Take, for example, the recent revelation that, according to the UN News Centre, \u201csome 1,500 Yazidi and Christian persons may have been forced into sexual slavery.\u201d A similar kidnapping by Islamic jihadists in Nigeria recently horrified the world, but much overlooked was the fact that such behavior is sanctioned by the Qur\u2019an. According to Islamic law, Muslim men can take \u201ccaptives of the right hand\u201d (Qur\u2019an 4:3, 4:24, 33:50). The Qur\u2019an says: \u201cO 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\u201d (33:50). 4:3 and 4:24 extend this privilege to Muslim men in general, as does this passage. \u201cCertainly will the believers have succeeded: They who are during their prayer humbly submissive, and they who turn away from ill speech, and they who are observant of zakah, and they who guard their private parts except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they will not be blamed\u201d (Qur\u2019an 23:1-6).<\/p>\n
These passages have not gone unnoticed. The Egyptian Sheikh Abu-Ishaq al-Huwayni declared in May 2011 that \u201cwe are in the era of jihad,\u201d and that meant Muslims would take slaves. In a subsequent interview he elaborated:<\/p>\n
Jihad is only between Muslims and infidels. Spoils, slaves, and prisoners are only to be taken in war between Muslims and infidels. Muslims in the past conquered, invaded, and took over countries. This is agreed to by all scholars\u2014there is no disagreement on this from any of them, from the smallest to the largest, on the issue of taking spoils and prisoners. The prisoners and spoils are distributed among the fighters, which includes men, women, children, wealth, and so on.<\/p>\n
When a slave market is erected, which is a market in which are sold slaves and sex-slaves, which are called in the Qur\u2019an by the name milk al-yamin, \u201cthat which your right hands possess\u201d [Koran 4:24]. This is a verse from the Qur\u2019an which is still in force, and has not been abrogated. The milk al-yamin are the sex-slaves. You go to the market, look at the sex-slave, and buy her. She becomes like your wife, (but) she doesn\u2019t need a (marriage) contract or a divorce like a free woman, nor does she need a wali. All scholars agree on this point\u2014there is no disagreement from any of them. […] When I want a sex slave, I just go to the market and choose the woman I like and purchase her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
There is a real “War on Women” going on, but it has nothing to do with forcing American employers to subsidize abortifacients…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u200bThe two things ISIS seems to be most successful at are butchery and rape. Since there have been plenty of media reports of the former, let’s look at the latter:\u200b “Muhammad Karim, one of the soldiers, said that when they arrived at the first abandoned militant checkpoint, they discovered a woman, naked and bound, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":19,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,31],"tags":[2870,634,30,2361,2867,767,899,537],"class_list":["post-21045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-jihad","tag-foreign-policy","tag-iraq","tag-islam","tag-islamic-state-of-iraq-and-syria","tag-jihad","tag-sexual-slavery","tag-slavery","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21045"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21051,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21045\/revisions\/21051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}