No surprise here. Sharia denies free speech and equal rights for women, and allows slavery. So this is just more indication of Egypt’s slide toward Sharia. “Disputed articles in Egypt’s draft constitution,” from AP, November 30: CAIRO (AP) — An Islamist-dominated panel is voting on Egypt’s draft constitution, the country’s first charter after the uprising […]
Ethiopian woman tells of sex slavery in Saudi Arabia
The Qur’an forbids Muslim men to have sexual relations with “wedded women, save what your right hands own.” (4:4) “Prosperous are the believers who in their prayers are humble and from idle talk turn away and at almsgiving are active and guard their private parts save from their wives and what their right hands own […]
UK: Muslim gangs raped underage girls in care homes
The Qur’an forbids Muslim men to have sexual relations with “wedded women, save what your right hands own.” (4:4) “Prosperous are the believers who in their prayers are humble and from idle talk turn away and at almsgiving are active and guard their private parts save from their wives and what their right hands own […]
Robert Spencer: Islam and sex slavery
Over at Atlas Shrugs I discuss the increasingly common phenomenon of sex slavery sanctioned by the Qur’an: Bikya Masr reported last week that “a new report from George Washington University professor Michele Clark and Coptic rights activist Nada Ghaly has argued that thousands of young Coptic Christian girls in Egypt are the victim of kidnapping […]
Qatar: Migrant workers subjected to forced labor amid construction boom for 2022 World Cup
Slavery is taken for granted in the Qur’an (see 2:178, 2:221, 4:92, 5:89, and many more), so this should come as no surprise. “Migrant workers in Qatar risk forced labour, human rights group says,” from AFP, June 13 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Doha: Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned on Tuesday that migrant construction […]
Mauritania: Anti-slavery activists arrested for burning Islamic law books justifying slavery
I am not in favor of book-burning as a symbolic act, but the significant points here are that Islamic legal manuals justify slavery, contrary to the claims of Muslim spokesmen in the West, and that slavery still exists in Mauritania, justified by those legal texts, despite the protestations of authorities to the contrary. “Activists Arrested […]
Simon Deng at Islamic Apartheid Conference at Temple University, April 23
The heroic Simon Deng’s harrowing personal story gives the lie to the Leftist/Islamic supremacist claim to represent human rights and equal justice for all.
The ongoing trafficking of homosexual sex slaves from Africa to the Middle East
It probably comes as no surprise to Jihad Watch’s regular readers that certain countries in the Middle East continue to traffic in slaves from Africa, with the authorities either indifferent or as willing accomplices. While we’ve written on this before, there’s now a novel twist. According to a recent media report, homosexual men in Kenya […]
“I hope that Kuwait will enact the law for…sex slaves”
Translating Jihad has now posted the complete subtitled video of the statement by the hijabbed Kuwaiti “activist” Salwa al-Mutairi, calling for the revival of the Islamic practice of using captive non-Muslim women as sex slaves, in accord with Qur’an 4:3. “Video: Kuwaiti Activist: ‘I Hope that Kuwait Will Enact a Law for…Sex Slaves,’” from Translating […]
Kuwait: “Female political activist” calls for legalizing sex slavery to protect men from “adultery or corruption”
Not that keeping a sex slave would in itself constitute adultery or corruption. Women taken captive as prisoners of war and then enslaved as concubines is sanctioned by the Qur’an, you see: “And all married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom your right hands possess. It is a decree of Allah for […]