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By Abdul Masih —
Blockbuster Muslim YouTuber Mohammed Hijab is being accused of luring a vulnerable divorced Muslim, Aisha, into a “misyar” wedding, a secret marriage with no financial obligations, then divorcing her.
Aisha (her pseudonym) has made accusations, showing texts from Hijab that she had taken screen-shots of, on Behind Veils, on Ali Dawah and Your Friendly Ex-Muslim.
This is the downfall of Mohammed Hijab, fiery debater of Christians, admired influencer with 1.3M subs on YouTube. But behind the story of his hubris and his humiliation lies a more sinister reality that everybody seems afraid to address: Islam is a religion for men.
In Islam, men are encourage — no, urged — to have four wives. A woman’s testimony values half a man’s. She gets less inheritance. Good Muslim men are rewarded with 72 virgins in Paradise. Women cannot go out with a chaperone.
According to the hadiths, the prophet Mohammad consummated his marriage with Aisha (Hijab misyar wife’s pseudonym) when she was 9. Similar weddings occur around the Muslim world today.
“Islam was never made for women,” wrote Nuriyah Khan, with no reference to Mohammed Hijab. An ex-Muslim YouTuber known as the Holy Humanist living in London, Nuriayah wrote it as a title for her June 15, 2025 video in which she interviews Haram Doodle, an American ex-Muslim who recently took off her face covering and revealed her countenance to the world in defiance against Islam’s restrictiveness.
Why don’t all Muslim women revolt? Some are. But as Psychologist Jordan Peterson notes, women around the world emotionally tend to be the guardians of the status quo. And it is hard within the Muslim subculture or nation to break out into freedom.
Indian Muslim Zakir Naik (4.31M subs on YouTube) says women are at least partly to blame for rapes because of the way they dress.
“Coming to the second question that is this not injustice to the girl who was raped?… I would say no because…Allah has given guidelines to the woman that they should dress modestly, cover the body, only the face can be seen. If after giving all these guidance and hypothetically if that girl doesn’t dress up modestly, she’s dressed up immorally, which people get excited and the rape is done… who is to be blamed? The girl is to blame.”
Australian Imam Mohamed Hoblos showed how what the West considers grievous sexual crimes is in Islam a mere dalliance to be repented of and not nearly as evil as missing one of the five daily prayers.
“Any person who misses one Salah (prayer) for no reason, you are worse than a murderer, you are worse than a rapist, you are worse than a terrorist, you are worse than a pedophile in the eyes of Allah,” Hoblos said in 2018 on a YouTube video, as reported by the UK’s Daily Mail.
“When you talk to the Imams and you say men should be taught to control their sexual urges, the imam will say actually it’s women who should stay out of sight, it’s women who should cover themselves up,” says Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who grew up in Somalia and joined the Muslim Brotherhood later in Kenya. “The expectation is in Islamic culture that men will behave like animals.”
CBS reporter Lara Logan dealt with men who were animals when she was covering the Arab Spring in Egypt in 2011 in the Tahrir Square of Cairo. She got thronged and surrounded by three circles of men (the outer circles maintain a perimeter, the inner circle performs aharrush gamea, or rape game). For 20 minutes, 200+ men raped her with “sticks, flag poles, hands — at a certain point I lost track,” she says.
It goes on in England, where Pakistan Muslim immigrants form gangs to groom and take advantage of vulnerable girls in many cities — while politicians, apparently afraid to be called racists, looked the other way and didn’t do proper policing. The grooming gang scandal was being swept under the carpet by the Labour Party (the Tories did no better) until Elon Musk forced a national inquiry by publicizing it on X.
“I was called a white slag, a white whore,” a Rotherham grooming gang survivor said on Triggernometry (her identity concealed). “Over and over again the references to my whiteness were always at the forefront of my perpetrator’s mind, and it was linked in with religion and his idea of what a good Muslim was and what a bad non-Muslim was… In the mind of these grooming gangs, if you’re not covered down to your ankles and down to your wrists, then you’re asking to be raped.”
If missing prayer is worse than rape, then rape is practically permissible.
The view Muslim men have of women stems back to its history. Islam spread by conquest, pillage, plundering and rape. A captured woman became a sex slave, all vouchsafed by Islam.
Even today, commentators use the word “we, us, our” to refer to Muslim girls and “they, them, theirs” to refer to the kafir, the non-Muslims who are open game.
Alex Philips, a reporter for the UK’s TalkTV, says she no longer feels safe walking home in the evening, reporting that she has been stalked.
“Certain white girls are seen as fair game,” she says. “These men are taught that (the girls) have no self-respect, they have no values – not like ‘our women.’ You can use them. Look at the way they behave: they’re drinking and smoking on the streets at the age of 14. Do what you want with them.”
Hirsi Ali’s team scoured available statistics and found that Muslims were over-represented among the criminals. In Denmark, Muslims account for 40% of criminals convicted of rape even though they represent only 13% of the population. In Germany, Muslim asylum seekers represented 2% of the population but 16% of sex crimes.
(Other European nations seem to obfuscate data of race for the purpose of blurring the criminality linked to Muslims. England dismisses data except what is “self-reported.” A Pakistani may decline to report his race, and his crime won’t be reported. Also in England, they refer to perpetrators as “South East Asians” instead of “Pakistanis” or “Muslims,” which dissipates exactitude and seems to implicate areas like Thailand.)
In a misyar marriage (or “traveler” or “day” marriage), “the wife renounces some Islamic marital rights such as living together, the rights to housing and maintenance money” (per Wikipedia), allowing for poorer men in Islamic countries to get sex. It enjoys widespread support among Sunni scholars.
It is opposed to a mutah marriage of Shia Islam, in which the partners contract a certain time period and money for the sexual relationship. Ironically, Sunnis revile mutah. But as ex-Muslim and Islamic critic Hatun Tash says, what Hijab did was worse than a prostitute because she at least gets something (money) for the temporary sex.
Mohammed Hijab publicly defended having secret wives on a podcast with his fellow dawah influencers, including buddy Ali Dawah, and since Islam allows for unilateral divorce, he did nothing wrong.
Apparently, Hijab didn’t count on Aisha keeping a record of his texts, which he sent in disappearing form on an app. It seems she was between trusting Hijab and suspicious of him because she took screenshots of the disappearing texts.
When Hijab “divorced” her, Aisha felt exploited and sought help. According to Thaddeus of Reasoned Answers who has tracked the developments of the scandal, she original sought resolution in the Muslim community, but sheiks either told her simply to forgive Hijab or they didn’t want to deal with it.
Finally, one sheik brokered a deal: all Aisha wanted was an apology from Hijab and the chance to warn vulnerable girls of the dangers of predatory men who take advantage of the misyar provisions in Sunni Islam to use side chicks. Her interview was recorded by Ali Dawah. But the discussions made it obvious, even though she didn’t name him, that the culprit was Hijab.
Because Hijab is Ali Dawah’s close buddy, he scrapped the brokered deal, Thaddeus says.
Aisha recorded herself secretly doing the podcast with Ali Dawah, and the audio interview is devastatingly incriminating.
Hijab at first said he had never seen Aisha, then he called her a crazed stalker. After changing versions, he seems to have finally come out saying, I did nothing wrong. Everything squares with Islamic law and traditions.
Harris Sultan, another ex-Muslim, says Hijab is right. He did everything by the book.
Which is the point: Islam seems to be made by men and for men.
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