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| Syrian female refugees via Jihadwatch.org |
“Among the announcements was one publicizing ‘refugee girls of all ages and religious confessions’ to satisfy all applications from Sunnis, Shiites and Christians in a climate of growing religious polarization.”
While Christians may be among the buyers, this practice has justification in Islam: there is the allowance of sex slavery (the “captives of the right hand,” Qur’an 4:3, 4:24, 33:50), and also the idea of temporary marriage. As this article says, “Weddings are mostly just a means of having sexual intercourse with a virgin and subsequently divorce her in just a few days with everything taking place ‘legally.’”
This is an established Shi’ite concept that is also prevalent among some Sunnis. We have seen it taking place among Sunnis in Egypt, and it is also rising among Saudis, even though Sunnis ostensibly reject it.
Shi’ites justify temporary marriage, mutah, by their reading of Qur’an 4:24:
And all married women are forbidden unto you save those captives whom your right hands possess. It is a decree of Allah for you. Lawful unto you are all beyond those mentioned, so that ye seek them with your wealth in honest wedlock, not debauchery. And those of whom ye seek content by marrying them, give unto them their portions as a duty. And there is no sin for you in what ye do by mutual agreement after the duty hath been done. Lo! Allah is ever Knower, Wise.
They see in this marriage as something contracted by means of payment (“give them their portions”) for a specified time by mutual agreement.
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