I was challenged in this thread by Falah to quote Abu directly saying that Muslims may rape women captured in battle:
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1335077387/21#21He has also challenged me many times to quote where the Koran says directly that rape is permitted in various circumstance. Obviously neither Abu nor the Koran will describe it as rape if it is legal. Rather, they redefine rape.
I did however find the section in the common misconceptions thread where Abu 'explains' it. It is easy to miss, because he does such a good job of putting a positive spin on it. If you read the common misconceptions thread with an open mind, you will see that it is not the legality of rape that people are confused about. Rather, non-Muslims mistakenly believe that Islamic rape is a bad thing. Instead, it 'liberates' women and is a 'right' of the rapist. This is how Abu puts it:
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1225539453/10#10 Quote:As for the right given by Islam to the owner of a slave-girl to enjoy sexual relations with her, this raises the status of the slave and results in her freedom. This is because the enjoyment of the owner with his slave-girl is like the enjoyment of the husband with his wife, lifting the status of the slave girl to the status of the free wife and gives her a status before her master. In addition, if the slave-girl falls pregnant and bears a child she is freed compulsorily after the death of her master.
Consider the plight of a young girl to whom this might typically apply: you have just seen your parents slaughtered by a Muslim soldier. The soldier sees you. You have just reached puberty and you can see the lust in his eyes as he wipes your parents blood from his monobrow and beard. You fear will will rape you right there in front of your parent's corpses. Praise Allah, Islam forbids such barbaric acts. It also forbids the soldier from having sex with the dead corpse of your parents (unless of course he was permitted to have sex with them when they were alive, which could technically apply to your mother if your father was killed first).
Instead, the soldier takes you home and cares for you and treats you with dignity. And of course he rapes you, over and over again. You may not realise it at the time (as you lack Abu's wisdom) but this is a good thing, as it raises your status almost as high as that of your serial rapist's wife (who he may also rape). If you give birth to a son, you are even granted freedom, but you obviously have to wait until your serial rapist dies, as he needs you to have sex with while he is alive. If you die first, he may continue to have sex with you (but obviously not if you were menstruating at the time of death, as that would be gross).
You get to help your serial rapist raise your children and turn the into good Muslims. You can help him beat them for not praying. This does not last long as your daughters can me married off to an old man before they reach puberty. You get to watch your sons learn to rape and pillage, just like their father.
One sure fire way to avoid being regularly raped is to get a fistula while giving birth. This is still common in many Muslim societies, because the age of consent is puberty and the purpose of sex is breeding more Muslims. If a girl gives birth at a young age, her birth canal can tear through to the bladder and colon. This results in continual seepage of urine and faeces from the vagina. These days it can be treated. Even so, it often goes untreated in Muslim societies for cultural reasons, as it is considered part of the general humiliation of being a woman.
This is not a long forgotten dark past. This is life for many women, even today. It is the future, if Muslims like Abu and Falah get their way.