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Robert Spencer in FrontPage Mag: Why Is the Islamic State Behaving This Way?

Aug 20, 2014 2:31 pm By Robert Spencer

IslamicStatemassmurderBecause it’s in the Qur’an, as I explain in FrontPage:

The Islamic State is turning into a huge public relations problem for groups like the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its allies. For years they have insisted that Islam is a religion of peace that has nothing whatsoever to do with the terrorism committed with alarming regularity in its name, and that the people responsible for linking Islam with terrorism were not Islamic jihad terrorists, but “Islamophobic” opponents of jihad terror. But then comes along a group calling itself The Islamic State, committing unimaginable atrocities and presenting each one as an authentic embodiment of Islamic texts and teachings, and the deception campaign at which CAIR officials have labored so assiduously for so many years, and with such great success, is in danger of crashing around their uneasy necks.

Take, for example, the recent revelation that, according to the UN News Centre, “some 1,500 Yazidi and Christian persons may have been forced into sexual slavery.” A similar kidnapping by Islamic jihadists in Nigeria recently horrified the world, but much overlooked was the fact that such behavior is sanctioned by the Qur’an. According to Islamic law, Muslim men can take “captives of the right hand” (Qur’an 4:3, 4:24, 33:50). The Qur’an says: “O Prophet! Lo! We have made lawful unto thee thy wives unto whom thou hast paid their dowries, and those whom thy right hand possesseth of those whom Allah hath given thee as spoils of war” (33:50). 4:3 and 4:24 extend this privilege to Muslim men in general, as does this passage. “Certainly will the believers have succeeded: They who are during their prayer humbly submissive, and they who turn away from ill speech, and they who are observant of zakah, and they who guard their private parts except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they will not be blamed” (Qur’an 23:1-6).

These passages have not gone unnoticed. The Egyptian Sheikh Abu-Ishaq al-Huwayni declared in May 2011 that “we are in the era of jihad,” and that meant Muslims would take slaves. In a subsequent interview he elaborated:

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” [Koran 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.

Around the same time, on May 25, 2011, a female Kuwaiti 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?”

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.”

The Islamic State acts on these beliefs, which are Qur’an-based. The kidnappings, meanwhile, have taken place amid a backdrop of unimaginable slaughter. The victims were those who refused the Islamic State’s demand that they convert to Islam to save their lives: a Yazidi woman explained last week why thousands of Yazidis had fled the area of Iraq controlled by the Islamic State: “We came here because the terrorists said, ‘Either you convert to Islam or we slaughter you.’”

The Quran says “there is no compulsion in religion” (2:256) – a verse much beloved of Western non-Muslim multiculturalists, but it also says that Muslims must fight unbelievers until “religion is all for Allah” (8:39). And it insists that Muslims should “slay them” wherever they’re found (cf. 2:191; 4:89; 9:5).

It also says that Muslims must fight against the “People of the Book” – Jews, Christians, and others who are considered to have received previous revelations from Allah – until they “pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued” (9:29). That option of submission and subjugation, however, is not open to groups that have no written revelation that could qualify them for “People of the Book” status. Hence for the Yazidis, to convert or die are the only Qur’anic options open for them.

The Islamic State’s actions are an open book, and that book is the Qur’an. American Muslim spokesmen would do well to explain how they are misinterpreting the Islamic holy books, but claims to that effect have been vague and short of references to problematic passages. As long as that refusal to confront the problem continues, so will the killing.

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  1. Champ says

    Aug 20, 2014 at 2:43 pm

    True, Robert, and I agree …

    But obama lied and just stated that IS has “no religion or ideology”. Oh yes they do–it’s islam!

  2. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 20, 2014 at 2:50 pm

    The question is “Why is the Islamic state behaving this way ?” One of the reasons for this may be just might the the members of ISIS are so thoroughly , warped and deluded in their heinous way of thinking that they just might think of all their murderous evil that they are committing as being something “good.” To this terrible view of things that the ISIS members might have the Bible reads “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil…” Isaiah 5:20. Furthermore, the evil and mad mindset of those men of ISIS may be described in the Bible. Which teaches “The hearts of men are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterwards they join the dead.” Ecclesiastes 9:3. [N.I.V.]

  3. Jaladhi says

    Aug 20, 2014 at 2:52 pm

    It’s the tr\he religion, stupid!! That really really holds good for Islam and Muslims and hence the killings!! Thus killing is holy for Muslims and they don’t even wink when murdering anybody and specially the infidels. And here we had our Prez going white washing – no religion teach such killings- after the killing of US journalist Foley. One has to wonder when our leadership is going to confront Muslims with teachings of their book Quran.

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 20, 2014 at 2:58 pm

    One of the many reasons that the Islamic members of ISIS in their jihad for Islam are behaving in such murderous violence is because the very nature of Islam teaches violence and killing. As seen in the Quran Sura 9:111,112. 47:4. which are but two of the many example of Islamic violence. Nevertheless, such violent men as those men of ISIS are so terrible in the actions that the curse that is found in the Bible might be on them. For the Bible reads “May disaster hunt down men of violence.” Psalm 140:11. [N.I.V.]

  5. Beagle says

    Aug 20, 2014 at 3:28 pm

    Islam is successful in part because the jihadis of every stripe, sword (IS, al Qaeda, HAMAS) pen, and tongue (CAIR-WTF, MSA, ISNA) share the same goals. They all want to make Islam the only religion, sharia the only law, and Muslims the only rulers. But the dynamic of good cop / bad cop Islam confuses and baffles the kuffar until their lands have been absorbed. Moreover, it helps recruiting different kinds of people. Sociopathic killers have a place in Islam, as do more cerebral types who prefer to keep their hands clean. Of course many Muslims can seamlessly slip between those two personalities.

    Despite their constant infighting based on the theology of Islam which seems to favor the jihad of the sword, their one-two punch makes them more successful. Tongue jihadis help a great deal in diminishing the response from besieged non-Muslims. They help gain converts and material support as well. The sword jihad often succeeds in striking terror in the hearts of the unbelievers and even causes cognitive dissonance in some to the point of becoming delusional and grasping for conspiracy theories to understand it.

  6. YBD says

    Aug 20, 2014 at 3:40 pm

    I am curious as to how apologists for Islam in the US, like CAIR and in Britain are dealing with this. Do they claim that “this is not really Islam”, or are they simply ignoring it? How do they expect the non-Muslim populations of the West to react to these horrors being committed in the name of their religion?

    • Jaladhi says

      Aug 20, 2014 at 4:31 pm

      You know, they just tell the audience to go back to sleep with “this is not Islam crap” as our leaders are doing right now!! What an abhorrent blend of lies and stupidity!!These people have no shame in lying – anything goes to please Muslims!!

  7. Saycheese says

    Aug 20, 2014 at 6:15 pm

    Understanding Islamic Fundamentalism – an insightfull article of William Roe Polk, former professor of history at Harvard University and the University of Chicago.

    http://consortiumnews.com/2014/06/29/understanding-islamic-fundamentalism/

  8. GuestWriter says

    Aug 20, 2014 at 9:04 pm

    >> The Quran says “there is no compulsion in religion” (2:256) – a verse much beloved of Western non-Muslim multiculturalists

    Robert, I have great respect for your courage and vision in general, but I’m a bit disappointed that in this case you are to an extent leading people to believe that there are tolerant verses in the Quran, omitting an important fact which is that such tolerant verses are all abrogated, and therefore null and void.

    I think an informed counterjihadi has a duty not to propogate the illusion that there are standing, tolerant verses in the Quran. The doctrine of abrogation along with the scrambled Quran is a kind of taqiyya, a means to deceive the infidel to believe he is safer with Islam than he is. Whatever we do, let us not spread the taqiyya. We should not utter such verses without pointing out that they are abrogated, null and void.

  9. El Jim says

    Aug 20, 2014 at 9:47 pm

    @Guest Writer. . You must be new here, GW, as Mr Spencer has more than covered the subject of abrogation, here, over the years. Read the archives, pal.

    • GuestWriter says

      Aug 21, 2014 at 3:02 am

      El Jim, I already know that Robert Spencer knows well about abrogation, and has covered it before. Nothing you said contradicts what I said. Perhaps read what I said again carefully, not defensively of Robert, but as if I may possibly have something valid to say to Robert, one of the bravest and most important counter-Jihad writers in the world. The ‘omission’ I am discussing is in this particular article, not in his archives. The fact that this article of Robert’s can lead those of imperfect knowledge to believe that there are standing, tolerant suras in the Quran is I believe indisputable. The fact that such apparently tolerant suras are not in fact standing (and are null and void due to abrogation) is also indisputable. Robert is, however we cut it, inadvertently propagating by omission, a pro-Islam myth. Because he is sincere, the chances are he will learn from what I say and not continue in future articles, and/or maybe change this one.

  10. iscompulsion says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 3:16 am

    “There is no compulsion in religion” is not even a full verse, it is half quoting a verse to render a different meaning than what it actually says in a very strong rhetoric:

    The full verse:

    “There shall be no compulsion in the religion. The right course has become clear from the wrong. So whoever disbelieves in Taghut and believes in Allah has grasped the most trustworthy handhold with no break in it. And Allah is Hearing and Knowing.”

    Allah is the ally of those who believe. He brings them out from darknesses into the light. And those who disbelieve – their allies are Taghut. They take them out of the light into darknesses. Those are the companions of the Fire; they will abide eternally therein.

    SO it basically says “although there is no compulsion in religion BUT you need to accept truth or else you go in fire …”

    in short it qualifies that there is no other way except Islam and those who chose other ways do at their own peril and will certainly get hellfire

  11. Bezzle says

    Aug 21, 2014 at 3:52 am

    Islam was explicitly designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator of thieves and rapists desiring a justification for a predatory lifestyle.

    The world war with Islam will never cease until it is treated on par with Thuggee, its mosques razed to the ground and mullahs hung, and any re-advocacy of Shari’a treated as conspiracy to commit murder, slavery and grand larceny.

    Any reactions short of these by the West are doomed to failure.

  12. BlackCats says

    Aug 22, 2014 at 5:34 pm

    Good Lord Almighty! I’m so wonderfully proud of you folks on these websites! You all KNOW the koran and know it’s barbarity! Wow! I read the koran last year, then started buying Robert’s great books! Since I’ve been reading these web postings, I’m been overall IMPRESSED with the knowledge of us INFIDELS, Kafirs, and ‘worst of creatures” about the koran.
    We are not fooled – that is our WAR CRY AGAINST CAIR and its pathetic ILK.
    and then dumb old Kerry still hanging on to the “islam = religion of peace.” Oh pleez – go away John Kerry, or read the koran and stop believing the garbage that you’re being fed. Poor mislead – by the ring in his nose – diminni.

  13. Pandoa D. Dhondiba says

    Aug 25, 2014 at 2:45 pm

    The core problem is Islam versus Democracy ! Since Quran was meant for the barbaric Arabs in a hostile land , hence , what the Prophet has prescribed for them is also a hostile undemocratic in its nature ! Followers of this religious book by hundreds of Muslim generations has made almost 99.99% of them anti democracy by their genetic nature. A proof of this is there has never been a “free democracy” in any Muslim country anytime in history of mankind ! The Islamic “Jamuriyat” ( so called democracy !) and “Majlis” ( the so called Parliament of theirs !) have been dictatorial and feudal like the one of the so called great reformer Kamal Ataturk’s democracy in Turkey ! The so called Islamic Democracies , as they proudly present in their history , have always been like the communist “Democratic Republics” of Russia , China , Viet Nam , North Korea , former East Germany (GDR) etc. ! All run by the so called parliamentarians chosen by a handful of rulers such as the Politburo Members in Communist countries and the Sheikhs & Kings in the Arab countries !

    The bottom line is that the Muslims have never been “tamed” by any democratic thoughts and values such as “free thinking” ! The net result is the barbarism followed in their hearts and minds by all Muslims around the world be they Sunnis or Shias ! Adherence to Quaranic Shariat is what constitutes democracy to a Muslim , even to the educated amongst them !

    For a Muslim his religious preacher , the so called “Mullah” ( or “Mufti”) , is the guide and philosopher ! No value system other than what the Mullah/Mufti teaches from the Quaran is what a Muslim follows in real life although he may be a western educated person residing in a “free people’s democracy” such as USA/UK/France?Germany/India !

    The net effect of the thousands of years’ grooming , as stated above , on a Muslim is the Quranic values he/she cherishes even in this 21st Century ! He dare not doubt those values because according to the followers of Quoran those are the “words of God” and , even if those seem to be irrelevant in 21st century , a Muslim will follow them as prescribed in his holy book Quoran and Hadith !

    So we find well educated Moslems , such as the American/Pakistani neuro-scientist from MIT now in US jail , serving their religion faithfully as the Jihadist with Al-Quaida or ISIS or Boko Haram or Hamas or Taliban and many such extremist Islamic organisation all around the world.

    To any of them raping “infidal” women or casually slitting the throat of their enemy is a duty of a Muslim as prescribed in Quran !

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