Boston University Professor Defends Islamic State Sex Slavery

[Ptarmigan]

Boston University Professor Defends Islamic State Sex Slavery
http://drrichswier.com/2015/08/22/boston-university-professor-defends-islamic-state-sex-slavery/

“In focusing on current abuses in the Middle East, perpetrated by those claiming the mantle of Islam, Americans — whose Constitution continues to permit enslavement as punishment for crime — deflect attention from partial U.S. responsibility for the current crisis in Iraq. Sanctions followed by military invasion and its brutal aftermath laid the groundwork for the situation Callimachi describes.” See, the Islamic State doesn’t practice sex slavery because it is sanctioned in the Qur’an and Sunnah, but because the U.S. did bad things in Iraq. This is what passes for analysis on most university campuses these days. Much more below.

“The Truth About Islam and Sex Slavery History Is More Complicated Than You Think,” by Kecia Ali, Huffington Post, August 19, 2015 (thanks to David):

…Others scholars point out that just because the Quran acknowledges slavery and early Muslims, including the Prophet, practiced it doesn’t mean Muslims must always do so; indeed, the fact that slavery is illegal and no longer practiced in nearly all majority-Muslim societies would seem to settle the point. It is one thing for committed religious thinkers to insist that scripture must always and everywhere apply literally, but it is ludicrous for purportedly objective scholars to do so. Anyone making that argument about biblical slavery would be ridiculed.

Folks, this is what liberalism/leftism does to people. The left is just as dangerous as the Islamists.

More reason the left needs to be dealt with like Islamists.

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, Americans — whose Constitution continues to permit enslavement as punishment for crime

I agree that is AWFUL. We should put criminals, especially the worst ones like serial killers, in the professor's guest bedroom.

[Chris_]

The worst kind of Western incarceration "slavery" still offers food, shelter, medical care, and education in exchange for stamping out license plates or clearing ditches.  That's so much worse than the caning, whipping, and stoning they carry out in Saudi Arabia and other Muslim-governed countries.