From the Islamist “Islam Q&A” site.
Question:
Could you please clarify for me something that has been troubling me for a while. This concerns the right of a man to have sexual relations with slave girls. Is this so? If it is then is the man allowed to have relations with her as well his wife/wives. Also, is it true that a man can have sexual relations with any number of slave girls and with their own wife/wives also? I have read that Hazrat Ali had 17 slave girls and Hazrat Umar also had many. Surely if a man were allowed this freedom then this could lead to neglecting the wife’s needs. Could you also tell clarify wether the wife has got any say in this matter.
Answer:
Praise be to Allaah.
Islam allows a man to have intercourse with his slave woman, whether he has a wife or wives or he is not married.
A slave woman with whom a man has intercourse is known as a sariyyah (concubine) from the word sirr, which means marriage.
It goes on with a lot of quotes supporting rape of female slaves and concludes:
The wife has no right to object to her husband owning female slaves or to his having intercourse with them.
And Allaah knows best.
This, ladies and gents, is the face of our enemy. Pretty, is it not?
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No surprise. The hardcord Islamists seem irretrievably misogynist, do they not? Make me wonder if they are at all thankful that their mothers gave birth to them, or if they see her as just another brood mare.
(Thanks for the good wishes.
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I wonder about that too. In a situation where a woman has no power over anything but her kids, I also wonder how many kids grow up in a situation we’d see as abusive. That might explain a lot of the woman-hatred I see in the Islamist groups.
For what it’s worth, I did read my sister’s copy of Jean Sasson’s nonfiction book “Princess”. The title narrator herself doesn’t seem to hold mothers except her own (most particularly her mother-in-law) in a positive light, and the men around her, including her brother, seem to positively hate their mothers. I had no ideas as to why until now, but I think you might be on to something with the control issues.
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