France: Imam dismissed for saying ‘Women do not have the right to say no’
Feb 26, 2025 11:00 am
By Robert Spencer
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Imagine how surprised and embarrassed everyone concerned is going to be when they find out that Hassan Benzad was not an “extremist,” but was merely reflecting standard Islamic teaching.
A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “If a husband calls his wife to his bed [i.e. to have sexual relation] and she refuses and causes him to sleep in anger, the angels will curse her till morning” (Bukhari 4.54.460).
And: “By him in Whose Hand lies my life, a woman can not carry out the right of her Lord, till she carries out the right of her husband. And if he asks her to surrender herself [to him for sexual intercourse] she should not refuse him even if she is on a camel’s saddle” (Ibn Majah 1853).
“‘Women do not have the right to say no’: the Hautepierre mosque dismisses its imam,” translated from “« La femme n’a pas le droit de dire non » : la mosquée de Hautepierre licencie son imam,” by Olivia Kouassi, Rue 89 Strasbourg, February 24, 2025 (thanks to Medforth):
“Women do not have the right to say no”: the Hautepierre mosque dismisses its imam
It all started with a video posted on social networks. On September 15, 2024, Étienne Delarcher, a journalist under a pseudonym, posted on his X account (formerly Twitter) a video shot in the prayer room of the Arrahma mosque in Hautepierre. This video coincides with the release of his book, published in May 2024 by Editions du Rocher, called “At the heart of Islam in France”, and subtitled “three years of infiltration in 70 French mosques.”
“When a woman says no to her husband, Allah is angry with her”
Hassan Benzad, former imam of the Arrahma mosque in Hautepierre… |
