By Uzay Bulut, European Conservative. (photo: UnSplash)
The uncomfortable truth is that the practice of sexual abuse and enslavement is condoned by Islamic scriptures.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorists invaded Israel. They murdered 1,200 people, burned families alive, and wounded over 5,000. They tortured and raped women, and abducted roughly 250 hostages, including babies, children and women, many of whom were later killed.
The world watched in horror, shocked by the astonishing brutality. But this was not the first instance of jihadists kidnapping and enslaving Jewish women and families. In fact, the first victims of Islamic sexual slavery were Jewish women and girls in Arabia during the seventh century.
Arab Muslims’ first military target was Arabia, which was then home to a thriving Jewish community. For almost a thousand years, Jews had lived in the Arabian Peninsula’s oases of Teyma, Khaybar, and Yathrib (later known as Medina).
Islam’s treatment of Jews was violent and annihilationist from the start. Muhammed eliminated the Jewish tribes of Medina, namely the Banu Qaynuqa, Banu Nadir, and Banu Qurayza tribes.
After the Banu Qaynuqa were invaded, they were expelled by Muhammed in 624. Muslims then took the community’s property as their war booty. A year later, the Banu Nadir Jews were expelled by Muslims.
Muhammad and his associates then attacked and subdued the prosperous Jewish tribe Banu-Mustaliq near Mecca in 626. Men were slaughtered, and the “booty” included women. Juwayriyya was considered the most beautiful captive. She was the daughter of the Banu al-Mustaliq’s leader, and she was taken as a “bride” for Muhammad himself.
The Banu Qurayza were besieged in 627 by Muslims under Muhammed’s leadership for 25 days until they eventually surrendered. The Jewish men were killed, their property divided, and the women and children taken as slaves. Nearly all male members of the tribe who had reached puberty were shackled and beheaded.
A year later, Muhammed led Muslims in the massacre of the Jews residing in Arabia’s town of Khaybar. After the attack, Muhammed and other Muslims took the surviving women as slaves or wives. The Muslim invaders charged the surviving Jews a 50 percent tax on their crops. In 637, after Muhammad’s death, the Caliph Omar expelled the remaining Jews from Khaybar.