The seizure of Infidel girls and their use as sex slaves is sanctioned in 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. The Qur’an says that a man may have sex with his wives and with these slave girls: “The believers must (eventually) win through, those who humble themselves in their prayers; who avoid vain talk; who are active in deeds of charity; who abstain from sex, except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess, for (in their case) they are free from blame.” (Qur’an 23:1-6)
The rape of captive women is also sanctioned in Islamic tradition:
Abu Sirma said to Abu Sa’id al Khadri (Allah he pleased with him): 0 Abu Sa’id, did you hear Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) mentioning al-’azl? He said: Yes, and added: We went out with Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) on the expedition to the Bi’l-Mustaliq and took captive some excellent Arab women; and we desired them, for we were suffering from the absence of our wives, (but at the same time) we also desired ransom for them. So we decided to have sexual intercourse with them but by observing ‘azl (Withdrawing the male sexual organ before emission of semen to avoid conception). But we said: We are doing an act whereas Allah’s Messenger is amongst us; why not ask him? So we asked Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him), and he said: It does not matter if you do not do it, for every soul that is to be born up to the Day of Resurrection will be born. (Muslim 3371)
It is also in Islamic law: “When a child or a woman is taken captive, they become slaves by the fact of capture, and the woman’s previous marriage is immediately annulled.” (Umdat al-Salik O9.13)
This Islamic State justification of the practice invokes the Qur’an and Muhammad. Where are the Islamic scholars explaining to Muslims (not just to credulous non-Muslims) how their use of the Qur’an and Sunnah is wrong?
“Islamic State (ISIS) Releases Pamphlet On Female Slaves,” MEMRI, December 8, 2014 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
The Research and Fatwa Department of the Islamic State (ISIS) has released a pamphlet on the topic of female captives and slaves. The pamphlet, which is dated Muharram 1436 (October/November 2014) and was printed by ISIS’s publishing house, Al-Himma Library, is titled Su’al wa-Jawab fi al-Sabi wa-Riqab (“Questions and Answers on Taking Captives and Slaves”). It was presumably released in response to the uproar caused by the many reports this summer that ISIS had taken Yazidi girls and women as sex slaves. Written in the form of questions and answers, it clarifies the position of Islamic law (as ISIS interprets it) on various relevant issues, and states, among other things, that it is permissible to have sexual intercourse with non-Muslim slaves, including young girls, and that it is also permitted to beat them and trade in them.
The following are excerpts from the pamphlet, which was posted on a pro-ISIS Twitter account.[1]
“Question 1: What is al-sabi?
“Al-Sabi is a woman from among ahl al-harb [the people of war] who has been captured by Muslims.
“Question 2: What makes al-sabi permissible?
“What makes al-sabi permissible [i.e., what makes it permissible to take such a woman captive] is [her] unbelief. Unbelieving [women] who were captured and brought into the abode of Islam are permissible to us, after the imam distributes them [among us].”
“Question 3: Can all unbelieving women be taken captive?
“There is no dispute among the scholars that it is permissible to capture unbelieving women [who are characterized by] original unbelief [kufr asli], such as the kitabiyat [women from among the People of the Book, i.e. Jews and Christians] and polytheists. However, [the scholars] are disputed over [the issue of] capturing apostate women. The consensus leans towards forbidding it, though some people of knowledge think it permissible. We [ISIS] lean towards accepting the consensus…”
“Question 4: Is it permissible to have intercourse with a female captive?
“It is permissible to have sexual intercourse with the female captive. Allah the almighty said: ‘[Successful are the believers] who guard their chastity, except from their wives or (the captives and slaves) that their right hands possess, for then they are free from blame [Koran 23:5-6]’…”
“Question 5: Is it permissible to have intercourse with a female captive immediately after taking possession [of her]?
“If she is a virgin, he [her master] can have intercourse with her immediately after taking possession of her. However, is she isn’t, her uterus must be purified [first]…”
“Question 6: Is it permissible to sell a female captive?
“It is permissible to buy, sell, or give as a gift female captives and slaves, for they are merely property, which can be disposed of [as long as that doesn’t cause [the Muslim ummah] any harm or damage.”
“Question 7: Is it permissible to separate a mother from her children through [the act of] buying and selling?
“It is not permissible to separate a mother from her prepubescent children through buying, selling or giving away [a captive or slave]. [But] it is permissible to separate them if the children are grown and mature.”
“Question 8: If two or more [men] buy a female captive together, does she then become [sexually] permissible to each of them?
“It is forbidden to have intercourse with a female captive if [the master] does not own her exclusively. One who owns [a captive] in partnership [with others] may not have sexual intercourse with her until the other [owners] sell or give him [their share].”
“Question 9: If the female captive was impregnated by her owner, can he then sell her?
“He can’t sell her if she becomes the mother of a child…”
“Question 10: If a man dies, what is the law regarding the female captive he owned?
“Female captives are distributed as part of his estate, just as all [other parts] of his estate [are distributed]. However, they may only provide services, not intercourse, if a father or [one of the] sons has already had intercourse with them, or if several [people] inherit them in partnership.”
“Question 11: May a man have intercourse with the female slave of his wife?
“A man may not have intercourse with the female slave of his wife, because [the slave] is owned by someone else.”
“Question 12: May a man kiss the female slave of another, with the owner’s permission?
“A man may not kiss the female slave of another, for kissing [involves] pleasure, and pleasure is prohibited unless [the man] owns [the slave] exclusively.”
“Question 13: Is it permissible to have intercourse with a female slave who has not reached puberty?
“It is permissible to have intercourse with the female slave who hasn’t reached puberty if she is fit for intercourse; however if she is not fit for intercourse, then it is enough to enjoy her without intercourse.”
“Question 14: What private parts of the female slave’s body must be concealed during prayer?
“Her private body parts [that must be concealed] during prayer are the same as those [that must be concealed] outside [prayer], and they [include] everything besides the head, neck, hands and feet.”
“Question 15: May a female slave meet foreign men without wearing a hijab?
“A female slave is allowed to expose her head, neck, hands, and feet in front of foreign men if fitna [enticement] can be avoided. However, if fitna is present, or of there is fear that it will occur, then it [i.e. exposing these body parts becomes] forbidden.”
“Question 16: Can two sisters be taken together while taking slaves?
“It is permissible to have two sisters, a female slave and her aunt [her father’s sister], or a female slave and her aunt [from her mother’s side]. But they cannot be together during intercourse, [and] whoever has intercourse with one of them cannot have intercourse with the other, due to the general [consensus] over the prohibition of this.”
“Question 17: What is al-‘azl?
“Al-‘azl is refraining from ejaculating on a woman’s pudendum [i.e. coitus interruptus].”
“Question 18: May a man use the al-‘azl [technique] with his female slave?
“A man is allowed [to use] al-‘azl during intercourse with his female slave with or without her consent.”
“Question 19: Is it permissible to beat a female slave?
“It is permissible to beat the female slave as a [form of] darb ta’deeb [disciplinary beating], [but] it is forbidden to [use] darb al-takseer [literally, breaking beating], [darb] al-tashaffi [beating for the purpose of achieving gratification], or [darb] al-ta’dheeb [torture beating]. Further, it is forbidden to hit the face.”
Question 20: What is the ruling regarding a female slave who runs away from her master?
“A male or female slave’s running away [from their master] is among the gravest of sins…”
“Question 21: What is the earthly punishment of a female slave who runs away from her master?
“She [i.e. the female slave who runs away from her master] has no punishment according to the shari’a of Allah; however, she is [to be] reprimanded [in such a way that] deters others like her from escaping.”
“Question 22: Is it permissible to marry a Muslim [slave] or a kitabiyya [i.e. Jewish or Christian] female slave?
“It is impermissible for a free [man] to marry Muslim or kitabiyat female slaves, except for those [men] who feared to [commit] a sin, that is, the sin of fornication…”
“Question 24: If a man marries a female slave who is owned by someone else, who is allowed to have intercourse with her?
“A master is prohibited from having intercourse with his female slave who is married to someone else; instead, the master receives her service, [while] the husband [gets to] enjoy her [sexually].”
“Question 25: Are the huddoud [Koranic punishments] applied to female slaves?
“If a female slave committed what necessitated the enforcement of a hadd [on her], a hadd [is then] enforced on her – however, the hadd is reduced by half within the hudud that accepts reduction by half…”
“Question 27: What is the reward for freeing a slave girl?
“Allah the exalted said [in the Koran]: ‘And what can make you know what is [breaking through] the difficult pass [hell]? It is the freeing of a slave.’ And [the prophet Muhammad] said: ‘Whoever frees a believer Allah frees every organ of his body from hellfire.'”
BlueRaven says
Well there is no contest here. Did Prof. Dr. Dr. Historian, Scholar, Mo himself read these definitions? I wonder.
BlueRaven says
Rewrite – a major error correction:
Well there is no contest here. Did Prof. Dr. Dr. Historian, Scholar, Mo himself aka Reza Aslan read these definitions? I wonder.
albert says
Gee don’t Allah and Muhammad make Wilberforce and Lincoln seem like a couple of Nazis by comparison.
gravenimage says
Grimly hilarious, Albert.
noellsq says
These people are on committees for women’s rights, the UN sucks
Emilie Green says
Have they addressed what’s to be done with a captured slave like a Rosie O’Donnell?
Don McKellar says
They’d use her to create incentive for suicide bombers. Either you strap on the vest, or this will be your wife.
joeb says
Yes, I look forward to the pamphlet being published in full by The NYT, The Guardian, and the BBC.
(tumbleweed, sound of a breeze)
Walter Sieruk says
The God of the Bible. Not the Islamic god, detests such wickedness very much. For the Bible in Exodus 21:16. reads “Whoever steals someone to sell and a slave or to keep as their own slave shall be put death.”
Kirimasa says
The Caliphate was drawn in the map already in 1974, from Pakistan to Morocco. By the Club of Rome and Madrid.
http://wp.me/p3tGFm-5F
We are in the endtimes.
The second coming of Jesus Christ very soon to happen.
nothosaur says
Walter,
Explain Deuteronomy 21:10-14
Petey says
I can only assume a wife is different from slavery
Champ says
The information from “Let Us Reason” offers great insights and answers to this issue …
“What does Scripture say about Polygamy?”
http://www.letusreason.org/Biblexp75.htm
mortimer says
A huge portion of Sharia law is concerned with slavery, showing it is not of minor importance in Islam.
Joe says
…moreover, the English translation of The Reliance of the Traveller (found in public libraries in the UK) deliberately omits the chapters on slavery. But, of course, these chapters are to be found in copies of this book in other languages (e.g. Arabic).
duh_swami says
The Research and Fatwa Department of the Islamic State
Really? They have one of those?
“She [i.e. the female slave who runs away from her master] has no punishment according to the shari’a of Allah; however, she is [to be] reprimanded [in such a way that] deters others like her from escaping.
A few years ago I read of a female household slave that escaped but was soon arrested. According to the story, after her arrest she was raped by 46 men including the arresting officer…Is that deterrent enough?
Where did this take place? Mecca, right under Allah’s nose.
somehistory says
Evil is as evil does and these evil ones just come right out and say how evil they are. Why do people continue to doubt and deny their objectives and goals? They are either in cahoots with the evildoers or they have no clue how to deal with the evil and therefore, choose to deny it exists. Much like some people deny that satan the devil himself exists. But he is the source of evil. Is is following his example and commands. Steal, kill, destroy.
Myxlplik says
Somehistory,
Because in the hierarchy of liberal apologetics regarding behavior and the status of minorities, Muslim trumps woman, Muslim trumps everything even slaves.
So, if a Muslim (the most protected of all minorities) abducts, rapes and enslaves a woman due to their ideology, it’s a non-issue due to the pacement of the purpotrator on the status of hierarchical protected minority classifications.
somehistory says
Yeah, Myxl,
just like I thought: cahoots. It’s like the article by Raymond Ibrahim on the ways islam is the same as the mafia. The mafia has been around long enough and out in the open enough that anyone can see what they are about. islam taught them the ways. Cahoots.
TH says
The Mafia is from Sicily and it was dominated by Islam for centuries. It is therefore likely that the Mafia learned it criminality from Islam.
Don McKellar says
Has David Cameron been sent a copy of this yet? If not, they should flood into the PM’s office by the thousands with the note attached: “The Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam? Really?”
Gart says
Are there any photo’s or links to the ”Pamphlet” in question?
Salah says
Original Text (Arabic)
https://www.alplatformmedia.com/vb/showthread.php?t=71293
Gart says
Thankyou
Renee says
Yes, is there a link?
jewdog says
As Winston Churchill once observed, in Islam, every woman belongs to a man as his exclusive property. If so, then I await the female slave cookbook from the IS Research Department. Tell me, after beating, does one dip one’s slave in an egg batter before frying in canola oil?
xxxchurch100 says
Presumable Halal approved …..
Isn’t that whole Halal thing a joke … yet a very effective way to extract money from the unsuspecting,
One must admit Islam thinks of every angle ..
U tube ; ” Clare Lopez with Q society Sydney 2014 ” for a more comprehensive understanding of the
whole planned civilization assault ” jihad ” which is taking place before our very eyes .
Bezelel says
Codifying the satanic verses, Isn’t that special? This article tells us what IS calls A Few Good Men, Be All That You Can Be !!! In other words a recruitment ad campaign specifically appealing to sexual deviants. Would any of the lawyers on this board list the felonies the literature sanctifies?
Dave J says
Well its good to know they have specific rules about how the rape and slavery is to proceed. I guess.
Subhuman animals.
Renee says
It’s discussing this pamflet. Sick.
Seems they need to convince themselves this is alright, but if you see women cry and tremble and hurt, some conscience must awake…… unless you are the least of creatures of Allah.
I love pigs and dogs more and more.
Salah says
“And [the prophet Muhammad] said: “Whoever frees a believer Allah frees every organ of his body from hellfire.” ”
Looks like someone needed to free a slave!!!
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/07/private-parts-of-muhammad.html
Rob says
What’s scary is that young Muslims (female and male) who are 2nd or 3rd generation in the West, gleefully support this sicko stuff.
Daphne Donges says
So the taking of Yezidis and Christians, putting them in Brothels is against their own code. I notice it has not stopped the opening of Brothels in IS lands, or the buying of one Yezidi girl between two brothers.
It is typical though because even Mohammad did not stick to his own laws did he.
Falsafa says
It may interest some of the readers and contributors to this blog who are whipping themselves up into a frenzy over the abomination that is called ISIS and their subversion of Islam, that the Christian communities, Yazidis, etc in these lands were protected peoples for centuries under muslim rule, which proves what an abomination ISIS truly is.
duh_swami says
We all know what ‘protection of kuffar’ in Mahoundian lands really means Abu.
ISIS/L plays by the ‘Book’…Allah is pleased with them, and that’s all that counts.
Myxlplik says
No lies here Falsafa. Several years ago Robert reported that there have been genocides against Jews, Christans, and other minorities like the Yazidi averaging one every 20 years in the Middle East since the Islamic plague moved in.
Nice try, protected to death as second class citizens at best, all according to Islamic religious dictate of course..
Crixus says
Yup – pay your tax, tug your forelock – welcome to life in the caliphate, kufr!
It appears your ISIS coreligionists disagree with you.
The question being – if they have it so wrong WHERE are the Islamic scholars broadcasting the fact?
“The religion of Peace” MY ARSE!
Muhammed (pox be upon him) was a nasty, goat shagging, paedophile, supremacist raping, wife beating bastard who took the hump because the people of Medina told him where he could stick his moon death cult. Unfortunately, mankind has been dealing with the consequences ever since.
The only language these ISIS barbarians understand is one beaten into their ignorant, bearded skulls by the military desert boot and not a moment too soon.
Fortunately, they seem to know about as much about running a state as they do about speaking the truth or human decency – what else could explain their daft idea of re launching a mainstream gold and silver based currency. What a bunch of pricks. Give it a few nice, cold winter months and the Allahuakhbir brigade will be missing their nice warm hamburg and manchester flats – I give IS/ISIL or whatever the fuck they call themselves 6 months at the most before they implode in a shower of sexual frustration and dark age economics.
Renee says
In a land of a religion of peace, no protection should be necessary. Saying they were protected is the same as saying that these people were in danger and lived in fear under muslim rule. I am glad you call ISIS an abomination. You’re half way there.
gravenimage says
The appalling Falsafa wrote:
It may interest some of the readers and contributors to this blog who are whipping themselves up into a frenzy over the abomination that is called ISIS and their subversion of Islam, that the Christian communities, Yazidis, etc in these lands were protected peoples for centuries under muslim rule…
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This is no “subversion” of Islam. Under the last Caliphate—the Ottoman Empire—Christians owed a regular “tithe” of slaves to their Muslim overlords.
This included a regular flow of boys to the vicious Janissary system of child soldiers, and a regular flow of girls to the harems and slave markets.
That’s how “protected” Infidels were under Muslim rule.
And when—under pressure from the civilized West—the Ottomans were finally compelled into ending this system, they responded within a few decades with the Armenian Genocide, which slaughtered most Christians and Jews within the heart of the Empire.
The victims in the Islamic State now are the descendants of those Infidels on the fringes of the Caliphate, who initially were somewhat spared the full savagery of that atrocity.
God, I hate Islam.
Falsafa says
Grave – spindoctor – image’s hatred of Islam blinds him to all reason and logic. The millet system in the Ottoman Empire was the most advanced system of administration for a managing a multi ethnic empire that existed in its day. Read Kinros, Mango, Pamuk, Lewis to appreciate how advanced the Ottoman Empire was compared to any of its peers…up to the industrial revolution…
it would be also of interest to note that the Janissary core from the 16th century onwards began recruiting from the muslim population and families were lining up to enroll their children because of thr superior education the recruits would receive.
with regards to the so called Armenian genocide – the below 3 minute Q&A with historian Bernard Lewis will set the record straight as to what happened in the final days of the Ottoman Empire as it was breaking up.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qG70UWESfu4
learn to be a bit objective Gravenimage. don’t let your bigotry rule your emotional discourse.
gravenimage says
More from the egregious Falsafa:
Grave (sic) – spindoctor – image’s hatred of Islam blinds him (sic) to all reason and logic.
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Notice that Falsafa never quite gets around to saying what it is that I have supposedly gotten wrong. This is no accident.
More:
The millet system in the Ottoman Empire was the most advanced system of administration for a managing a multi ethnic empire that existed in its day. Read Kinros, Mango, Pamuk, Lewis to appreciate how advanced the Ottoman Empire was compared to any of its peers…up to the industrial revolution…
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It depends, of course, on what one means by “advanced”. Certainly, the Ottoman Empire was very efficient in oppressing and exploiting its Infidel population.
Hitler was very impressed with their efficacy.
It may surpise Falsafa that not everyone might consider this entirely praiseworthy.
More:
it would be also of interest to note that the Janissary core from the 16th century onwards began recruiting from the muslim population and families were lining up to enroll their children because of thr superior education the recruits would receive.
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Falsafa would have us believe that oppressed Christians compelled to supply their children to the Janissaries for the express purpose of supplying cannon fodder to be used to conquer and oppress them might not have rather a diffent experience than those supremacist Muslims themselves.
But that should not surprise—like all Muslim supremacists, Falsafa does not exactly expend a lot of mental energy pondering the condition of Islam’s victims—not from the victim’s point of view, in any case.
And notice that he does not even address the issue of Christian girls taken to supply the Harems and slave markets of the Caliphate. But this should not surprise, since his very purpose here is to distract from the horrifying story above on the revival of this practice, and the long history of sex slavery in Islam.
More:
with regards to the so called Armenian genocide – the below 3 minute Q&A with historian Bernard Lewis will set the record straight as to what happened in the final days of the Ottoman Empire as it was breaking up.
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Falsafa has posited this before—but the Armenian Genocide was not just somthing that “happened in the the final days of the Ottoman Empire as it was breaking up”, but was a coordinated and carefully planned policy that proceeded in distinct waves from the 1890s though the 1910s and that did not finally end until 1922 with the horrific destruction of the city of Smyrna.
And this didn’t just happen during the Ottoman Empire, but continued through the “Young Turks” period and into the Attatürk era.
And this was highly coordinated—certainly, Adolf Hitler was impressed by how “advanced” it was, and used it as his model for the Holocaust.
And the genocide was widely chronicled—by survivors; by foreign missionaries and charity workers; by diplomatic staff, business travellers, and ships crews, including those of Turkey’s WWI ally Germany; and in memoirs and official records of the Turks themselves.
The fact is that the Armenian Genocide was the most abundantly chronicled genocide in history until the Holocaust.
The final toll was around 1.5 million Armenian, Greek, Assyrian, and Levantine Christians, as well as most of Turkey’s Jews.
Today there is just a tiny remnant of non-Muslims surviving in Turkey.
More:
learn to be a bit objective Gravenimage. don’t let your bigotry rule your emotional discourse.
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As Falsafa sees it, no Infidel should be allowed to express concern over the enslavement and slaughter of Islam’s victims—not openly, at any rate.
Of course, this should not surprise—under dhimmitude, the Kuffar are compelled to suffer in silence, lest they attract even more violence from their Muslim overlords. *Appalling*.
jay says
Sounded so smart (not really but I’ll give you the benefit) until the “so-called” genocide. Yes, just like the so called Holocaust, the so called Arab slave trade, the so called child slave soldiers. Islamic apologist 101, dismiss all Islam’s genocides and atrocities against humanity as ‘so-called’ and ‘overblown’ by, what else, ‘bigots’, while spewing their lovely hobby of revising history to make them look like everything they’re not. Come back with facts and not your own ’emotional discourse’.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
t is also in Islamic law: “When a child or a woman is taken captive, they become slaves by the fact of capture, and the woman’s previous marriage is immediately annulled.”
When the Red Army rolled across eastern Germany in 1945, to its great shame millions of Germany girls were raped, usually gang raped. Repeatedly. Thousands of girls committed suicide.
But compared to the Moslems the Russians look civilized: they would do a gang rape, yeah, but they didn’t take slaves for a lifetime of the treatment. Now, we see Russia aligned with them in Syria. Meanwhile, the Communist Chinese are aligned with Iran, both directly and through its proxy N Korea.
There’s a pattern here.
Crixus says
Dirty parasitic bastards.
Linda Rivera says
This terrible satanic evil against our non-Muslim females is one of the major reasons that all Muslim immigration to our nations must be permanently ended and all Muslims deported back to their countries.
Our leaders have a moral and ethical obligation to protect us.
END the HOSTILE MUSLIM OCCUPATION of BRITAIN, EUROPE and OTHER NATIONS.
Michael says
Wow, I read this repressive bullshit, taught as a way of life and shocked as I am, I read further comments, racist or otherwise sometimes written by opportunistic bible thumpers, holier than though, piggybacking on these (to me) obvious depraved aberrations touted as spiritual teachings, to ” prove that theirs is the true mentality”. So according to your lack of psychological see spiritual counselling, to denigrate an obviously sick way of looking at things elevates you to an elusive level of holiness?! Right well keep on aspiring to the beliefs of others, polarized as you are by any maniacal rant expressing a level of of frustration resounding within your repressed selves, forget having a stronger connection with humanity and continue seeking serenity by ‘converting others’ to your points of vu. it is not as much strength in numbers than divided we fall. we as the human race have misunderstood that the constant compunction to compete as a social animal goes against our human need to cooperate and spread the love. The 1rst order of business we need to unite against is repression, the day that this happens well as they say, ‘the rest is history’