The ruthless bloodshed and devastation created by ISIL has not only killed innocent people, forced displacement, but has also brought back injustices against women that were long abandoned and banned. It is true when they say the worse victims of war are women and children. ISIL is not only capturing and enslaving women of all ages – some young enough to be considered children- but are selling them as commodities. To make matters worse, they justify their actions by a convoluted interpretation of the Islamic religion. ISIL claims that enslaving women and girls of the “enemy as sex-slaves is established in the Quran and anyone criticizing their actions would be criticizing Islam. Is there any truth to their claims? ”Slavery, murder, human trafficking, terror, these are the foundations upon which they want to build an Islamic Caliphate?
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said* “In the end*, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends”. Well we are no longer silent. Operation Inherent Resolve is sign of our continued commitment to the region and to our partners in the region in dismantling and destroying ISIL. Barbaric violent groups of this sort need to be eradicated so that they can no longer hijack a religion nor terrorize and harm defenseless people.
The way to stop ISIL is not to bomb them. You need to arm the Syrian rebels going in directly and selectively ensuring the arms are going to the moderates. The Muslims need to use a combination of soft and hard power and gradually move in to ISIL occupied territory so as to keep collateral damage to a minimum.
The slavery and selling is heinous ... but we can't react to the threat of ISIL with the same rage that made them ... We need to encourage Muslims to study Islam and return to our traditions. It is only the orientation towards God and piety that will save us and by extension the world of this fitnah (tribulation).
If the Western forces want us to believe that they stand for justice ... then there can be no incentive higher than saving all lives where possible. The language itself needs to be calm and less volatile. What is being done in the efforts to analyse the flow of wealth and arms into the ISIL occupied region?
Prime Minister Erdogan is the only leader with a solid plan for how to stop ISIS but isn't getting the international backing he needs because everyone just wants a quick-fix bandage solution. To crush ISIL you need to:
1) Create a buffer zone with an enforced no-fly zone in Northern Syria so that the seriously weak moderates can rearm and train in peace without being threatened by Assad's Air Force.
2) Recognise that Assad's atrocities feed support for extremist terrorists like ISIL and the Nusrah Front, and that removing that source of support is critical for crushing ISIL.
3) Work to crush ISIL through securing Syria and Iraq simultaneously.
ISIL need to feel a serious threat from a united front against them in Syria in order to relieve pressure on Iraq and allow the Iraqi government and Kurds to move against them from the East.
The reality is that Assad's government is the source of the rot that fed ISIL's resurgence after being crushed by the Sunni Awakening in Iraq. Burying one's head in the sand and expecting Turkey to get drawn into a politically limited quagmire will achieve nothing.
I had honestly hoped that Turkey would have unilaterally moved forward with an operation to secure Damascus and the rest of Syria for the moderates and enable them to crush ISIL, with NATO allies in the UN security council and General Assembly protecting it from censure....
Unfortunately, the answer is yes. Slavery was an established institution pre-Islam and Islam did not abolish it. Instead Sharia law allows for it and Islamic history is full of examples of enslavement of men and women as a result of war. The prophet did improve the treatment of slaves, from the prestige given to Hazrat Bilal to adopting a former slave as a son and marrying his last wife who was brought from Egypt as a slave. However, his adopted son never got the same respect that a real son would have (was never considered for Khalifa) and his last wife remained housed outside of the city instead of having her living quarters where other wives lived in the city.
Unfortunately, the answer is yes. Slavery was an established institution pre-Islam and Islam did not abolish it. Instead Sharia law allows for it and Islamic history is full of examples of enslavement of men and women as a result of war. The prophet did improve the treatment of slaves, from the prestige given to Hazrat Bilal to adopting a former slave as a son and marrying his last wife who was brought from Egypt as a slave. However, his adopted son never got the same respect that a real son would have (was never considered for Khalifa) and his last wife remained housed outside of the city instead of having her living quarters where other wives lived in the city.
Peace Ajju
There is too much wrong with this response ...
1) Slavery has been abolished and it is not allowed to be resurrected.
2) Sayyiduna Bilal (RA) was a free man and Sahabi after his purchase
3) All of the wives of RasoolAllah (SAW) are our mothers ... The location of where they lived is not related to their status before their marriage to RasoolAllah.
4) Sayyiduna Zaid (RA) was not considered for Khalifah because there were others who were better for the role. Better for leading ... Who already had experience in leadership.
Please read the open letter to Baghdadi to see that slavery is not a phenomenon that can be permissible unless unanimously agreed by the scholars.
Unfortunately, the answer is yes. Slavery was an established institution pre-Islam and Islam did not abolish it. Instead Sharia law allows for it and Islamic history is full of examples of enslavement of men and women as a result of war. The prophet did improve the treatment of slaves, from the prestige given to Hazrat Bilal to adopting a former slave as a son and marrying his last wife who was brought from Egypt as a slave. However, his adopted son never got the same respect that a real son would have (was never considered for Khalifa) and his last wife remained housed outside of the city instead of having her living quarters where other wives lived in the city.
Wrong, Islam abolished slavery long before western world. and then there is a hadith (i think) mentioning about not making free people as slaves.
i have read the justification ISIS gave and it is just as "rational" as US justification to bomb common muslims.
I think this(ISIS) is just a calculated attempt to justify action against muslims.
When was slavery abolished in Islam? All Sahabees kept slave men and women during after prophet's time. During the Khalifa's time and all kingdoms/Khilafats (Ummaya, Abbasids,...) slaves were kept, bought and sold. Enlighten me, when was slavery abolished in Islamic history, by whom?
When was slavery abolished in Islam? All Sahabees kept slave men and women during after prophet's time. During the Khalifa's time and all kingdoms/Khilafats (Ummaya, Abbasids,...) slaves were kept, bought and sold. Enlighten me, when was slavery abolished in Islamic history, by whom?
The Khalifa Mahmud II abolished the trade of white-skinned slaves in 1830 and the trade of dark-skinned slaves was banned in 1858 by the Khalifa Abdulmecid I. Both were recognised by the majority of the world's Muslims as the lawful Khalifas and as such they were the global Muslim community's executors of the Shariah, so their rulings are the Shariah position.
^^ You are really clutching at the straws by pointing to some decree by Ottomon kings in late 19th century under pressure from western powers like Russia and Britain. Also, those decrees were not accepted throughout the Islamic world. Saudi Arab and Qatar continued to practice slavery into the 20th century. Recently South Sudan and Darfur saw the Arabs taking many Africans as slaves. Saudi salafi muftis are on the record issuing Fatwas declaring slavery to be according to Sharia!
Also, those decrees were not accepted throughout the Islamic world. Saudi Arab and Qatar continued to practice slavery into the 20th century. Recently South Sudan and Darfur saw the Arabs taking many Africans as slaves. Saudi salafi muftis are on the record issuing Fatwas declaring slavery to be according to Sharia!
Exactly. A minority of disobedient rebels like Saudis failed to understand the correct Islamic approach and continued to deviate from Islam by continuing slavery after the Khalifa forbade it, just as Isil and the recent Saudi muftis are doing today.
^^ The political decree by the ottoman king does not make it a part of Islam. I point you to the verse in Quran that allows sex with slave women "one your right hand posses".
^^ The political decree by the ottoman king does not make it a part of Islam. I point you to the verse in Quran that allows sex with slave women "one your right hand posses".
Sign me up for a slave auction please, gonna get myself a nice hot slave :)
Or is this our religions way of allowing side B*T*H contracts???
^^ The political decree by the ottoman king does not make it a part of Islam. I point you to the verse in Quran that allows sex with slave women "one your right hand posses".
You only posted half the verse…here is the complete verse.
And [also prohibited to you are all] married women except those your right hands possess. [This is] the decree of Allah upon you. And lawful to you are [all others] beyond these, [provided] that you seek them [in marriage] with [gifts from] your property, desiring chastity, not unlawful sexual intercourse. So for whatever you enjoy [of marriage] from them, give them their due compensation as an obligation. And there is no blame upon you for what you mutually agree to beyond the obligation. Indeed, Allah is ever Knowing and Wise.
^^^Sex with "those your right hand posses" is allowed and clearly does not fall into the category of "unlawful sexual intercourse". The complete verse does not change the fact that sex with slave women is clearly permitted (and hence taking and keeping slave women is permitted).
Jihadists, too, form their irrational opinions without studying with scholars or without looking at the context of the verses and Hadith. What you understand from the verse above is definitely not the understanding of the majority of Muslims and the scholars...and so I rest my case.
In Islam, the only way to have spousal relationship between a man and a woman is through wedlock. Even for the women who were captured after an armed conflict, marriage is necessary. When time permits, I will discuss this issue in detail. In sha Allah