No story on the Islamic State would be complete without the usual claims that it isn’t following Islamic law… when it clearly is. VICE, basically internet trolls posing as a media organization, took that to a new level of clueless when discussing the ISIS Rape Jihad.
Islamic State authorities attempt to validate rape and forced marriage by way of an antiquated literal interpretation of passages of the Qur’an that say women and children captured during battle are slaves. They cite stipulations that sexual relations may take place within a marriage or between a man and his malak yamiin, or “those possessed by one’s right hand” — a euphemism for a slave.
You can try to stick the word “antiquated” in front of literal, but the literal part is the giveaway. The Koran “literally” permits Muslim Jihadists to enslave non-Muslim women and children and subject them to sexual slavery and resell them.
It’s literally in the Koran.
“Also (prohibited are) women already married, except those whom your right hands possess” (Koran 4:24).
Not to mention countless Hadiths. It was literally Mohammed’s documented practice.
There’s no interpretation involved when Mohammed actually “obtained” women that way. So did his bandit companions.
Legal experts whom VICE News consulted described the Islamic State’s selective interpretation of Qur’anic verses as directly contradicting centuries of Islamic law, the spirit of the Qur’an, and even the Prophet’s own words as recorded in the Hadith.
Prior to the abolition of slavery in Muslim countries starting in the 19th Century, Islamic law had historically allowed the enslaving of non-Muslims captured during battle — but only when engaged in international conflict, not civil war. Islamic law traditionally had two sets of rules for people living within the Islamic empire, which grew rapidly in the 7th Century, and those outside of it. Conflict between the Islamic empire and other nations had distinctive precepts.
“There’s a bright line, a distinction between international law and civil war taking place on Muslim territory,” Mohamed Fadel, Canada Research Chair for the Law and Economics of Islamic Law at the University of Toronto, told VICE News. “Classical Islamic doctrine states that non-Muslims living among Muslims have all the legal protections that Muslims have, including protection from enslavement. ISIS is completely repudiating large areas of traditional jurisprudence.”
First of all, VICE and Mohamed Fadel, somehow seem to think it’s okay to enslave non-Muslim women in international conflicts. Maybe they can explain why they feel that way.
Is this the new “moderate” Islam we keep hearing so much about? Extremist Muslims enslave local women. Moderate Muslims enslave women internationally?
Second of all, the claim that Muslim Jihadists could only enslave women in international conflicts makes no sense at all as…
1. The entire idea of an international conflict is a modern Western notion
2. Mohammed and his men undeniably enslaved women during their conflicts with non-Muslim tribes and their ethnic cleansing of Jews in Arabia
“We conquered Khaibar, took the captives, and the booty was collected. Dihya came and said, ‘O Allah’s Prophet! Give me a slave girl from the captives.’ The Prophet said, ‘Go and take any slave girl.’ He took Safiya bint Huyai. A man came to the Prophet and said, ‘O Allah’s Apostles! 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.’ So the Prophet said, ‘Bring him along with her.’ So Dihya came with her and when the Prophet saw her, he said to Dihya, ‘Take any slave girl other than her from the captives.’
Bukhari: 1:8:367
When Dihyah protested, wanting to keep Safiyah for himself, the Apostle traded for Safiyah by giving Dihyah her two cousins. The women of Khaybar were distributed among the Muslims.
Ishaq:511
Would VICE and Fadel care to argue that the ethnic cleansing of the Jews was an “international conflict”?
P.S. The protections for non-Muslims living among Muslims were traditionally worth a lot less than the price of a slave. That’s why the number of Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians and others living in the Muslim parts of the Middle East is decreasing every year.





















