The ongoing revelations of Muslim “grooming gangs” targeting young white girls for sexual exploitation in the UK is as old as Islam itself, and even traces back to Muhammad.
Much literary evidence attests to this in the context of Islam’s early predations on Eastern and Greek Europeans. According to Ahmad M. H. Shboul (author of Byzantium and the Arabs: The Image of the Byzantines as Mirrored in Arabic Literature) the Eastern Roman Empire (“Byzantium”) was the “classic example of the house of war,” or Dar al-Harb — that is, the quintessential realm that needs to be conquered by jihad. Moreover, it was seen “as a symbol of military and political power and as a society of great abundance.”
The similarities between pre-modern Islamic views of Eastern Rome and modern Islamic views of the West — powerful, affluent, desirable, but also the greatest of all infidels — should be evident. But they do not end here. To the medieval Muslim mindset, Byzantium was further representative of “white people” — fair- haired/-eyed Christians, or, as they were known in Arabic, Banu al-Asfar, “children of yellow” (reference to blonde hair).
Continues Shboul:
While the essence of the above excerpt is true, the reader should not be duped by its overly “romantic” tone. Written for a Western academic publication by an academic of Muslim background, the essay is naturally euphemistic to the point of implying that being a sex slave was desirable — as if her Arab owners were enamored devotees who merely doted over and admired her beauty from afar.
Up Close and Very Personal
Indeed, Muhammad asked a new convert “Would you like the girls of Banu al-Asfar?” as a way to entice him to join the jihad and reap its rewards — which, in this case, included the possibility of enslaving and raping fair women — not as some idealistic discussion on beauty.
European slave girls were not “highly valued” or “appreciated” as if they were precious statues: They were held out as sexual trophies to entice Muslims to the jihad.
This enticement seems to have backfired with another Muslim who refused Muhammad’s call to invade Byzantine territory (the Tabuk campaign). “O Abu Wahb,” cajoled Muhammad, “would you not like to have scores of Roman women and men as concubines and servants?” Wahb responded: “O Messenger of Allah, my people know that I am very fond of women and, if I see the women of the Romans, I fear I will not be able to hold back. So do not tempt me by them, and allow me not to join and, instead, I will assist you with my wealth.”
The prophet agreed but was apparently unimpressed (after all, Wahb could have all the women he desired if the jihad succeeded) and a new Sura for the Koran (9:49) was promptly delivered, condemning the man to hell for his reported hypocrisy and failure to join the jihad.
Thus a more critical reading of Shboul’s aforementioned excerpt finds that European slave girls were not “highly valued” or “appreciated” as if they were precious statues: They were held out as sexual trophies to entice Muslims to the jihad.
Slavery Is Slavery
Moreover, the idea that some sex slaves became mothers to future caliphs is meaningless since in Islam’s patriarchal culture, mothers — regardless of whether they are Muslim or not — were irrelevant in lineage and had no political status. And talk of “litterateurs and poets” and “a body that is like camphor or a flood of dazzling light” is further anachronistic and does a great disservice to reality: These women were — as they still are — sex slaves, treated no differently than the many other kinds of slaves under the Islamic State.
For example, during a sex slave auction held by the Islamic State, blue- and green-eyed Yazidi girls were much coveted and fetched the highest prices. Even so, these concubines were cruelly tortured. In one instance, a Muslim savagely beat his Yazidi slave’s one-year-old child until she submitted to his sexual demands.
Another relevant parallel between medieval and modern Islamic views exists: White women were and continue to be seen as sexually promiscuous by nature — essentially “provoking” Muslim men into lusting after and raping them.
Revisionist Muslim History
Much of this is discussed in Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs by Nadia Maria El Cheikh. She writes:
After explaining how the fair-haired/-eyed Byzantine woman exemplified Islam’s femme fatale of fitna, Cheikh writes:
Cheikh documents how Muslims claimed that these white Christian females were the “most shameless women in the whole world”; that, “because they find sex more enjoyable, they are prone to adultery”; that “adultery is commonplace in the cities and markets of Byzantium” — so much so that “the nuns from the convents went out to the fortresses to offer themselves to monks.”
Concludes Cheikh:
Prime Hunting Grounds
Based on all the above, some historic facts emerge: The Eastern Roman Empire was long viewed by early Muslims as the most powerful, advanced, and wealthy “infidel” empire, one highly desired — just like modern Islamic views of the West today. And “white women” were long viewed as the “femme fatale” of Islam —from a carnal perspective, the most desired, and from a pious perspective, the most despised of women.
All throughout Europe — particularly in Nordic nations — thousands of “Byzantine-type” women have been violently raped and egregiously beaten by Muslims.
Today, we find all these same patterns at work — including the idea that “white women” are naturally promiscuous and provoke pious Muslim men into raping them. According to a decade-old report, while a Muslim man raped a British woman, he told her that “you white women are good at it” — thereby echoing that ancient Islamic motif concerning the alleged promiscuity of white women.
In other words, what’s going on in the UK is hardly new, though it has for long been hushed up.
In fact, all throughout Europe — particularly in Nordic nations — thousands of “Byzantine-type” women have been violently raped and egregiously beaten by Muslims. In Norway, Denmark, and especially Sweden — where fair hair and eyes predominate — rape has astronomically risen since those nations embraced the doctrine of multiculturalism and opened their doors to tens of thousands of Muslim immigrants.
According to Gatestone Institute, “Forty years after the Swedish parliament unanimously decided to change the formerly homogenous Sweden into a multicultural country, violent crime has increased by 300% and rapes by 1,472%.” The overwhelming majority of rapists are Muslim immigrants. The epidemic is so bad that some blonde Scandinavian women are dying their hair black in the hopes of warding off potential Muslim predators.
Approved Islamic Practice Today
Nor is this phenomenon a product of chance; some modern Muslims actually advocate for it. Back in 2011, a female politician and activist trying to combat sexual immorality in Kuwait suggested that Muslims import white sex slaves. After explaining how she once asked Islamic clerics living in the city of Mecca about the legality of sex slavery and they all confirmed it to be perfectly legitimate, she explained:
As for what sort of “infidel” women are ideal, the Kuwaiti activist suggested Russian women (most of whom are fair-haired and -eyed. Ironically, Russia is often seen as Byzantium’s successor):
In short, the ongoing epidemic in the UK and many other European nations — whereby Muslim men sexually target white women — is as old as Islam, has precedents with the prophet and his companions, and, till this day, is being recommended as a legitimate practice by some in the Muslim world.
Published originally under the title “Why Certain Non-Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.”
