ISLAM, SLAVERY & RAPE

Slavery and Rape under the Islamic system.

:

Abd or Abeed (Arabic: عبد) is an Arabic word meaning one who is totally subordinated; a slave. It appears in many common Arab names indicating submission to God. For instance Abd-Allah means “servant of Allah” It also means “worshipper of Allah”. Abd also refers to slaves in Arab society, mainly made up of imported African slaves, yet many were from the Caucasus Mountains as well as Eastern Europe. Some of the latter eventually became known as the Mamluk ruling class, having procured education and military training at an early age. Abd: (Arabic Countries) This term, literally “slave” in Arabic, is used as a slur against Blacks and persons of mixed African descent. The name Abd is cognate with Hebrew “Obed”, meaning “servant, worshipper”.[1]

You can listen here:

Sexual relations between a female slave and a Muslim master

With thanks to JW.

Spencer: When I point out that this is permitted — to this day — in Islamic law, I get called an “Islamophobe.” But the Muslim writers yesterday over at Ummah.com don’t have any problem with the concept.

They explain, of course, that it refers only to prisoners of war, and spend a lot of time comparing this peculiar institution favorably to conditions in Western prisons and prisoner-of-war camps. And the slaves can only be legitimately awarded to the Muslims by the caliph — yet another reason why the mujahedin so hope to get the caliphate back up and running again.

* Keep in mind that jihad warfare against ‘all mankind’ is permanent and relentless according to the Islamic Shariah, until all the world is Islamic.

Slavery in Zanzibar. ‘An Arab master’s punishment for a slight offence. The log weighed 32 pounds, and the boy could only move by carrying it on his head.’ Unknown photographer, c. 1890.[17]

The Slave Market (c. 1884), painting by Jean-Leon Gerome.
As one commenter puts it:

I have heard everything now.
From a brisk read through the posts on this thread I can see we now have a sizable group of people who are quite happy to argue that keeping slaves is morally acceptable. Does this one even need discussing?

You do know what the definition of a slave is?

Much more here

And in the comments

The Forgotten Holocaust:

The Eastern Slave Trade

*

Saudis Import Slaves to America- Daniel Pipes

Instances of Arab prejudice regarding Negroid peoples and slaves

Racist opinions occurred in the works of some historians and geographers: so in the 14th century CE Ibn Khaldun could write:
“…the Negro nations are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because (Negroes) have little that is (essentially) human and possess attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals…”

However, Ibn Khaldun also wrote of the Arabs themselves:

:“they are the most savage human beings that exist. Compared with sedentary people, they are on a level with wild, untamable animals and dumb beasts of prey … Arabs dominate only on the plains, because they are, by their savage nature, people of pillage and corruption. They pillage everything that they can take without fighting or taking risks, then flee to their refuge in the wilderness, and do not stand and do battle unless in self defence.”[45]
In addition, there is debate over his ethnicity, some refer to him as Andalusian/Spanish (he grew up there, his parents were from there), some say he was a Berber/North African (time spent in Tunis, ancestry), and some say he was an arab (he traced ancestors to Yemen).
Main article: Ibn Khaldun

*

It was the Arab slave traders who garnered the slave contingents bound for the Muslim Middle East. These black slaves in the Middle East have been mentioned by the Crusaders. The presence of significant numbers of black African Slaves many of and whom had their tongues cut off and were castrated, took the Crusaders by surprise.

The people of Central Africa fiercely resisted Islam for a long time, often converting nominally to Islam and immediately reverting to their pre-Islamic animistic tribal beliefs. The first recorded Muslim invasions were as early as the 8th century, but these invasions could not make significant inroads in to the deeply forested tribal fastness of Central Africa. Many of the raids were limited to the seizure of black African slaves, who were referred to as “Abeed” which in Arabic means “Black”.

Source

Fitzgerald: Black Africa and the Arab Muslim slave trade

*

Fitzgerald: Social justice in Islam

*

Daniel Pipes: Saudi Religious Leader Calls for Slavery’s Legalization

“Slavery is a part of Islam,” he announced in a recent lecture. “Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam.” He argued against the idea that slavery had ever been abolished, insulting those who espouse this view as “ignorant, not scholars. They are merely writers. Whoever says such things is an infidel.”

Al-Fawzan is no maverick. He is:

A member of the Senior Council of Clerics, Saudi Arabia’s highest religious body;
A member of the Council of Religious Edicts and Research;
Imam of the Prince Mitaeb Mosque in Riyadh; and
Professor at Imam Mohamed Bin Saud Islamic University, the main Wahhabi center of learning.
That such a viewpoint can be asserted by a card-carrying member of the Saudi religious establishment is a tragic commentary on the state of Islamic discourse today.

* Arabian Sex Tourism

* Updated:

Belgium: UAE royals enslaved 17 women

Slavery is taken for granted as acceptable in the Qur’an, and the Islamic world only abolished it under Western pressure; there has never been anything in the Islamic world comparable to the abolitionist movements led by Christian preachers such as Wilberforce in Britain and Garrison in the United States. And despite the official abolition of slavery in much of the Islamic world, because of its Qur’anic sanction it is still widely practiced.

“Women ‘enslaved’ by Arab royals,” by Bruno Waterfield in the Telegraph, July 2

Stumble it!

This entry was posted on Sunday, September 23rd, 2007 at 11:51 pm and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Please note: Comments are open and unmoderated, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Winds of Jihad. Obscene, abusive, silly, or annoying remarks may be deleted, but the fact that particular comments remain on the site in no way constitutes an endorsement of their views by Winds of Jihad.