The Arabic manual, titled Questions And Answers On Taking Captives And Slaves, instructs IS fighters on how to buy and sell women and girls who have been captured in war as booty.
According to Mailonline, The document, published by the Research and Fatwa Department of IS, gives its fighters the green light to turn captured women into slaves and concubines, and even give them as gifts to one another.
It was circulated on the Twitter accounts of senior IS leaders and on Friday was distributed by masked IS fighters outside a large mosque in Iraq’s second city Mosul, which is controlled by the group.
The document has been obtained by the Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute and translated into English.
In the guide, one question asks:
‘Is it permissible to have intercourse with a female slave who has not reached puberty?’
The response is:
‘It is permissible to have intercourse with the female slave who hasn’t reached puberty if she is fit for intercourse.’
Another asks:
‘Is it permissible to sell a female captive?’
The response is: ‘
It is permissible to buy, sell, or give as a gift female captives and slaves, for they are merely property, which can be disposed of.’
The document says that all ‘unbelieving’ women, including Jews and Christians, can be taken as captives and sold as slaves. However, it prohibits the enslavement of Muslim women, even if they have become apostates.
The pamphlet allows masters to beat their female slaves, but only as a disciplinary measure, and not as a source of gratification. The master is also forbidden from beating his slave-girl on the face.
Haras Rafiq, an expert at British counter-terrorism think-tank the Quilliam Foundation, said:
‘It is a sick and disgusting document, and it takes the world back to the Dark Ages.
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