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RAPED & RANSACKED IN THE MUSLIM WORLD
By Raymond Ibrahim
THE PLIGHT OF CHRISTIANS LIVING IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD: PERSECUTION OF THE CHRISTIAN MINORITY BY THE
MUSLIM MAJORITY -- MUSLIMS PLUNDERING THE POSSESSIONS, LIVES, & DIGNITY OF CHRISTIANS -- IS THIS SORT OF
BEHAVIOR ON THE PART OF MUSLIMS A RANDOM AFFAIR -- IS IT A PRODUCT OF POVERTY, IGNORANCE & GRIEVANCE, OR
IS IT SYSTEMATIC, COMPLETE WITH IDEOLOGICAL BACKING?
FULL STORY:
Plundering the possessions, lives, and dignity of Christians in the Islamic world: is this a random affair, a product of the
West's favorite offenders — poverty, ignorance, grievance — or is it systematic, complete with ideological backing?
Consider the very latest from the Muslim world:
Pakistan: Muslim landowners used tractors to
plough over a Christian cemetery in order to seize the
land illegally. A young Christian mother was raped by
six men. "In both cases, police covered up for the
culprits."
Iraq: A Christian youth was kidnapped and
decapitated: his family could not pay the €70,000
ransom demanded by his abductors. "The murder
was meant to intimidate Christians so that, in the
future, they will more readily pay ransom demands."
Egypt: Christian girls continue to be
abducted and forced into conversion or concubinage
(which amount to the same thing) and "kept as virtual
slaves."
None of this is surprising listening to popular Muslim preacher Abu Ishaq al-Huwaini:
"If only we can conduct a jihadist invasion at least
once a year or, if possible, twice or three times, then
many people on earth would become Muslims. And,
if anyone prevents our dawa or stands in our way,
then we must kill them or take as hostage and
confiscate their wealth, women and children. Such
battles will fill the pockets of the Mujahid who can
return home with 3 or 4 slaves, 3 or 4 women and 3
or 4 children. This can be a profitable business if
you multiply each head by 300 or 400 dirham. This
can be like financial shelter whereby a jihadist, in
time of financial need, can always sell one of these
heads (meaning slavery) [translated by Nonie
Darwish].
Huwaini actually made these scandalous assertions some eighteen years ago. But, because they were only recently
exposed, he was invited to "clarify" his position on Hikma TV last week. Amazingly, though he began by
saying his words were "taken out of context," he nonetheless reasserted, in even more blunt language, that Islam
justifies plundering, enslaving, and raping the infidel. (Al Youm 7 has the entire interview, excerpts of which I
translate below.)
According to Huwaini, after Muslims invade and conquer a non-Muslim nation — in the course of waging an offensive
jihad — the properties and persons of those infidels who refuse to convert or pay jizya and live as subjugated dhimmis,
are to be seized as ghanima or "spoils of war."
Huwaini cited the Koran as his authority — boasting that it has an entire chapter named "spoils" — and the
sunna of Muhammad, specifically as recorded in the famous Sahih Muslim hadith, wherein the Prophet ordered the
Muslim armies to offer non-Muslims three choices: conversion, subjugation, or death/enslavement.
Huwaini said that infidel captives, the "spoils of war," are to be distributed among the Muslim combatants (i.e., jihadists)
and taken to "the slave market, where slave-girls and concubines are sold." He referred to these latter by their
dehumanizing name in the Koran, ma malakat aymanukum — "what your right hands possess" — in this context,
sex-slaves: "You go to the market and buy her, and she becomes like your legal mate — though without a contract, a
guardian, or any of that stuff — and this is agreed upon by the ulema."
"In other words," Huwaini concluded, "when I want a sex-slave, I go to the market and pick whichever female I desire
and buy her."
Lest Muslims begin attacking all and sundry, however, Huwaini was careful to stress that Islam forbids Muslims from
plundering and enslaving nominal or even "heretical" Muslims, such as Shias. He used the Iran-Iraq war as an example,
saying that a Sunni man is not permitted to enslave and abuse a Shia woman, "for she is still a Muslim and thus
considered free."
Unfortunately, Huwaini's position is not "radical." One is reminded of when Sheikh Gamal Qutb was asked on live TV if
Islam permits men to rape their female captives. The one-time Grand Mufti of Islam's most authoritative university, Al
Azhar — the institution that once gave us the "adult breast-feeding" fatwa — refused to answer and, when pressed,
became hostile and stormed off the set.
Let us now return to the atrocities that opened this article and ask: In light of the above, is it any wonder that Christians
under Islam are routinely raped and ransacked, even as the "humanitarian" West yawns?
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States,
& Their Middle Eastern Neighbors
American Foreign Policy -- The Middle East
International Politics & World Disorder:
War, Peace, & Geopolitics in the Real World:
Foreign Affairs & U.S. National Security
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
Counterterrorism & U.S. National Security
U.S. National Security Strategy
Raymond Ibrahim, a historian of Islam, Islamism and the Middle East, is the Associate Director of the Middle East Forum,
a guest lecturer at the National Defense Intelligence College, and the editor of The Al-Qa'ida Reader, a collection
of tranlations of key texts and documents of the Islamist movement. Ibrahim's translations of the religious texts and
political propaganda comprising this collection help readers comprehend the origins, development, history, and serious
danger of the Islamist war doctrines of Usama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Founders of Al-Qa'ida and
implacable enemies of the U.S.A. and the West.
The foregoing article by Raymond Ibrahim was originally published in Front Page Magazine, May 31, 2010, and
can be found on the Internet website maintained by the Middle East Forum, a foreign policy think tank which seeks to
define and promote American interests in the Middle East, defining U.S. interests to include fighting radical Islam,
working for Palestinian Arab acceptance of the State of Israel, improving the management of U.S. efforts to promote
constitutional democracy in the Middle East, reducing America's energy dependence on the Middle East, more robustly
asserting U.S. interests vis-à-vis Saudi Arabia, and countering the Iranian threat.
(URL: http://www.meforum.org/2920/raped-and- ransacked-in-the-muslim-world)
Republished with Permission of the Middle East Forum
Reprinted from the Middle East Forum News
mefnews@meforum.org (MEF NEWS)
June 1, 2011
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