Muhammad
and Islam's Sex Slaves
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Once again, Islamic State Muslims are pointing to Islam in order to
justify what the civilized world counts as atrocities.
According to an October 13 report in the Telegraph,
Islamic State jihadists have given detailed theological reasons
justifying why they have taken thousands of women from the Iraqi Yazidi
minority and sold them into sex slavery.
A new article in the Islamic State English-language online magazine
Dabiq not only admits the practice but justifies it according to the
theological rulings of early Islam.
"After capture, the Yazidi women and children were then divided
according to the Sharia amongst the fighters of the Islamic State who
participated," the article says.
As for "theological reasons" for sex slavery "according
to the Sharia," these are legion—from male
Muslim clerics, to female
Muslim activists. Generally they need do no more than cite the clear
words of Koran 4:3, which permit Muslims to copulate with female captives
of war, or ma
malakat aymanukum, "what"—not whom—"your right
hands possess."
The article continues:
But most of it [Islamic State "article" or fatwa] is
devoted to theological justifications for Islamic State behaviour, citing
early clerics and the practices of the Prophet Mohammed and his
Companions during the early years of Islamic expansion.
Indeed, while many are now aware of the Koran's and by extension
Sharia's justification for slaves, sexual or otherwise, fewer are willing
to embrace the fact that the prophet of Islam himself kept and copulated
with concubines conquered during the jihad.
Muhammad
seized for himself as rightfully earned booty (or ghanima) a
young woman, after killing everyone dear to her. According to
authoritative Islamic sources, she hated him for it. If that is not
rape, what is?
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One little-known story is especially eye-opening:
During Muhammad's jihad on the Jews of Khaybar, he took for himself
from among the spoils of war one young woman, a teenager, Safiya bint
Huyay, after hearing of her beauty. (Earlier the prophet had bestowed her
on another Muslim jihadi, but when rumor of her beauty reached him, the
prophet reneged and took her for himself.)
Muhammad "married" Safiya hours after he had her husband,
Kinana, tortured to death in order to reveal hidden treasure. And before
this, the prophet's jihadis slaughtered Safiya's father and brothers.
While Islamic apologists have long tried to justify this account—often
by saying that Muhammad gave her the honor of "marriage" as
opposed to being a concubine and that she opted to convert to Islam—they
habitually fail to cite what Islamic sources record, namely Baladhuri's
ninth century Kitab Futuh al-Buldan ("Book of
Conquests").
According to this narrative, after the death of Muhammad, Safiya confessed
that "Of all men, I hated the prophet the most—for he killed my
husband, my brother, and my father," before "marrying"
(or, less euphemistically, raping) her.
So there it is. Muhammad seized for himself as rightfully earned booty
(or ghanima) a young woman; he took her after killing everyone
dear to her—husband, father, brothers, etc.
And, according to authoritative Islamic sources, she hated him for it.
If that is not rape, what is?
In fact, this incident is regularly cited by former Muslims as one of
the greatest anecdotes that convinced them that Islam and Muhammad are
not of God.
Nor, as expected, was Muhammad alone in this sort of rape. For
example, Khalid bin Walid—the "Sword
of Allah" and hero for aspiring jihadis around the world—raped
another woman renowned for her beauty, Layla, right on the
battlefield—but only after he severed her "apostate" husband's
head, lit it on fire, and cooked his dinner on it.
If this is how Muhammad—whom Koran 33:21 exhorts Muslims to emulate in
all ways—behaved towards conquered female "infidels," should
there be any more surprise concerning the Islamic State's behavior?
Raymond
Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom
Center, a Judith Friedman Rosen Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum
and a CBN News contributor. He is the author of Crucified
Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians (2013) and The
Al Qaeda Reader (2007).
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