Umar Al-Qadri is threatening to sue me for defamation and wants my address. Which is a bit of a blessing because where he comes from, some of his tribe will take your head clean off. He claims I’m dishonest, which is rich coming from someone who claims to be Dutch, Pakistani, and European all rolled into one. Apparently if you have Dutch parentage, where you were actually born doesn’t matter. You can even call yourself Irish if your umbilical cord stretches all the way from Islamabad to the nearest lie detector. Speaking of chips, he has a massive one on his shoulder. The suggestion that the Prophet Muhammad didn’t marry his wife Aisha until she was 19 is a very touchy subject. It’s well documented she was only 6 years old, and the marriage was consummated when she was 9, based on widely reported hadiths such as Bukhari 7.62.88, but that’s the Sunni interpretation. Al-Qadri’s version, however, claims the prophet waited until she was 19, which would’ve had him pushing 60. From which side we don’t know, but there was nothing odd about that arrangement, right? But there’s more. Sahih al-Bukhari (9.84.57) records the Prophet Muhammad saying, “Whoever changes his religion, kill him.” Pakistan’s blasphemy laws led to the 2011 assassination of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer for daring to do what many others have been doing for decades, but that’s the risk you take when calling out religious extremists. This so-called “religion of peace”, which Al-Qadri has been desperately trying to rebrand, is completely at odds with Western values. Under Sharia law, apostasy, homosexuality or adultery is a veritable death sentence in places like Pakistan. Which might explain why Al-Quandry is so anxious to distance himself from that part of the globe. And how well he might. A Muslim can marry up to 4 women and beat the daylights out of all of them once he doesn’t draw any blood. Al-Qadri will argue that such behaviour does not represent Islam but conveniently forgets to mention his own daughter is dressed up like a cocooned caterpillar in waiting. Sharia law is open to interpretation, admittedly, but the inescapable facts remain. Women are treated like dogs and are forced to walk several steps behind their masters. In Saudi, where I worked for several years, it’s like watching one big chessboard floating about.

Posted by Fred Bassett