One of the features of Islam is that it regulates institutions and makes it contractual. Slavery is an institution like marriage and prostitution. The Koran makes marriage contractual, has never forbidden slavery and allows you to have slave girls who can choose to manumit themselves through prostitution.
24:33
And let those who find not the financial means for marriage keep themselves chaste, until Allah enriches them of His Bounty. And such of your slaves as seek a writing (of emancipation), give them such writing, if you know that they are good and trustworthy. And give them something yourselves out of the wealth of Allah which He has bestowed upon you. And force not your maids to prostitution, if they desire chastity, in order that you may make a gain in the (perishable) goods of this worldly life. But if anyone compels them (to prostitution), then after such compulsion, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful (to those women, i.e. He will forgive them because they have been forced to do this evil action unwillingly).
The taking of slave girls is a well-established convention of war going back to Trojan times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briseis
In Greek mythology, Briseis, a daughter of Briseus, was a princess of Lyrnessus. Briseis was said to have had long golden hair, blue eyes, and fair skin and she was considered to be very beautiful and clever. Her husband was Mynes. When Achilles led the assault on Lyrnessus during the Trojan War, she was captured and her family (including her father, mother, three brothers and husband) died at his hands. She was subsequently given to Achilles as a war prize to be his concubine. In the Trojan War, captive women like Briseis were regarded as slaves and could be traded amongst the warriors.
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| Achilles' surrender of Briseis to Agamemnon, from the House of the Tragic Poet in Pompeii, fresco, 1st century AD, now in the Naples National Archaeological Museum |
Islamophobes will see no contradiciton in claiming that Achilles was both semi-divine and heroic while regarding Muslims practising the same ancient and well-established convention of warfare as barbaric and base.
Batten calls Islam "totalitarian" and equates it with Nazism and Communism even though it has been said that 2:256 of the Koran was the basis for the First Amendment.
http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-first-amendment-was-derived-from.html
It is in fact Christianity that is "totalitarian" since the Doctrine of the Trinity is all about establishing the principle that if you don't believe that an executed revolutionary is the co-equal of the eternal and supreme Abrahamic God, you ain't Christian and only good Christians go to heaven.
He goes on to say that all Muslim countries are "repressive regimes and in conflict internally". Libya was doing fine until NATO decided to topple Gaddafi and steal its oil. It is not exactly unknown for the West to practise a system of divide and rule to get the different factions of a country fighitng each other and pay mercenaries to destabilise and overthrow established governments who are not deemed democratic by the West.
Russia is technically a liberal democracy, but that does not prevent Western media insisting that Putin is a dictator operating a repressive and corrupt regime.
Batten says Muslims are responsible for "industrialised sexual exploitation for money for their own perverted purposes". Is doing something for money a perverted purpose? He claims Muslims have "an ideological justification" for being pimps (which is another term for sex trafficker). I wonder which verse in the Koran he is referring to!
Islam, he says is a "death cult". What is a "death cult" anyway? While Islamophobes are happy to equate "death cult" with Islam, the more objective might care to remember that Islam is one of the three Abrahamic faiths. Can the Islamophobes who call Islam a "death cult" give another example of one, or was the term invented specially and only for Islam?
UKIP would repeal hate speech guidelines, abolish the Equality Act of 2010, shut down the Equalities and Human Rights Commission and the government Equalities Office. (I am actually in favour of this.)
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