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Nigeria: 329 schoolgirls abducted by jihadis raped 15 times daily, forced to convert to Islam

May 4, 2014 12:10 pm By Robert Spencer

Women-and-mothers-of-the-kidnapped-girls-of-ChibokThe Qur’an allows for the owning of sex slaves:

If you fear that you will not act justly towards the orphans, marry such women as seem good to you, two, three, four; but if you fear you will not be equitable, then only one, or what your right hands own; so it is likelier you will not be partial. (Qur’an 4:3)

This verse is the basis for Islamic polygamy, allowing a man to take as many as four wives, as long as he believes he is able to “deal justly” with all of them. But justice in these circumstances is in the eye of the beholder. Ibn Kathir says this the requirement to deal justly with one”s wives is no big deal, since treating them justly isn’t the same as treating them equally: “it is not obligatory to treat them equally, rather it is recommended. So if one does so, that is good, and if not, there is no harm on him.”

The verse goes on to say that if a man cannot deal justly with multiple wives, then he should marry only one, or resort to “what your right hands own” — that is, slave girls.

The Qur’an commentator Maulana Bulandshahri explains the wisdom of this practice, and longs for the good old days:

During Jihad (religion war), many men and women become war captives. The Amirul Mu”minin [leader of the believers, or caliph — an office now vacant] has the choice of distributing them amongst the Mujahidin [warriors of jihad], in which event they will become the property of these Mujahidin. This enslavement is the penalty for disbelief (kufr).

He goes on to explain that this is not ancient history:

None of the injunctions pertaining to slavery have been abrogated in the Shari”ah. The reason that the Muslims of today do not have slaves is because they do not engage in Jihad (religion war). Their wars are fought by the instruction of the disbelievers (kuffar) and are halted by the same felons. The Muslim [sic] have been shackled by such treaties of the disbelievers (kuffar) whereby they cannot enslave anyone in the event of a war. Muslims have been denied a great boon whereby every home could have had a slave. May Allah grant the Muslims the ability to escape the tentacles of the enemy, remain steadfast upon the Din (religion) and engage in Jihad (religion war) according to the injunctions of Shari”ah. Amen!

This is by no means an eccentric or unorthodox view in Islam. The Egyptian Sheikh Abu-Ishaq al-Huwayni declared in May 2011 that “we are in the era of jihad,” and that as they waged jihad warfare against infidels, Muslims would take slaves. He clarified what he meant in a subsequent interview:

…Jihad is only between Muslims and infidels”¦.Spoils, slaves, and prisoners are only to be taken in war between Muslims and infidels. Muslims in the past conquered, invaded, and took over countries. This is agreed to by all scholars–there is no disagreement on this from any of them, from the smallest to the largest, on the issue of taking spoils and prisoners. The prisoners and spoils are distributed among the fighters, which includes men, women, children, wealth, and so on.

When a slave market is erected, which is a market in which are sold slaves and sex-slaves, which are called in the Qur’an by the name milk al-yamin, “that which your right hands possess” [Qur’an 4:24]. This is a verse from the Qur’an which is still in force, and has not been abrogated. The milk al-yamin are the sex-slaves. You go to the market, look at the sex-slave, and buy her. She becomes like your wife, (but) she doesn’t need a (marriage) contract or a divorce like a free woman, nor does she need a wali. All scholars agree on this point–there is no disagreement from any of them. […] When I want a sex slave, I just go to the market and choose the woman I like and purchase her.

Right around the same time, on May 25, 2011, a female Kuwaiti activist and politician, Salwa al-Mutairi, also spoke out in favor of the Islamic practice of sexual slavery of non-Muslim women, emphasizing that the practice accorded with Islamic law and the parameters of Islamic morality.

…A merchant told me that he would like to have a sex slave. He said he would not be negligent with her, and that Islam permitted this sort of thing. He was speaking the truth”¦.I brought up (this man”s) situation to the muftis in Mecca. I told them that I had a question, since they were men who specialized in what was halal, and what was good, and who loved women. I said, “What is the law of sex slaves?”Â

The mufti said, “With the law of sex slaves, there must be a Muslim nation at war with a Christian nation, or a nation which is not of the religion, not of the religion of Islam. And there must be prisoners of war.”

“Is this forbidden by Islam?,” I asked.

“Absolutely not. Sex slaves are not forbidden by Islam. On the contrary, sex slaves are under a different law than the free woman. The free woman must be completely covered except for her face and hands. But the sex slave can be naked from the waist up. She differs a lot from the free woman. While the free woman requires a marriage contract, the sex slave does not–she only needs to be purchased by her husband, and that”s it. Therefore the sex slave is different than the free woman.”

While the savage exploitation of girls and young women is an unfortunately cross-cultural phenomenon, only in Islamic law does it carry anything approaching divine sanction. Here is yet another human rights scandal occasioned by Islamic law that the international human rights community and the mainstream media cravenly ignore.

“The schoolgirls stolen as sex slaves by Nigeria’s anti-education jihadists Boko Haram,” by Rod McPhee, Mirror, May 3, 2014:

When 100 armed men turned up at a girls’ boarding school they claimed to be Nigerian gov­ern­ment troops sent to protect the pupils from marauding terrorists.

Staff took them at their word and it was only when 329 terrified teenagers were ordered out of their beds in the dead of night and herded into Toyota Hilux jeeps that they knew something was wrong.

In fact the soldiers were themselves terrorists from the radical Muslim jihadist group Boko Haram – and they were there to carry out one of worst mass kidnappings in modern history.

Families of the schoolgirls, aged from 15 to 18, are certain their daughters are now being used as sex slaves by an extreme sect that has killed 1,500 people since the start of this year alone.

They are captives in the wild Sambisa Forest in north-east Nigeria where Boko Haram has a heavily armed camp of bunkers, tunnels, ramshackle buildings and tents.

One girl who recently escaped following an earlier kidnapping said she was prized as a terror leader’s wife because she had been a virgin. She said young female captives were raped up to 15 times a day, forced to convert to Islam and had their throats cut if they refused.

Since the school abductions on April 14, news has filtered back of mass marriages with girls forcibly shared out as brides. Boko Haram has warned that any attempt to find them will lead to their execution.

Under President Goodluck Jonathan, the Nigerian government appears to have done little except issue an entirely false claim that most of the girls had been rescued by defence forces. Now as an international outcry builds, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown is travelling to Nigeria on Tuesday in his role as the UN’s special adviser on girls’ education.

His aim is to secure the pupils’ release. But with stories of many already trafficked into neighbouring Chad and Cameroon for just 2,000 nira (£7.50) campaigners fear that without urgent action they will never be seen again.

“It is a very bad situation for those girls,” says Mma Odi, executive director of the Nigerian charity Baobab Women’s Human Rights.

“The men went to the school for no other reason than to make them their sex objects. The men will have reduced them to sex slaves, raping them over and over again. And any girl who tries to resist will be shot by them. They have no conscience.

“The conditions will be terrible and it seems like the government has just abandoned them because they are girls and they are poor. If they were the sons of the rich, the government would act.

“Their abductors are not human beings and if the girls get out they will no longer be normal. They will have to have years of counselling to recover.”

At the time of the abduction most schools in the region had closed because of attacks by a terror sect whose very name, Boko Haram, means “Western education is sinful” in the Hausa language….

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  1. Jay Boo says

    May 4, 2014 at 12:22 pm

    This tragedy is beginning to be revealed even in the mainstream media.
    Despite enormous effort to ignore it and then downplay the role of Islam or simply blame the Nigerian government for not doing enough while ignoring religion at least one liberal news outlet has offered up a reasonably balance account.

    http://news.msn.com/world/nigeria-president-orders-push-to-free-abducted-girls

  2. eib says

    May 4, 2014 at 12:26 pm

    “Please protect us,” one sign says.
    The wrong against these women must be righted.
    How can anyone hear their story and not care enough to act?
    The conflict should be resolved, if not by negotiation, then surely by arms.
    Isn’t their safety worth fighting for?

    • Jay Boo says

      May 4, 2014 at 12:42 pm

      “How can anyone hear their story and not care enough to act?”
      ————-

      The MSM must be shamed by their complicity.
      The Huff Post Has a obscure small link to another page with a final link to the story while their front page is loaded with meaningless photo crap referring to stuff like gossip about Woody Allen.

      • Jay Boo says

        May 4, 2014 at 12:45 pm

        Is Huff Post indifference rooted in racism?
        It is time to place a call to the SPLC to put them on notice.

    • roberto says

      May 4, 2014 at 2:34 pm

      Little late. The time is now give this islamic/islam a country where they can live in peace and leave US alone

  3. Champ ✿ says

    May 4, 2014 at 12:39 pm

    More unimaginable horrors courtesty islam and company …yeah islam brings NOTHING but hell on earth. And I see Zero evidence that islam is a “religion of peace”. NO it is NOT!

    • roberto says

      May 4, 2014 at 2:41 pm

      I’ll follow no god thats says its ok to hurt Children False god false religion KEEP in mind NOT many of GOD’S real people who’ve had blind Faith and our way is through JESUS. We are the blessed people only a FOOL would deny the blessing he gave His people

  4. Angemon says

    May 4, 2014 at 12:56 pm

    Poor girls…
    Can’t even imagine what they’re going through…
    🙁

  5. don badman says

    May 4, 2014 at 1:45 pm

    mathochodoki maki bhoshre mein garam sariya gushake ushko jihad dikhaunga.

  6. Jay Boo says

    May 4, 2014 at 1:49 pm

    The satanic verse writings of Islam are all in agreement on this and malicious Muhammad would approve.

  7. CogitoErgoSum says

    May 4, 2014 at 1:53 pm

    “I shall punish the Earth, I shall turn down the heat
    I shall take away every morsel to eat
    I shall turn every field into stone
    Where I walk crying alone
    Crying for
    Proserpina, Proserpina
    Come home to momma
    Come home to momma
    Now”
    —-from “Proserpina” by Martha Wainwright (composed by her mother, Kate McGarrigle)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W6LUciFAs4

    I am reminded of this song which captures the grieve of a mother in a most exquisite way. There is no sadness greater than that caused by the loss of a child. The lord of the underworld may go by a different name today but he still acts in the same manner. May the one true God bring release to the suffering captives, comfort to the grieving parents……and swift justice to the perpetrators of this crime.

    • EYESOPEN says

      May 5, 2014 at 6:08 am

      Cogito said: “May the one true God bring release to the suffering captives, comfort to the grieving parents……and swift justice to the perpetrators of this crime.”

      Amen.

    • James says

      May 7, 2014 at 9:56 am

      Amen

  8. ClaraC says

    May 4, 2014 at 2:02 pm

    sign petition
    http://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/president-of-nigeria-rescue-the-200-girls-kidnapped-and-sold-into-slavery

  9. Mirren10 says

    May 4, 2014 at 2:43 pm

    ”Now as an international outcry builds, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown is travelling to Nigeria on Tuesday in his role as the UN’s special adviser on girls’ education”

    Oh, that’ll sort things out, no bother. sarc/off

  10. Guy Macher says

    May 4, 2014 at 2:46 pm

    Mohameddanism must be eradicated; first from civilization, then from the Mohammedan hell holes, and finally, from the annals of history. We must start now.

    • dlbrand says

      May 4, 2014 at 4:31 pm

      Amen, Guy.

    • southeuropean says

      May 4, 2014 at 5:24 pm

      You have that a GO!

    • Michael Copeland says

      May 5, 2014 at 7:50 am

      “The strongholds of Islam will be knocked down, one after another …… Islam will crawl back to Medina, like a snake….”
      Who said that?
      Mohammed, prophet of Islam
      http://answering-islam.org/Mna/frag1.1.html

  11. Peter Clemerson says

    May 4, 2014 at 10:54 pm

    Robert states of Qur’an 4:3 “This verse is the basis for Islamic polygamy” (many marriages).

    Can I make a small alteration? This verse is the basis for Islamic polygyny (many women).

    If Islam permitted women to have more than one husband in addition to allowing men to have more than one wife (as well as sex slaves) then polygamy would be the best word.

    If everyone used the word polygyny rather than polygamy in connection with Islam, the world would obtain a better understanding of its character.

    • EYESOPEN says

      May 5, 2014 at 6:11 am

      Peter C. said: “If everyone used the word polygyny rather than polygamy in connection with Islam, the world would obtain a better understanding of its character.”

      No, Peter. I’m afraid most would not even know the difference, or would assume that it was a spelling mistake.

  12. EYESOPEN says

    May 5, 2014 at 6:16 am

    I wanted to add, I wish people would stop referring to the kidnapping, enslaving and constant raping of these poor girls – or any girls stolen by vile muzlims – as “marriages”. That completely degrades the very meaning of the word “marriage”; and lessens the horror of sexual slavery. Kind of like calling a serial rapist a “socially-challenged fellow”.

  13. Moral says

    May 5, 2014 at 7:02 am

    Most of these anducted girls are christians and Chibok is christian community. It surprises me to see that no mentioned of victims faith was made so as to make pple think christians are not the target of islamists. In contrast, most of the women depicted as students’ parent appeared muslims in hijab so as to make everybody believe that the militants are not islamists. What a shame!

  14. Michael Copeland says

    May 5, 2014 at 8:02 am

    All credit to Rod McPhee for saying “radical Muslim jihadist group”.
    Roll on the day when readers understand that “radical” means true to the root of the teachings, and that an “extreme sect” is an observant sect, putting into practice the instructions in the Koran: it is the Koran that is extreme.

    • dlbrand says

      May 5, 2014 at 2:59 pm

      Amen, M.C.

      “Issue” is Islam, plain and simple.

  15. Ralph says

    May 5, 2014 at 11:09 am

    God told Hagar, “You will have a boy and his name will be Ishmael and he will be as a wild donkey and his name will be against everyone and everyone’s hand will be against him.” So there they have been following their destiny for all of these past years and will continue to follow their destiny for all future time… So you know from God’s Word that these Muslims will always be the way they are… SO NOW SHIPP THEM BACK TO THEIR CAVES !!!

  16. CJ Mccoy says

    May 5, 2014 at 1:00 pm

    These people are the sickest people on the planet. What glory can you get out of raping a child??

  17. mark says

    May 5, 2014 at 1:09 pm

    These abductors may be killed without warning, trial, or mercy because of their heinous acts.

  18. Cora Nott says

    May 5, 2014 at 3:54 pm

    God Almighty! Muslims are such crap!

  19. VLParker says

    May 5, 2014 at 4:25 pm

    This is so heartbreaking. These people are begging for help. Since they aren’t muslims I have no doubt their pleas will fall on deaf ears. Obama and McCain would rather send troops to help Al Qaeda.

  20. Prinz Eugen says

    May 5, 2014 at 5:33 pm

    When will our glorious dictator, mullah Barry Sotero, act upon all this slavery of women and children, killings, bombings, beheadings and stonings? Guess only approved “news” from PMSNBC, PBS and CNN reach his TV set. Obviously, the GOP and Koch Bros. are behind these never-ending islamic terror attacks! Will
    the GOP finally wake up and oppose this WH alliance with islam’s supremacy
    aims?

  21. Bukkdem Jizheads says

    May 6, 2014 at 5:20 pm

    Polygamy is militarily brilliant: it’s the engine of a mercenary army of expansion. When one man can run through as many as 8-10 wives over a lifetime, that’s 8-10 sexually deprived men who need to conquer territory to enslave/marry a girl. One can hope their inbreeding will make them susceptible to an epidemic. It’s an excellent start that they think vaccines are a Western conspiracy.
    Plague be upon them.

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