In rememberance:
"Sarah was a famous slave singer who aimed her barbed words against the
Moslems. She was among those whom Mahomet ordered to be executed on the day
of his victorious entry into Mecca. In the region of El Nagir, it was
recounted that some women had rejoiced when the Prophet died and Abu Bake,
the first of the Caliphs, ordered their hands and feet to be cut off. Thus
women who dared to give voice to their protest or opposition could be
exposed to cruel punishment. Their hands might be cut off, or their teeth
pulled out, or their tongues torn from their mouths. This last form of
punishment was usually reserved for those who were singers. It was said of
these women that they used to dye their hands with henna, brazenly display
the seductions of their beauty, and beat time with their fingers on
tambourines and drums in defiance of God, and in derision towards the
rights of God and his Prophet. It was therefore necessary to cut off their
hands and tear out their tongues" (Nawal el Saadawi 1980 The Naked Face of
Eve)
Indeed when the banu-Umahmah were slaughtered for defending dhu-al-Khalasah
which stood half way to Sana, a certain woman cried (Faris "The Book of
Idols" 31):
"The banu-Umamah, each wielding his spear,
Were slaughtered at al-Waliyah, their abode;
They came to defend their shrine only to find
Lions with brandished swords clamouring for blood.
The women of Khath'am were then humiliated
by the men of Ahmas and debased".
It is said by al-Bukhari that the Prophet himself said: "This world shall
not pass away until the buttocks of the women of Daws wiggle [again] around
the dhu-al-Khalasah and they worship it as they were want to do [before
Islam]" (Faris 32).
It must be the season of the witch!
love, Chris.
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand.
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