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Every day brings new stories of Muslim migrants in the UK and elsewhere committing rape and sexual assault. Why is this so common? As Holy Hell: Islam’s Abuse of Women and the Infidels Who Enable It shows, the answer is something no one in the West wants to face: much as Islamic apologists in the West deny it, Islam sanctions this behavior.
In May 2011, an Egyptian sheikh, Abu-Ishaq al-Huwayni, began a justification of the sexual enslavement of infidel women by situating it within Islam’s doctrine of jihad.
Al-Huwayni began by noting that the modern era was one of war between Muslims and non-Muslims, and that Muslims should regard this as a positive development: “We are in the era of jihad. The era of jihad has come over us, and jihad in the path of Allah is a pleasure. It is a real pleasure. The companions (of the Prophet) used to compete to (perform jihad).”
If Muslims returned to waging jihad, they would be able to take captives, and profit from doing so. Da’wa is the call to unbelievers to accept Islam, which in Islamic theology should precede jihad, with jihad being waged against those who decline the invitation to convert to Islam: “And whoever rejected this da’wa, or stood in our way, we would fight against him and take him prisoner, and confiscate his wealth, his children, and his women—all of this means money.”
After his remarks sparked a controversy, al-Huwayni appeared on an Islamic television channel, al-Hikma TV, on May 22, 2011, in order to clarify his remarks. Al-Huwayni emphasized that the spoils of war included not just the belongings of defeated enemy warriors, but prisoners as well, provided that they were not Muslims. He invoked Qur’an passages on “those whom your right hands possess” (4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6) to justify this teaching:
When a slave market is erected, which is a market in which are sold slaves and sex-slaves, which are called in the Qur’an by the name milk al-yamin, “that which your right hands possess” [Qur’an 4:24]. This is a verse from the Qur’an which is still in force, and has not been abrogated. The milk al-yamin are the sex-slaves. You go to the market, look at the sex-slave, and buy her. She becomes like your wife, (but) she doesn’t need a (marriage) contract or a divorce like a free woman, nor does she need a wali [guardian or protector]. All scholars agree on this point — there is no disagreement from any of them.
Al-Huwayni was proceeding from the assumption that forcing a slave to engage in sexual intercourse was not rape, and so also the sex slavery as allowed in the Qur’an and sanctified by the example of Muhammad was perfectly acceptable as far as al-Huwayni was concerned. He didn’t appear to see any contradiction between approving of this practice and insisting that Islam did not permit slavery. He continued: “When I want a sex slave, I just go to the market and choose the woman I like and purchase her.”
Another voice justifying the seizure and enslavement of infidel women was a female Kuwaiti politician, Salwa al-Mutairi, who in a May 2011 video unhesitatingly recommended the practice. She said that she asked a mufti about Islamic law regarding sex slaves, and he answered: “With the law of sex slaves, there must be a Muslim nation at war with a Christian nation, or a nation which is not of the religion, not of the religion of Islam. And there must be prisoners of war…. Sex slaves are not forbidden by Islam. On the contrary, sex slaves are under a different law than the free woman. The free woman must be completely covered except for her face and hands. But the sex slave can be naked from the waist up. She differs a lot from the free woman. While the free woman requires a marriage contract, the sex slave does not—she only needs to be purchased by her husband, and that’s it. Therefore the sex slave is different than the free woman.”
The popular Saudi preacher Muhammed al-Arifi echoed all this in a fatwa that granted jihad warriors in Syria permission to engage in “intercourse marriage” with captive women. He warned, however, that this “intercourse marriage” should be of a brief duration, “in order to give each fighter a turn.”
Is it any wonder, with religious teachings of this kind, that Muslims in Europe and Britain would engage in rape of non-Muslim women on an industrial scale?
