Some excerpts from my book:
The Quran’s position on slavery is very similar to the Bible’s. Muslims are told that they can take non-Muslim prisoners of war as slaves (
Quran 4:23-24; 23:6; 33:50; 70:30). There are many references to slavery in the Hadith too. Among all the Hadith,
Sahih Bukhari and
Sahih Muslim are considered by many Muslims, especially Sunnis, to be authentic and reliable sources of information on the life of Muhammed. According to these Hadith, Muhammed’s soldiers took female captives as war booty and raped them without any censure from Muhammed (
Sahih Bukhari 34:432; 62:137;
Sahih Muslim 3371). Indeed, the reason the soldiers spoke to Muhammed about the matter is that they were unsure whether it was sinful to use the method of
coitus interrputus when raping their captives. The soldiers asked Muhammed about this because they wanted to sell the women after raping them and pregnant women would fetch a lower price. Muhammed did not say he had any problem with the rapes or with his followers beating their slaves. His only stipulation was that they should not flog their wives as harshly as they flog their slaves (
Sahih Bukhari 60:466; 62:132).
Of course, many Muslims today do not regard slavery as acceptable, but there are some Islamic scholars who do. According to the Saudi Information Agency, Sheikh Al-Fazwan stated in 2003 that slavery is a part of Islam and those who argue against slavery are ignorant and not scholars. When he made these remarks, Sheikh Al-Fazwan was a member of the Senior Council of Clerics, which is Saudi Arabia’s highest religious authority, and his books were being used to teach 5 million students in Saudi Arabia and overseas. Saudi Arabia was one of the last countries to outlaw slavery in 1962.
The Islamic scholar, Professor Suad Saleh, has decreed that Allah permits Muslim men to rape non-Muslim women in order to humiliate them. In a video uploaded to Youtube, she cited the Israel conflict as a situation in which such rapes would be justifiable on religious grounds.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGOhjw-85bA.
www.india.com/news/world/muslim-men-can-rape-non-muslim-women-to-teach-them-a-lesson-claims-woman-islamic-professor-873381/
Based at Al-Azhar University in Egypt, Professor Saleh was the Dean of Faculty of Islamic Studies for Women. Professor Saleh is not the only scholar to hold such extreme views. The Egyptian cleric, Abu Ishaq Al-Heweny, has said:
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In every war there is a winner and a loser. According to the rules of Islam, all the people in the [conquered]
country become booty […]
What is the fate of the prisoners of war according to the sharia? Since they constitute booty, they should be divided between the mujahideen. According to the hadith, the law states that anyone who did not participate in the raid does not get a share of the booty. This is well known. If you didn’t participate in the jihad, you don’t get to share the booty […]
Great. As soon as this system is in place, there has to be a slave market, where [you]
can sell slaves, slavegirls, and children. Each of these ‘heads’ comes with a price. Let’s say I am entitled to five ‘heads.’ I don’t need any of them, but could use a little cash. Am I supposed to hang them just to get rid of them? No, you can sell them in the market.”
www.memri.org/tv/egyptian-cleric-abu-ishaq-al-heweny-explains-enslavement-people-captured-jihad-they-all-become
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