Are Muslim Women Trapped in Marriages in Denmark?

In this mailing: - Judith Bergman: Are Muslim Women Trapped in Marriages in Denmark? - Majid Rafizadeh: Who Is the Ayatollah's New Top General? [] [Are Muslim Women Trapped in Marriages in Denmark?]( by Judith Bergman • March 4, 2020 at 5:00 am [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [WhatsApp]( [Telegram]( [Send]( [Print]( - "We don't have specific courts for Muslims... the essence of Danish society is that we have courts that apply to everyone... There are many democratic Muslims, who lead normal lives and are well integrated in Danish society.... I know it is easier said than done, but then we as a society must support them." — Minister of Integration Mattias Tesfaye, Berlingske Tidende, February 2, 2020. - One imam, Mostafa Chendid, estimates that 2,000-3000 Muslim women in Denmark are trapped in Islamic marriages they cannot get out of. - "It is a big problem and many men hold the women hostage in marriages they do not want. They won't accept a divorce from a Danish court -- only from a religious one", he said. "I know women who have tried in vain for ten years to find an imam that will accept their divorce... 80-90 % of the imams will not recognize that a divorce from a Danish court is also valid... And at the same time, the women's husbands and families tell them that they are not divorced until they have the imams' approval." — Imam Mostafa Chendid, Kristeligt Dagblad, January 16, 2020. - It was four years ago that Danish television first exposed sharia councils and imams that help keep Muslim women in abusive marriages and in parallel societies. How is it possible that Danish politicians are still "shocked"? In response to a new report, "Ethnic minority women and divorce – with a focus on Muslim practice," Denmark's Minister of Integration, Mattias Tesfaye, said: "The report is shocking. We live in 2020. Not in the Middle ages. The oppressed women need to know their rights... We won't accept social control." (Image source: PES Communications/Flickr) In March 2016, a three-part television documentary, "The Mosques Behind the Veil," was aired on Danish TV2. The documentary sent two young Muslims undercover, as Fatma and Muhammed, to a number of "parallel" Muslim societies in Denmark. For the purpose of the documentary, Fatma was given a personal cover story -- based on real-life dilemmas -- for which she would seek advice from the different imams: Her husband was violent, and she did not wish to have sex with him. She could not get pregnant and his family had found a second wife for him. All the Danish imams with whom she consulted in the documentary told her to put up with the violence. When she pleaded for divorce at a sharia council in the Fredens mosque in Århus, Denmark's second largest city, the imams there refused and told her -- ten times -- that she must go back to her husband and try again. [Continue Reading Article]( [] [Who Is the Ayatollah's New Top General?]( by Majid Rafizadeh • March 4, 2020 at 4:00 am [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [WhatsApp]( [Telegram]( [Send]( [Print]( - The new head of the Quds Force, Gen. Esmail Qaani, is someone who not only desires to kill Americans but also boasts about killing Americans. - According to the U.S. Treasury Department Qaani covered "financial disbursements to IRGC-QF elements, including elements in Africa, as well as to various terrorist groups, including Hezbollah." - It is incumbent on the international community immediately to cut the flow of funds to Iran's Quds Force and General Qaani. The new head of Iran's Quds Force, Gen. Esmail Qaani, is someone who not only desires to kill Americans but also boasts about killing Americans. (Image source: [Tasnim News]( by 4.0) Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei appointed Brig. Gen. Esmail Qaani as the new head of the Quds Force after Qassem Soleimani was killed in a US airstrike ordered by President Donald J. Trump. It is important to know who Brig. Gen. Esmail Qaani is and what his policies are: his actions will have consequences for US national security interests and the lives of many Americans and the Free World. The Quds Force, which the new Iranian General is now leading, has been designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the US Department of State, and has been responsible for killing hundreds, if not thousands, of Americans. According to a statement by the US Department of Defense, the Quds Force was "responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more". [Continue Reading Article]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [RSS]( [Donate]( Copyright © Gatestone Institute, All rights reserved. You are subscribed to this list as {EMAIL} You can change how you receive these emails: [Update your subscription preferences]( or [Unsubscribe from this list]( [Gatestone Institute]( 14 East 60 St., Suite 705, New York, NY 10022