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====Enslavement, Ransoming, and Exchange of Prisoners of War====
As was the common practice in medieval times, Islam actually categorizes prisoners of war booty. As such, when [[Muhammad]] and his armies would be victorious in a battle, the captured male POWs could be returned to their tribes for a ransom, could be exchanged for Muslim prisoners, could be enslaved, or could be freed. "Another form of ransom assumed an educational dimension; most of the Makkans, unlike the Madinese, were literate and so each prisoner who could not afford the ransom was entrusted with ten children to teach them the art of writing and reading. Once the child had been proficient enough, the instructor would be set free." [http://users.mo-net.com/mcruzan/pows_01.htm] Women and children who were captured and made prisoners of war as WSJ columnist [[Amir Taheri]] reports, "non-Muslim women and children captured in war would become the property of their Muslim captors. Female captives could be taken as [[concubines]] or given as gifts to Muslims. The children, brought up as Muslims, would enjoy Islamic rights." [http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110005708] The Qur'an speaks in many places (e.g., 33:50) about the permissibility of having intercourse with POWs turned into concubines (euphemistically referred to the Qur'an as "those whome your right hand possess") — a form of [[sexual slavery]]. In modern times, this has led to militant Islamist groups raiding the countryside in places like [[Chechnya]] to carry out kidnapping and ransom, in order to generate revenue for their cause; "In 1997-1998, more than 60 Chechen groupings kidnapped a total of 1,094 people for ransom, and in 1999, 270. The number of hostages kidnapped for ransom still remaining in captivity is estimated to be more than 1,500.No estimate of the total ransom payments received is available." [http://www.saag.org/papers6/paper573.html] In a related matter, another source reports, "Since 9/11, ASG ([[Abu Sayyaf Group]]) has been involved in hundreds of kidnappings, largely victimizing the local populations of the southern Philippines." [http://www.tcf.org/Publications/InternationalAffairs/hydraforweb.pdf] Kidnapping and ransom is a common practice for Islamist terrorist organizations; they often become involved in the international black market in [[human traficing
:''"Slavery is a part of Islam," says Sheik Saleh Al-Fawzan, according to the independent Saudi Information Agency, or SIA. Sheik Al-Fawzan
:''In a lecture recorded on tape by SIA, the sheik said, "Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long there is Islam."
:''His religious books are used to teach 5 million Saudi students, both within the country and abroad, including the United States.'' [http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35518]
One authentic [[hadith]], recorded in [http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/muwatta/mmtintro.html Malik's Muwatta] relates that Muhammad allowed his soldiers to [[rape]] an impregnate female prisoners of war:
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