Your flesh and blood turned as a blade..part 2
1 March 2026
Pakistan strikes Kabul, Kandahar.
I hope they had the decency to avoid their poor wretched women;
I implore you,
women and babies,
girls and ladies
of Afghanistan;
I appeal to you, emigrate enmasse,
Leave the Taliban to test their belief, in an orgy of sodomy, that their next imam will be born of man.
You can come back to your home that’s been cleansed, bit like a self cleaning oven.
Don’t need men, just the nearest sperm bank.
And, do you really want your flesh and blood turned as a blade against you?
As the Talibani say “Give me the boy. We’ll give you the man”. Sodomised, radicalised and a dagger aimed at his mother’s heart and soul. Nice fuckers. Though an interesting parallel evolution, a sort of meme osmosis, with that of the Jesuits.
I failed the medical for entry into Islam, never went to a madrasa, so, I’m one ignorant fucker.
However, in the interests of full disclosure, my descent is through Sayyid Abdul Bari a direct descendant of Muhammad through Fatimah. I’m not an outsider, I’m family, non-practicing, non-believing, fellow human pilgrim who believes life is an emergent feature of the laws of physics in this universe. (see adjacent post on subject of the same name).
But to the point: what The Taliban are doing by betraying my ancestor’s women is downright fucking personal, and it pisses me off mightily.
And, to offset my ignorance, I read, a lot; so, pray tell me,
Where in the Quran does it say ban girls from school?
Where does it say erase women from public life?
Where does it say a woman’s voice is haram?
If you talibani are offended, consider that it is the perceiver, not the perceived. Pluck out your eyes, puncture your eardrums and fill the abyss in your heart with the absence of haram.
AND, LEAVE THE WOMEN FREE FROM HARM.
YOUR HARAM IS THEIR HARM.
Women don’t want you to protect them,
they want you NOT to be the thing they need protection from.
Every woman’s lament the world over, from the heart, from the mouths of 4 billion plus women.
BACKDROP OF ISLAM
Born in 570 CE, at the age of 25, the prophet experienced sexual harassment in the workplace, one of the first cases of its kind, when hired as Head of Logistics, a job he performed as honestly as the day is long. Khadijah, the CEO, was so taken with this handsome, honest, ethical man, she proposed, through an intermediary, of course, propriety observed.
And he accepted! Wise man, even that young. Mind you, he probably had a thing for older women, ’nuff said.
595 CE, the happy nuptials. And, he became Khadijah‘s third husband as she became his first wife. See, none of that virgin wife bollocks. Nothing like the love of a mature, wise and experienced woman rather than the statutory rape bait of a terrified child.
She bore him six children. She was the first to believe his revelation, when he came down from the cave on Mount Hira, terrified, she wrapped him in a cloak and told him he wasn’t mad. This, from a woman well versed in the bullshit of men, enough to build a significant fortune, who could separate wheat from chaff in a sweeping glance.
She went on to use her fortune and influence to provide a cradle for the early adopters in the nascent Muslim community when they were persecuted.
He took no other wife while she lived.
Islam’s founding couple was an older female boss who proposed to her younger male employee. Everything, everything, everything, the Taliban stands for is a betrayal of that origin.
When she died in 619 CE he called it the Year of Sorrow. He reportedly said no woman was better than Khadijah. Twenty-five years, one wife, and she was older, much richer, and his boss first.
Around 620 CE, the prophet, now aged 50, married his second wife, Sawda bint Zam’a, purportedly between 40 and 65 years of age; depending on sources.
One account says they were both 50 at the time of their union. She was a widow, an early adopter of Islam, had emigrated to Abyssinia and suffered for the faith. Not young, not beautiful by the accounts, but practical, kind, funny, charitable; probably reminded him of his first love, Khadijah; I certainly remember mine, and I’m 70, and like him, preferred older women.
In 622 CE, 3 years after his beloved Khadijah’s death, Mohammed undertook the Hijra to Medina.
Now, at 53+, his expectations mature, perhaps the wholly human pull of past glory days, the want, the desire, the yearn, to touch flesh taut with youth, a contrast with his last 2 wives, in 623 CE, in Medina, he took his third wife, Aisha.
Hadith sources put Aisha’s marriage age at between 6-9. Some modern scholars argue she was older, possibly between 15-19.
Given the current day rejection of such customs, different times, different norms, different folks, different strokes; without sullying this account, this does create a tension with modern day resistance to such practice being quotidian. I mean, as with Ancient Greece, what was once normal is now rightly seen as abhorrent.
I hasten to add, this piece is about the Taliban’s betrayal of Islam’s women, not a trial of Muhammad, with whom I have no conflict. He lived his life by the principle of reciprocity in an entirely ethical and religious manner.
Aisha, after his death, was a scholar, a political leader, and commanded an army at the Battle of the Camel.
The first person to accept Islam was a woman. His beloved, Khadijah.
The first martyr in Islam was a woman, Sumayyah bint Khayyat.
The Quran explicitly states men and women are equal in the sight of God (33:35).
SUCCESSION TALES
Muhammad’s first 6 children were with Khadijah, his first marriage:
Sons : Qasim and Abd Allah, who both died in infancy, or early childhood, leaving no surviving male heir.
Daughters: Zaynab, Ruqayya, Umm Kulthum, and Fatimah. All died in young adulthood.
Only Fatimah outlived Muhammad, by six, short months.
One later son, Ibrahim, born to Maria al-Qibtiyya, a slave/concubine, who also died around 16 months old.
The succession crisis:
No surviving sons. This is the fault line that split Islam in two. Muhammad articulated no succession strategy, undisputed instruction on who should lead after him. And, as with any large organisation, a boardroom fight broke out upon his death.
Sunni view: leadership goes to the most capable companion. Abu Bakr (Aisha’s father) became first Caliph, elected by consensus.
This is a break from descent by consanguinity, as practiced in any culture where the next in line was male. Otherwise, a morganatic type of logic was applied to exclude as if by scripture or divine mandate, the logic of consanguinity if the successor is female. Fatimah, as the prophet‘s successor by nature and reason, was easier to dismiss by those excluded from the bloodline, than had she been a he. A constant theme that prevailed in to the future.
Shia view: leadership should have passed through bloodline to Ali, Muhammad’s cousin AND Fatimah’s husband, then through their sons Hasan and Husayn, Muhammad’s only surviving grandsons, his only continuing bloodline, and that bloodline ran exclusively through a woman, Fatimah.
Fatimah, born about 605 CE in Mecca, his daughter by Khadijah was married to Ali, Muhammad’s cousin and the fourth Caliph. She bore Hasan and Husayn, Muhammad’s only surviving grandsons.
To repeat:
The Prophet’s entire bloodline survived because of his daughter. His sons all died. Every descendant of the Prophet alive today, every Sayyid, traces their bloodline through her. Through a woman, just like mitochondrial Eve, from whom we are all descended.
And, the first act of the first male-led Islamic, talibani government Abu Bakr, Aisha’s father was to set the precedent for the suppression, silencing and subordinating of women by seizing Fatimah’s land, and thus, denying her inheritance.
By SHATTERING covenant 33:35, no doubt for love of his god.
Fatimah challenged him publicly, delivered what’s known as the Sermon of Fadak at the Prophet’s Mosque.
Imagine that, a woman, standing in the mosque, publicly challenging the most powerful man in Islam over her property rights.
Imagine that happening today in any Muslim state!
Any! Fuck, they’re barely allowed bank accounts, air, water, independence, autonomy, freedom from harm…
Khadijah, the very first convert, the first believer is utterly appalled and devastated. This obscene fuckery is what she nursed from the cradle… her flesh, blood and scripture as blade against her own flesh and spirit., the scriptures that so terrified her husband, twisted into a bloody pretzel…???
Of course, Abu Bakr refused, and set the course for the future of Islam. Like all of his ilk, before and since, self-serving and beyond accountability. Sound familiar?
Sunni sources cite a hadith that prophets leave no inheritance, only charity. Convenient, that; a single hadith, interpreted by the man who benefited most from its application. Hardly the justice of Solomon, eh! You divide the cake; I get to choose first, or vice versa, both work to keep us all ethical.
The reason that this is entirely specious and an example of special pleading is that it fails the test of reciprocity.
Had their roles been reversed, Abu Bakr would have argued his case on the basis of blood line, i.e. consanguinity, and gender thus killing the ruling stone dead.
As it happens, all he could claim was sexual congress with the bloodline, which hardly carries the same ethos, so he relied on the embedded misogyny in peoples recently converted to see the ‘compelling’ logic of denying a claim on the basis of gender, notwithstanding consanguinity. Simples.
In direct unholy violation of (33:35): men and women are equal in the sight of God.
Fatimah never spoke to him again and died six months after her father, aged about 27.
The very first act of the very first male-led Islamic government was to strip a woman of her rights. See, put men in charge and it all goes to pot faster than warm shit off a hot shovel.
That’s a woman erased by the first generation of male Islamic power.
The Taliban didn’t invent it, they simply took it over as a running concern.
The Taliban fuckers aren’t an aberration. They’re the logical endpoint of a power grab that started before Muhammad’s body was cold.
The argument that misogyny is baked into the interpretation of scripture, not the scripture itself has its parallel in, of all places, quantum mechanics.
The observer effect in quantum mechanics: light projected through two slits creates a wave. Put measuring equipment in place, the wave collapses to a particle.
Scripture is the quantum wave seeing men and women as equals.
Interpretation is the apparatus, which collapses god’s word into something smaller, asymmetrical, aimed against my female ancestors.
This is very fucking personal; attack mine, attack me.
Wives, sisters, mothers. You have the power.
Number of people born from women = 9 billion
Number of people born from men = 0