Friday, June 17, 2011

Another reason I'm glad I'm a Christian

Apparently, a woman in Kuwait is recommending sexual slavery for Russian women captured by Islamist rebels in Chechnya as a means of helping Muslim men avoid sexual immorality and temptation.  Because evidently in some portions of historic Islam, if you do it with your slave, it's OK, but if you do it with a free woman, you have to marry her, and somehow that's bad, even though Islam allows up to four wives.

(think about this if you ever view art of the "Orientalist" school--what is really going on behind those scenes was truly appalling, to put it mildly)

Suffice it to say that I'm glad that Moses prohibited sexual slavery for captive women, but rather provided for a period of mourning for her family before she became a wife to the man.  See Deuteronomy 21:10-14, and note also that the Torah prohibits brutality to this woman.  I'm guessing that many woman of the Canaanite women, freed from the brutality of Canaanite fertility gods and allowed to take part in Torah Judiasm, rather liked this provision from Moses, and I look forward to meeting some of them in Heaven.

On another note, no mea culpa.  Obviously.

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