Islam and Slavery Today

[schaick]

Isn’t this so very odd for a “religion” to condone?

Shaykh al-Huwayni Explains the Islamic Doctrine of Offensive Jihad and Taking Sex-Slaves:

youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tssBq4jCWtw

kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=NzQ3NzY0MzE=
Female activist calls for legalizing sex slavery
Published Date: June 04, 2011
By A Saleh, Staff Writer

KUWAIT: A female political activist and former parliamentary candidate has recommended the introduction of legislation to legalize the provision of enslaved female concubines for Muslim men in Kuwait in a bid, she says, to protect those men from committing adultery or corruption.

The activist, Salwa Al-Mutairi, suggested apparently seriously in a video broadcast online that she had been informed by some clerics that affluent 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 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 on later to devout merchants.

This is not religiously forbidden," she added, indicating that Caliph Haroun Al-Rashid (766-809 AD) was married to one woman but possessed 200 concubines.

 

[Acrusader]

Slavery and islam… long story…

 

[thedarknight]

Thanks for sharing.

Here’s an interview of the Kuwait political activist speaking of enslaving women, with translation, from The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI):

memri.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/250/0/2974.htm

Disgusting and revolting.

There is much talk from all sides that Islam can and must modernize and include human rights for all. I think the only way for that to happen is to leave Islam (apostasy).

 

[Ladyofthehouse]

Revolting. Surely most of the ordinary Muslims I know wouldn’t condone this. It seems too insulting to even bring it up with them. I wish an average Muslim from this forum would give us their thoughts.

 

[Inishfree]

The Muslims I know would not condone this either. They are American citizens.

 

[schaick]

The Muslims I know would not condone this either. They are American citizens.

So do these Muslims say the Quran is wrong? How do they explain the Quran and Imams condoning it?

 

[Inishfree]

So do these Muslims say the Quran is wrong? How do they explain the Quran and Imams condoning it?

I don’t know. I have never asked them. We chat about the weather and local news. But, one did mention how much they loved America because of it’s freedom.

 

[mark_a]

Isn’t this so very odd for a “religion” to condone?

Shaykh al-Huwayni Explains the Islamic Doctrine of Offensive Jihad and Taking Sex-Slaves:

youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tssBq4jCWtw

kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=NzQ3NzY0MzE=
Female activist calls for legalizing sex slavery
Published Date: June 04, 2011
By A Saleh, Staff Writer

KUWAIT: A female political activist and former parliamentary candidate has recommended the introduction of legislation to legalize the provision of enslaved female concubines for Muslim men in Kuwait in a bid, she says, to protect those men from committing adultery or corruption.

The activist, Salwa Al-Mutairi, suggested apparently seriously in a video broadcast online that she had been informed by some clerics that affluent 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 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 on later to devout merchants.

This is not religiously forbidden," she added, indicating that Caliph Haroun Al-Rashid (766-809 AD) was married to one woman but possessed 200 concubines.

(lifted from another poster here on CAF) Islam has been bringing us the best of the sixth century for 1400 years.

 

[Abu_Toshiba]

So do these Muslims say the Quran is wrong? How do they explain the Quran and Imams condoning it?

Ka’b bin Malik narrates: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him, fainted for an hour. When he had a relief he said: “Fear Allah! Fear Allah! In the treatment of what your right hands posses (i.e. slaves). Cover their backs (i.e. clothe them), fill their bellies and be kind to them in speaking.” (Ibn Sa’d’s Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir, Translated by S. Moinul Haq, Kitab Bhavan, New Delhi 2009 vol.2 p.317 The narration has been authenticated by Albani in Sahih al-Targhib wal-Tarhib Hadith 2288)

This is what the Prophet of Islam said on his death bed amongst the last of his advices to his Ummah. And yet the adversaries of the truth say that he added to the troubles of humanity in the name of slavery and the treatment of slaves. What can be said of this attitude?

and if you were to read the Qur’an and the Bible respectively and look after the passages that speaks about the ‘treatement of slaves’ … you would propably agree that the ‘treatement of slaves’ as enjoined by the Qur’an is way more mercifull.

I’m still surprised that no one has quote (yet) a Quranic passage speaking about ‘slavery’.

 

[FaithJoy]

Does not Islam mean submit? Submit in all fulness of the word obviously? Slavery and Islam are very close in meaning when you think about it. That’s why many Muslim countries lack freedom. Christian nations express freedom. Christ expressed that He wanted man to freely chose Him.

 

[Abu_Toshiba]

Does not Islam mean submit? Submit in all fulness of the word obviously? Slavery and Islam are very close in meaning when you think about it. That’s why many Muslim countries lack freedom. Christian nations express freedom. Christ expressed that He wanted man to freely chose Him.

I’m sorry but there is no such thing as a ‘‘Christian Nation’’, a Nation usually has a body of law. In the case of a theocracy, we use the law of God and in a secular society, we use man-made laws. and most of the christians believe the ‘Law of God’ to be outdated and woudln’t support it, nor stand by it and less promote it or vote for it (don’t even think about ‘‘living’’ by it).

 

[Acrusader]

I’m sorry but there is no such thing as a ‘‘Christian Nation’’, a Nation usually has a body of law. In the case of a theocracy, we use the law of God and in a secular society, we use man-made laws. and most of the christians believe the ‘Law of God’ to be outdated and woudln’t support it, nor stand by it and less promote it or vote for it (don’t even think about ‘‘living’’ by it).

Well I think you know what he means by Christian nation, nations with majority of Christian, and not religious states like in islamic countries i.e. Saudi Arabia…etc.
A simple comparison is enough between any “Christian nation” and an Islamic one, to see the main difference in freedom of believe and thinking… Take Turkey for example, which is (somehow) the “most civilized” Islamic country, you can’t practice your own religion, or build a place for you to pray, if you are not of the same religious believe as the “constitution”.

So yes, Islamic countries lack for freedom.

 

[schaick]

Ka’b bin Malik narrates: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him, fainted for an hour. When he had a relief he said: “Fear Allah! Fear Allah! In the treatment of what your right hands posses (i.e. slaves). Cover their backs (i.e. clothe them), fill their bellies and be kind to them in speaking.” (Ibn Sa’d’s Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir, Translated by S. Moinul Haq, Kitab Bhavan, New Delhi 2009 vol.2 p.317 The narration has been authenticated by Albani in Sahih al-Targhib wal-Tarhib Hadith 2288)

This is what the Prophet of Islam said on his death bed amongst the last of his advices to his Ummah. And yet the adversaries of the truth say that he added to the troubles of humanity in the name of slavery and the treatment of slaves. What can be said of this attitude?

and if you were to read the Qur’an and the Bible respectively and look after the passages that speaks about the ‘treatement of slaves’ … you would propably agree that the ‘treatement of slaves’ as enjoined by the Qur’an is way more mercifull.

I’m still surprised that no one has quote (yet) a Quranic passage speaking about ‘slavery’.

There are many. Here are just a few. Some will say these are verses about prisoners of war- you must remember Islam is at war with all non-believers.:

004.024 Also (prohibited are) women already married, except those whom your right hands possess: Thus hath Allah ordained (Prohibitions) against you: Except for these, all others are lawful, provided ye seek (them in marriage) with gifts from your property,- desiring chastity, not lust, seeing that ye derive benefit from them, give them their dowers (at least) as prescribed; but if, after a dower is prescribed, agree Mutually (to vary it), there is no blame on you, and Allah is All-knowing, All-wise.

024.031 And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers, their husband’s fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers or their brothers’ sons, or their sisters’ sons, or their women, **or the slaves whom their right hands possess, **or male servants free of physical needs, or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex; and that they should not strike their feet in order to draw attention to their hidden ornaments. And O ye Believers! turn ye all together towards Allah, that ye may attain Bliss.

033.050 O Prophet! We have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast paid their dowers; and **those whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom Allah has assigned to thee; **and daughters of thy paternal uncles and aunts, and daughters of thy maternal uncles and aunts, who migrated (from Makka) with thee; and any believing woman who dedicates her soul to the Prophet if the Prophet wishes to wed her;- this only for thee, and not for the Believers (at large); We know what We have appointed for them as to their wives and the captives whom their right hands possess;- in order that there should be no difficulty for thee. And Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

LOL! What?:
Volume 8, Book 80, Number 753:
Narrated Anas bin Malik: The Prophet said, **“The freed slave belongs to the people who have freed him,” **or said something similar.

Mohammad the slave trader:
Volume 3, Book 34, Number 351:
Narrated Jabir bin Abdullah: A man decided that a slave of his would be manumitted after his death and later on he was in need of money, so the Prophet took the slave and said, **“Who will buy this slave from me?” Nu’aim bin 'Abdullah bought him for such and such price and the Prophet gave him the slave. **

 

[schaick]

“and if you were to read the Qur’an and the Bible respectively and look after the passages that speaks about the ‘treatement of slaves’ … you would propably agree that the ‘treatement of slaves’ as enjoined by the Qur’an is way more mercifull”

When reading the Old Testament one must consider that it is the history of man, all his failings and why we need Jesus.

Exodus 21
16 “Anyone who kidnaps someone is to be put to death, whether the victim has been sold or is still in the kidnapper’s possession.

New Testament verses on :

1 Timothy 1
9 We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, 10 for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine 11 that conforms to the gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.

Galatians 3
28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Mark 12
30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”

 

[AngryAtheist8]

Ka’b bin Malik narrates: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him, fainted for an hour. When he had a relief he said: “Fear Allah! Fear Allah! In the treatment of what your right hands posses (i.e. slaves). Cover their backs (i.e. clothe them), fill their bellies and be kind to them in speaking.” (Ibn Sa’d’s Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir, Translated by S. Moinul Haq, Kitab Bhavan, New Delhi 2009 vol.2 p.317 The narration has been authenticated by Albani in Sahih al-Targhib wal-Tarhib Hadith 2288)

This is what the Prophet of Islam said on his death bed amongst the last of his advices to his Ummah. And yet the adversaries of the truth say that he added to the troubles of humanity in the name of slavery and the treatment of slaves. What can be said of this attitude?

and if you were to read the Qur’an and the Bible respectively and look after the passages that speaks about the ‘treatement of slaves’ … you would propably agree that the ‘treatement of slaves’ as enjoined by the Qur’an is way more mercifull.

I’m still surprised that no one has quote (yet) a Quranic passage speaking about ‘slavery’.

So you’re saying Islam condones slavery.
Good to know.

 

[AngryAtheist8]

Does not Islam mean submit? Submit in all fulness of the word obviously? Slavery and Islam are very close in meaning when you think about it. That’s why many Muslim countries lack freedom. Christian nations express freedom. Christ expressed that He wanted man to freely chose Him.

I would be the first to admit that Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular has many problems.

Nevertheless, its worth noting that early Christianity was a religion of the poor and oppessed. A religion that was sneered at and dismissed by the rich, powerful, and warlike.

Islam is very different.
From the time of Mohammed it has been a religion of conquerors. A faith spread by the sword, and enforced by the sword. A religion of slave masters, not slaves.

 

[AngryAtheist8]

I’m sorry but there is no such thing as a ‘‘Christian Nation’’, a Nation usually has a body of law. In the case of a theocracy, we use the law of God and in a secular society, we use man-made laws. and most of the christians believe the ‘Law of God’ to be outdated and woudln’t support it, nor stand by it and less promote it or vote for it (don’t even think about ‘‘living’’ by it).

Ah yes Islamic law.
The thing that’s so wonderful that Muslims keep fleeing to places like Western Europe and America to live under our base **secular **laws and participate in our materialistic capitalistic societies

 

[Acrusader]

So you’re saying Islam condones slavery.
Good to know.

Jesus Christ!
Let’s go back to the basis.

Question:
Does Islam condone slavery? Does Islamic teaching allow Muslim men to keep women as sex slaves?
**
Summary Answer:**
Far from ignoring or condemning slavery, Islam condones the horrible institution like no other religion.

Muslims are encouraged to live in the way of Muhammad, who was a slave owner and trader. He captured slaves in battle. He had sex with his slaves. And he instructed his men to do the same. The Qur’an actually devotes more verses to making sure that Muslim men know they can keep women as sex slaves than it does to telling them to pray five times a day.

The Qur’an:
Qur’an (33:50) - “O Prophet! We have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast paid their dowers; and those (slaves) whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom Allah has assigned to thee” This is a special command that Muhammad handed down to himself, allowing himself virtually unlimited sex. Others are limited to four wives, but may also have sex with an unlimited number of slaves, as the following verse make clear:

Qur’an (23:5-6) - “…who abstain from sex, except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess…” This verse allows the slave-owner to have sex with his slaves. See also Qur’an (70:29-30).

Qur’an (4:24) - “And all married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom your right hands possess.” Even sex with married slaves is permissible.

Qur’an (8:69) - “But (now) enjoy what ye took in war, lawful and good” A reference to war booty, of which slaves were a part. The Muslim slave master may enjoy his “catch” because (according to verse 71) “Allah gave you mastery over them.”

Qur’an (24:32) - “And marry those among you who are single and those who are fit among your male slaves and your female slaves…” Breeding slaves based on fitness.

Qur’an (2:178) - “O ye who believe! Retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the murdered; the freeman for the freeman, and the slave for the slave, and the female for the female.” The message of this verse, which prescribes the rules of retaliation for murder, is that all humans are not created equal. The human value of a slave is less than that of a free person (and a woman’s worth is also distinguished from that of a man’s).

Qur’an (16:75) - “Allah sets forth the Parable (of two men: one) a slave under the dominion of another; He has no power of any sort; and (the other) a man on whom We have bestowed goodly favours from Ourselves, and he spends thereof (freely), privately and publicly: are the two equal? (By no means praise be to Allah.” Yet another confirmation that the slave is is not equal to the master. In this case it is plain that the slave owes his status to Allah’s will. (According to 16:71, the owner should be careful about insulting Allah by bestowing Allah’s gifts on slaves - those whom the god of Islam has not favored).

From the Hadith:

Bukhari (80:753) - “The Prophet said, ‘The freed slave belongs to the people who have freed him.’”

Bukhari (52:255) - The slave who accepts Islam and continues serving his Muslim master will receive a double reward in heaven.

Bukhari (41.598) - Slaves are property. They cannot be freed if an owner has outstanding debt, but rather used to pay off the debt.

Bukhari (62:137) - An account of women taken as slaves in battle by Muhammad’s men after their husbands and fathers were killed. The woman were raped with Muhammad’s approval.

Bukhari (34:432) - Another account of females taken captive and raped with Muhammad’s approval. In this case it is evident that the Muslims intend on selling the women after raping them because they are concerned about devaluing their price by impregnating them. Muhammad is asked about coitus interruptus.

Bukhari (47.765) - A woman is rebuked by Muhammad for freeing a slave girl. The prophet tells her that she would have gotten a greater heavenly reward by giving her to a relative (as a slave).

Bukhari (34:351) - Muhammad sells a slave for money. He was thus a slave trader.

Bukhari (72:734) - Some contemporary Muslims in the West, where slavery is believed to be a horrible crime, are reluctant to believe that Muhammad owned slaves. This is just one of many places in the Hadith where a reference is made to a human being owned by Muhammad. In this case, the slave is of African descent.

Muslim 3901 - Muhammad trades away two black slaves for one Muslim slave.

Muslim 4112 - A man freed six slaves on the event of his death, but Muhammad reversed the emancipation and kept four in slavery to himself. He cast lots to determine which two to free.

Bukhari (47:743) - Muhammad’s own pulpit - from which he preached Islam - was built with slave labor on his command.

Bukhari (59:637) - “The Prophet sent Ali to Khalid to bring the Khumus (of the booty) and I hated Ali, and Ali had taken a bath (after a sexual act with a slave-girl from the Khumus). I said to Khalid, ‘Don’t you see this (i.e. Ali)?’ When we reached the Prophet I mentioned that to him. He said, ‘O Buraida! Do you hate Ali?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘Do you hate him, for he deserves more than that from the Khumlus.’” Muhammad approved of his men having sex with slaves, as this episode involving his son-in-law, Ali, clearly proves. This hadith refutes the modern apologists who pretend that slaves were really “wives,” since Muhammad had forbidden Ali from marrying another woman as long as Fatima (his favorite daughter) was living.

(to continue)

 

[Acrusader]

(Continued)

Abu Dawud (2150) - “The Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) sent a military expedition to Awtas on the occasion of the battle of Hunain. They met their enemy and fought with them. They defeated them and took them captives. Some of the Companions of the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) were reluctant to have intercourse with the female captives in the presence of their husbands who were unbelievers. So Allah, the Exalted, sent down the Qur’anic verse: (Qur’an 4:24) ‘And all married women (are forbidden) unto you save those (captives) whom your right hands possess.’” This is the background for verse 4:24 of the Qur’an. Not only does Allah grant permission for women to be captured and raped, but allows it to even be done in front of their husbands.

Ibn Ishaq (734) - A slave girl is given a “violent beating” by Ali in the presence of Muhammad, who does nothing about it.

Ibn Ishaq (693) - “Then the apostle sent Sa-d b. Zayd al-Ansari, brother of Abdu’l-Ashal with some of the captive women of Banu Qurayza to Najd and he sold them for horses and weapons.” Muhammad trades away women captured from the Banu Qurayza tribe to non-Muslim slave traders for property. (Their men had been executed after surrendering peacefully without a fight).

Umdat al-Salik (Reliance of the Traveller) (o9.13) - According to Sharia, when a child or woman is taken captive by Muslims, they become slaves by the fact of their capture. A captured woman’s previous marriage is immediately annulled.

 

[Acrusader]

**Additional Notes: **

Slavery is deeply embedded in Islamic law and tradition. Although a slave-owner is cautioned against treating slaves harshly, basic human rights are not obliged. The very fact that only non-Muslims may be taken as slaves is evidence of Islam’s supremacist doctrine.

Of the five references to freeing a slave in the Qur’an, three are prescribed as punitive measures against the slaveholder for unrelated sin, and limits the emancipation to just a single slave. Another (24:33) appears to allow a slave to buy their freedom if they are “good.” (This is consistent with the traditional Islamic practice of wealth-building through the taking and ransoming of hostages, which began under Muhammad).

A tiny verse in one of the earliest verses 90:13 does say that freeing a slave is good, however, this was “revealed” at a time when the Muslim community was miniscule and several of their new and potential recruits were either actual slaves or newly freed slaves. Many of these same people, and Muhammad himself, later went on to become owners and traders of slaves, both male and female, as they acquired the power to do so. The language of the Qur’an changed to accommodate slavery, which is why this early verse has had negligible impact on slavery in the Islamic world.

Contrary to popular belief, converting to Islam does not automatically earn a slave his freedom, although doing so is said to increase a slave master’s heavenly reward (Muslim slaves are implied in Qur’an (4:92)). As far as the Islamic courts are concerned, a master may treat his slaves however he chooses without fear of punishment.

By contrast, Christianity was a major impetus in the movement to abolish the age-old institution of slavery. Yet, abolition had to be imposed on the Islamic world by the West.

Given that there was no abolitionary movement within the Islamic world, it is astonishing to see contemporary Muslims write their religion into the history of abolition. The lie - that the eradication of slavery had anything to do with Islam - has been repeated so often that even those who may parrot it are blissfully ignorant of its lack of factual foundation.

There was no William Wilberforce or Bartoleme de las Casas in Islam. As mentioned, Muhammad, the most revered figure in the religion, practiced and approved of slavery. Even his own pulpit was built with slave labor. The second caliph, a companion of the prophet, was stabbed to death by a slave whose liberty he refused to grant. Caliphs since have had harems of hundreds, sometimes thousands of young girls and women brought from Christian lands and other places to service the desires of Islam’s religious equivalent of the pope in the most demeaning fashion.

One of the myths about Islamic slavery is that it was not race-based, but in fact it was. Muhammad’s father-in-law, Umar, in his role as caliph, declared that Arabs could not be taken as slaves and even had all Arab slaves freed on his deathbed. This helped propel the vast Islamic campaign to capture slaves in Africa, Europe and Asia for importing into the Middle East.

Literally millions of Christians were captured into slavery during the many centuries of Jihad against the West. So pervasive were the incursions by the Turks into Eastern Europe, that the English word for slave is based on Slav. Muslim slave raiders even operated as far north as England. In 1631, a French cleric in Algiers observed the sale of nearly 300 men, women and children, taken from a peaceful English fishing village:

“It was a pitiful sight to see them exposed in the market…Women were separated from their husbands and the children from their fathers…on one side a husband was sold; on the other his wife; and her daughter was torn from her arms without the hope that they’d ever see each other again.” (from the book, White Gold, which also details the story of English slave, Thomas Pellow, who was beaten, starved and tortured into embracing Islam).

The Indian and Persian people suffered mightily as well - as did Africans. At least 17 million slaves (mostly black women and children) were brought out of Africa by Islamic traders - far more than the 11 million that were taken by the Europeans. However, these were only the survivors. As many as 85 million other Africans were thought to have died en route.

Most telling, perhaps, is that slavery is still practiced in the Sudan, Niger, Mauritania and a few other corners of the Muslim world - and you won’t see any of those Muslim apologists (who shamelessly repeat the lie that Islam abolished slavery) doing or saying anything about it!

In fact, a fatwa was recently issued from a mainstream Islamic source reminding a Muslim that he has a divine right to rape female slaves and “discipline” resisters in “whatever manner he thinks is appropriate”. Not one peep of protest from Islamic apologists was recorded.

Since Muhammad was a slave owner and slavery is permitted by the Qur’an, the Muslim world has never apologized for this dehumanizing practice. Even Muslims in the West will often try to justify slavery under Islam, since it is a part of the Qur’an.

See also: The Myths of Islam: Slavery

Another excellent article: Answering-Islam: Slavery

Source: thereligionofpeace.com/Quran/015-slavery.htm​