A female Islamic scholar from the prestigious Al-Azhar University in
Cairo, Egypt, Professor Suad Saleh on Monday announced that Muslim men
are allowed by Allah to rape non Muslim or infidel women to “humiliate
them during times of ‘legitimate war’ between Muslims and their
enemies.” The controversial Islamic scholar, who was speaking in an
interview on Cairo television, further claimed that “Allah has given
Muslim men a ‘legitimate’ way to have sexual relations with slave women.
“Slavery
already existed even before Islam; all Islam did was to regulate the
practice.” Saleh described slave women as those who have been captured
as prisoners of war, adding that their Muslim captors have the right to
own them. “In order to humiliate them, they become the property of the
army commander, or of a Muslim, and he can have sex with them just like
he has sex with his wives,” Saleh said. Professor of History at Florida
State College, Dr. Andrew Holt, expressed dismay at the Islamic
scholar’s alleged comments, saying that Saleh’s statements could be
viewed as the Muslim world’s approval of the enslavement and rape of
Yazidi women by ISIS fighters and officials.
“I am surprised that
such a detestable crime and human rights violation is sanctioned by a
female professor from ‘Sunni Islam’s most prestigious university’ which
is more than 1,000 years old,” Holt said. The anti-Islam Internet group
Jihad Watch said Saleh’s statements were based on the Quran. The group
said the seizure of infidel girls and their use as sex slaves are all
sanctioned in the Muslim holy book. Jihad Watch cited this Quranic verse
as proof: “O Prophet! Lo! 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.”
The
Qur’an says that a man may have sex with his wives and also with his
slave girls, the group says. It cited this particular verse in the
Quran: “The believers must (eventually) win through, those who humble
themselves in their prayers; who avoid vain talk; who are active in
deeds of charity; who abstain from sex, except with those joined to them
in the marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess,
for (in their case) they are free from blame.” (Qur’an 23:1-6).
In
May 2011, the Egyptian Sheikh Abu-Ishaq al-Huwayni declared that “we are
in the era of jihad,” which means that Muslims could take slaves.
“Jihad is only between Muslims and infidels. Spoils, slaves, and
prisoners are only to be taken in war between Muslims and infidels.
Muslims in the past conquered, invaded, and took over countries. This is
agreed to by all scholars—there is no disagreement on this from any of
them, from the smallest to the largest, on the issue of taking spoils
and prisoners.
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