Majestic Allah's sanctification of sex-slavery and rape of kuffar women for the Muslim Jihadis, plus the subjugation of women and polygamy, temporary marriage --- that all these enable Islam to become a majestic, grand religion that it is today...
The Magestic Allah says: "Make Hay whilst thou Conquer for Islam."
Winston Churchill wrote described Muslims’ attitude toward women as "A degraded sensualism (that) deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity”.
Histories written by Muslim historians obviate the fact that Islam, for most of its existence, was carried forward by the sword of Allah. Two nomadic war-like tribal peoples, the Arabs and the Turks, were responsible for most of the Islamic expansions. The question to be answered here is: ‘How these primitive and thinly populated Bedouin Arab nomadic tribes expanded so explosively into large and densely populated civilized regions/societies? The reasons for their successes were various and we will take a closer look at them here.
One important reason for success of Arab-Islamic expansionism lies in an ingenious social invention that arose amongst early Muslims. This was a breeding system that motivated successful warriors with great incentives to spread their faith and cultures! This rapid bloom puts these motivations into stark terms as “the restless efforts of human males to find more wombs to carry their bastard seeds.”[1]
Islam has conjured up this remarkable advantage of being a highly patriarchal and polygamous system with great sexual benefits for warriors, able to conquer in its name. Islam was, and still remains, a great male-racket for sexual encounters of rape and slavery of women. Furthermore, these advantages are not of the temporary kind that was associated with Islamic warfare in the past, but continue to exist in our peacetime new world-orders, too. Wherever Islam warriors went, they captured large numbers of native women to be used as concubines or sex-slaves. And, unlike their counterparts of the West, they were able to do so with fully legal divine (religious) sanctions. Their warrior sons, the mixed offspring of these mating, in turn, zealously spread their new religion and culture as they went on conquering new territories and the breeding of Islamic warriors through enslavement were repeated generations after generations. (Of course, through a permanent system of sexual-enslavement, the captured women lost the limited rights they had have acquired under the preceding civilizations (Greco-Roman, Persian, Indian etc.).
Until the West developed its technological edge over rest of the world, Islam was a civilization, most successful in expansion as well as in its tenacity to achieve it. In a remarkably short time, the Islamized Arabs burst out of their peninsula to encompass the entire Middle East, Persia, North Africa and Spain. Later on, the converted Turks, particularly the Mongol converts, extended Islam into Asia Minor, the Balkans and the South Asian regions. Other empires, whether preceding or current, such as the Macedonians and early Mongols although expanded rapidly, but within a few centuries they were pushed back or were assimilated by the cultures they had conquered. Rome also had a vast empire, but its growth was a long drawn-out process requiring more centuries. Furthermore, in contrast to the religion of Islam, the other two great proselytizing religions, Christianity and Buddhism, grew very slowly; and at least in their initial stages, their rise was peacefully!
The cultures of the Islamic harems!
Historians have enumerated a number of reasons for Islam’s rapid success, but have ignored or, perhaps, have not understood the unprecedented ways in which Islam has evolved as an engine for harnessing the aggressive energy of young Muslim males. Nor, have they acknowledged how sexual aggression and gratification of successful warriors in war were extended as a permanent institution sanctified by the Quran and Islamic Shari’ah law. This part of the Islamic meme (as we call it), expressed by the institutions of Islamic polygamy and concubinage, may be termed as “the cultures of the Islamic harems”. This institution was not limited to that of the large harem complexes of the Abbasid and Fatimid caliphs, the Ottoman and Indian sultans, and other high officials of Muslim societies at large. While large harems of Muslim rulers and elites, often housing thousands of concubines, remained a prominent feature through the ages until the 20th century, the more general institution of polygamy were fairly common in the Islamic world and are still widespread in most parts of the Muslim world. And, Islamic sexual slavery was a frequent occurrence, even among lower levels of the Muslim society, throughout much of Islamic history, particularly during the periods of the great Islamic conquests!
For, during those times of conquest, Muslim warriors had a divine motivation, greater than any other pious warriors, to achieve his success. When succeeded in war, Muslim warrior not only had the prospect of a generous share of the confiscated booty, but also to capture, as his permanent property, namely concubines or sex-slaves, the most attractive females of the vanquished. These women, now stripped of their cultural moorings, provided numerous half-breed children, who were acculturated into Islam as well as into Arabic and, later, Turkish languages. The illegitimate male offspring, in their turn, extended Islam and its harem cultures through waging Jihad-war to capture new territories. At a later period, a relatively small number of Arabs, plus the converted Berber and Turkish warriors, implanted the Islamic religion and culture over vast areas with large populations. These warriors were not the only Muslim males, who were attracted by divinely-sanctioned booty and sexually gratification to expand Islam, but Islam was also spread by the missionary zeal of Muslim traders of spices and hermetic oils. The wealth accumulated by a successful Arab merchant could be considerable. Thus, those responsible for promoting Islam beyond the borders of the Dar-al-Islam could also obtain the means of purchasing concubines and affording multiple wives. Muslim officials and administrators, who successfully defended and consolidated Islamic gains, would also obtain the ability to acquire such advantages.
A requirement of this harem culture is the grinding down and degradation of even free Muslim women. For, they are required to accept all of the concomitants of the Islamic Shari’ah institution: polygamy, ease of divorce, and concubinage. During Islam’s frequent wars, Muslim women are obliged to resignedly accept their husbands returning from the campaign with many captive concubines for his sexual use as often as for sale. In other traditions, particularly in the West, wives were a little more assertive as shown by some famous examples from Greek mythology. Hera was not inclined to look on placidly while Zeus consorted with his numerous mortal mistresses. The fate of Agamemnon at the hands of his wife, Clytemnestra, showed what danger a warrior might expect after sacrificing a daughter and dragging home a concubine. Under Islam, such an ideology and expression of female assertiveness were thoroughly suppressed.
An additional consequence was that the misogynistic Islamic harem culture became deeply embedded within the Islamic civilization as it spread from the Islamic warriors to the general Muslim male population. A common Muslim or successful merchant or religious pundit with means was also able to partake in these sexual gratifications. The result is the peculiar degradation of women as well as many of the other sexual oddities, i.e. the sexual abuse of young boys by older men, which have become almost institutionalized under the cover of Islam. To be sure, misogyny and oppression of women is not confined to Islamic cultures, but it appears to be much more persistent in Islam! When the British Raj abolished the Hindu custom of sati (although not related to sexual gratifications), there were agitations amongst Hindu traditionalists. Yet, the Hindu culture adapted to the change without any major upheavals. But Islam seems peculiarly resistant to altering its established sexual attitudes toward women. The reason may lie in the fact that the very existence of Islamic culture over wide regions is due to these attitudes of sexual perversions!
The subjugation of women under the males in Islam is succinctly stated by Churchill: “The fact that in Muhammedan laws every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property -- either as a child, a wife, or a concubine -- must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power amongst men.”[2]
The Islamic Scriptural Legitimization of Sexual Slavery!
In addition to allowing Islamic polygamy and permitting easy divorce to his male adherents, the Prophet of Islam also provided ample divine verses, promoting the rape of female-captives and the institution of Islamic sexual slavery:
- “O Prophet! We have made lawful unto thee thy wives unto whom thou hast paid their dowries and those whom thy right hand possesseth of those whom Allah hath given thee as spoils of war”. (Surah 33:50)
- It is not allowed thee to take (other) women henceforth (for sexual gratifications) save those whom thy right hand possesseth. (Surah 33:52)
- Save with their wives and those whom their right hands possess. (Surah 70:30)
- And if ye fear that ye will not deal fairly by the orphans, marry of the women, who seem good to you, two or three or four; and if ye fear that ye cannot do justice (to so many) then one (only) or (the captives) that your right hands possess. [Surah 4:3]
- And all married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) that your right hands possess. [Surah 4:24]
- And marry such of you as are solitary and the pious of your slaves and maid-servants. [Surah 24:32]
- Successful indeed are the believers whom are humble in their prayers and whom guard their modesty; Save from their wives or the (slaves) that their right hands possess, for then they are not blameworthy.[3] [Surah 22:1-6]
- And all married women are forbidden unto you except those captives whom your right hand possesses. It is a decree of Allah for you. Lawful unto you are all beyond those mentioned, so that you seek them with your wealth in honest wedlock, not debauchery. [Salih Muslim, Book 8:3371][4]
After the battle with the Bani Al-Mustaliq, Prophet Muhammad is presented with a question by his men (Sahabah) of whether they could have sex by means of coitus interruptus with the captive women so as to avoid impairing their ransom value. When Muhammad said ‘It is better that you should not do it.’ He was referring to coitus interruptus, not to raping their captives. He took that for granted.[5]
Hadees (Quotes) of Prophet Mohammad on Sex Exploitation, Prostitution
Sahih Muslim Book 008, Number 3371:
Abu Sirma said to Abu Sa'id al Khadri (Allah he pleased with him): O Abu Sa'id, did you hear Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) mentioning al-'azl? He said: Yes, and added: We went out with Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) on the expedition to the Bi'l-Mustaliq and took captive some excellent Arab women; and we desired them, for we were suffering from the absence of our wives, (but at the same time) we also desired ransom for them. So we decided to have sexual intercourse with them but by observing 'azl (Withdrawing the male sexual organ before emission of semen to avoid-conception). But we said: We are doing an act whereas Allah's Messenger is amongst us; why not ask him? So we asked Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him), and he said: It does not matter if you do not do it, for every soul that is to be born up to the Day of Resurrection will be born. (COITUS INTERRUPTUS WITH SLAVE GIRLS TO PREVENT PREGNANCY)
Father’s Slave-Girl Not Allowed
Book 28, Number 28.15.36: SAHIH MUSLIM
Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Umar ibn al-Khattab gave his son a slave-girl and said, "Do not touch her, for I have uncovered her."
Book 008, Number 3243: SAHIH MUSLIM
Abdullah (b. Mas'ud) reported: We were on an expedition with Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) and we had no women with us. We said: Should we not have ourselves castrated? He (the Holy Prophet) forbade us to do so. He then granted us permission that we should contract temporary marriage for a stipulated period giving her a garment, and 'Abdullah then recited this verse: 'those who believe do not make unlawful the good things which Allah has made lawful for you, and do not transgress. Allah does not like transgressors" (al-Qur'an, v. 87).
Temporary Marriages
MORALS:
Prophet Lot presented his daughters to the rapists to protect visiting Angels from getting raped:
From the Koran:
11.77: And when our messengers came unto Lot, he was distressed and knew not how to protect them. He said: This is a distressful day.
11.78: And his people came unto him, running towards him - and before then they used to commit abominations. He said: O my people! Here are my daughters! They are purer for you. Beware of Allah, and degrade me not in (the person of) my guests. Is there not among you any upright man?
Equality of Men & Women
2.228: And they (women) have rights similar to those (of men) over them in kindness, and men are a degree above them. Allah is Mighty, Wise.
2.282: And call two witnesses from among your men, two witnesses. And, if two men be not at hand then a man and two women.
4.11: Allah chargeth you concerning (the provision for) your children: to the male the equivalent of the portion of two females.
Sex with Married Slave-Women Allowed
4.24: And all married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom your right hands possess.
MISOGYNY
4.34: Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient ones, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them.
Indeed, the absolute subjugation of women men’s sexual gratification in Islam is never demanded by any other major world-religion as bluntly as the Prophet of Islam or Allah does in Surah 2:223. “Your women are a tilth for you (to cultivate) so go to your tilth as ye will.” [6]
Commentator Jamie Glazov remarks on the singular reversals of morality present in Islamic doctrines regarding sex with captives.
Since Islam emphasizes the importance of conquering all non-Muslim nations, it bestows some intriguing sexual incentives. While it is a sin for a male to have sex with an unmarried woman, Allah makes an exemption of these for Muslim men, who rapes the women of the infidels that he kills. Prophet Muhammad did just that!
This explains why any time the Islamic warriors defeat another nation, they call the inhabitants kafir (the one who, according to the Koran, is ungrateful to the blessings showered by Allah) and rape their women. Pakistani Muslim soldiers raped a quarter of a million Bengali [East Pakistan] women in 1971 and also massacred 3 million unarmed East Pakistan civilians, often non-Muslim minorities. Such atrocities are not considered a sin in Islam, because the Muslim clerics of Pakistan decreed that Bangladeshis were infidels. [7]
Moreover, it may sound harsh, but the distinctions between "fertilizing" and "punishing" a woman is evident. On the one hand, you have sexuality as a tool serving the expansion of Islam; on the other, there is sexuality as a weapon against disobedient and non-Muslim women, both categorized as "unbelievers". Against them, jihad is an Islamic duty, and what to do with women ‘conquered’ in jihad, this may be read in the Holy Koran: “they become slaves to be used by the victors”. [8]
The rape of women of the vanquished in war has been widespread in all cultures and at all times. However, the institutionalization of sexual slavery in Islam, when combined with the downtrodden conditions of the Muslim women, made the continuation of legalized rape in times of peace, a commonplace of Islamic society and puts an indelible mark on the Muslim character. According to historian Stanley Lane-Pool, the “female slave in the East is at the entire mercy of her master, who can do what he pleases with her and her companions; for the Muslim is not restricted in the number of his concubines. The female white slave is kept solely for the master’s sensual gratification. The Muslim soldier was allowed to do as he pleased with any ‘infidel’ woman he might meet with on his victorious march. And this cruel indulgence has left its mark on the Muslim character, nay, on the whole character of Eastern life”.[9]
Bernard Lewis also notes the “generous provisions” Islam makes for the male sexual needs, whilst enforcing a puritanical code regarding sex in general.[10] He observes that while polygamy was confined to the upper classes, concubinage was common throughout all strata of the Islamic society. In addition, Lewis also acknowledges that all non-Muslim female-slaves occupied the “bottom of the social pile”.
- [1] Bloom, The Lucifer Principle, p. 38.
- [2] Winston Churchill, The River War, London, Longmans, 1899, p. 249.
- [3] Verses are from Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran.
- [4] Quoted in Trifkovic, The Sword of the Prophet, p. 43.
- [5] Robert Spencer, Islam Unveiled, San Francisco, Encounter Books, 2002, p. 51.
- [6] Quoted in Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran.
- [7] Jamie Glazov, Atta’s Rage Rooted in Islam’s Misogyny, FrontPageMagazine.com, October 12, 2001.
- [8] Gudrun Eussner quoted in Jamie Glazov, To Rape an Unveiled Woman, FrontPageMagazine.com, March 7, 2006.
- [9] Quoted in Warraq, Why I Am Not a Muslim, p. 204.
- [10] Lewis, The Middle East, p. 253.
To be continued…..
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