The great counter Islam writer, speaker and politician Anne Marie Waters once said that ‘Islam kills women’. This is both a stark and broad statement to make, but the more I look at the ideology of Islam the more truth I see in that phrase. Islam doesn’t value women and girls in any meaningful way. Islam treats women as second class citizens at best and at worst treats women and girls as property to be used and abused according to the wills of Muslim men. Of course not all Muslim men treat women like dirt, there are some Muslim men who reject the lesser state that Islam decrees for women. But, because of the influence over Islamic culture that the Koran and other writings have, then we should not be surprised when a highly misogynistic ideology such as Islam produces large numbers of some of the most vile and violent misogynists in the world today. It is both remarkable and depressing to see so many acts of violence aimed at women from the Muslim men who sometimes control every move and action of the women in their families.

Islamic misogyny is what lies behind the phenomena of ‘honour’ killings, forced marriage, Female Genital Mutliation, lack of female equality which afflict women brought up in Islamic culture and the Islamic Rape Gangs that target women outside of Islam for the most horrific of abuse and assault. Islam is what creates the culture that allows the most terrible abuse and devaluing of women and girls.

There has been over recent decades a constant parade of stories of women being oppressed by Islam. Women are routinely murdered or subjected to punishment rapes imposed by tribal courts in places like Pakistan and violence against women in Muslim families appears endemic in Islamic societies whether that be a society that has been Islamic for centuries or a Muslim ghetto in the West.

The state of women and women’s rights under Islamic culture is nothing less than hellish and this story from India shows just how little valued the lives of women and girls are in Islamic culture. According to an Indian media outlet called DNA (h/t RoP) a father murdered 3 of his five young daughters by throwing them off of a moving train, purely because the children were girls.

DNA said:

In a shocking incident, a father allegedly threw four of his five daughters out from a moving train in Uttar Pradesh.

One Afreena Khatoon, 36, has told police officials her husband, Iddu Mian, 42, hurled their daughters out from Kamakhya-Katra Express on the intervening night of October 23 and 24, according to a Hindustan Times report.

“I paid the price for giving birth to girls,” mother Afreen cries as she sat beside daughter Algun in the hospital.

The train was passing through Sitapur, about 90 km north of Lucknow, when Iddu threw out his daughters one by one.

“Muniya died because of me. I did not even know when Iddu threw out our four daughters. I was sleeping with my youngest daughter on another seat,” Afreen said.

She believed it was after midnight her husband threw out their daughters when everyone in the train were sleeping.

When Afreena woke up and asked Iddu where her daughters were, he simply replied : “Fek diye (I threw them).”

“Paanch-paanch ladkiyan ko kaun palat aur kaun shadi karawat (who will feed five girls and arrange for their marriages),” Iddu added.

“He threatened to throw me and Shehzadi out if I raised an alarm,” Afreena claimed.

This poor woman was stuck on the train with the beast of of a man who had murdered her daughters, too terrified of him to raise the alarm with either staff running the train or with other passengers. It was only when the train pulled into a station and Iddu did a runner that Afreena said that she felt safe to tell the authorities what had happened. A search of the route that the train had run on uncovered one of the four girls who had been thrown from the train still alive. The daughter, Algun, was taken to hospital with a shattered leg. The remains of the other daughters that this savage threw from the train have not yet all been found or accounted for.

According to the DNA report it appears that Iddu may have boarded the train with the deliberate intent of murdering his daughters as Afreena’s mother counselled her not to get on the train with Iddu and her daughters, but she didn’t listen. It may well be that the mother recognised in Iddu a deficiency of character as he was said to be a man who didn’t fulfil any of the normal responsibilities of a parent.

Familial murderers can come from all cultures and can be brought about by mental illness or just because the murderer is plainly evil. However, this attack has a distinctly Islamic flavour. This Islamic flavour is discerned in the sheer disdain that Iddu showed for his daughters and how according to Afreena these murders were ‘punishment’ for his wife giving birth to daughters. The fact that a man could murder his daughters not because he was merely mad or bad, but because the culture he was brought up in despises women, tells us a lot about why Islam is such a danger to women. An ideology that has so much hatred for women that it can inspire a man to murder his own offspring cannot bring anything but evil into the world.

Those Muslim men who treat women with respect are not doing so because Islam tells them to behave well, but because they are part of the minority of Muslim men who have purposely rejected the gynohatred that is melded into the core of Islam. The vast majority of the Muslim world contains some of the worst incidents of misogyny and violent misogyny that we can find and it is that way because of Islam. Just as how the savage Iddu was made as he was by the ideology of Islam, so has the Muslim world itself been turned into a hell hole for women by Islam.

It is with disgusting stories like this that show up the appaling gynohatred embedded in Isalm that makes Anne Marie Waters statement about Islam killing women to look more an more less easy to challenge.