This is horrifying beyond belief. And, no, what ISIS is doing is not comparable

[Syzygy321]

89. Yeah, I read that earlier today....

And

(here is where I may be accused of bigotry)

the fact is that mohammed and his men really did take females as war booty and share them out. And when asked, he told his men that war booty was halal (allowable) for sex.

That wouldnt be a problem if Islam had ever severed itself from its wacky seventh-century roots... but it refuses to. See, Mohammed is all-but-worshipped, and a major stipulation of the religion is that one should try to copy his actions and follow his edicts.

So the ISIS guys are pretty well justified in what they are doing.

OTOH: some imams will say that Mohammed's history of taking sex slaves is tempered or negated by other hadiths: ones that insist on good treatment of slaves.

Basically, normal Muslims are kinda embarrassed about the raping-murdering Muslims, and work hard to find reasons why the raping-murdering parts of the Quran and hadiths are not applicable - or are misunderstood.

But Muslima never want to face what i think is the central issue, which is this:

By saying it is Sunnah (recommended) to do what big Mo did, the religion has chained itself to the sayings and actions of a seventh-century warlord. And while he was probably more enlightened than a lot of ancient warlords, he really wasn't twenty-first century material, no matter how hard you squint at the pages.

In sum: the whole slave-rape thing is pretty damn problematic for Muslims, if they think about it honestly without shirking (hah, pun-intended, for those who get it!). They mostly hand-wave it though, in my experience. As they do with many many unjust things.

But as problematic as it is for Muslims, it is way more so for Yazidis...