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.
“They said I was bought as a slave: Kerala woman recounts torture in Qatar,” by Ajay Kanth, New Indian Express, July 30, 2021:
KOCHI: For 43-year-old Preethi Selvaraj, the offer of a job in Doha was irresistible. She was living in a rented home at Njarackkal with her mother, husband and three children, with the family’s sole income coming from her husband who did not have a stable job. The family stayed afloat with the meagre income he made by doing odd jobs.
With the situation being such, Preethi was quick to conclude that the job as a nanny with an Arab family in Doha, Qatar, with a salary of Rs 23,000 per month, was just what she needed to ease her family’s financial difficulties. Her dream, however, met a premature death as soon as she made it to Doha on March 4, 2020, on a visit visa she had availed with the help of two local ‘agents’ — Saleem and Zakheer.
Soon enough, like many poor women from India who are illegally dispatched as househelps to the Middle East, Preethi too became a victim of brutal abuse and torture at the hands of an Arab family.
“I am lucky to have managed to return home safe. A person who worked with a social organisation in Qatar intervened in my case, after my husband took up the issue with an activist in Kerala. From my very first day at that family’s house, my life was a living hell. Though I informed my agents of the torture I was undergoing at the house after two months, they didn’t listen to me. I was forced to continue working there for one year and four months,” said Preethi, who finally returned to Kochi on July 9 this year.
“When I repeatedly requested the family to allow me to return to Kerala, they told me I was a slave they had bought by paying lakhs to those agents. I was forced to work continuously without rest, and was only allowed to eat the food they dumped as waste. Two women in the family used to beat me upregularly [sic]. They also took custody of my mobile phone to prevent me from calling my family members. I could only take rest for four hours every day. When I persistently demanded to be allowed to return home, they stopped paying me my salary too. For four months, I didn’t get any money,” recalls Preethi, who lodged an official complaint on July 26….
tim gallagher says
Any barbaric filth, and slavery is a perfect example, is bound to be acceptable in Islam. Islam is nothing but a throwback to primitive times and treating people appallingly by keeping them as slaves is a perfect fit for the evil ideology. The civilised human race makes progress and has left slavery behind, but not Islam, which wallows in all manner of barbaric evil. The only thing you won’t find in Islam is anything decent and humane.
gravenimage says
And there are hundreds of thousands of such victims in Qatar according to Human Rights Watch. This is clearly a policy, and not a real crime there.
tim gallagher says
Yes, gravenimage, I have heard a couple of reports over the years about people from fairly poor countries being treated appallingly, and pretty much as slaves, in Qatar. It was some time back that I heard such reports, but I think that women (probably men as well) from the Philippines may have been mentioned. Islam’s evil nature, in so many different regards, is constantly on display. People from impoverished backgrounds probably feel they have to take the gamble of going to countries like Qatar to work, but is a pretty dangerous thing to do.
Peter says
Agree .This just the tip of the iceberg. We have barely scratched the surface . Shame on the media . Not a word in any popular press. But for Jihad Watch ,we would not have even known about it . keep up the good work Spencer and Co .
tim gallagher says
I agree, Peter. I know that I learn a lot from Jihad Watch, which has reports which cover incidents that the mainstream media never seem to mention. Of course, a lot of the media seem to run a protection racket for islam, so they won’t run certain types of stories on purpose to cover up for islam. They would hate to be called “Islamophobic”, that garbage term..
gravenimage says
Agree, Tim and Peter.
clive delmonte says
One problem is that comments here cannot be brought to the attention of those who need to wake up.
Perhaps we might try addressing the mothers and other women in Islam more gereally.
Right now we are just writing to each other. I’m already not Islamic. But how can we find those that still are?
Raja says
Raja,
Clive delmonte,
I do share some JW articles on Whatsapp that includes comments, though my computer does not support it, I still do it through my mobile (for much wider audience)
Yes, comments here may not produce the desired results, that is why we need more freedom of speech and expression to take on islam by the horns.
Mothers and other women in islam might be useless, akin to family members of mafia dons having any sympathy for victims. In the long run this turns out to be a culture- the way we do things around here.
Peter says
They do not physically abuse people from EU or US . It is because the the Govt in countries like India and many other developing countries ,do very little to protect their own citizens . Indian Embassy in Khatar should lodge a complaint with the Govt of Khatar and Khatari consulate in Delhi should be summoned to the foreign office in Delhi and a warning should be issued that if such an incident ever happens again ,Indian Citizens will not be allowed to work in such countries like Khatar where law of Jungle prevails. The news should be carried in all news media in India . Where there is a will ,there is a way . The govt of some of these countries are corrupt and betraying their own citizens ,It is a shame .We should pass on this information to govt of India and Khatar seeking a response .
Infidel says
There is also the small fact that they are genuine racists: they consider white people to be superior to brown and black, consider themselves white, and then what you stated applies: for instance, a few years ago, when Canada made a stink about a Saudi apostate Badawi, the Saudis dinged relations w/ Canada. But they never dared do a thing against the US, since they fear us. If it was somebody like Trump, they feared that we’d crack down if they did nothing to oppose the jihad. If it was somebody like Obama and Biden, they fear/ed that we’d take Iran’s side
Note that Kerala is the only state from where people go to the Gulf in significant numbers
gravenimage says
Yes–most of the victims are from poor countries that can do little to protect their people. Some of them are Infidels, some of them are Muslims, but poor non-Arab Muslims are also considered fair game.
Keith O says
Anyone hear any feminist groups screaming from the roof tops over all these cases of women being forced into slavery?
We had a case here Australia of a Philipino woman who was held as a slave in the Canberra home of a middle eastern diplomat.
Seems everywhere they go the mudslimes take cruelty with them.
gravenimage says
I believe in equal rights and I speak out against this savagery. But you are right–most feminists do not.
Infidel says
Graven
The term ‘feminist’ has evolved, in the same way that the term ‘pro-choice’ has. Even 10 years ago, I was clearly pro-choice, but supported it being legal only until either a heartbeat was detected or the fetus was pain capable. Under the conventions at the time, that would still be considered pro-choice. Today, that’s considered pro-life, and to be pro-choice, one would have to support our Gov Ralph Northam’s bizarre stance that it’s okay to ‘abort’ a baby after it has been born
I’m pretty sure nobody is talking or thinking about you when they criticize ‘feminists’. And what does that term even mean these days? Do classical feminists support genetic men participating in women’s sports, which has become so mainstreamed that it’s now allowed in the Olympics?
gravenimage says
Agreed, Infidel about “feminists” and “choice”. I have no problem with “morning after pills” like Plan B, and even very early abortions before there can be any pain–but these are now conflated with very late-term abortions and even “partial birth abortions”. *Very* troubling stuff.
I am an egalitarian, for equal rights between the genders (save for obviously silly stuff like calling mothers “birthing persons”). Thirty or forty years ago I had no trouble calling myself a feminist–now, not so much…
Infidel says
Speaking of morning after pills, I recall the jokes we had in college at the time of Intel’s Pentium division bug, when there were cracks at the RU486 and its successor RUPentium w/ the latter having trouble preventing cell division of the zygote ?
Infidel says
Story #48490824780642 from the great state of Kerala, the model for the rest of India. Currently the only state where Chinavirus cases are increasing, and where businesses are fleeing, despite the record literacy rate and HDI of that state
Raja says
Infidel,
It seems, the Leftist thugs are in full cry !!!! I wonder why she went there to save Rs. 23,000 a month when she can save much more in neighboring states. This is the paradox of labor in India. You have substantial number of immigrants coming in from rest of India for Rs. 30000/month to Kerala and many in Kerala going to ME for 20K rupeees and the administration seems to be doing nothing to provide vital information to the labor force, the hallmark of a banana republic.
The immigrants seem to be around 800,000 in Ernakulam and 700, 000 in Trivandrum.
Ref: https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+the+number+of+immigrants+in+Kerala&oq=what+is+the+number+of+immigrants+in+Kerala&aqs=chrome..69i57.11644j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Infidel says
Raja
That’s precisely my point. Bangalore, for instance, is right next door: unlike people who move to Bangalore from cities like Kanpur, Jaipur, Calcutta, Guwahati, et al, moving should be pretty smooth for people from Kerala
The other point I was making was that given that Kerala is both literate and woke, it should be attracting hordes of woke companies to its cities: its people are as woke as the employees of companies like Google, Amazon, Twitter, Microsoft, et al. Yet, that’s the one major state in South India that doesn’t have any IT presence. Reason is a very business hostile climate: a few days ago, Kitex, the world’s second largest kids apparel manufacturer, canceled ₹35 billion worth of projects in Kerala, and immediately, 10 other Indian states were falling over each other to get them to their states instead. Not just that, that companies stock skyrocketed once they announced their departure from the islamo-communist state
https://www.opindia.com/?s=Kitex+Kerala
Raja says
Keith,
You are right. When a wrong becomes an entitlement you just cannot stop the practice, however evil it is.
Most often in islam morals are absent and there is that eerie mix of immorality with politics, like taqiyya, the art of lying, murder and rape in the cause of allah and so on.
High morals was laid by Jesus, when he said that mere fantasizing a crime would be breach of law.
Eleanor says
There was a case in the UK a few years ago, which was horrific — *A “cruel and evil” couple have been jailed for life for murdering their French nanny and burning her body. Sabrina Kouider and Ouissem Medouni starved, tortured and beat 21-year-old Sophie Lionnet over 12 days of “interrogations” where she was whipped with a cable and suffered five fractured ribs and a cracked breast bone.*
gravenimage says
Yes–horrifying case.
Christopher Watson says
Qatar still has slavery yet Sky TV still accepts advertisements from Qatar Airways. Sky TV is owned by Rubert Murdoch. He ought to be ashamed.
gravenimage says
Yes–disgusting.
gravenimage says
Qatar: Indian woman abused and tortured, ‘they told me I was a slave they had bought’
………….
This poor woman–so glad she was able to escape. In a sane–that is, non-Muslim–society she could have gone to the authorities. Not in Qatar, though, where slavery is rife. That World Cup is being held there next year is insanity. Part of the soccer stadium was built with slave labor.
“World Cup 2022: Qatar’s workers are not workers, they are slaves, and they are building mausoleums, not stadiums”
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/world-cup-2022-qatar-s-workers-slaves-building-mausoleums-stadiums-modern-slavery-kafala-a7980816.html
sidney penny says
The Arabs do not like the black Africans. Remember the Janjaweed
Same here for Indians and Filipinos.
sidney penny says
The Dark Side of Dubai
A TV program called “The Dark Side of Dubai “deals with construction workers from the Indian subcontinent. treated badly…
I suppose they could do one with ” The Dark Side of Doha.”
The Woke people at FIFA gave Qatar the World Cup of Football
Fitna says
Is it any wonder why Muslims are so aggressively forcing the lie of ‘Islamophobia’ down everyone’s throats? They want to hide all the ugliness and evil they’re doing to others right now and what they have planned for the rest of us if they get power.
If there were ever an ideology deserving of elimination, it’s Islam along with its followers and supporters. Islam is worse than Nazism and we need to wake up and fight back against this global scourge.
Everyone involved in the global Islamic slave trade needs to be exposed and shot. We should be at war with these people right now.
No doubt the West is turning a blind eye, makes you wonder how many politicians like Biden have been bought off by mideast money to ignore the horrors of Islam. So not only do we need to defeat Muslims, but also non-Muslims who are supporting and enabling them.
Fitna says
I should add why are these poor people still running to these countries for work? I think the answer is either they really don’t know what awaits them, or they’re ignoring the stories told by those who went there.
The Indian (and western) media know about all these terrible things going on but they self-censor and allow innocents to suffer tremendously.
How long are they going to keep this information from the public? Not just the slavery, but the ideology itself? What kind of end-game do Leftists see for themselves where they come out of this mess unscathed?
Do Lefty cowards really believe if they suck up to Muslims they’ll be spared? These same idiots, generation after generation, never learn the valuable lessons from the past. You cannot appease or negotiate with evil, you destroy it.
gravenimage says
I think a lot of these countries still want the remittances from the Middle East, and don’t want to have to deal with questions of why there isn’t more opportunity at home. They *should* be warning their people of the dangers.
OLD GUY says
Slavery is a much bigger thing under islam than it ever was or has been in America. Islam is nothing but a brutal dictatorship that will enslave everyone.
Infidel says
Well, slavery is perfectly legal in islam, and since there, none of their rules are alterable, the concept of emancipation doesn’t arise
European pagan says
I heard that a lot of foreign women (Africa, Philippines) who went to work (housemaid, babysitter) to Arabic countries were tortured. They think that they can do with them what they want, just because this women are poor. With someone from their own country they would not do this, because they would get problem with the police, but noone helps to foreigners… I heard Arabs are racist.
Infidel says
Oh, that’s clearly true. And speaking about islam, the sunnah clearly describes Mohammed ‘celebrating whiteness’. That alone should be reason enough for him being canceled by today’s woke hordes
gravenimage says
Many of these women are also raped.
European pagan says
Yes, and some women were killed. They took away their passports and without passport the women could not go back to their countries
gravenimage says
Yes–seizing the victim’s passports is *very* common.