Rape - Taking Whatever Your Right Hand Possesses is Criminal

Also (forbidden are) women already married, except those (captives and slaves) whom your right hands possess. Thus has Allah ordained for you. All others are lawful, provided you seek (them in marriage) with Mahr (bridal money given by the husband to his wife at the time of marriage) from your property, desiring chastity, not committing illegal sexual intercourse, so with those of whom you have enjoyed sexual relations, give them their Mahr as prescribed; but if after a Mahr is prescribed, you agree mutually (to give more), there is no sin on you. Surely, Allah is Ever All-Knowing, All-Wise. Quran 4:24.

            Under Sharia law, women prisoners can be taken captive.[1] Muhammad approved of women being taken captive for ransom and sex.[2] This permitted having sex with Christian and Jewish women that their right hands possessed.[3] It also resulted in the imprisonment of other’s and theft of their possessions’.[4]

Furthermore, allowing for an exception to take whatever your right hand possesses[5] by raping women or seizing another's property[6] is an attack on one's personhood and property which defiles an individual's right to life, liberty, and property.

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[1] Hadith Muslim 8:3325.

[2] Hadith Muslim 8:3371; 8:3377; 8:3433; Abu-Dawud 31:4006; Muwatta 28.14.35.

[3] Hadith Muwatta 28.16.38a.

[4] Hadith Abu-Dawud 19:3000.

[5] Hadith Bukhari 59:524,610; 89:321.

[6] Quran 17:64.