by Anna Mahjar-Barducci, STONEGATE INSTITUTE
“What liberties are offered by the western secular system? The liberty of disintegrating the family? The liberty of being homosexual? ‘Oh Caliphate! Help!'”
Even though in Tunisia the Islamist party Hizb-ut-Tahrir [HuT] — Party of Liberation — is officially banned, it was able to organize a large international conference, entitled “The Caliphate, Bright Example for the Rights and Political Role of Women.”
During the women-only conference — men apparently did not have the right to participate in this symposium — members of HuT stated that Democracy has failed and that it is now time to build an Islamic Caliphate. “We want the Caliphate system, which has been historically tested and which is the system that can give a better future to Muslim women,” said Nasrin Nawaaz, the British spokeswoman of the Islamist party, during the event.
As reported by the Tunisian media outlet Tunisia Live, around 500 women supporters of the Islamist party came to Tunisia from all over the world — Arab, European and Asian countries — to discuss the benefits of an Islamic state for Muslim countries.
Even though the party is banned, Hizb-ut-Tahrir had the freedom to organize an international conference in a luxurious Tunisian hotel, and the freedom to spread its own political agenda. It is then clear that, though banned, the party is completely tolerated by the new Tunisian government, led by the Islamist party Ennahda.
The following are excerpts from an op-ed that appeared in the Tunisia media outlet, Business Week:
“The organizers of the event wore bright pink scarves, the participants had flowered veils and just few women wore black niqabs. And, above all, smiles and endless speeches to convince the audience about the beneficial effects of the Caliphate, the only political system with a future for Muslims, according to the women of Islamist party Hizb Ettaharir. […]
“In the large conference hall, in a luxurious palace in Gammarth, in the northern outskirts of Tunis, rented at an undisclosed price by the Tunisian branch of Hizb Ettaharir, the women activists watched attentively a movie, claiming that ‘the world is in great need of Islam’.
“The movie than [sic] showed some footage of recent world’s events: the Arab Spring, European demonstrators repressed by the police, the fall of Arab dictators […] Then the movies’ [sic]commentator asks the following question: ‘What sort of liberties are offered by the western secular system? The liberty of disintegrating the family?The liberty of being homosexual?’ The movie ended with images of galloping knights, waving the banner of Islam and a plea: ‘Oh Caliphate! Help!’
“[…] Melek and Asma, two good-looking British participants, in their thirties, the first one being a professor and the latter one a housewife, insisted that with their views they are not doing any ‘western-bashing’ (i.e. denigration of the West). ‘We live in Europe, and we simply realized that the capitalist system has failed. The Caliphate is a unique economic system that does not forbid ownership or richness, but which provides for an equitable redistribution and circulation of goods’, Melek explained. ‘Jews and Christians can live in a Caliphate under the status of ‘dhimmi’ [a tolerated, second-class citizen who has to pay a “protection” tax, called a jizya], called […]”, added Asma, anxious to convince her interlocutors.
“The two young women explain that in a Caliphate, women will have the right to work, to have a political role, even though their main mission remains to raise children and look after the family. They added that the Caliphate does not forbid elections and that the role of the Caliph will be assumed by the best Islamic scholar among all. A woman, however, cannot become a Caliph. ‘The Muslim world is nowadays at a crossroad, looking for answers. The Caliphate is the answer’ said Iffah Rohma, Indonesian representative of Hizb Ettahrir”.
Family Values of NT, and the high (sarcasm) it gives to women
1 Timothy 2:11-15 (King James Version)
1 Timothy 2:11-15
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
Yamit – Excellent clip reference. Let’s see the lefty anthropology profs put THAT into their lectures.Thanks.
Most of the muslim in this world ( one billion) are converts. Converts have slave mentality and is hard for us to change them. They love serving the master and unless they wake up nothing can be done to this islamac population.
Muslim Women uneducated can be saved and slave educated muslim women have no desire for liberty,
If She can’t see the poor condition of uneducated muslim women and ready to fight for her, why we care.
The previous statements are accurate–a caliphate will bring a new wave of precedented Islamic hell on Earth!
The author mentioned homosexuality as a “freedom”–there are two interesting realities here, homosexuality is never freedom but rather the extreme bondage of mental illness and homosexuality is very common in Islamic nations–Islam [similarly to Catholicism] unnaturally segregates and represses both sexes and opens the door for an increase in homosexuality.
Women in Islam:Your Wives are your Tilth… A Dog, A Donkey and A Woman
Oh and I should add, rape victims being ordered by a court to marry their rapists.
And what sort of family values does islam offer? Multiple wives, marriage to first cousins and little girls being forcibly married off to middle aged and old men.
I see that my previous comment didn’t go through…All I want to know is that if I apply today for conversion to Islam I will indeed be a first class citizen of the coming universal caliphate?
Finally! I didn’t know what I am missing! I lived under various regimes: communist, socialist, capitalist economy with social repression, capitalist/statist economy combined with personal liberties, but I never lived in dhimmitude. All the above regimes were oppressing personal liberties to various degrees, but nothing like the Caliphate. I cannot come fast enough. But wait, if I convert I won’t be a dhimmi! That’s it! I am going right now to look for an imam to start the process.