:bism: (In the Name of God, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful)
I'd also like to point out one important thing that makes Islam quite different if I haven't implicitly stressed that or made clear that distinction because it is an important one within the context of our discourse:
In human nature, and I'm speaking generally, for a man, to distribute his love among different women concurrently is not hard; however, it is nearly impossible for a woman to do the same as she desires only one man to truly love her and to whom she can give
all her love. Generally, women are susceptible to words and actions of a man whereas men are seduced at first glance with a woman's figure, outward appearance, and mannerisms. Generally, men give love to get sex, but women give sex to get love. This means that if true noble Islamic character really did manifest in Muslim men, then, yes, women's emotions would be swayed favorably towards the men under whose protection they are afforded basic necessities and a status akin to a family member in the household even if the original reason for their status quo is war; and it should not be hard for us to imagine that both men and women in this situation can find themselves falling for another despite the adverse circumstances. Intercourse typically also has been an avenue in war or any near death experience of affirming life in face of the unfortunate other not so surviving. And forbidden romance contexts made Romeo and Juliet lovers instead of enemies, let's remember.
In Islam, let's also remember the woman, apart from having the right to accept or reject copulation, if she accepts to have a physical relationship, has a similar position to the wife like Biblical Hajar without the status of a wife. Therefore, the woman cannot be shared with others as she is regarded a trust given to man from God to look after just as one would any other family members. The woman's welfare and life are to be afforded protection from any internal or external harm or threat even at the cost to the man's own life because the real "man" in Islam is envisioned as one whose life in action is about keeping promises and honoring the trusts of God as per the
Sunnah (prophetic footsteps). Islam emphasizes taking care of even animals to the eminent degree that we're 100% completely responsible for any creation of God under our protection and not taking care of even a cat as one's pet dooms one to Hell-fire.
Conversely, what you'll find on Amnesty International site in terms of articles whether in context of Japan or in Africa is that women typically who were caught in the warfare and made to be slaves were indeed as the term implies "sexual slaves," passed by different officers between themselves, servicing many men sexually as generally there was neither nor is any protection afforded to them nor any security or glimmer of hope for happiness or freedom. This is what being a "sexual slave" means and has meant; it is a dehumanizing experience because only the body is treated as a commodity to be used and abused for men not even paying for the privilege but instead the woman paying the price of having an inner compulsion to stay alive, though many have also committed suicide as a way to seek release from the sexual torture and debasement.
Since it's been brought up and at least exists on the periphery of our minds when we discuss this topic, I'd like to openly address the topic of
Daesh. First and most important to note is that
Daesh is a terrorist organization that is twisted and evil that undoubtedly is cultish and has sociopathic tendencies as well as a desire to prostitute themselves as murderers for fame on the Internet as a means of instilling further terror and disgust in International community.
Daesh have captured non-Muslim women, specifically Yazidi women, and enslaved them; media articles have covered and captioned stories of them being sold on markets like chattel akin to the model of the slave market in the United States hundreds of years ago. I'd also read a self-confessed
Daesh member writing that he thinks these infidels are unclean due to their beliefs and saying derogatory things about these women like they smell and need to take baths. This type of dehumanizing outlook is not what Islam envisions or wants when persons obtained in warfare are afforded protection as slaves because they are a trust from God to man, not rubbish of man for man. Amnesty International has reported that many Yazidi women were
forcibly converted to Islam, which is a
haram (forbidden) action and
also many raped, which is also
haram (forbiddden), and as reported by some news outlets some were
passed around to fighters, which is also
haram (forbidden), and many were so distraught at the brutality they'd witnessed or experienced that
they committed suicide at the earliest available opportunity, all of which are onus on these so-called "men" because their abuse and neglect in parts led to this horrifying impasse. That is
NOT Islam. Islam came to honor and elevate human beings, not humiliate them nor turn them away from the message of Islam with pernicious villainy and sadism. These women will require justice and if not available here then in the hereafter; and their witness and advocate will be God acting also as Judge (in the hereafter).
