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MUSLIM WOMAN SEEKS TO REVIVE
INSTITUTION OF SEX-SLAVERY
By Raymond Ibrahim
THE INEVITABLE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE WESTERN MINDSET & THE SHARIA MINDSET -- BETWEEN WESTERN
CULTURE, BASED ON REASON & UNIVERSAL RIGHTS, & MUSLIM CULTURE, BASED ON THE LIFE OF AN EIGHTH CENTURY
CARAVAN-RAIDER & SLAVE TRADER -- SEX-SLAVERY IN COUNTRIES WITH MUSLIM MAJORITIES: SEX-SLAVERY
THRIVES UNDERGROUND THROUGHOUT THE ISLAMIC WORLD, WHERE NON-MUSLIM GIRLS (MOSTLY CHRISTIANS) ARE
ROUTINELY ABDUCTED, ENSLAVED, & FORCED INTO LIVES OF UNSPEAKABLE DEGRADATION.
FULL STORY:
Last week witnessed popular Muslim preacher Abu Ishaq al-Huwaini boast about how Islam allows Muslims to buy
and sell conquered infidel women, so that "When I want a sex-slave, I go to the market and pick whichever female I
desire and buy her."
This week's depraved anachronism comes from a Muslim woman Salwa al-Mutairi, a political activist and former
parliamentary candidate for Kuwait's government, no less: She, too, seeks to "revive the institution of sex-slavery."
A brief English report appeared over the weekend in the Kuwait Times (nothing, of course, in MSNBC):
Mutairi: "In the Chechnyan war, surely there are female Russian captives. So go and buy those and sell them here in
Kuwait; better that than have our men engage in forbidden sexual relations."
Muslim men who fear being seduced or tempted into immoral behavior by the beauty of their female servants, or even
of those servants "casting spells" on them, would be better to purchase women from an "enslaved maid" agency for
sexual purposes. She [Mutairi] suggested that special offices could be set up to provide concubines in the same way
as domestic staff recruitment agencies currently provide housemaids. "We want our youth to be protected from
adultery," said al-Mutairi, suggesting that these maids could be brought as prisoners of war in war-stricken nations,
like Chechnya, to be sold later to devout merchants.
The Arabic news website, Al Arabiya, has the sordid details, including a video of Mutairi addressing this topic.
I summarize and translate various excerpts below (note: I am not making any of this up):
The Kuwaiti female activist begins by insisting that "it's of course true" that "the prophet of Islam legitimized
sex-slavery." She recounts how, when she was in Mecca, Islam's holiest city, she asked various Sheikhs and Muftis
(learned, authoritative Muslims) about the legality of sex-slavery according to Sharia: they all confirmed it to be
perfectly legal; Kuwaiti Ulema further pointed out that extra "virile" men Western synonymous terms include
"sex-crazed," "lecherous," "perverted" would do well to purchase sex-slaves to sate their appetites without sinning.
Here's a particularly interesting excerpt from her taped speech on the rules governing sex-slaves:
"A Muslim state must [first] attack a Christian state
sorry, I mean any non-Muslim state and they [the
women, the future sex-slaves] must be captives of the
raid. Is this forbidden? Not at all; according to Islam,
sex slaves are not at all forbidden. Quite the contrary,
the rules regulating sex-slaves differ from those for
free women [i.e., Muslim women]: the latter's body
must be covered entirely, except for her face and
hands, whereas the sex-slave is kept naked from the
bellybutton on up she is different from the free
woman; the free woman has to be married properly to
her husband, but the sex-slave he just buys her
and that's that."
She went on to offer concrete suggestions:
"For example, in the Chechnyan war, surely there are
female Russian captives. So go and buy those and
sell them here in Kuwait; better that than have our
men engage in forbidden sexual relations. I don't see
any problem in this, no problem at all."
Mutairi suggests the enslaved girls be at least 15 years-old.
She further justified the institution of sex-slavery by evoking Eighth and Ninth Century Caliph, Harun al-Rashid a
name some may recall from Arabian Nights bedtime stories; a name some may be surprised to discover
politically active Muslims modeling their lives after:
"And the greatest example we have is Harun al-Rashid:
when he died, he had 2,000 sex-slaves so it's okay,
nothing wrong with it."
Mutairi's rationale is ultimately guided by a sense of efficiency, a desire for the good of society: legalizing sex-slaves
helps prevent Muslim men from transgressing Allah's laws (as we have seen, extramarital relations with fellow Muslim
women is strictly forbidden, but not with infidel sex-slaves, since they are scarcely considered human). Thus, the
institution of sex-slavery provides a convenient, Sharia-compliant way of satiating the libidinous urges of Muslim men.
The Kuwaiti activist's blunt approach has universal parallels. For example, in the West, some seek to legalize marijuana,
arguing that, since people use it anyway, let it be made compliant with the law. In the Muslim world, some seek to
legalize sex-slavery, arguing that, since Muslim men will use women anyway, let it be made compliant with Sharia law.
Such are the inevitable differences between the Western mindset (based on reason and universal rights) and the Sharia
mindset (based on the life of an Eighth Century Arabian caravan-raider and slave-trader).
Mutairi concluded by piously supplicating Allah: "Oh I truly wish this for Kuwait, Allah willing Oh Lord, Lord, you
are bountiful
."
While she waits, Mutairi can take solace in the fact that, if sex-slavery is not institutionalized in Kuwait, it thrives
underground throughout the Muslim world, where non-Muslim girls mostly Christians are routinely abducted,
enslaved, and forced into lives of unspeakable degradation.
After all, just because a practice is not formally institutionalized does not mean that those who deem it their divine right
are not practicing it.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States,
& Their Middle Eastern Neighbors
American Foreign Policy -- The Middle East
International Politics & World Disorder:
War, Peace, & Geopolitics in the Real World:
Foreign Affairs & U.S. National Security
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
Counterterrorism & U.S. National Security
U.S. National Security Strategy
Raymond Ibrahim, a historian of Islam, Islamism and the Middle East, is the Associate Director of the Middle East Forum,
a guest lecturer at the National Defense Intelligence College, and the editor of The Al-Qa'ida Reader, a collection
of tranlations of key texts and documents of the Islamist movement. Ibrahim's translations of the religious texts and
political propaganda comprising this collection help readers comprehend the origins, development, history, and serious
danger of the Islamist war doctrines of Usama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Founders of Al-Qa'ida and
implacable enemies of the U.S.A. and the West.
The foregoing article by Raymond Ibrahim was originally published in Front Page Magazine, June 6, 2011, and
can be found on the Internet website maintained by the Middle East Forum, a foreign policy think tank which seeks to
define and promote American interests in the Middle East, defining U.S. interests to include fighting radical Islam,
working for Palestinian Arab acceptance of the State of Israel, improving the management of U.S. efforts to promote
constitutional democracy in the Middle East, reducing America's energy dependence on the Middle East, more robustly
asserting U.S. interests vis-ΰ-vis Saudi Arabia, and countering the Iranian threat.
(URL: http://www.meforum.org/2930/muslim-woman-seeks-to-revive- institution-of-sex)
Republished with Permission of the Middle East Forum
Reprinted from the Middle East Forum News
mefnews@meforum.org (MEF NEWS)
June 6, 2011
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