{"id":7689,"date":"2011-06-12T08:47:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T04:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=7689"},"modified":"2011-07-16T12:30:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T08:30:14","slug":"kuwait-what-century-are-we-in-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-society\/kuwait-what-century-are-we-in-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait Concubines: What Century Are We in Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/salwa-640x480.jpg\"><\/a><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/salwa-640x4801.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7694\" title=\"salwa-640x480\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/salwa-640x4801-e1307854265793.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/salwa-640x4801-e1307854265793.jpg 498w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/salwa-640x4801-e1307854265793-145x92.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a>Remarkably, Salwa Al Mutairi, a \u201cfemale political activist\u201d and a former parliamentary candidate has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuwaittimes.net\/read_news.php?newsid=NzQ3NzY0MzE=\">called <\/a>for the introduction and:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;provision of enslaved female concubines for Muslim men in Kuwait in a bid&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>to:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; protect those men from committing adultery or corruption.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, you see, she has been told that some rich Muslim men \u2018feared\u2019 being seduced:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; into immoral behavior by the beauty of their female servants, or even of those servants \u2018casting spells\u2019 on them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Therefore \u2013 clearly \u2013 it would:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; be better to purchase women from an \u2018enslaved maid\u2019 agency for sexual purposes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clearly.<\/p>\n<p>She seems to have thought it all through: these elslaved women would be rented out as maids are today by an agency. She even notes a potential source for these enslaved women:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These maids could be brought as prisoners of war in war-stricken nations like Chechnya to be sold on later to devout merchants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>None of this is, apparently forbidden by religious law:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; Caliph Haroun Al-Rashid (766-809 AD) was married to one woman but possessed 200 concubines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Good to know.<\/p>\n<p>The mind, as they say, boggles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVID ROBERTS: &#8216;Concubines&#8217; are the solution to protecting Kuwaiti men from &#8220;..adultery and corruption,&#8221; according to a female Kuwaiti political activist.  Great idea, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":7694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,90,5],"tags":[6207,18315,191,2194,7389,7388,133,177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}