Suppose the condition of a country is a direct reflection of how its women are treated. In that case, the status of women in Islam is the root of the dysfunctionality of these societies, where women are abused, disempowered, and brainwashed from birth.
Islamic doctrine does not merely limit women's rights—it annihilates their sense of self-worth from the very beginning. The Quranic Sura 2:282: "A woman's testimony is worth half a man's," and Sura 4:34: "Men are in charge of women... and if they disobey, beat them," are not just verses; they are the foundation of a system built on the dehumanization of women.
Girls are taught from their earliest years that they are inherently worth less than men. In court, their testimony is diminished; in marriage, their obedience is mandatory; in society, their rebellion is met with sanctioned violence. Even in Islamic communities in the West, forced and arranged marriages—often between first cousins—result in severe health issues like congenital disabilities while also sustaining a culture of honor killings, child marriage, and the systematic imprisonment of women within their own homes.
The result is internalized misogyny so deeply embedded in these women that they rationalize their abuse, calling it Allah's will, defending their oppression as divine protection, and turning against other women with the same brutality inflicted upon them. Western women are whores, they say. Freedom is corruption. Submission is dignity.
The most insidious aspect of this oppression is that it breeds its callous enforcers. Women do not simply endure this system—they uphold it, enforce it, and ensure that it perpetuates. Mothers force their daughters under the hijab before they can even understand their choice. They pressure their sons to dominate their wives, training them from childhood to be emotionally detached tyrants. Older women, robbed of autonomy their entire lives, redirect their frustration by policing younger women's sexuality. Mothers-in-law establish their dominance in the household by abusing their daughters-in-law, a cycle of cruelty passed down like a curse.
A woman who has been beaten, denied autonomy, and trained to see herself as inferior does not magically become a strong mother. A woman who has never learned to think for herself cannot raise independent children. A woman who has been degraded from birth cannot build a functional society. She raises narcissistic sons who are violent, entitled, and emotionally crippled and daughters who are powerless, indoctrinated, and, more often than not, manipulative—because in a system like this, submission requires the utmost cunning to survive.
A boy who grows up watching his mother beaten and silenced learns three things: women are weak, violence is power, and compassion is a liability. If his mother justifies the abuse instead of fighting it, he grows into a man who sees violence as natural, dominance as his right, and cruelty as strength. This is why men in Islamic societies are often so brutal, so callous, so incapable of empathy—strong women did not raise them but broken ones who passed on their trauma like a birthright.
The cycle is endless. The same system that subjugates women breeds men who terrorize them, and so the dysfunction feeds itself, generation after generation, a psychological time loop of regression and self-destruction.
And yet, many of these women who have been conditioned to defend their oppression flee to the West, not for freedom but for security, economic stability, and the benefits of a civilization built by the values they despise. They arrive, settle in isolated parallel societies, and refuse to integrate, carrying their submission like a family heirloom. They raise their sons with the same entitlement and their daughters with the same chains, forcing their little girls into hijabs in countries where child veiling should be considered abuse. They demand the West accommodate their imported gender apartheid and cry "Islamophobia" when faced with even the slightest pushback.
And the West, cowardly and riddled with self-inflicted guilt, betrays its values—the very principles that built its open societies—and allows it. Our governments look away as immigrant communities reintroduce the same dysfunction that destroyed their homelands, refusing to confront the brutal realities of honor killings, forced marriages, and the veiling of little girls. Paralyzed by the fear of being called racist, they silence critics, all while the seeds of Islamic dysfunction take root in our soil.
This is not just a betrayal of our democratic core principles—it is a betrayal of every little girl who lives among us in open societies yet is denied even the most basic human rights.
If Islamic societies ever want to progress, they must acknowledge that their regressive and destructive generational cycle must be shattered. But also, the free world must recognize the role of Muslim mothers in perpetuating violence, oppression, and dysfunction and confront it. No more excuses. No more framing this as cultural difference or religious freedom. This system of psychological enslavement thrives on the indoctrination of girls before they are even old enough to understand the concept of choice. Religion cannot be allowed to override human rights, and the West must stop tolerating barbarity and intolerance disguised as multiculturalism.
It is not enough to free women from men; they must be freed from the prison of their conditioned minds. Until then, the cycle continues, and Islamic societies remain trapped in a contagious, self-perpetuating cycle of violence and decay—one that has now become a growing threat to the free world.
Years ago I remember the horror I felt reading of the betrayal that the women felt as their grandmothers & aunts held them down for FGM, fwiw that's not even Islamic supposedly more African cultural but to inflict that on your female offspring knowingly because Allah says
Ein milim.. Hebrew for no words
Your writing always challenges the mind. Thank you!
I don't see how Islam can be modernized, in order to do that, it would have to disavow its core teachings, the very purposes of Islam, and at that point Muslims might as well call themselves something else, start a new religion because it won't be Islam. To un-condition the minds of Muslim girls, they have to stop being taught the Quran. They have to stop being Muslims. I really don't see any other way.