Raymond Ibrahim reports on his website:
Salafi Sheikh Yasir al-‘Ajlawni, a Jordanian of origin who earlier lived in Damascus, Syria for 17 years, posted a YouTube video last week where he said he was preparing to issue a “legitimate fatwa” making it legal (in the eyes of Islam) for those Muslims fighting to topple secular president Bashar Assad and install Sharia law to “capture and have sex with” all non-Sunni women, specifically naming Assad’s own sect, the Alawites, as well as the Druze and several others, in short, all non-Sunnis and non-Muslims.
In the modern-day, the so-called religion of peace is adept at dismissing Qur’anic passages dealing with Islam’s heinous treatment of women. When a modern-day Sheikh advocates a Qur’anic instruction permitting precisely what is denied by Islam’s pundits, it is evidence that the religion of peace is anything but that. Here is the Qur’an’s passage that permits Muslim men to practice polygamy along with sexual prerogatives over any women that “your right hands own.”
If you fear that you will not act justly towards the orphans, marry such women as seem good to you, two, three, four; but if you fear you will not be equitable, then only one, or what your right hands own; so it is likelier you will not be partial. Qur’an 4:3 (Arberry translation)
The phrase “what your right hands own” refers to non-Muslim women claimed in victory, i.e., female slaves of war. In Ibrahim’s article, he refers to the fatwa of Sheikh Ajlawni prescribing Qur’anic treatment of Syrian non-Muslim women, victims of the rebellion against Assad. Ibrahim puts it this way:
Islam’s ulema, or “scholars,” are unanimously agreed that “what your right hands possess” is, according to Islamic law, simply a sex-slave. Linguistic evidence further suggests that she is seen more as an animal or a possession than a human—hence this inhuman fatwa.
You might be wondering what this has to do with Bible prophecy? There is but one passage that is specific to the issue of the antichrist’s treatment of women:
Daniel 11:37 (NASB) 37 “He will show no regard for the gods of his fathers or for the desire of women, nor will he show regard for any other god; for he will magnify himself above them all. (Emphasis supplied).
For a complete discussion of the phrase, “He will show no regard … for the desire of women,” see this article. The point is that the antichrist and those who follow him will manifest a treatment toward women that will be disrespectful, abusive, violent and without regard to what a woman desires or considers to be of value. Islam fulfills this prophecy and the current article referenced by Raymond Ibrahim is evidence of Islam’s fulfillment.
When you read things like this, it’s very easy to develop a blanket hatred for Islam, rather than just those twisted sects that foment such vicious thinking. If only peace-loving, 21st-century Muslims could think of a way to rid the earth of worthless animals like these spreaders of hatred, we would ALL be better off!
Deuteronomy 22:28-29 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
So Imaan – is your point that sexual jihad is permissible in Judaism just as it is in Islam? The context and interpretation of the passage you cite (Deuteronomy 22:28-29) has nothing to do with sexual jihad. Also, the passage in the context given was a protection to the virgin by providing forced marriage since she had been violated, and without the ability of her rapist to divorce her at his whim. This was for her protection not abuse. Only Judaism provided such protection. No other religion of that day offered such protection — either to the virgin or to her father (by providing him compensation (50 shekels) so excessive it was considered punitive to the point that no one would rape a virgin he happened upon.