Slavery is acceptable in Islam. The Qur’an has Allah telling Muhammad that he has given him girls as sex slaves: “Prophet, We have made lawful to you the wives to whom you have granted dowries and the slave girls whom God has given you as booty.” (Qur’an 33:50)
Muhammad bought slaves: “Jabir (Allah be pleased with him) reported: There came a slave and pledged allegiance to Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) on migration; he (the Holy Prophet) did not know that he was a slave. Then there came his master and demanded him back, whereupon Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: Sell him to me. And he bought him for two black slaves, and he did not afterwards take allegiance from anyone until he had asked him whether he was a slave (or a free man).” (Muslim 3901)
Muhammad took female Infidel captives as slaves: “Narrated Anas: The Prophet offered the Fajr Prayer near Khaibar when it was still dark and then said, ‘Allahu-Akbar! Khaibar is destroyed, for whenever we approach a (hostile) nation (to fight), then evil will be the morning for those who have been warned.’ Then the inhabitants of Khaibar came out running on the roads. The Prophet had their warriors killed, their offspring and woman taken as captives. Safiya was amongst the captives. She first came in the share of Dahya Alkali but later on she belonged to the Prophet. The Prophet made her manumission as her ‘Mahr.’” (Bukhari 5.59.512) Mahr is bride price: Muhammad freed her and married her. But he didn’t do this to all his slaves:
Muhammad owned slaves: “Narrated Anas bin Malik: Allah’s Apostle was on a journey and he had a black slave called Anjasha, and he was driving the camels (very fast, and there were women riding on those camels). Allah’s Apostle said, ‘Waihaka (May Allah be merciful to you), O Anjasha! Drive slowly (the camels) with the glass vessels (women)!’” (Bukhari 8.73.182) There is no mention of Muhammad’s freeing Anjasha.
“Saudi prince is investigated over claims he kept seven employees as modern-day slaves at his apartment in Paris,” by David Averre, MailOnline, July 6, 2021:
French prosecutors are investigating claims that a Saudi prince kept seven employees in a state of modern-day slavery at an apartment he owned outside Paris.
The inquiry for human trafficking was opened after the women, mostly from the Philippines aged 38 -51, filed complaints of modern-day slavery in October 2019, said the prosecutors’ office in the suburb city of Nanterre.
The maids had been recruited in Saudi Arabia and worked for the prince and his family for several years.
They were allegedly paid the equivalent of 300 euros a month and said they were forced to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The Saudi prince involved in the allegations has not been publicly named.
The prince and his family reportedly take regular holidays to France during the summers, and are known to bring employees with them on their journeys.
A source close to the case who refused to be named said the women managed to escape during a recent trip to France.
The alleged abuse occurred in 2008, 2013 and 2015 at the apartment in a Paris suburb.
Some of the workers were required to sleep on the floor and barely had time to eat while serving the prince’s four children, according to Le Parisien newspaper.
The women claim they were subjected to various forms of humiliation and mistreatment over the years, including ‘orders of attending to the employer’s needs all day and night all week long, with no breaks.’
They were allegedly ‘starved, forced to eat leftovers and have to leave as soon as they are called for by their employers.’
‘The first time we met with them, what was shocking to see was that they were hungry. They were crying with hunger,’ Anick Fougeroux, president of the aid group SOS Esclaves (‘Slaves’), told the paper….
PRCS says
Remember this guy (Homaidan Al-Turki)?
Slavery in Colorado.
Man sentenced to 28 years to life in Colorado slavery case involving Indonesian housekeeper
https://www.newson6.com/story/5e368af02f69d76f620a1d12/man-sentenced-to-28-years-to-life-in-colorado-slavery-case-involving-indonesian-housekeeper
Michael Copeland says
In Colorado in 2006 a Saudi national was found guilty of keeping a woman as a slave housekeeper for four years while repeatedly raping her. He argued that the United States was attacking Islamic customs such as not paying your slave and controlling her life, and complained:
“We are Muslim. We are different. The state has criminalized these basic Muslim behaviors”.
Quite a number of “basic Muslim behaviours” are criminal in the West. This is just one of the many areas where Sharia law is “incompatible with the fundamental principles of democracy”, as the European Court of Human Rights stated in 2003.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2019/11/and-take-their-wives-as-war-booty/
Christopher Watson says
Why, oh why do we even allow these animals into the civilised west. If we have to let them in, they should be accompanied by a policeman. Once their business is finished they should be taken to the nearest airport.
Giacomo Latta says
When you already have a preordained view that ”everything is beautiful, everyone is beautiful” you don’t bother the rest of your life with facts that would make you uncomfortable should you consider them. Ignorance is bliss and some people prefer to be blissed-out.
gravenimage says
Yes–I remember this hideous case and its “defense”. *Ugh*.
PRCS says
Yes the “defense” being, essentially: it’s what we Muslims do. It’s our culture. You’re anti-Muslim. Etc., etc., etc.
gravenimage says
Yep.
CogitoErgoSum says
It may have taken Christians over 1800 years to abolish slavery in their lands but they did abolish it in the belief that we should treat others as we ourselves would wish to be treated. Christians also came up with the idea that all human beings are created equal in respect to treatment under the law. How would anyone come up with such a way of thinking by reading the Koran? No one ever did and, in fact, even now many who read the Koran think that no one ever should completely abolish slavery. The only way slavery would ever be abolished under Islam would be if the Muslim Jesus were to return and kill everyone who refuses to become a Muslim. Then slavery would be abolished since Muslims are not to own other Muslims as slaves (but non-Muslims may be owned).
gravenimage says
So true. Slavery has *never* been abolished in the Muslim world. Saudi Arabia still had open slave markets when I was a toddler–and in Mauritania slavey is so rife that an estimated 17% of the population are slaves.
One of the first things that the Islamic State did in setting up their Caliphate was to legalize slavery and sex slavery.
Walter Sieruk says
Islam has a long history of slavery that continues into this twenty -first century.
gravenimage says
Saudi prince investigated over claims he kept seven women as slaves at his Paris apartment
……………….
This is enormously common with Muslims–including members of the Saudi royal family:
“Nanny to Saudi Royals Claims They Forced Her Into Slavery”
https://www.courthousenews.com/nanny-to-saudi-royals-claims-they-forced-her-into-slavery/
“Why Saudi princesses keep slaves”
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2013-jul-11-la-ol-saudi-princess-human-trafficking-irvine-20130711-story.html
Of course, this article does not mention Islam.
Then there was this horrifying case:
“Saudi prince guilty of servant’s murder”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/oct/19/saudi-prince-servant-murder-guilty
They do this all over the west, as well as in Saudi Arabia.
So glad this case is being prosecuted.
Steve says
Slavery has been going on for thousands of years with virtually every country there has ever been guilty of this vile practice. The Arab nations have bought and sold slaves since I can remember and nobody does anything about it. The Muslims are no different to the rubbish in every country they infect with their vile practices.
European pagan says
I saw a documentary about maids (they were from the Philippines, Kenya and Ethiopia) who worked in Arabic countries, in the houses of Arabic families, some women were beaten, tortured or killed, the Arabs took away their passports.