We constantly hear in the West that Islam forbids slavery, but reality is otherwise.
The Qur’an has Allah telling Muhammad that he has given him girls as sex slaves: “Prophet, We have made lawful to you the wives to whom you have granted dowries and the slave girls whom God has given you as booty.” (Qur’an 33:50)
Muhammad bought slaves: “Jabir (Allah be pleased with him) reported: There came a slave and pledged allegiance to Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) on migration; he (the Holy Prophet) did not know that he was a slave. Then there came his master and demanded him back, whereupon Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: Sell him to me. And he bought him for two black slaves, and he did not afterwards take allegiance from anyone until he had asked him whether he was a slave (or a free man).” (Muslim 3901)
Muhammad took female Infidel captives as slaves: “Narrated Anas: The Prophet offered the Fajr Prayer near Khaibar when it was still dark and then said, ‘Allahu-Akbar! Khaibar is destroyed, for whenever we approach a (hostile) nation (to fight), then evil will be the morning for those who have been warned.’ Then the inhabitants of Khaibar came out running on the roads. The Prophet had their warriors killed, their offspring and woman taken as captives. Safiya was amongst the captives. She first came in the share of Dahya Alkali but later on she belonged to the Prophet. The Prophet made her manumission as her ‘Mahr.’” (Bukhari 5.59.512) Mahr is bride price: Muhammad freed her and married her. But he didn’t do this to all his slaves:
Muhammad owned slaves: “Narrated Anas bin Malik: Allah’s Apostle was on a journey and he had a black slave called Anjasha, and he was driving the camels (very fast, and there were women riding on those camels). Allah’s Apostle said, ‘Waihaka (May Allah be merciful to you), O Anjasha! Drive slowly (the camels) with the glass vessels (women)!’” (Bukhari 8.73.182) There is no mention of Muhammad’s freeing Anjasha.
“Saudi Arabia: Critics slam human trafficking of Moroccan ‘maids for sale,'” by Wesley Dockery and Meriem Marghich, DW, February 28, 2018 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Controversy surrounds Saudi Twitter ads depicting Moroccan women for sale as domestic servants in the oil-rich kingdom. The case has highlighted the abuse of foreign workers in Saudi Arabia, but will either nation react?
In Saudi Arabia, pictures of Moroccan women have been circulated on social media to be sold as housemaids for lump sums of cash. The Twitter picture above shows two Moroccan women being advertised for “sale” as a domestic worker. The woman on the right is described as being 30 years old, with five years’ work experience in Saudi Arabia, and knows how to cook and clean; she is offered for 1500 Saudi riyal (€325, $397). The woman on the left is described as “able to cook Saudi dishes and enjoys children.” She is also being offered for 1500 riyal.
The case is clear-cut: “This is an example of slavery,” Yasmine Ajoutat, a Moroccan blogger on women’s issues and human rights told DW. She explained that foreign women working as housemaids in Saudi Arabia are severely restricted in what they may do. For example, many Saudis do not allow their maids to own a cell phone to communicate with their families. In one ad the seller complains that they are selling a Moroccan woman as a housemaid due to “her ambition to obtain a mobile phone.” In another Twitter post, a passport of a Moroccan woman had been taken away and used to advertise the maid for sale….
mortimer says
An ad appeared in a Saudi local paper in the 1990s offering a female slave in exchange for a ‘good car’.
The KORAN itself MAKES CLEAR that slaves are THINGS, rather than HUMANS by the use of the PRONOUN ‘WHAT’, rather than the pronoun ‘WHO(M)’.
Raymond Ibrahim wrote: “Are slave-girls in Islam equivalent to animals?”
“Many (Westerners) are now aware that the Koran—that is, Allah’s word—permits, not just polygamy, but forced concubinage (sex with captive women), according to Koran 4:3: “Marry such women as seem good to you, two and three and four; but if you fear that you will not do justice, then only one, or what your right hands possess [captive women taken in war].” There is, however, an interesting, and very telling, linguistic aspect to this verse that is often overlooked—or intentionally obscured. The Arabic states: “Ankahu [marry]…ma [what] malakat [possess] aymankum [your right hands].”
Oddly enough, the Arabic relative pronoun used to indicate these captive women is “ma”: ma malakat aymankum, literally, “what your right hands possess” (see Shakir’s acclaimed English translation which most literally translates this). In Arabic, when one refers to a rational being (i.e. a human), the word used is ‘min’, which means ‘who’. On the other hand, ‘ma’, refers only to things or animals—trees, rocks, dogs and cats—very much similar to the English ‘it.’ Thus, in proper Arabic, the phrase should have been min malakat aymankum: “whom your right hands possess.”
This is not a stylistic matter. The highly revered Islamic scholar al-Qurtubi (d.1273) comments on this in vol. 5, p.12 of his authoritative 20-volume Tafsir Al Koran (Exegesis of the Koran). He points out that members of the human race should be referred to with MIN (who), whereas only “inanimate objects” or “brute beasts” should be referred to with MA (what).
Does this suggest that the Koran’s Arabic—touted as the most perfect Arabic—is flawed? Of course, no Muslim would allow for that. Nor need they, since this phenomenon (portraying concubines as non-human) accords well with a number of hadiths that place females and animals in the same category. Musnad Ibn Hanbal (vol. 2, p. 2992), for example, records Muhammad saying “Women, dogs, and donkeys annul a man’s prayer.” Indeed, in Qurtubi’s same Tafsir (vol.15, p.172), after examining such hadiths, he writes, “A Woman may be likened to a sheep—even a cow or a camel—for all are ridden.”
Indiana Tom says
An ad appeared in a Saudi local paper in the 1990s offering a female slave in exchange for a ‘good car’.
Sounds like a heck of a deal to me. Hey, we could have car dealerships that sell cars and slaves! Maybe they could throw in a couple of slaves with a new car!
Indiana Tom says
They could always sell the slaves at the dog pound. Get a dog and a slave at the same time. Two BFFs.
gravenimage says
Huma Abedin was not Hillary Clinton’s slave. She had undue influence over Clinton, though.
J D S says
Mortimer…In your post you say “the Koran, that is, Allah’s word”…..
I’m not sure where the word of the koran came from but i am assured that the Allah you mention is NOT The God of the Holy Bible and that being a fact…then the allah of the koran must be a false god as mentioned in the Holy Bible…
Keep on keeping on Mortimer you are needed on J W.
mortimer says
Slavery in Yemen
The Ongoing Fight To Free Thousands Of African Slaves In Yemen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVuQTiQNJOE
Jack Holan says
Has anyone informed Ms Sarsour, Gloria Steinem or Barbara Streisand who is relentless about The President being some type of ogre to women and don’t forget = Pay! Oh Barbara you always cozy up to the gent Bill Clinton.
Halal Bacon says
once again crickets from the feminists
Karen says
Yes. They’re busy organizing the next World Hijab Day.
James Pierce says
Similar crickets from the people in the United States who are still crying about the slavery that ended here over 150 years ago
Wellington says
Have Islam in your midst? Well, then, you have rot, including slavery, indulged in, it should be noted, by the founder of Islam, one Mohammed, and who, as well, made many derogatory comments about blacks (e.g., that they’re “raisinheads”—Bukhari Hadith 1:662) all the while owning black slaves. Which is only part of the reason why any black who is voluntarily a Muslim is a fool since Islam engaged in black slavery much more extensively than the West ever did, never realized that slavery is wrong (to this very day), and has never, I mean NEVER, contra the West, apologized for its role in slavery. Indeed, in the Islamic theological blueprint to present, slavery is still OK, as exampled by this article.
Anyone, I mean ANYONE, in the West who would be surprised by any of this should hang their head in shame forever because by now there is no excuse for continued ignorance of Islam. But such people in the West still exist, people like Angela Merkel, Theresa May, Pope Francis I, Justin Trudeau and, of course, that person who harmed America more than anyone else in American history, Barack Obama, and who made excuse after excuse (never mind all the factual mistakes) for Mo’s creed, including the co-sponsoring with Egypt of UN Resolution 16/18 which would, in effect, criminalize criticism of religion and thus going against America’s First Amendment provision of freedom of speech.
Oh yeah, have Islam? Well then, you have slavery, one way or another, officially or unofficially. Of blacks. Of women. Of all non-Muslims who must be obedient dhimmis or they’re dead.
Islam is a mortal enemy of so many things like freedom, a true Golden Rule for all, women’s rights, et al. So, no more excuses for this decrepit creed, which, by the way, all Christians should know intends to throw all Christians into Hell for deifying Jesus, Jesus (Isa) being, per Muslimthink, one of the greater Muslim prophets before the last and greatest of the prophets, Mohammed.
Time for a beer (Islam loathes alcohol). Time for a Beethoven Symphony (music is haram {forbidden in Islam}). Time for savoring freedom (which Islam detests). Time for women being truly equal under the law (which Islam opposes to this day, for instance in an Islamic court of law it takes two women to equal one man’s testimony). Time for looking upon ALL slavery as heinous (which Islam still supports). Time for the capacity of any belief system or society to apologize for past wrongdoings (which the West has been excellent at and the Islamic world dismal at). Time for…. Time for…. Time for…. And respecting all of which Islam fails time and time and time again.
By now, one knows this or should know it. Yes, no more excuses about the worst religion ever created by man. No more.
dumbledoresarmy says
The whole of Islam is a slave system from top to bottom.
Every Muslim is a ‘slave’ of ‘allah’ – who is a capricious, merciless slavemaster of grovelling, cringing slaves; a psychopathic despot, apotheosised. But that *also* means that every Muslim’s ambition is to *be* a merciless slavemaster over terrorised slaves, slaves that he can torment and kill at will, even en masse, for fun or profit, or to please his murderous slavemaster ‘god’.
In Islam, the muslim men get to dominate and domineer over their females and everyone weaker than themselves. Without mercy, because allah has none whatsoever. Each mohammedan becomes a little tin allah, free to indulge all his basest proclivities to the max. Because the ultimate expression of power over another human being- if one detaches power from any concept of morality whatsoever – is.. to murder another. Beyond slavery lies murder. Slavery-rape-murder are inextricably entwined, within Islam. Meanwhile, the weaker cringe and grovel, fawn and flatter and iie… and bide their time until that moment when the ‘strong horse’ inevitably weakens (and what happens *then*, is demonstrated by the demise of Gaddafi).
The batsh*t-crazy psycho despots like Saddam Hussein, Qaddafi, and, longer ago, the Ottoman sultans (such as one who, wearying of many in his harem, had the poor women tied up alive in sacks and tossed into the Bosphorus to drown), are the natural and inevitable product of Islam, Islam, Islam.
Wellington says
A la Orwell, dda, some slaves are more equal than others. Yes, there is a gradation of slavery from the “first slaves” of Allah to the lowest (most likely dhimmi women). It’s all sick of course, but then Islam is sick throughout so quite fitting.
gravenimage says
Good exchange, Wellington and Dumbledore’s Army.
Insanely, Muslims have even said they are not free to practice their religion if they cannot enslave others. *Ugh*.
Indiana Tom says
Controversy surrounds Saudi Twitter ads depicting Moroccan women for sale as domestic servants in the oil-rich kingdom.
I suppose I could use a couple domestic slaves to clean the house, take care of and groom the dogs, wash the car, mow the lawn, trim bushes, cook some time consuming meals, wash and mend clothes.
Geee…Islam is really swell!
Sarah says
Honestly, the most emotion I can sum up here after reading this is, ‘meh’.
I don’t have any real sympathy for those women. What do they expect? This is their religion. If they don’t like it, well, they have to change it. And since they’re a part of 50% of the followers of that religion, they certainly have enough bodies should they decide en masse that enough is enough – and to cast off the yoke of Islam.
I’m also utterly unsurprised by this news. This is everyday Islam. Women are chattel to be bought and sold by the men in their families to men that they are required to marry. Women ARE slaves in Islam and no matter how many Muslim females who reside in the West try to insist differently, we all know that this is the truth.
Investigate Gov Corruption NOW says
Yet, Twittler censors Trump followers.
gravenimage says
Saudi Arabia: Ad offers Moroccan women for sale
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More Islamic slavery–these *poor women*.
When I was a toddler, Saudi Arabia still have open slave markets in Riyadh.
Eur says
This is what Islamic reformers understand is modernizing Islam … using new technologies to continue doing the same barbarities as always. Muhammad used the sword, now Muslims use kalashnikovs, trucks, explosives, airplanes …
gravenimage says
Yes–this is the only modernism Islam embraces.
MFritz says
Saudi Arabia “officially” ended slavery in 1963. Go figure.
gravenimage says
Yes–within living memory.
PhilLC says
meanwhile the UN Human Rights Council, led by Islamists, only criticises Israel or Western Countries. I guess with these major targets there is no time left to deal with real issues of human rights
gravenimage says
So true.
Politicianophobia says
Wellington, you assume people read, many get up in the morning, turn on the TV and get their instruction on how to think for the day from the fake news.
Manny says
How much is that Muzzie in the window?
The one with the glitzy hajib.
How much is that Muzzie in the window?
I do hope that Muzzie’s for sale
😉
gravenimage says
The victims may or may not be Muslim. There are a few Infidels left in Morocco.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
once again Mr Spencer has demonstrated his dark ignorance about the Quran for making reference to Quran 33:50 to show that morroccon housemaids sold is valid according to the Quran. It is only war captives in a valid jihad fighting that slaves are obtained. For how long now that such war captives disappeared in morrocco and other muslim nations ? Assuming, not conceding, the story is correct such sales are null and void according to sharia
CogitoErgoSum says
Ibrahim, can you point to any verses in the Quran which set forth the rights of kafir harbis (those from Dar al-Harb) when they travel to Dar al-Islam? Aren’t Muslims free to hunt down the male harbis and to take the female harbis captive …. unless, of course, there is some sort of treaty with the harbis or the harbis who are identified as “People of the Book” pay the Jizya for “protection?” I’m assuming Morocco currently has some laws forbidding the murder of harbis but is that really in accordance with what is contained in the Quran? If so, I would like to know how you explain it.
Also, see the link below:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbi
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Cogitoergosum, jihad fighting is an organised warefare with rules and conditions attached. It is not a random killings of no-muslims. Raiding or adduction of non-combantant civilians population, whether within muslim territory or in hostile non-muslim territory, is not a valid jihad fighting.
CogitoErgoSum says
Ibrahim, where is the land of Dar al-Islam today …. or does it exist at all if there is no Caliph?
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Cogitoergosum, there are 3 nations :Daral Islam (muslim nations), Daral harb(Non-muslim hostile nations) and Darul sulh (Friendly non-muslim nations). The fascist evil zionist state of Israel and evil united states threatening muslim nations are now hostile non-muslim nations.
CogitoErgoSum says
Ibrahim, then that means I am a harbi living in a land that is now in a state of war with Muslims. Per the Wikipedia article I referenced above:
“Reliance of the Traveller confirms this: There is no indemnity obligatory for killing a non-Muslim at war with Muslims (harbi), someone who has left Islam, someone sentenced to death by stoning for adultery by virtue of having been convicted in court, or those it is obligatory to kill by military action such as a band of highwaymen. As stated by Shaybani, affirmed by Khadduri, and confirmed by the Reliance of the Traveller, the term harbi retains its legal status in Islamic law. Since published shariah holds that the dar al-Islam is in an ongoing state of war with the dar al-harb, the legal theory indicates that all non-Muslims not a part of the dar al-Islam (and not under treaty) are classified as harbi.”
Thanks a lot, Ibrahim.
gravenimage says
“Darul sulh” only seems to apply to nations that had treaties with Muhammed.
What would Ibrahim itace muhammed consider Darul sulh” today, assuming this term even applies now? It would have to be a place that allowed unfettered Muslim immigration, that gave huge foreign aid to Muslim countries, no matter how hideous their human rights abuses, and never peeped about Muslims raping and slaughtering their people, and never resisted the imposition of Shari’ah law.
` says
The foul Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
once again Mr Spencer has demonstrated his dark ignorance about the Quran for making reference to Quran 33:50 to show that morroccon housemaids sold is valid according to the Quran. It is only war captives in a valid jihad fighting that slaves are obtained. For how long now that such war captives disappeared in morrocco and other muslim nations ? Assuming, not conceding, the story is correct such sales are null and void according to sharia
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Note that Ibrahim itace muhammed is only concerned that these slaves might not be Infidels.
But they may well be–while Morocco is majority-Muslim, they are at least 5% Kufar.
Infidels make up less than those numbers in Pakistan, and we see how they are treated.
As for there not being an active Jihad in Morocco, while Infidels are oppressed there, they are not under full dhimmitude. As Ibrahim itace muhammed knows full well, Many Muslims believe that *any* Infidels not under Shari’ah law are fair game to enslave or murder.
In fact, Ibrahim itace muhammed *himself* has said that any Infidels who have not submitted to Islam are fair game to be raped or murdered.
Moreover, such slavery is *rife* in the Muslim world–in Sudan, in the Isamic State, in Mauritania. In Mauritania, an estimated *17% of the population* are slaves.
If Ibrahim itace muhammed *really* had a problem with this, he would take it up with his slaving fellow Muslims–not with the good Infidels here are Jihad Watch. He won’t, of course.
More, in reply to CogitoErgoSum:
Cogitoergosum, jihad fighting is an organised warefare with rules and conditions attached. It is not a random killings of no-muslims. Raiding or adduction of non-combantant civilians population, whether within muslim territory or in hostile non-muslim territory, is not a valid jihad fighting.
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Well, this is just ludicrous. The “Prophet” Muhammed–the perfect man of Islam and model for all time–regularly raided and kidnapped Infidels.
Here’s the canonical Sira of the Prophet, by Ibn Ishaq:
“When the apostle raided a people he waited until the morning. If he heard a call to prayer he held back; if he did not hear it he attacked…When we arrive in a people’s square it is a bad morning for those who have been warned.’”
The “Prophet” Muhammed did this all the time–and so have other Muslims throught the ages. Muslims raided the coasts of Europe for centuries for booty and slaves, as Ibrahim itace muhammed well knows.
In fact, the Somali pirates *still* practice raiding for booty and victims to ransom.
Notice that Ibrahim itace muhammed never says that there is a problem with enslaving people and selling them on the internet–he just claims that Anti-Jihadists disturbed by this are wrong. *Ugh*.
gravenimage says
The above post is mine.
Eric jones says
Slavery is heart breaking. Here in Queens there is a Moroccan family that has a slave working for them.
Eric
gravenimage says
Do you have a link to the story, Eric?
I know there was this story about Muslims enslaving victims in Long Island, but this was probably another case:
“N.Y. Couple Convicted in Slave Case”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/nyregion/17cnd-slave.html
Eric jones says
This was not in the press. There was a dispute in my area between neighbors where this fact came out. Its difficult for me to give more info.
Eric
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Éric, it means you are just speculating as your mithraist evil Bible is a collection of speculative myths.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Examples, Ibrahim?
gravenimage says
There have been numerous cases of Muslims enslaving domestic help. How can Ibrahim itace muhammed pretend otherwise? He himself has said that Muslims can use Infidels as slaves and sex slaves.
StellaSaidSo says
Eric, this is all-too common in the West. Muslims bring their slaves as ‘family members’, then confiscate their passports. Or they ’employ’ illegals. Slavery is considered normal in the Muslim world. Wealthy Saudis give their children slaves as presents.
gravenimage says
All grimly true, Stella.
J D S says
Yeah Jay Boo…I don’t believe that heads on the ground and butts in the air 5 times a day Will avail them anything but Chafeed foreheads and sore knees.
Now if…big IF..they humble themselves, repent of their sins and accept Jesus as The Messiah, the Son Of The One True God, then and ONLY then would their prayers reach above. Oh Dear God if that could only happen. Otherwise the LAKE of Fire awaits them…
I am a sinner and fall way short of what Jesus and The Father expects of me.
Eric jones says
Ibrahim, how many slaves do you have? If I gave more details innocent children would be caught in the middle.
Eric