by Raymond Ibrahim<\/p>\n
FrontPageMagazine.com<\/p>\n
Last week witnessed popular Muslim preacher\u00a0Abu Ishaq al-Huwaini<\/a>\u00a0boast 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.”<\/p>\n This week’s depraved anachronism comes from a Muslim woman \u2014 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.”<\/p>\n A brief English report appeared over the weekend in the\u00a0Kuwait Times<\/a><\/em>(nothing, of course, in the MSM):<\/p>\n 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 on later to devout merchants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Arabic news website,\u00a0Al Arabiya<\/a><\/em>, 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):<\/p>\n 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\u00a0ulema<\/em>\u00a0further pointed out that extra “virile” men \u2014 Western synonyms include “sex-crazed,” “lecherous,” “perverted” \u2014 would do well to purchase sex-slaves to sate their appetites without sinning.<\/p>\n Here’s a particularly interesting excerpt from her taped speech on the rules governing sex-slaves:<\/p>\n A Muslim state must [first] attack a Christian state \u2014 sorry, I mean any non-Muslim state \u2014 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 \u2014 she is different from the free woman; the free woman has to be married properly to her husband, but the sex-slave \u2014 he just buys her and that’s that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n 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.”<\/p>\n Mutairi suggests the enslaved girls be at least 15 years old.<\/p>\n She further justified the institution of sex-slavery by evoking 8th-century caliph, Harun Rashid \u2014 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 \u2014 so it’s okay, nothing wrong with it.”<\/p>\n 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\u00a0scarcely considered human<\/a>). Thus, the institution of sex-slavery provides a convenient, Sharia-compliant way of satiating the libidinous urges of Muslim men.<\/p>\n The Kuwaiti activist’s blunt approach actually 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, we have those who seek to legalize sex-slavery, arguing that, since Muslim men will use women anyway, let it be made compliant with Sharia law.<\/p>\n