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Islamic law permits the possession of concubines, or sex slaves. This has been demonstrated countless times, including through Islamic clerics quoting Islamic scriptures, and through ordinary Muslims, past and present, acting on it.
That
said, Islamic sanctioned sex-slavery does not perturb the Western world
simply because the powers-that-be—specifically academia, media, and
government—ignore it, and all other unsavory phenomena associated with
Islam, out of existence.
Interesting,
therefore, are the responses from the authorities—comical one might
even say—when one of these everyday anecdotes actually does surface to
the general public.
Enter the recent abduction of nearly 300, mostly Christian,
teenage schoolgirls in Nigeria at the hands of Boko Haram, yet another
Islamic terrorist organization plaguing mankind. As expected, the group
justified its actions in Islamic terms, with its leader declaring
on video, “I abducted your girls. I will sell them on the market, by
Allah….There is a market for selling humans. Allah says I should sell.”
Of course, for those in the know, none of this is surprising. In March 2012, Boko Haram warned that it would do just this, declaring that it was preparing to “strike fear into the Christians of the power of Islam by kidnapping their women.”
Moreover, of all the human rights abuses I catalog in Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians—and these are depressingly many—Boko Haram’s has resulted in more Christians killed than in the rest of the world combined.
The
group has bombed or burned hundreds of Christian churches in the last
several years, most when packed for service, including on Christmas Day and Easter Day, leaving countless worshippers dead or dismembered. In its bid to cleanse northern Nigeria of all Christian presence—a repeatedly stated goal—it has threatened to poison the food eaten by Christians and stormed areas where Christians and Muslims were intermingled, singling the Christians out before slitting their throats.
Go to my monthly “Muslim Persecution of Christians”
series (currently 31 in all), and see the innumerable atrocities that
Boko Haram has been responsible for in the last two-and-a-half
years—many of which make the recent Nigerian girls’ abduction pale in
comparison.
The real news here is that the so-called mainstream media, which generally downplays or ignores Boko Haram’s terror campaign (see here for example),
actually reported on this particular atrocity, prompting both Western
and Muslim authorities—who are much more accustomed to, and comfortable
with, pretending these sorts of things don’t exist—to respond in
awkward, hypocritical and, in a word, foolish, ways. Thus,
Secretary of State John Kerry
said the U.S. had been in touch with Nigeria “from day one” of the
crisis. But repeated offers of U.S. assistance were ignored until Kerry
got on the phone Tuesday with [Nigerian president] Jonathan amid growing
international concern and outrage over the fate of the girls in the
weeks since their abduction…. “I think now the complications that have
arisen have convinced everybody that there needs to be a greater
effort,” Kerry said at a State Department news conference. “And it will
begin immediately. I mean, literally, immediately.”
Seconds before Boko Haram decapitate a Christian on video
“Convinced
everybody”? Is Kerry referring to himself? After all, there might not
have been any need for “greater effort,” the need to act “immediately. I
mean, literally, immediately” had Kerry only let the Nigerian president
and government do their job one year ago, when they were waging a
particularly strong and successful offensive against Boko Haram in the
very same region that the schoolgirls were recently kidnapped.
Back then,
in May 2013, soon after Nigerian forces killed 30 Boko Haram members,
Reuters reported that “U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued a
strongly worded statement [to the Nigerian president] saying: “We are …
deeply concerned by credible allegations that Nigerian security forces
are committing gross human rights violations, which, in turn, only
escalate the violence and fuel extremism” from Boko Haram.
Perhaps
this sheds more light on why “repeated offers of U.S. assistance
[regarding the kidnapped girls] were ignored” by Nigeria, “until Kerry
got on the phone” (whatever that means).
As for Kerry’s predecessor, Hillary Clinton, who is now bemoaning the lot of the kidnapped girls in Nigeria—saying
it’s “abominable, it’s criminal, it’s an act of terrorism and it really
merits the fullest response possible”—when she was Secretary of State,
and in a position to help offer “the fullest response possible” she
repeatedly refused
to designate Boko Haram as a “foreign terrorist organizations,” despite
the countless atrocities it had already committed, despite the fact
that it had boasted it would “strike fear into the Christians of the
power of Islam by kidnapping their women,” as it just has, and despite
urging from the CIA, FBI, Justice Department, and several congressmen
and senators.
Her
logic was once voiced by her husband, former U.S. president Bill
Clinton. Back in February 2012, in a speech in Nigeria, Clinton
declared that “inequality” and “poverty” are “what’s fueling all this stuff”—a
reference to Boko Haram’s terror—and warned the government that “It is
almost impossible to cure a problem based on violence with violence”—a
precursor to Kerry’s May 2013 condemnation of the Nigerian government’s
tough offensive against Boko Haram, which would supposedly “only
escalate the violence and fuel extremism.”
In short, just like the Obama administration has been a thorn in Egypt’s war with the Muslim Brotherhood,
so too has it been a thorn in Nigeria’s war with Boko Haram—despite all
its current handwringing and “outrage” over this latest—that is, known—atrocity.
As
for the “Islam” aspect of Boko Haram’s violence and Christian
persecution, needless to say the Obama administration rejects it
outright. Thus, after the 2012 Easter Day church bombings by Boko Haram
that killed dozens of worshippers, U.S. Secretary of State for African
Affairs Johnnie Carson was quick to insist that “religion is not driving extremist violence”—or, in the aforementioned words of Bill Clinton, “inequality” and “poverty” are “what’s fueling all this stuff.”
Still,
because this latest kidnapping anecdote has received sufficient media
attention, including in the Arab and Muslim worlds, some Muslim leaders
have been forced out of their comfort zone to respond.
Thus,
Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayib, the Grand Sheikh of Egypt’s Al Azhar—regularly
touted as the Muslim world’s most prestigious institution of Islamic
learning—was quick to condemn
Boko Haram’s actions of kidnapping and selling “infidel” women, saying,
“these actions have no connection to the tolerant and noble teachings
of Islam.”
As for Egypt’s minister of endowments, Dr. Muhammad Mukhtar al-Gum‘a, he too released a statement
saying that “the terrorist deeds of Boko Haram have nothing to do with
Islam, especially this latest deed of kidnapping girls. Instead, they
are terroristic, criminal actions, and Islam is clean of them.” He then
went into White House spokesperson mode, saying that poverty,
economics, and the rest were the true motivators for Boko Haram’s
savagery.
One
can sympathize with Egypt’s state sheikhs—after all, they are busy
fighting their own brand of Islam misunderstanders, the Muslim
Brotherhood and their fellow ideologues, who have been abducting male Coptic Christians for ransom and females for sexual abuse, slavery, and/or conversion to Islam.
Happily
for these moderate clerics, few are openly challenging their assertions
that Islam is clean of Boko Haram’s actions. Based on precedent, they
often have no response and can become hostile.
For
example, some years back, when Sheikh Gamal Qutb, a one-time Grand
Mufti of Al Azhar, was asked on live Arabic-language TV if Islam permits
sex slaves, he refused to give a direct answer,
preferring to prevaricate. When pressed for a clear answer by the
Muslim female host, he became hostile and stormed off the set. He
eventually returned, only to be implored again by the host, who said,
“Ninety percent of Muslims, including myself, do not understand the
issue of sex slavery in Islam and are having a hard time swallowing it,”
to which he gruffly responded, “You don’t need to understand!”
And
there you have it. From Obama administration officials who helped
empower Nigeria’s Islamic terrorists, only to wring their hands and
feign outrage now at their behavior, to Islamic clerics who confidently
dismiss accusations against Islam, only to put their heads in the sand
and hope no one calls them out—here is just a small example of what
officialdom would have to deal with if the full totality of crimes
committed in the name of Islam were to become common knowledge.
Reprinted with author’s permission
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