Olivier Guitta has a powerfully disturbing look at the horrors faced by some European Muslim women, who are victims of a repressive, misogynous culture deliberately promoted and enforced in a real, honest-to-goodness conspiracy by the Muslim Brotherhood and our friends the Saudis: Veiled Threat.

The atrocious treatment of women in the Arab world is well-known, but people are much less aware of the plight of some European Muslim women. The increasing degradation of Muslim women in Europe is largely due to the work of the Wahhabi and Muslim Brotherhood propaganda over the last 15 years. In European countries, some Muslims —especially the younger generation — are faced with an identity crisis. They do not feel Western even though they were born in the West and are European citizens. But they do not feel Arab either. So they choose a new nationality: Islamist.

Indeed, in some areas and regarding some issues, European Muslim women are no better off than their Arab Muslim counterparts. Here are just some examples of the abuse suffered by some European Muslim women:

- Forced to wear the hijab, i.e. headscarf

- Forced to marry someone according to the family’s will

- Must undergo excision “procedure”

- Gang rapes for not “respecting” Islam

- Killed by a relative for “dishonoring” the name of the family.

Most Muslim French women who wear the hijab are forced to do so by their family or because of pressure from the community. In many testimonies young women have stated that they were wearing it not to be “bothered” by the men in their community. There were multiple cases in the suburbs of Paris of gang rapes of women who were too “Westernized”.

In a book entitled Wed By Force (Oh Editions, Paris, May 2004), Leila — the author could not reveal her last name — tells of her own nightmarish existence. She was raped by one of her brothers when she was quite young and did not tell anyone — even her mother — because she would have not been believed. She was regularly beaten up by her father because she was a little rebellious. She just wanted to behave like a girl her age but it was impossible because otherwise she would ruin the family’s reputation. Like her other Muslim friends, she had to respect the law of silence. She also depicts how her family chose a husband for her. He was 15 years older than she and she does not know him.

You may guess that Leila lives in Saudi Arabia but she lives in the suburbs of Paris in 2005. She is a French citizen born in France of Moroccan parents. Unfortunately, Leila is not alone. Statistics do not lie: each year, in France, 50,000 women are wed against their will.