The sex slavery has Qur’anic justification (see “the captives of the right hand,” 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50), as does the easy divorce — however, if it is accurate that women are “‘divorced’ by an Islamic cleric and married to another fighter for a week,” this would seem to violate the Qur’an’s prescribed waiting period after a divorce (see 2:231-2; 65:2). Since the Islamic State is so scrupulously and self-consciously Islamic, despite the glib and uninformed denials of Western leaders, this would seem to be unlikely. But whether this is simply a false report, or the Islamic State clerics have some justification for doing away with the waiting period, is unclear.
“ISIS’s female Gestapo wreaking terror on their own sex: They bite and whip any woman who steps out of line and force girls to become sex slaves. Most shocking of all? SIXTY of them are British,” by Sue Reid, Daily Mail, July 10, 2015:
The loud knock on the family’s farmhouse door was at midnight as they got ready for bed. Outside, five Islamic State fighters, Kalashnikovs hung on their shoulders and faces hidden by black scarves, were searching for girls to kidnap.
‘We opened the door and they saw my wife’s teenage sisters Sabiha and Sajida. The fighters told us they were going to steal them because they were beautiful,’ says Kafi Osman, anger still burning in his eyes at the memory.
‘We cried and the girls wept as they were led outside and driven away in an open truck. We have heard nothing of them since.’
The girls’ kidnap in the northern Iraqi town of Makhmur came as jihadis from Islamic State (also known as IS and Isis) took control of it street by street. They beheaded men, raped women and then captured their trophies of war — virgins to be sex slaves or jihadi brides.
The Osman family now believe that Sabiha, 18, and Sajida, 16, are prostitutes in Raqqa, a seven-hour drive across the Iraqi border in Syria and the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed capital, awash with jihadi fighters.
It is a place of medieval barbarism, terror, torture, abuse and odious controls over the 100,000 women who live there. Some women are trapped in the city against their will.
They did not escape before IS marched in two years ago, building a Sharia court on the football pitch and imposing a regime where grisly public executions take place by stoning and crucifixion in the main square after mosque prayers on a Friday.
Others are radicalised jihadi brides from the West, including three pupils from Bethnal Green, East London, who were pictured last week walking in the town with a woman minder in a burka holding a Kalashnikov.
The third group of women are the unfortunates kidnapped in enemy territory by IS fighters, taken to Raqqa, and imprisoned in a life of sex slavery.
Whatever the reason for living in this hellish place, all women are prohibited from going outside or travelling without a male relative. Islamic State imposes a strict dress code demanding all females from puberty upwards wear two gowns to hide their body shape, black gloves to cover their hands, and three veils so their faces cannot be seen, even in direct sunlight.
Women have been publicly buried alive in sand for breaking the code. One former Syrian schoolteacher trapped in the city told Channel 4 in a documentary, Escape From Isis, to be aired next week: ‘We have no freedom. We cannot go out on the balcony or look through the window. They will arrest a woman if she wears perfume or raises her voice. A woman’s voice cannot be heard.’
The teacher told of her horrifying capture by the city’s ruthless all-women police unit, the Al-Khansa brigade, created to enforce IS rules. ‘They said my eyes were visible through my veil. I was tortured. They lashed me. Now some of them punish women by biting. They give you the option between getting bitten or lashed.’
As many as 60 British women, including Aqsa Mahmood, the 20-year-old Glaswegian woman who left her family to become an Islamic State apparatchik last year, are thought to be members of the brigade. They are paid up to £100 a month, a fortune in the Islamic State bad-lands.
One former Al-Khansa enforcer, a young Syrian woman called Umm Abaid, told the filmmakers how she had led a normal life until the arrival of IS and the imposition of Sharia law in Raqqa, once a cosmopolitan city where the sexes mixed freely.
‘I went to school, to coffee shops,’ she said, ‘but slowly, slowly my husband [a Saudi Arabian IS fighter killed in a suicide bomb attack] convinced me about Islamic State and its ideas. I joined the brigade and was responsible for enforcing the clothing regulations.
‘Anyone who broke the rules, we would lash. Then we would take her male guardian, her brother, father or husband, and lash him, too.
‘Even when I was off duty, if I was with my husband in the car and we saw a woman dressed wrong, he would stop and tell me to deal with her.
‘I remember one woman walking with her husband wearing a robe with images on it. We arrested her and took her to the Al-Khansa base. I lashed her with my own hands.’
Umm fled to Turkey after IS tried to force her to remarry within weeks of her husband blowing himself up.
The terrifying brigade even stops buses to check women passengers. If one is found breaking the code, all the passengers are forced to get off and the bus is refused permission to proceed. The driver can be lashed because he let the woman on board.
Some of the Al-Khansa members operate undercover, posing as housewives, mingling in the crowds to listen for any dissent.
They also run brothels where kidnapped girls, like Sabiha and Sajida, are expected to satisfy fighters returning from battle. Those who have escaped, by a miracle, say they have slept with 100 different fighters in a few weeks.
Even girls who have gone willingly to Raqqa, thinking they were going to marry one fighter, have found they are expected to spend a week with their new ‘spouse’ before they are ‘divorced’ by an Islamic cleric and married to another fighter for a week….
nicu says
These Burka b*** are no victims – they are as bad as the men .
You can see their behavior in European streets when they insult Western women .
Gary says
And guess what…
When Muslims have the numbers in the West: Hotel California
Lynn says
“It is the nature of islam to dominate, not to be dominated; to impose it’s law on all nations and to extend it’s power to the entire planet.”
Hasan Al-Banna founder of muslim brotherhood.
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
You mean like this? https://youtu.be/psZBaJU_Cvo (starts at 1:15)
Linde Barrera says
Seems like the concept and definition of “marriage” is being redefined by the Islamist imams and possibly even Abu Bakr al- Baghdadi, the barbaric, savage self-proclaimed caliph of IS. The fish stinks from the head down.
Davegreybeard says
@Linde Barrera
“Seems like the concept and definition of “marriage” is being redefined by the Islamist imams…”
Lotta that “redefining” going on these days…
gravenimage says
Linde, the Islamic concept of marriage has *always* been ugly. The Nikah contract is often translated as “marriage contract”, but is quite different. Infidel marriage contracts are a union between the two parties in the relationship. Not so Nikah, which is an arrangement whereby the Muslim purchases the right to access the woman’s vagina from her “Mehram” (virtual owner), usually but not always her father.
Every ugliness of Islamic marriage issues from the fundamental difference—forced marriage, child marriage, polygamy, the “Triple Talaq” (summary divorce for Muslim men), temporary marriage, and the taking of sex slaves.
What we are seeing in the Islamic State is not a redefinition of Muslim marriage, but just a fundamental return to its full ugliness.
Wellington says
Agreed, gravenimage. Ugliness throughout. And so no surprise that romantic love in Islam is absent. For that matter, all love is.
Just as there is no humor in Islam, so is there no love. Not sure which is the more pathetic. Probably the latter. Very Islamic whichever.
Rebecca says
I don’t get it. I just don’t get it. Why do they make women cover themselves up and claim that it is for modesty- while at the same time using women as sex slaves? It’s all fake, it’s nothing to do with modesty, it’s just about subordination and control of women.
I contrast this with my own lifestyle- that of a religious Jew. I too, cover my hair, and make sure to wear skirts that cover my knees, and tops that cover my elbows. But it is because I am valued in Judaism, as a person, not as a sex object. Because when men look at me, I want them to see ME, my intelligence, my personality, and not view me in a sexual way. The only person that I want to attract sexually would be my husband. But there is no contradiction in my life. No one forces me to dress this way, and I can choose what standard I wish to follow.
I contrast my life, with those of radical Islam, who have taken the concept of modesty and have shown the world how fake they are, how much they treat women like garbage. That is not modesty.
Mirren10 says
Rebecca, just about *everything* in islam is a twisted version, or exaggerated version, of some custom or belief in Christianity or Judaism.
Take, for example, ramadan. In Christianity and Judaism, fasting is a serious business, likewise giving up something for Lent ( I don’t know if religious Jewsdo this).
ramadan however, is a burlesque. Muslims skip lunch, then gorge like fattening bacon pigs from sunset to sunrise, either forcing everyone around them to do the same on pain of punishment, or whining and sulking about the insensitivity of the infidels.
Then, as you note, the modesty issue. It isn’ t enough simply to dress modestly; first the hijab, then the repulsive niqab, then the full blown burka, and as this article shows, the *women* get behind this, and punish those who fail to conform.
In marriage, as gravenimage notes, the emphasis is on the *ownership* of the female by the male. In a Christian marriage, the bride is symbolically given away by her father; islam takes this to a twisted and evil conclusion.
In fact, I can’t think of *anything* in islam which is original to itself, *everything* is a twisted, sick version of some decent religious tradition.
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
Well said Mirren, concise and succinct.
Of course none of what you note is surprising in any way, given that islam is literally patterned after Judaism and Christianity. And I mean a complete copy job.
With a lot of really unique paganism thrown in, just for ‘fun’.
Angemon says
Feminist outrage at the islamic treatment of women in 5… 4… 3… 2… 1…
Any moment now…
Any moment…
gravenimage says
Islamic State’s female police force whips, bites women who get out of line
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This should not surprise—Muslimahs can be just as savage as the male of the species, and just as eager to oppress other women.
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The sex slavery has Qur’anic justification (see “the captives of the right hand,” 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50), as does the easy divorce — however, if it is accurate that women are “‘divorced’ by an Islamic cleric and married to another fighter for a week,” this would seem to violate the Qur’an’s prescribed waiting period after a divorce (see 2:231-2; 65:2). Since the Islamic State is so scrupulously and self-consciously Islamic, despite the glib and uninformed denials of Western leaders, this would seem to be unlikely. But whether this is simply a false report, or the Islamic State clerics have some justification for doing away with the waiting period, is unclear.
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My understanding is that Iddah (the waiting period) can be waived during times of JIhad—when the “Mujahideen” must be ensured their unbroken flow of sex. be it from “wives” or sex slaves.
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“ISIS’s female Gestapo wreaking terror on their own sex: They bite and whip any woman who steps out of line and force girls to become sex slaves. Most shocking of all? SIXTY of them are British”
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This only shocks decent Infidels, who would like to believe that residence in civilized Dar-al-Harb will somehow tame Muslims, but it rarely does. Muslims usually grow up with repulsive Muslim values at home and in the Mosque and from Islamic texts, and this trumps the humanizing influence of good Kuffar culture in almost all cases.
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The loud knock on the family’s farmhouse door was at midnight as they got ready for bed. Outside, five Islamic State fighters, Kalashnikovs hung on their shoulders and faces hidden by black scarves, were searching for girls to kidnap.
‘We opened the door and they saw my wife’s teenage sisters Sabiha and Sajida. The fighters told us they were going to steal them because they were beautiful,’ says Kafi Osman, anger still burning in his eyes at the memory.
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Hard to know if this family is non-Muslim or minority sect Muslim—where they would be considered fair game at any time—or if the “needs” of Jihad fighters are simply held to trump those of their ordinary coreligionists. Both hold true.
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They did not escape before IS marched in two years ago, building a Sharia court on the football pitch and imposing a regime where grisly public executions take place by stoning and crucifixion in the main square after mosque prayers on a Friday.
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Note that these atrocities are perpetrated immediately following Mosque, reinforcing their devout Islamic nature.
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Others are radicalised jihadi brides from the West, including three pupils from Bethnal Green, East London, who were pictured last week walking in the town with a woman minder in a burka holding a Kalashnikov.
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Even just a few years ago, how many of us here would have considered girls from *Bethnel Green* to have anything to do with this kind of horror—outside aof dystopian fantasy, in any case?
But this is what so many Muslims who have infiltrated our civilized lands are actually like.
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The third group of women are the unfortunates kidnapped in enemy territory by IS fighters, taken to Raqqa, and imprisoned in a life of sex slavery.
Whatever the reason for living in this hellish place, all women are prohibited from going outside or travelling without a male relative. Islamic State imposes a strict dress code demanding all females from puberty upwards wear two gowns to hide their body shape, black gloves to cover their hands, and three veils so their faces cannot be seen, even in direct sunlight.
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The perversity of Islam, where women are both forced into such cartoonish “modesty” and are at the same time used as *sex slaves*. Remember that the next time someone natters on approvingly about Muslim “modesty”.
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Women have been publicly buried alive in sand for breaking the code. One former Syrian schoolteacher trapped in the city told Channel 4 in a documentary, Escape From Isis, to be aired next week: ‘We have no freedom. We cannot go out on the balcony or look through the window. They will arrest a woman if she wears perfume or raises her voice. A woman’s voice cannot be heard.’
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The only place a woman’s voice can be heard is in mistreating other women in the name of Islam…
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The teacher told of her horrifying capture by the city’s ruthless all-women police unit, the Al-Khansa brigade, created to enforce IS rules. ‘They said my eyes were visible through my veil. I was tortured. They lashed me. Now some of them punish women by biting. They give you the option between getting bitten or lashed.’
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The “Al Khansa Brigade”. Al Khansa was supposed to be a contemporary of Muhammed’s, a convert to Islam who celebrated when she heard that all four of her sons had died in the same Jihad battle.
But given that her moniker seems to be less a name than an honorific, she may well just be shorthand for the ideal Muslimah. Besides the Al Khansa Brigades”, there is also the Al Qaida magazine of the same name. Both exemplify the vicious Islamic ideal of Muslim womanhood.
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One former Al-Khansa enforcer, a young Syrian woman called Umm Abaid, told the filmmakers how she had led a normal life until the arrival of IS and the imposition of Sharia law in Raqqa, once a cosmopolitan city where the sexes mixed freely..,
Umm fled to Turkey after IS tried to force her to remarry within weeks of her husband blowing himself up.
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“Umm” is not a name at all—the identities of Muslim women are further erased in that they are just referred to as the mothers of their eldest sons—hence “Umm Abaid” is not a name, but just means “mother of Abaid”.
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The terrifying brigade even stops buses to check women passengers. If one is found breaking the code, all the passengers are forced to get off and the bus is refused permission to proceed. The driver can be lashed because he let the woman on board.
Some of the Al-Khansa members operate undercover, posing as housewives, mingling in the crowds to listen for any dissent.
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This further codifies Shari’ah law, where if other Muslims do not enforce it they can be punished for the lapses of others.
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They also run brothels where kidnapped girls, like Sabiha and Sajida, are expected to satisfy fighters returning from battle. Those who have escaped, by a miracle, say they have slept with 100 different fighters in a few weeks.
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These girls are either simply sex slaves, or else they are being “married” to these Jihadists. Remember this the next time some pious Muslim complains about the supposed lack of morality in the West.
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Even girls who have gone willingly to Raqqa, thinking they were going to marry one fighter, have found they are expected to spend a week with their new ‘spouse’ before they are ‘divorced’ by an Islamic cleric and married to another fighter for a week….
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Why should they complain? “Marriage” in Islam is never about love.
shams78 says
More facetious and downright false “analysis”.
The practice of Teknonymy (addressing people by their children’s names) is not an Islamic practice, but an Arab practice only.
Not only were you wrong about it being generally Islamic, but it is also not gender based. Both Arab women AND Arab men practice Teknonymy and call themselves as father (Abu) or mother (Umm) of their eldest child. That child could be a girl. Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maalikii was called Abu Israa after his daughter Israa.
Mirren10 says
It is *not* an arab practice, *only*. Quite a few cultures around the world do it, or have done it..
shams78 says
Not non-Arab Muslims. Show me Iranians, Central Asians, South Asians and other Muslims who practice this.
And non-Arab Muslims with names like Abu Bakr aren’t practicing Teknonymy- their children’s names aren’t Bakr- they are just borrowing the entire name from Islamic figures like Abu Bakr and aren’t using the “Abu” in context.
David, Thailand says
Just as well none of the above has anything to do with religion, as imam Cameron insists.
Matthieu Baudin says
All these women have found an outlet for their sadomasochistic, dominance/submission impulses. If they need to recharge their passions then they can always reach for the Koran and fill their heads with the folly of those cruel desires that often operate within relationships between people.