The Islāmic-Posture towards Sex-Crimes & the Damage they cause

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Sadly, we as Human-Beings now dwell in a Globalized-World of Hyper-Sexualization. Sexuality/Sex is literally everywhere, much like Oxygen-From Trendy-Hashtags (like: “#WordPorn”, “#FoodPorn”, etc.)…to “That’s what she said.” Jokes thus popularized by a Hit-Sitcom called “The Office”…to Reality-TV Shows like “Pawn Stars”: a Pun-Play/Spinoff of the Word “Porn Star”…to Music/Songs like “W.A.P. (W.et A.ss P.ussy)” by Cardi B & Megan The Stallion: I can literally mention Socio-Cultural References All-Day. The Point, however, is that this is clearly a Prophetic-Manifestation of Muhammad (Peace be upon him). He mentioned directly, that there will be Persons from his Ummah/Nation (Muslims & Non-Muslims alike) whom’ll perpetually attempt to justify any/all Manifestations of az-Zinā/THOTery & more specifically he detailed that Homosexuality is what he fears for his Ummah mostly.(al-Bukhārī; Abū-Dāwud; al-Kabā’ir/The Major-Sins, adh-Dhahabī) Unfortunately, there’s so/too many Muslims whom actually think/feel that this Reality is exclusively reserved for Non-Muslim/Muslim-Minority Nation-States.

Well, News-Flash/Reality-Check…I’ve some Gruesome-News for you:

a. KSA/Saudi Arabia is the Only-Place in the World, that I’ve ever traveled to, where I was personally approached by Male&Female-Prostitutes (Broad-Daylight…within al-Makkah…via Hajj-Pilgrimage-Season) back in 1426, A.H./2005, C.E.: I was 24 (Islāmic-Calendar)/23 (Gregorian-Calendar) when this occured.

b. In Egypt: Transformer-Surgeries (Artificial Medical-Transformation from Male2Female/Female2Male) is literally 💯% Secularly-Legal & Religio-Approved by al-Azhar University: one of the most Famous-Centers of Islāmic-Academia within the Muslim-World.

c. Bangladesh is literally the only Muslim-Country which has Prostitution as being Secularly-Legal.

d. Tunisia is the only Muslim-Country which has secularly-legalized Muslim-Women to “marry” Non-Muslim Men.

e. I personally know Muslim Porn-Stars.

f. Porn-Culture, Sexual-Abuse (via Child-Molestation, Rape, Sexual-Predatism, Sexual-Harrassment/Misconduct, etc.) are Things which’re extremely widespread amongst Muslims.

These Aformentioned-Examples are Potentially-Endless. Now, this is dreadfully important, as it’s Purpose is to drag our Heads out of the Sand & see our World: Societies, Environments, Communities, etc. as they truly are. And the Pathetic-Reality is that we’re really Fucked-Up.

Why even discuss this?!!!

I know, for a Fact, as I was even authoring this, that this could probably one of the most Controversial-Things which I’ve ever personally committed to Pen&Paper. However, as a Muslim-1st, Chaplain-2nd, I literally exist both professionally & personally to do/be the following: a. To be an Embassador-Of-Empathy. b. To make the Uncomfortable comfortable. This Article, via the Mercy-Of-Allah, will manifest exactly that: Empathy&Confrontation, as per the Hyper-Sexualized Atmosphere which our Global-Humanity has suffered immensely from. I honestly do expect to receive: Text-Messages, Phonecalls, Direct-Mesages, etc. pontificating/claiming that I’m being “2-Direct, 2-Explicit, taking the Subject 2-Far” & so on.It’s going to be very obvious, to those whom actually know me: I write to unearth Uneasiness. I’m committed to getting under Peoples’-Skin, because I’m doing so via Islāmic-Principle: “Truth is Truth, regardless of whom/where it comes from.”. Furthermore, this is validated, via the Statement of Muhammad (Peace be upon him), “Speak truthfully, regardless of whether it rubs People wrongly.”.(al-Bayhaqī)

Let’s now take a Break from this, and explore the actual Categories of Sex-Crimes, which al-Islām deems Mahrūm/Islāmically-Prohibited, via at-Tanzīl/Revelation.

The Following-Passage is predicated upon al-Kabā’ir/The Major-Sins, adh-Dhahabī:

Any/all Manifestations of az-Zinā/THOTery are, holistically, Islāmically-Punishable via Death-Penalty.

1. The Exceptions to this Islāmic-Precedent are the Following-Sins

a. Masturbation

b. Female-Female Homo-Sex

c. Any/all Manifestations of az-Zinā committed by Prepubescent-Humans (meaning those whom may commit any Acts-Of-Zinā prior to reaching al-Balāghah/Puberty)

d. Marital-Rape

e. Fornication/Pre-Marital Sex (Sexual-Intercourse while never being Previously-Married)

f. Porn-Addiction

2. The Manifestations of az-Zinā which’re Islāmically-Punishable via Death-Penalty, in Order of Most-Severe to Least-Severe

a. Bestiality (Human-Animal/Animal-Human Sex)

b. Necrophilia (Raping a Dead-Person, a Vegetative/Comatose-Person, etc.)

c. Child-Molestation (Sexual-Contact with any Prepubescent-Human)

d. Rape (Marital-Rape not included)

e. Sex-Trafficking/Pimping

f. Male-Male Homo-Sex (Male-Male Sexual-Contact or Males allowing Females to impose Homosexual-Acts upon them)

g. Adultery (it doesn’t matter whether one is Currently-Married or Divorced)

3. Clemency regarding Sexual-Crimes

The Hudūd (Islāmic-Punishments/Penalties) as per Sexual-Crimes can only be imposed upon Free-Persons whom’re Pubescent, Sane, etc. The Enslaved, the Insane, Children/Prepubescent-Persons, etc. get Hadd-Passes, by virtue of the Fact that it can easily be probable/plausible that they were forced to commit such Sexual-Crimes, unless proven otherwise. If one is Insane (Mentally-Disturbed/Ill), a Child/Prepubescent-Person, etc. then there’s no Hisāb/Accountability for them via this regard at all anyway. Also, for Obvious-Reasons: those whom’re Victims of Sex-Crimes (Child-Molestation, Rape, Sex-Trafficking/Pimping, etc.) are completely exempt from any Hadd.

Why all this Effort pertaining to this Subject?!!!

I had revised & republished a Previous-Article that I had wrote, concerning a Muslim Religio-Cleric whom had raped&beaten their own Child to Death (quite literally). Revisiting my own Article, previously published, had sparked a deeper Sense of Valid-Anger towards/against Sexual-Perversion. Revisiting that Article, in lieu of the Emergence of the #MeToo-Era, has compelled me to be that much/even more self-invested in these Issues than I’d ever been prior to that Time in my Life. I personally deem it a Farīdhah/Islāmic-Mandate, upon every Muslim, to be directly/fully engaged in creating Positive-Solutions for the Problems via our World which’re directly caused by az-Zinā. But, sadly, not enough Muslims are courageous, willing, enough to step/stand-up & confront these said Issues.(https://garethbryant.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/rapeisacrimenomatterwhodoesit)

And, there’s a Host of Reasons how/why the Resistance against combating Sexual-Perversion exists amongst Muslims

a. We ourselves have /still personally self-indulge in Sexual-Perversion/Sex-Crimes.

b. We ourselves have been/still are being victimized via Sexual-Pervesion/Sex-Crimes.

c. We ourselves have been/still are being shamed for being victimized via Sexual-Perversion/Sex-Crimes.

d. We ourselves are afraid to bring Awareness to Sexual-Perversion/Sex-Crimes, because of: Opposition, Ridicule/Mockery, Threats/Violence, Alienation, etc.

e. We ourselves think/feel that we want to do something, but are ignorant and/or ill-equipped to do so.

f. We ourselves are overwhelmed, that our Efforts (to actually create Solutions to Problems caused/exascerbated by Sexual-Perversion/Sex-Crimes) are neither respected nor supported.

g. We ourselves don’t give a Shit, because it hasn’t/isn’t happening to us, or it has/is happening to us but we don’t care whether someone/anyone either has suffered or is suffering as we have…I tell People all the Time, “Apathy is worse than Ignorance.”.

Where can/does it go from here?!!!

That calls for Ongoing-Conversations amongst ourselves, our Loved-Ones, our Communities/Societies. It equally involves Actual-Work, which is bound to place us in the Crosshairs. And, sadly, most us us are so fearful of facing this. I tell People all the Time, “Courage isn’t the Absence of Fear, it’s the Willingness&Ability to confront Fear.”. That’s precisely what we’re all commanded by Allah to do: face our Fears. If you’ve enough Courage yo join me in this Effort, you know how to reach me and let’s seriously work together to combat this.

Gareth Bryant

1442, A.H./2020, C.E.

The “Child-Marriage” Issue: I’d rather call it Youth-Marriage:

Author’s Note:
Has anyone ever noticed that when it comes to the issue of “Child-Marriage”, only the Western-World uses the term “Child”? There’s a very important reason for this: they want people to get accustom to people always assuming that Men are marrying girls, under the age of Puberty, which is utterly perverse, in nature. This is exactly what happens, when one has the power over Language: when one controls Language, they can control how people interpret Law, Life, etc. However, in the Western-World, the issue of “Child-Marriage” has only recently become an issue, relative to the pathological rise & growth of Feminism, which has always (both historically & contemporarily) proves to be not only very biased/1-sided but also extremely hypocritical.(To learn more about Feminsim: https://garethbryant.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/bothmisogynyfeminismareevilandhereswhy)

1. Firstly, Islamically, the definition of a “Child” is one whom has not yet reached Balaghah/Puberty.(Abu-Dawud, Lisan-ul-`Arab: Lexicon of the Arabic-Language) This is universally understood, from both an Islāmic-Dimension & a Secular-Dimension.(https://www.healthline.com/health/parenting/stages-of-puberty)

2. Secondly, when it comes to marriages, if there is a situation, where there is an arranged marriage-agreement between families, tribes (which is respectively very different than Forced-Marriages, “Kidnap-Marriages”, etc.), and the like, takes place before both the potential bridegroom & bride, or even if just the bridegroom or bride whom is under the age of Balaghah, then their is a period of time in which there is a respective waiting-period, which is supervised by the families, until the marrying parties are both old enough to either say yes or no and/or consummate their respective marriage.(Malik)

3. The most-famous example is that of Muhammad (Peace be upon him), in which after Allah had ordained that he marry `A’ishah (May Allah be pleased with her), the daughter of Abi-Bakr (May Allah be pleased with him): she remained with her own respective family, until it was confirmed that she had reached Balaghah. And, the reason why this is so important is because, Islamically, it is Mahrum to have any sexual-contact with any Human being, whom has not reached Balaghah, as this would by definition be Child-Molestation.(al-Bukhari)

4. This is very crucial to know, as Muslims, because this is one of the most-slanderous insults which ignorant Muslims, and Islamophobes, generally attribute to Muhammad: Child-Molestation via marrying `Ai’shah at age 9, even though, ironically, not even his own religious-enemies, during his own lifetime, the Pagan-Arabs, ever accused him of something so disgusting as Child-Molestation, and they had accused him of some pretty ugly things.(https://garethbryant.wordpress.com/2019/01/08/survivinghypocrisy/)

5. It’s really ironic that most people who advocate that young-people don’t marry young argue about the health-risks of getting married young…well:

a. What about the health-risks of casual-sex, enjoyed by so many, whom are unmarried all across the Globe?

b. What about the health-risks of Homosexual-Sex (particularly/especially Male-on-Male/Anal-Sex)?

6. Although it is true that early-marriage does disrupt education, but, there are a lot more things which disrupt education as well, like:

a. Economic-Exploitation, which the Western-World enjoys, because, we just love fancy clothes & techno-savvy phones, made by workers whom would probably never get the chance to own anything which they make, for Western-World/Global markets, even if they saved every penny of their earnings for an entire year.

b. Wars in these same places where Youth-Marriages take place, as a result of the insatiable pathological craving for influence, power, control over the planet’s resources, all in the covert name/facade of Freedom/Democracy.

c. Educational-Exploitation, as a direct result of ruined infrastructure of these same nations, which the Western-World has invaded and turned upside-down via military, economic, political, and social destruction.

So, in conclusion, this issue is an open-shut-case: the issue of Youth-Marriage is just not what the Western-World vilifies it to be.

Gareth Bryant/2013

My St. John’s University Adventure (trust me, this is funny!!!):

This is how my story goes:

Back in 2011, I was going to an Islamophobia lecture at St. John’s University, by John Starling, an instructor at the Foundation for Knowledge and Development, in New York City. When I got there, the posters for the event were all gone. And, no one seemed to know where this event was taking place. So, I’m basically walking aimlessly, around the St. John’s campus. Then, I walked pass one of the on-campus dorms, and then half of the St. John’s female basketball team is walking in front of me. Then, one of them looked back at me, like she knew me. Then she starts this conversation with me, askin’ me who I am, whether or not I’m a student @St. John’s…all of the above.

What happened was just crazy…one of the basketball players, on the female team, wanted to add me on Facebook, to get to know me better, and then……..well, you know……lol!!! Anyway, she was there that night, the girl who wanted to add me on Facebook. Her friends were teasing her about not steppin’ to me when she saw me that night. Then, they started askin’ me did I wanna roll wit them……..I definitely knew what time it was-their angle was simple, they were tryin’ to make a baby-daddy outta me!!! But, I just simply told them that I was Muslim, that’s what drove them even crazier.

Let’s just say that after that night, I can respect & appreciate Don Imus’ comment about the Rutgers female basketball team being “Nappy-Headed Hoes” because that’s exactly who the St. John’s female b-ball team were, a bunch of horny “Nappy-Headed Hoes”……..SMMFH!!! But, what made it even worse was that there were only three of them who were kind of pretty-the rest were just wounded……..And, I mean “WOUNDED”!!! I felt so disrespected, that I had to call the Devil & tell him: “Yo, my NIGGA, you play too much!!! How you gonna just disrespect me by sendin’ some ugly broads to try to throw me off of Allah’s path, I expected better from you. Then, he promised that he would send me prettier girls, to tempt me with. So, I said, “Aight, but you still gonna lose…..LOSER!!!”

And, that’s my St. John’s adventure!!!

By the way, this is in no way a made-up, or exaggerated story……..this really happened!!!

Gareth Bryant/2012