Sunday, May 11, 2014

when a child or a woman is taken captive, they become a slave by the fact of capture


centerforsecuritypolicy |  The tragic story of hundreds of young girls captured by the Islamic terror group and Nigerian insurgency Boko Haram has caught much national attention, along with a twitter campaign Hashtag #BringOurWomenBack. But not much attention has been paid to Boko Haram’s stated ideology. In a ForeignPolicy.com column subtitled, “Why women are the ‘spoils of war’ in Nigeria and around the world — and nobody cares,” writer Lauren Wolfe generalizes,  “Girls are the low-hanging fruit of the biblically proportioned anger at Eve.” 

Yet even while sermonizing regarding the lack of seriousness with which the world deals with sexual slavery and violence against women, Wolfe fails to give the situation the seriousness it deserves by examining why Boko Haram does what it does, the Sharia, Islamic law. 

Wolfe points out that Boko Haram means “Western Education is Forbidden”, without ever enlightening Foreign Policy’s readers that they mean “forbidden by Islamic law”.  And despite claims by organizations like The Islamic Society of North America, and Egypt’s Al Azhar university, there’s ample evidence to suggest that Boko Haram’s understanding of what is and is not forbidden under Islamic law is accurate. 

In ‘The Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law’ by Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri (d. 1368) and published in English translation by Nuh Ha Mim Keller in 1994 under the section, “The Rules of Warfare”:

“O.913 When a child or a woman is taken captive, they become slaves by the fact of capture, and the woman’s previous marriage is immediately annulled.” 

The implication of the marriage annulment is that the women are now available as sexual slaves or wives. 

Not that ISNA and Al-Azhar should be surprised by this.  The ISNA-affiliated Fiqh Council of North America approved Reliance with then President Taha Jabir al ‘Alwani calling it an “eminent work of Islamic jurisprudence.” The Al-Azhar Islamic Research Academy certified that the manual, “conforms to the practice and faith of the orthodox Sunni school (ahl al-Sunna wa al-Jama’a).”

Nor is Reliance’s interpretation alone in understanding Islamic law to permit sexual slavery. As Ibn Kathir (d.1373) in his highly regarded Tafsir (exegeses) of the Koran, explains, the source of this understanding is Quran Sura 4:25

“Also (forbidden are) women already married, except those whom your right hands possess.) The Ayah means, you are prohibited from marrying women who are already married, (except those whom your right hands possess) except those whom you acquire through war, for you are allowed such women after making sure they are not pregnant.” 

So to sadly, to answer Wolfe’s question, “Why are women spoils of war in Nigeria?” 

Because Shariah law requires it. 

1 comments:

Makheru Bradley said...

Just as there has been silence while five million or more Afrikans have been killed in the Congo since 1995, none of the imperialist leaders, or their celebrity cronies, who are now feigning outrage over Boko Haram’s most recent attack on Afrikan people, were moved by Haram’s previous atrocities. “According to the Tyndall Report, which monitors daily broadcasts of the three major U.S. networks, there was not a single television news story about Boko Haram in 2013.” .Indeed, why would terrorists be moved by the actions of other terrorists, particularly terrorists who are killing Afrikans.

“Every day when I wake up, and I think about young girls in Nigeria or children caught up in the conflict in Syria . . . there are times in which I want to reach out and save those kids.” -- President Obama Does Obama wake up everyday thinking about Muammar Qaddafi’s grandchildren and the other children who have been killed in his drone wars? If he was truly concerned, he could start saving children by ending his drone wars in Afrika and Asia.

After the attack on a boarding school last July, Boko Haram said that they would start targeting Afrikan youth because some of them had decided, in the absence of governmental action, to confront Haram themselves.

"We have established that the youth in Borno and Yobe states are now against our course. They have connived with security operatives and are actively supporting the government of Nigeria in its war against us. We have also resolved to fight back." -- Boko Haram

http://digitaljournal.com/article/352637#ixzz31Pt0ILd4

Despite this warning the government of Nigeria took no action to beef up security in the region where the 276 to 300 school girls were kidnapped, as evidenced by this eyewitness to the kidnappings.

http://bit.ly/1iFHmYs

Thus, the most recent activity of these pathological criminals comes as no surprise.

“Brethren cut out infidels from their necks, brothers you should capture slaves; just because I took girls in western school they are worried. I said they should even desert the school, they should go and marry. Nonsense, I am the one that captured your girls and I will sell them in the market. I have my own market of selling people; it is the owner that instructed me to sell. Yes, I will sell the girls people, I am selling the girls like Allah said until we soak the ground of Nigeria with infidels blood and so called Muslims contradicting Islam. After we have killed, killed, killed and get fatigue and wondering on what to do with smelling of their corpses, smelling of Obama, Bush, Putin and Jonathan worried us then we will open prison and be imprisoned the rest. Infidels have no value.” -- Abubakar Shekau

http://bit.ly/SPVnd3

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