Confused?
Allow me to clear it up for you.
Salwa al-Mutairi, a former candidate for Kuwait’s Parliament (she lost, scoring less than one-fifth of one percent of the vote) mused about how Muslim men can be spared fom commiting adulterly by taking captured infidel women as sex-slaves (Al Arabiya via Middle Eastern Forum).
A Muslim state must [first] attack a Christian state—sorry, I mean any non-Muslim state—and they [the women, the future sex-slaves] must be captives of the raid. Is this forbidden? Not at all; according to Islam, sex slaves are not at all forbidden. Quite the contrary, the rules regulating sex-slaves differ from those for free women [i.e., Muslim women] . . .
Now, before we all get carried away, keep in mind that (1) 99.8% of Kuwaitis in District 4 rejected her candidacy and (2) even the boss of the anglophone division of Al Arabiya thought this was nuts.
There was, however, one line of hers that could have a dramatic impact half-a-world away:
In the Chechnyan war, surely there are female Russian captives. So go and buy those and sell them here in Kuwait; better that than have our men engage in forbidden sexual relations.
I suspect that statement will easily reach Moscow before March’s presidential elections . . . meaning Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s campaign for a third term is practically a done deal.
Cross-posted to Bearing Drift
