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Muhammad: A Rapist
Muhammad allowed his men to rape the women captured in
raids. However, after capturing the women, Muslims faced a dilemma. They
wanted to have sex with them but also wanted to return them for ransom
and therefore did not want to make them pregnant. Some
of these women were already married. Their
husbands had managed to escape when taken by surprise and were still
alive. The raiders
considered the possibility of coitus interruptus (withdrawing from
intercourse prior to ejaculation). Unsure
of the best course of action, they went to Muhammad for counsel.
Bukhari reports:
Abu Saeed said: �We went out with All�h's Apostle
for the Ghazwa of Banu Al-Mustaliq and we received captives from among
the Arab captives and we desired women and celibacy became hard on us
and we loved to do coitus interruptus. So
when we intended to do coitus interruptus, we said, 'How can we do
coitus interruptus before asking All�h's Apostle who is present among
us?" We asked (him)
about it and he said, 'It is better for you not to do so, for if any
soul (till the Day of Resurrection) is predestined to exist, it will
exist."
Notice that Muhammad does not forbid raping women captured in war. Instead,
he indicates that when All�h intends to create anything, nothing can
prevent it. In other
words, not even the absence of semen can prevent it.
So Muhammad is telling his men that coitus interruptus would be
futile and ill-advised because it would be an attempt to thwart the
irresistible will of All�h. Muhammad
does not say a word against the forced insemination of these captive
females. In fact, by criticizing coitus interruptus, in effect he
supported forced insemination.
In the Qur�an, Muhammad�s god made it legal to have intercourse with
slave women, the so-called �right hand possessions,� even if they
were married before their capture.
Juwairiya:
Ibn Aun has narrated: �I wrote a letter to Nafi
and Nafi wrote in reply to my letter that the Prophet had suddenly
attacked Bani Mustaliq without warning while they were heedless and
their cattle were being watered at the places of water. Their fighting
men were killed and their women and children were taken as captives;
the Prophet got Juwairiya on that day. Nafi said that Ibn 'Umar had
told him the above narration and that Ibn 'Umar was in that army.� Bukhari
3.46.717 (see also Muslim 019. 4292)
Muhammad sent one of his companions; Bareeda bin
Haseeb, to spy on the Bani al-Mustaliq and after assessing the
situation he ordered his men to attack. Muslims came out of Madina on
2nd Shaban of 5 A.H. and encamped at Muraisa, a place at a distance of
9 marches from Medina.
Juwairiya was one of the captives during the raid
of Banu Mustaliq. When all the prisoners were made slaves and
distributed among the victorious Muslim soldiers, Juwairiyah fell to
the lot of Thabit bin Qais. She was the daughter of Haris, the leader
of the clan.
The Islamic site muslims.ws
writes: �She was the daughter of the leader of the clan, and
therefore, very much felt the discomfiture and disgrace of being made
slave of an ordinary Muslim soldier. Therefore, she requested him to
release her on payment of ransom. Thabit agreed to this, if she could
pay him 9 Auqias of gold. Hazrat Juwairiyah had no ready money with
her. She tried to raise this amount through contributions, and
approached the Holy Prophet also in this connection. She said to him
"0' Prophet of Allah! I am the daughter of Al Haris bin Zarar,
the Lord (chief) of his people. You know that it is by chance that our
people have fallen captive and I have fallen to the share of Thabit
bin Qais and have requested him to release me considering my status,
but he has refused. Please do an act of kindness and save me from
humiliation". The Holy Prophet was moved and asked the captive
woman if she would like a thing still better. She asked as to what was
that thing. He said that he was ready to pay her ransom and marry her
if she liked. She agreed to this proposal. So the Holy Prophet paid
the amount of ransom and married her.�
First he raids a population without warning
because they were easy targets and wealthy. As usual he kills the
unarmed able-bodied men, plunders their belongings, then enslaves the
rest. The narrator says, �According to the prevailing practice
all the prisoners were made slaves and distributed among the
victorious Muslim soldiers.� Prevailing
practice? Didn�t
Muhammad come to show people the right way? Why
should he follow the evil prevailing practices of a people whom he
called ignorant? By doing
so, he set the example and those evil practices became standard
practices of the Muslims for ever.
The narrator says that upon seeing Juwairiyah the
Prophet was �moved�. Methinks that movement must have happened in
his male organ because his heart seems to have remained cold and
unmoved. Although Muslims call this marriage, I call it rape.
Safiyah
Safiyah was a beautiful 17 years old Jewish woman
who was captured when Muhammad�s troops raided Kheibar. She was the
daughter or Huyeiy Ibn Akhtab, the chief of the Banu Nadir, a Jewish
tribe of
Medina
, whom Muhammad had beheaded two years earlier along with the men of
Banu Quriaza. The tribe of Banu Nadir had been already banished from
Medina
and their properties were confiscated.
Safiyah had married to her cousin Kinana, who was
a young Jewish leader of Kheibar. When Muhammad raided that fortress,
he killed its unarmed men and captured the rest. A Jewish traitor,
(reminds me of Noam Chomsky) to gain
Muhammad�s favor and be spared from death, told him that Kinana was
the treasurer of the town and that he used to hide the money in some
ruins. Muhammad ordered Kinana to be tortured to reveal the
whereabouts of the treasures and killed him.
Then he asked the prettiest woman from amongst
that captives to be brought to him. Ibn Ishaq writes: "The
apostle occupied the Jewish forts one after the other, taking
prisoners as he went. Among
these were Safiya, the wife of Kinana, the Khaibar chief, and two
female cousins: [sisters of Kinana] the apostle chose Safiya
for himself. The other
prisoners were distributed among the Muslims. Bilal
brought Safiya to the apostle, and they passed the bodies of several
Jews on the way. Safiya's
female companions lamented and strewed dust on their heads. When
the apostle of All�h observed this scene, he said, 'Remove these
she devils from me.' But
he ordered Safiya to remain, and threw his reda [cloak] over her. So
the Muslims knew he had reserved her for his own. The
apostle reprimanded Bilal, saying, 'Hast thou lost all feelings of
mercy, to make women pass by the corpses of their husbands?'�
Safiyah was taken to Muhammad�s tent. Muhammad
wanted to have sex with her on that very night, only hours after torturing
to death her husband. She resisted his advances. That night Abu Ayyub al-Ansari
guarded the tent of Muhammad. When, in the early dawn, Muhammad
saw Abu Ayyub strolling up and down, he asked him what he meant by
this sentry-go; he replied: "I was afraid for you with this young
lady. You had killed her father, her husband and many of her
relatives, I was really afraid for you on her account". (Ibn
Ishaq, p. 766)
The next day Muhammad covered Safiyah with his
mantle, an act signifying that she is now his. Safiyah was groomed
and made-up for Muhammad by Umm Sulaim, the mother of Anas ibn Malik
and was taken to Muhammad who married her in a mock marriage ceremony
and raped her that night. Muslims call this marriage. I call that
rape. I am certain not many young women would like to jump into bed
with an old man who happens to be the murderer of their father and
husband and many other relatives. That poor woman had no choice;
therefore that marriage was nothing but a mockery of this sacred
institution. At that time Muhammad was close to sixty years old.
Rayhanah
Another victim of Muhammad was Rayhana, a 15 year
old girl from the tribe of Banu Quraiza. Muhammad massacred all the
men of that tribe. Then women were brought to him to pick and he chose
Rayhana. Rayhana never married Muhammad and unlike Juwairiyah and
Safiyah never feigned being a Muslim to have an easier life. She preferred
to remain a sex slave rather the wife of the murderer of her father,
brothers and uncles. .
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