the very night that his Muslim mercenaries slaughtered her fiancé and her family. From the Bukhari we read:
‘‘When he entered the town, he said, ‘Allahu Akbar! Khaibar is ruined…We conquered Khaibar, took the captives, and the booty was collected. Dihya came and said, ‘O Allah’s Prophet! Give me a slave girl from the captives.’ The Prophet said, ‘Go and take any slave girl.’ He took Safiya bint Huyai. A man came to the Prophet and said, ‘O Allah’s Apostles! You gave Safiya bint Huyai to Dihya and she is the chief mistress of the tribes of Quraidha and An−Nadir and she befits none but you.’ So the Prophet said, ‘Bring him along with her.’ So Dihya came with her and when the Prophet saw her, he said to Dihya, ‘Take any slave girl other than her from the captives.’ Anas added: The Prophet then manumitted her and married her.”’ ~Sahih al-Bukhari 1:367
There are numerous other examples from the Sunnah and various hadith that highlight the flippant manner in which Muslim men would rape female captives of war and slave girls, however, given that this example contains within it not only an example of the perfect Muslim raping a 17-year-old girl but also the wonton passing around of slave girls, I think this one will suffice.
Third Limb – Islamic History and/or Islamic Jurisprudence.
For the majority of Islamic history, rape has been a neglected aspect of Islamic jurisprudence. Regarding marital rape, Kecia Ali of Harvard University says:
‘For all, marital rape is an oxymoron; rape (ightisab) is a property crime that by definition cannot be committed by the husband’. [2]
Given both the Quranic justification for rape and Muhammad’s reported conduct in this regard, it isn’t surprising that there were many instances throughout Islamic history in which female captives were raped and forced into prostitution.
Refuting Henry Bayman’s attempt to assert that Muhammad never raped slave girls, religious scholar Bernadette Brooten remarks:
‘Nonetheless, to accept his characterization – as with the narrator Hassan’s comments on the Sahih Muslim – requires one to either ignore the Islamic legal tradition’s permission for slave-concubinage and the hadith evidence showing that the Prophet…had sex with female captives and slaves…’[3]
Once again, there are a plethora of examples one could cite from throughout the history of the Muslim conquests to the tomes of Islamic jurisprudence written along the way, but given that much of this is near-common knowledge, I’ll leave it here.
Test Outcome
If we apply this test to the claim that al-Baghdadi’s rape of Syrian female captives has nothing to do with Islam, we see that such a claim falls flat on each and every limb of this test. Thus, it is clear from the evidence that when ISIS rapes female captives, they do so with the express consent of the doctrines and traditional practices of their religion.
legal tradition’s permission for slave-concubinage and the hadith evidence showing that the Prophet…had sex with female captives and slaves…’[3]
Once again, there are a plethora of examples one could cite from throughout the history of the Muslim conquests to the tomes of Islamic jurisprudence written along the way, but given that much of this is near-common knowledge, I’ll leave it here.
Test Outcome
If we apply this test to the claim that al-Baghdadi’s rape of Syrian female captives has nothing to do with Islam, we see that such a claim falls flat on each and every limb of this test. Thus, it is clear from the evidence that when ISIS rapes female captives, they do so with the express consent of the doctrines and traditional practices of their religion.
Try applying this test to other crimes committed by ISIS.
Suggestions:
• Severing the hands of thieves
• Driving non-Muslims out of Muslim lands
• Looting
• Killing apostates
• Murdering Homosexuals
• Murdering infidels and Muslims believed to be
‘hypocrites’ (not “real” Muslims/Shiite Muslims)
• Beheading
• Destroying non-Muslim monuments and other
valuable historical artefacts
For a more detailed comparison between ISIS’ behaviour and some of the core doctrines of Islam, read this piece – ISIS Is Islam
*Qualification: This test in no way impeaches the character of the majority of Muslims who do not draw inspiration from the more insidious doctrines of Islam. It merely establishes the erroneous nature of the claim that certain Islamic atrocities are not the result of a legitimate application of the doctrines and practices of Islam.
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