Slavery is acceptable in Islam. The Qur’an has Allah telling Muhammad that he has given him girls as sex slaves: “O prophet, indeed, we have made lawful to you your wives to whom you have paid their dowries, and those whom your right hand possesses of those whom Allah has given you as spoils of war.” (Qur’an 33:50)
Muhammad bought slaves: “Jabir (Allah be pleased with him) reported: There came a slave and pledged allegiance to Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) on migration; he (the Holy Prophet) did not know that he was a slave. Then there came his master and demanded him back, whereupon Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: Sell him to me. And he bought him for two black slaves, and he did not afterwards take allegiance from anyone until he had asked him whether he was a slave (or a free man).” (Muslim 3901)
Muhammad took female Infidel captives as slaves: “Narrated Anas: The Prophet offered the Fajr Prayer near Khaibar when it was still dark and then said, ‘Allahu-Akbar! Khaibar is destroyed, for whenever we approach a (hostile) nation (to fight), then evil will be the morning for those who have been warned.’ Then the inhabitants of Khaibar came out running on the roads. The Prophet had their warriors killed, their offspring and woman taken as captives. Safiya was amongst the captives. She first came in the share of Dahya Alkali but later on she belonged to the Prophet. The Prophet made her manumission as her ‘Mahr.’” (Bukhari 5.59.512) Mahr is bride price: Muhammad freed her and married her. But he didn’t do this to all his slaves:
Muhammad owned slaves: “Narrated Anas bin Malik: Allah’s Apostle was on a journey and he had a black slave called Anjasha, and he was driving the camels (very fast, and there were women riding on those camels). Allah’s Apostle said, ‘Waihaka (May Allah be merciful to you), O Anjasha! Drive slowly (the camels) with the glass vessels (women)!’” (Bukhari 8.73.182) There is no mention of Muhammad’s freeing Anjasha.
“Family convicted of modern day slavery in Virginia,” AsAm News, May 19, 2022 (thanks to Elizabeth):
A federal jury convicted a family in Richmond, VA of holding a Pakistani woman in forced servitude for 12 years, the Department of Justice recently announced.
Zahida Aman, Mohammad Nauman Chaudhri and Mohammad Rehan Chaudhri will face sentencing for conspiracy to commit forced labor. In addition, the jury convicted Aman of forced labor and document servitude, and defendant Rehan Chaudhri of forced labor….
Aman is said to be 80 and her son Mohammad Nauman is 54 and her other son Mohammad Rehan is 48….
One neighbor called news of the conviction disturbing. The Jones family told WRIC it never suspected or witnessed any abuse inside the home.
According to WTVR, the victim was related by marriage. Prosecutors say they kept her as a slave. True Crime reports the mother arranged the marriage between the victim and a third son who also lived in the home. Two years later, that son moved to California, but his wife stayed behind. They had four children together who lived in Virginia.
Walter Sieruk says
This isn’t really that much of surprise that with so much Islamic slavery in Muslims countries ,even during these modern times. With Islam growing in the USA and so much Muslim immigration into this nation .
It should be no shock then in America in one or more of her States there would be a “spillover” of Islamic practices into America. Even that of Islamic slavery.
For it needs to be remembered that in the Muslim mindset Sharia law overrules US Consititution based laws’.Sharia does allow for slavery..
As one former Muslim had made known to Westerners in his book that with Islam “Slavery is recognized as an institution , and the slave is considered both a thing anda person.” [1]
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 85
gravenimage says
Yes, Walter. One of the very first things ISIS did upon founding the Islamic State was to enslave Christians and Yezidis and some local Muslims deemed “insufficiently Islamic”.
There is nothing so Islamic as slavery–save perhaps brutality and slaughter.
Michael Copeland says
Slavery is a part of Islam – Saleh Al-Fawzan
Enslavement is the penalty for disbelief – Ashiq Ilahi
Sex slaves are not forbidden – Mecca Mufti
It is permissible to take concubines – islamqa.com
It is allowed to take women as slaves – A. Shekau
Their women are yours to take, legitimately. Allah made them
yours. Why don’t you enslave their women? – Saad al-Buraik
The …spoils …includes men, women, children, wealth – Huwayni
Take their wives as war booty – demonstrator, Danish Embassy
When I want a sex slave I go to the market and choose – Huwayni
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/02/islams-agenda-muslims-speak/
john smith says
An excellent compilation Michael, thank you.
gravenimage says
Thanks so much for those grim quotes, Michael. A chilling compilation.
Mic Lawler says
People whose world view and unshakable beliefs are the antithesis of our founding principles and culture should be prohibited from coming here. If they are here and violate the law they should be prosecuted to its full extent
commonsense says
Of course, To us, it seems so obvious. On one of the news channels recently, a clip was replayed endlessly showing a group of immigrants celebrating their just-acquired U.S. citizenship. Among them was a hijabbed Muslima. I have serious doubts about where her actual loyalties lie. It isn’t merely that she’s Muslim – her hijab and clothing, covering her entire body except for her hands and face, identifies her as a True Believer. Dollars to donuts she is privately contemptuous of our Constitution and wishes Shari’a to replace it. One wonders: how could she, as a serious member of the Ummah, possibly be loyal to America?
gravenimage says
Good exchange, Mic and commonsense.
somehistory says
I read this another day and wondered what became of the four children. the son who fathered them, abandoned his wife to the evil of his mother and brothers. did he also abandon his kids?
the ages of the guilty are given, but what about the woman who was enslaved? and was she also a “relative” before the marriage?
It’s good they were found out and convicted. The face of the woman…hideous as is her soul.
gravenimage says
Somehistory, I think you posted this story on another one of the threads? Just terrible. And yes–I wonder what happened to the children. And the actions of the son–the victim’s husband–have to be explained. It is possible that he didn’t know what his family was doing to her, but pretty damned unlikely.
somehistory says
Yes, g, I did post a little of the story, yesterday, I believe.
Lot of questions left unanswered. Maybe there will be a follow-up.
gravenimage says
I hope so. I’ll keep an eye out for it.
Wellington says
Islam and slavery are quite compatible, including in more than one way if one gets my meaning.
gravenimage says
Virginia: Muslim family convicted of holding woman as slave
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Yes–this is just horrifying. How many cases of Islamic slavery have there been all over the West?
How many more are there that have not been discovered?
And note that the victim here was the wife of the youngest son. This was an arranged marriage–perhaps a forced one. So she could be enslaved. So can Infidels.
God, I hate Islam.
somehistory says
Probably hundreds, if not thousands like this.
gravenimage says
Certainly many more than have been exposed.
PRCS says
How many?
No way to know, but here’s one of the most famous cases:
Man sentenced to 28 years to life in Colorado slavery case involving Indonesian housekeeper
https://www.newson6.com/story/5e368af02f69d76f620a1d12/man-sentenced-to-28-years-to-life-in-colorado-slavery-case-involving-indonesian-housekeeper
His stated defense included this: “The state has criminalized these basic Muslim behaviors. Attacking traditional Muslim behaviors was the focal point of the prosecution.”
Michael Copeland says
The governor of the prison was restricted by prison rules from allowing parole because the prisoner had refused to take part in a re-education program.
The governor was later shot dead on his doorstep by a caller.
Such is the reach of Islam.
gravenimage says
This is horrifying–I hadn’t heard about this.
maria says
I hate islam too. And the despicable ideology allows also cannibalism. Accoroding to mohammed if there is a shortage of food then muslim mencan eat women and children
PRCS says
Well, this really is odd:
I couldn’t find a single reference to this Virginia conviction at CAIR’s website.
Hmmm.
gravenimage says
Ha ha
jeffery clemens says
Death penalty…….
Alfredo says
It is because of these monstrous lies that these low lives feel entitled to hold people enslaved.
It is a devious ideology that condones criminal acts by depraved thugs. No man of the living God will ever tell his followers that it is permitted to hold captive people their “right hand posesses.” Delinquents will do that.
These lies are the secretions of a mentally ill 7th century caravan raider.
Unfortunately too many people have been and continue to be deceived.
Michael Copeland says
Mohammed’s purchase of a slave “for two black slaves” is recorded in Sunan an Nasai 4625 under the heading “Selling Animals for Animals….”.
OLD GUY says
Women are the main target of islamic slavery and violence, yet women in the media and women’s rights groups are fairly silent about these abuses. The Catholics stand against abortion and the media and activist for womens rights are all over it. Islam is the TOTAL loss of WOMENS RIGHTS.