality
– Illicit under Islamic law. Punishable by death in many countries
• Women
– Divorce, number of wives, property, beating, et al
– Honor killings. Example: Beheading of wife by US Islamic TV executive.
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25. Understanding Islam: For Such A Time As This
Women, Marriage, Sexuality, and Sharia Law
Hadd Offenses
• Five offenses that are an affront to Allah
– Wine-drinking and, by extension, alcohol-drinking, punishable by
flogging
– Unlawful sexual intercourse, punishable by flogging for
unmarried offenders and stoning to death for adulterers
– False accusation of unlawful sexual intercourse, punishable by
flogging
– Theft, punishable by the amputation of a hand
– Highway robbery, punishable by amputation, or execution if the
crime results in a homicide.
• Leaving Islam (apostasy) is punishable by death
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26. Understanding Islam: For Such A Time As This
Women, Marriage, Sexuality, and Sharia Law
Majority of Muslims Want Sharia Law
• 2015 Poll by the
Center for Security
Policy
• 51% of surveyed US
Muslims want sharia
as the in the USA
• 20% of US Muslims
surveyed support the
use of violence to
enforce acceptance
of sharia in the USA
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Pew Research poll of 2015: 39,000 Muslims surveyed in 38 nations.
Majority of Muslims in every Muslim nation want sharia as the law of their land.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw3kmptcevI
Video: Sharia law in bid to conquer London

28. Understanding Islam: For Such A Time As This
Women, Marriage, Sexuality, and Sharia Law
In the Next Lesson
• Lesson 9
– Rise of terror #1 – Salafism, Wahhabism,
and birth of the Muslim Brotherhood
– The seed of Islamic fundamentalism, the
proponent of Islamism, and the root of
Islamic terror
• Pray!
– For peace
– For insight and understanding
– For a chance to share your faith
– For Muslims to come to know Jesus
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