Slavery is acceptable in Islam. 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.
“Trini, Bajan woman on life with ISIS: We thought it was irie,” by Simon Cottee, Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, February 13, 2020:
Aliya Abdul Haqq, one of the hundred or so TT citizens currently stranded in the Al Hol camp in Syria, recently told two foreign journalists that life inside the ISIS caliphate was “irie” – a Jamaican expression for nice or cool. Abdul Haqq, 34, is the sister of Tariq Abdul Haqq, a former lawyer and Commonwealth Games boxing finalist who traded his enviable life in Trinidad for war and death in Syria.
Abdul Haqq was interviewed alongside Abbey Greene, 33, who is from Barbados and was married to Abdul Haqq’s brother Tariq….
Abdul Haqq and Greene travelled to Syria in November 2014 with their respective husbands, Osyaba Muhammad and Tariq Abdul Haqq. While 240 TT citizens travelled to Syria between 2013 and 2016, Greene, to my knowledge, is the only Bajan to have gone to join ISIS.
Abbey Greene, the Barbadian widow of Trinidadian Tariq Abdul Haqq, brother of Aliya Abdul Haqq. –
“We came (to Syria) with our husbands, we made hijrah (migrated) to live under the Islamic State, under the law of Islam, and we basically followed our husbands,” says Greene.
Miraculously, both women survived the slaughterhouse of Baghuz, the last sliver of the ISIS caliphate, which fell in March 2019.
Abdul Haqq says before leaving TT she was never radical.
“I was into makeup, piercings and all these crazy things, which I still like.” It wasn’t until after her father died – Yacoob Abdul Haqq was accidentally shot and killed in May 2013 – that she and her family “made this big turnaround.”
Tariq, in Abdul Haqq’s telling, spearheaded this metamorphosis: “My brother came home one day and he said he was going to Syria.
“I started laughing,” she recalls, but within months she had come round to his way of thinking, because in Syria, “it’s strict sharia, which is what I like, so I said, ‘Let me try and see what Syria is about.’”…
Asked what life was like when she first arrived in Syria, Abdul Haqq relays that she was based in Raqqa, then the de-facto capital of the caliphate.
Aliya Abdul Haqq –
“It matched pretty well (my expectation). There were airstrikes, but it was really mild, so it was still very much like my country (TT). But under sharia, it wasn’t extreme then…It was normal life, we had tea parties, pyjama parties, it was really irie…cool, calm.”
Apparently, she deliberately avoided seeing the public beheadings that were a regular feature in the city back in 2014, but admitted her son had been exposed to several and that it had a violent effect on him.
Do these women have any regret over following their husbands to Syria and for all that ISIS has done?
Not one bit, it seems.
In fact, at several points in the interview, when Abdul Haqq and Greene are questioned about ISIS’s extreme violence against civilians and the rape and sexual enslavement of Yazidis, their default response is either to dodge the question or to rationalise ISIS’s violence as a legitimate response to the violence meted out against ISIS….
What about the beheading of western hostages?
“I don’t know…The men deal with this,” says Abdul Haqq.
Did the brutality of ISIS cause them to rethink their commitment to the group? This question prompts a long pause.
Then this from Greene: “I really don’t think about that question.”
On the sexual enslavement of Yazidi girls and women, Abdul Haqq confides that she had met two Yazidi women in Raqqa: “They were slaves to a Bosnian guy…and from what (one of them) told me, she said she really loved her slave-master, and she accepted Islam.”
What about ISIS’s systematic killing of Yazidi men – what can justify that?
More silence. Then Greene repeats what has become a mantra for her: “For me, this war is never-ending, and it’s on both sides.”
When probed about slavery, Greene seemed reluctant to condemn it outright, insisting: “Slavery in Islam is not like slavery back in the day — there are certain rules you have to follow, you have to show rahma (mercy), you must feed them, take care of them.”…
GOLDMANN says
Sad brainwashed woman?
FYI says
@Spiro
I doubt muhammed read the Gospels as ..
” the prophet can neither read nor write” koran 7:157
muhammed was an illiterate,deluded moron who even admitted to being a fraud{see:al tabari 6:111}although muslims will say allah subsequently cancelled out his admission{how convenient!}
He also would not have had the necessary Gift of Prophecy:in the Gospel it is revealed that the Holy Spirit is necessary for any understanding of prophecy [2 Peter 1 v v 20-21}so a TRUE prophet would have had access to this.
All Biblical prophets would have had this Gift;Moses,Elijah,Jesus,John the Baptist and the Apostles:it is not something you have of your own accord.
It always existed in the World for True prophets and was formally given as a gift at the first coming of Christ.
So how come allah and his “prophet” don’t know about that essential Holy Spirit?
FALSE prophets do NOT have the Holy Spirit and we see them by their fruits.
Just calling oneself a great “prophet” does not mean that one is a true prophet.
Due to allah revealing he doesn’t seem to believe in the Holy Spirit{see the Epic Theology fail of koran 5;116 where allah tells his muslims the Christian Trinity involves MARY alongside allah and jesus:No concept you note ,of the HS!}either through pure ignorance or malice{allah is after all “the BEST of decdeivers” k3:54}it is impossible the”prophet” muhammed would have had the Gift of prophecy{which comes from the HS}
The “prophet” muhammed would neither have had the Gift of Prophecy nor would have known what the Holy Spirit{“the Helper” of Isaiah 42:muslims “scholars” laughably think the ‘Helper’ refers to their “prophet” muhammed}
The Golden Rule is revealed in Matthew 7 v 12 something which,along with the essential Holy Spirit is predicitably MISSING in islam.
k7:157 says “muhammed is described in the Torah and the Gospel”
Ridiculous:how could muhammed, a MASS MURDERER OF JEWS{Abu dawud 4390}be in the Jewish Holy Book that comes from YHWH,the God of the JEWS!
ALL four Gospels were written with the assistance of the Holy Spirit and all are equal.
toomanyhobbies says
I wonder how many beatings she had to suffer though before she said that….
Goofy says
We need an international war crimes tribunal like that of Nuremberg to raise awareness of the inhumanity of Islam and to make it clear that it’s commands are as illegal as any crime you can imagine.
Student of History says
Necessary indeed, but will NEVER happen.
Learn about the OIC group within UN and what they have already accomplished concerning recognition of the islam idologoy’s sharia doctrine as part of the DIFFERENT Human Rights Agreement THEY get to adhere to.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Stockholm Syndrome? Many European countries are presently experiencing Stockholm Syndrome wholesale.
Margaret says
..for the Yezidi slave? Knowing many Yezidi women who escaped/rescued/bought back by their family’s/ransomed – not one has told me they loved or liked their “slave master” and most say the wives beat/starve/overwork them or Yezidi children & would be jealous! becoz the husband was “paying attention” ie raping the Yezidi slave often. I am certain most Yezidi women/girls realised not to speak negatively with ISIS women re their situation. These ISIS women are complicit in enslavement/rapes/assualts/murders while they ruled the roost. Now that their privileged life is taken away, now they want to return to other countries – to escape the same living conditions their victims endure.
Spiro says
Leander you still don’t get it
Rarely says
Lots of sand in the area to bury one’s head in.
mortimer says
Someone should ask Abdul Haqq and Abbey Greene what they think of the following:
“Drawing closer to Allah through Rape: Rape is Prayer” From an August 2015 New York Times report:
“In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old girl, the Islamic State fighter took the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a sin. Because the preteen girl practiced a religion other than Islam, the Quran not only gave him the right to rape her—it condoned and encouraged it.
He bound her hands and gagged her. Then he knelt beside the bed and prostrated himself in prayer before getting on top of her. When it was over, he knelt to pray again, bookending the rape with acts of religious devotion…. ‘ I kept telling him it hurts – please stop.”
Other girls testified to the same treatment, mixing sex and acts of devotion: “Every time that he came to rape me, he would pray. He kept telling me this is ibadah,” a term from Islamic scripture meaning “worship.” He said that raping me is his prayer to God. It’s allowed. It’s halal.”
Raping kafirs is halal, isn’t that right, Abbey?
gravenimage says
+1
somehistory says
“Slavery in Islam is not like slavery back in the day..”
What drivel. Slavery “back in the day” was carried out by moslims…and still is all over, even in the U.S. some moslims have been caught with slaves. There was a husband and wife in Texas that brought a young girl over…a child of about five…and kept her as a slave till they were found out a year or two ago.
These women are just like all moslims…lie and lie and lie to protect islam. And they have to know that a large part of their “interview” was spent with them telling big whoppers. And I don’t mean hamburgers.
Closing one’s eyes and mind to the Truth does not change the Truth.
James Lincoln says
According to the feature article:
“Did the brutality of ISIS cause them to rethink their commitment to the group? This question prompts a long pause.
Then this from Greene: “I really don’t think about that question.””
Very telling.
muslimas, just like their male muslim counterparts, refuse to conduct ANY critical thinking regarding islam.
gravenimage says
Islamic State bride justifies slavery: “she said she really loved her slave-master, and she accepted Islam”
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Sure–who wouldn’t love being enslaved and raped by some thug? *Ugh*.
UNCLE VLADDI says
This is precisely why women shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
UNCLE VLADDI says
And it’s also why they always vote Democrat!
gravenimage says
Why doesn’t UNCLE VLADDI just convert to Islam? No equal rights for women there.
Note also that he seems to have no problem with male Jihadists voting–how is this better?
OLD GUY says
I wonder if she or the slave master wrote her script. Being brain washed from the time of birth may have contributed to thinking. How sad that a young women or child would think that living in slavery is acceptable. Islam is terrible!
gravenimage says
OLD GUY, I doubt that the slave actually enjoyed living in slavery. If the slave actually said this, I’m sure it was because she knew that Aliya Abdul Haqq was a pious Muslim woman, and that she would be punished or even murdered if she dared to complain. It is also possible that this ISIS bride made this up in order to whitewash Islamic slavery.
ontheridge says
Maybe this is what she needs in her sad mental state. Some women love to be taken over by an evil male. I hope she comes to her senses soon.