{"id":2566,"date":"2013-04-01T23:13:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T03:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/?p=2566"},"modified":"2013-04-01T23:13:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T03:13:07","slug":"make-non-muslim-female-prisoners-of-war-sex-slaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2013\/04\/01\/make-non-muslim-female-prisoners-of-war-sex-slaves\/","title":{"rendered":"“Make non-Muslim female prisoners of war sex-slaves”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Deuteronomy 21:10 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife. Image source: thebricktestament.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I sh*t you not<\/a>. This is not an April Fool’s Day joke.<\/p>\n

A Kuwaiti woman who once ran for parliament\u00a0 has called for sex slavery to be legalized – and suggested that non-Muslim\u00a0 prisoners from war-torn countries would make suitable concubines.<\/span><\/p>\n

Salwa al Mutairi argued buying a sex-slave\u00a0 would protect decent, devout and ‘virile’ Kuwaiti men from adultery because\u00a0 buying an imported sex partner would be tantamount to marriage.<\/span><\/p>\n

The political activist and TV host even\u00a0 suggested that it would be a better life for women in warring countries as the\u00a0 might die of starvation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mutairi claimed: ‘There was no shame in it\u00a0 and it is not haram’ (forbidden) under Islamic Sharia law.’<\/span><\/p>\n

And she even had an idea of where to\u00a0 ‘purchase’ these sex-salves – browsing through female prisoners of war in other\u00a0 countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

She suggested shopping for prisoners of war\u00a0 so as to protect Kuwaiti men from being tempted to commit adultery or being\u00a0 seduced by other women’s beauty.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘For example, in the Chechnyan war, surely\u00a0 there are female Russian captives,’ she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘So go and buy those and sell them here in\u00a0 Kuwait. Better than to have our men engage in forbidden sexual\u00a0 relations.’\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mutairi recommended that offices could be opened\u00a0 to run the sex trade in the same way that recruitment agencies provide\u00a0 housemaids.<\/span>
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Her unbelievable argument for her plan was\u00a0 that \u2018captives\u2019 might ‘just die of hunger over there’.<\/span><\/p>\n

She insisted, ‘I don\u2019t see any problem in\u00a0 this, no problem at all’.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So are these enlightened views consistent with Islam? Apparently that is controversial:<\/p>\n

For Muna Khan, an editor at the Saudi-owned Al\u00a0 Arabiya television station, the ‘icing on the cake’ of Mutairi\u2019s ‘preposterous\u00a0 views’ was her assertion that her suggestions do not conflict with the tenets of\u00a0 Islam.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mutairi said that during a recent visit to\u00a0 Mecca, she asked Saudi muftis \u2013 Muslim religious scholars \u2013 what the Islamic\u00a0 ruling was on owning sex slaves. They are said to have told her that it is not\u00a0 haram.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ruling was confirmed by ‘specialized\u00a0 people of the faith’ in Kuwait, she claimed.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘They said, that\u2019s right, the only solution\u00a0 for a decent man who has the means, who is overpowered by desire and who does\u00a0 not want to commit fornication, is to acquire jawari.’ Jawari is the plural of\u00a0 the Arabic term jariya, meaning ‘concubine’ or ‘sex slave’.<\/span><\/p>\n

One Saudi mufti supposedly told Mutairi: ‘The\u00a0 context must be that of a Muslim nation conquering a non-Muslim nation, so these\u00a0 jawari have to be prisoners of war.’\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Concubines, she argued, would suit Muslim men\u00a0 who fear being ‘seduced or tempted into immoral behaviour by the beauty of their\u00a0 female servants’.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, even if she is making it all up, she knows how to cite precedent:<\/span><\/p>\n

She gave the example of Haroun al-Rashid, an 8th\u00a0 century Muslim leader who ruled over an area covered by modern-day Iran, Iraq\u00a0 and Syria and was rumoured to have 2,000 concubines.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So this wasn’t such a big no-no during the golden age of Islamic caliphate. But maybe this caliph was just Muslim? Maybe he was just “corrupting Islam”? Or maybe he was going by precedent, too. Among the many wives of Prophet Muhammad, there was one<\/a>, Safiya, whose story ties in with this:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u2018Allahu Akbar! Khaibar is ruined. Whenever we approach near a (hostile) nation (to fight) then evil will be the morning of those who have been warned.\u2019 He repeated this thrice. The people came out for their jobs and some of them said, \u2018Muhammad (has come).\u2019 (Some of our companions added, \u2018With his army.\u2019) We conquered Khaibar, took the captives, and the booty was collected. Dihya came and said, \u2018O Allah’s Prophet! Give me a slave girl from the captives.\u2019 The Prophet said, \u2018Go and take any slave girl.\u2019 He took Safiya bint Huyai. A man came to the Prophet and said, \u2018O Allah’s Apostle! You gave Safiya bint Huyai to Dihya and she is the chief mistress of the tribes of Quraiza and An-Nadir and she befits none but you.\u2019 So the Prophet said, \u2018Bring him along with her.\u2019 So Dihya came with her and when the Prophet saw her, he said to Dihya, \u2018Take any slave girl other than her from the captives.\u2019” Anas added: “The Prophet then manumitted her and married her.”(Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 8, Number 367) <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSafiyah was born in Medinah. She belonged to the Jewish tribe of Banu ‘I-Nadir. When this tribe was expelled from Medinah in the year 4 A.H, Huyaiy was one of those who settled in the fertile colony of Khaibar together with Kinana ibn al-Rabi’ to whom Safiyah was married a little before the Muslims attacked Khaibar. She was then seventeen. She had formerly been the wife of Sallam ibn Mishkam, who divorced her. One mile from Khaibar. Here the Prophet married Safiyah. She was groomed and made-up for the Prophet by Umm Sulaim, the mother of Anas ibn Malik. They spent the night there. Abu Ayyub al-Ansari guarded the tent of the Prophet the whole night. When, in the early dawn, the Prophet saw Abu Ayyub strolling up and down, he asked him what he meant by this sentry-go; he replied: “I was afraid for you with this young lady. You had killed her father, her husband and many of her relatives, and till recently she was an unbeliever. I was really afraid for you on her account”. The Prophet prayed for Abu Ayyub al-Ansari \u00a0(Ibn Hisham, p. 766)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the prophet “married” her after killing her relatives, and gave him lieutenants free reign to pick their own sex-slaves, too. It doesn’t look like Mutairi’s suggestions should have caused so much outrage among Muslims.<\/span><\/p>\n

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