For the last 30 years, objective critical study of Islam has essentially been forbidden in Western academia. Most work is by those who haven’t studied Islamic law (sharia), much less Arabic, and most of that produced, somewhat understandably, focuses on jihad and terrorism.
However, as Muslims continue to mass migrate to the West and once well-ordered Western societies witness exponential increases in sex crimes, it has become imperative to study and critically assess sexuality within Islam.
The common misconception in the West is that Islam as an institution is sexually conservative; even repressive. This impression flows from the requirements of Muslim women to wear the hijab/niqab/burqa and to stone adulterers; however, this is highly misleading: the institution of Islam is hyper-sexualized with rape and sexual slavery central to Islamic law.
While it is true that the Qur’an requires Muslim women to draw cloaks around them, and that this has morphed into the requirement to don the hijab/niqab/burqa, the specific Qur’anic instruction requires this be done so that Muslim women ‘are recognized and not harmed’ (Surah Al-Azhab 33:59).
Thus, the theological requirement to wear the hijab etc. is not one of modesty per se but one of demarcation; it protects them from Muslim men and prevents them from ‘harm.’
Likewise, stoning adulterers applies to Muslim relationships. It is entirely lawful under sharia for Muslim men to rape slaves.
The Islamic Framework
To fully understand Islam’s rape problem, one must grasp six key Islamic concepts:
First, morality in Islam, particularly Sunni Islam, is entirely shaped by the Qur’an and the Hadith. That is to say, the direct word of their god and the sayings and doings of their prophet, Muhammad, shape the entire Islamic moral framework. What is set out therein is referred to as sharia, or Islamic law, but this is, in many ways, a false distinction: Islam is sharia and sharia is Islam.
Second, as evidenced by the command to demarcate Muslim women, Islam principally delineates humanity into two castes of people: Muslims and non-Muslims.
Third, within this already highly discriminatory framework, Muslim women are treated differently again. While women are discriminated against in a range of areas, from inheritance to their standing as witnesses, there is no concept of consent in inter-Muslim sexual relations.
Fourth, while there is an austere sexual environment for young Muslim men outside of wedlock, particularly for those who are poor, a major and divinely ordained outlet is the sexual slavery of non-Muslim women.
Fifth, prostitution is lawful in Islam under certain conditions. It is specifically provided for in the Qur’an and there is strong evidence to suggest the relevant verse has been relied on by the Muslim rape gangs in the United Kingdom.
Sixth, it is important to understand that Islam is a belief system that leans into carnal pleasures: Contrary to Judaism and Christianity, their heaven, or ‘paradise,’ is simply the promise of lustful worldly desires.
Morality in Islam
Morality in Islam is merely the rules set out by their scriptures. The word ‘morality’ in this context carries no deeper meaning. Whatever is termed ‘halal’ is fine and whatever is termed ‘haram’ is forbidden. It is, quite literally, no more complex than that. Mehdi Hasan, prior to refining his apologia, summed it up perfectly:
‘…in Islam what is halal is halal what is haram is haram. We do not bend our law, our morality… never… We know that keeping the moral high ground is key. Once we lose the moral high ground, we are no different from the rest of non-Muslims, from the rest of those who mean to live their lives as animals, bending any rule to fulfill any desire. Once we do that, we are lost!’ [2]
Thus, a Muslim of good Islamic moral standing is one who follows the law, i.e., sharia, and in so doing does only that which is ‘halal.’ There is no further consideration and, when a Muslim uses the word ‘moral(s),’ there must be a rebuttable presumption the word takes the meaning of ‘conduct in accordance with sharia.’
Muslims and Non-Muslims
Islam is, on a literal construction, the most discriminatory framework ever built with discrimination against non-Muslims a central Qur’anic theme. Selected passages say, among other things:
Non-Muslims are the worst of creatures (Surah Al-Bayyanah 98:6)
Non-Muslims are no better than animals (cattle) (Surah Al-Araaf 7:179)
Non-Muslims are the ‘clear enemy’ (Surah An-Nisa 4:101)—note this is identical terminology used for Satan (e.g. Surah Al-Baqarah 2:208; Surah Ya Sin 36:60)
Non-Muslims wish to lead Muslims astray (Surah 5:41)
Non-Muslims are deluded (Surah 67:20)
Non-Muslims are dirty (Surah At-Tawbah 9:28)
No other religion is acceptable (Surah 3:85)
Former Muslims who do not repent cannot be saved (Surah 9:66)
Non-Muslims are allied against Muslims (Surah At-Tawbah 9:32–33)
Muslims should not be allied to non-Muslims (Surah Al-Ma’idah 5:51)
Muslims should not trust non-Muslims (Surah Al-Mumtahanah 60:1)
Their god has forsaken non-Muslims (Surah Muhammad 47:12)
Their god will punish non-Muslims in a brutal fashion (Surah Al-Hajj 22:19–22)
Their god will punish Muslims who take non-Muslims as friends (Surah Al-Mujaadilah 58:14–15)
Muslims should “cast horror/terror” into disbelievers (Surah Ali Imran 3:151)
As is plain, Islam’s rigid theological doctrine imposes the ultimate ‘in-group–out-group’ moral framework. It is not a case of cherry-picking verses, it is a core irrebuttable theme. On a strict interpretation, there are no ‘human rights’ or even ‘universal rights,’ there are simply rights for Muslims with non-Muslims protected only to the extent they have treaties with Muslims or, in the case of Christians, Jews, and Sabaeans (now extinct), are subjugated and pay to the Muslims a yearly tax (the jizya) (Surah At-Tawbah 9:29).
Inter-Muslim Sexual Relations
Most will recognize that Muslim men may have four wives (Surah An-Nisa 4:3) and most will also recognize that Muslim men may beat their wives (Surah An-Nisa 4:34).
However, what is almost totally absent from discourse is the fact that Muslim men may, on a strict interpretation of sharia, rape their wives:
‘Your women are fertile soil for you so go to your fertile soil* as you wish and send before and fear God and know that you will meet him and give good tidings to believers.’ (Surah Al-Baqarah 2:223) [*the word is ‘tilth’ which is tilled soil i.e., soil conditioned for growing crops.]
Thus, sharia provides that sexual relations between a married Muslim man and Muslim woman are not conditional on consent and, if a wife rebels, for example, does not allow intercourse to occur, the husband, on a literal reading of Sura An-Nisa 4:34, has divine authority to beat her.
Many may struggle to accept the existence of such a moral framework but of all the MENAPT countries (Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Turkey), founded on sharia as they are, only Tunisia expressly provides a criminal sanction for the act of spousal rape.
Additionally, sharia provides that sexual maturity for girls is nine years of age. Although there is some further discourse about maturity of mind and body, the Qur’an makes plain a prepubescent girl can be married (Surah At-Talaq 1; 64-65), there is a significant body of Hadith traced through Aishah (one of Muhammad’s many wives) that Muhammad had sex with her when she was nine (Sahih al-Bukhari 3896; 5133; 5134; 5158; Sahih Muslim 1422a; 1422b; 1422d).
Many in the West simply cannot comprehend that the Islamic construct of morals permits a fully grown man to have sex with a nine-year-old child whether she wants to or not but that is simply the way it is. It is ‘halal’ and therefore it is moral. That is the Islamic moral universe. This framework is so antithetical to our Western morality, founded on Christianity as it is and refined by millennia of European philosophy, that most simply cannot comprehend this objective evil, let alone define and recognize it. It is so frightening that, to many, it is best ignored.
Which brings us to another ugly point. In sharia, there is no word for ‘rape.’ Instead, there is the concept of Zina which roughly takes the meaning ‘unlawful sexual intercourse.’
There is a body of sharia concerning Zina drawn from the Qur’an and Hadith but, for Muslim male-female relations, it is sufficient to say that unmarried individuals face 100 lashes (Surah An-Nur 24:2), an unmarried Muslim with a married Muslim could additionally face exile and married Muslims are to be stoned to death (Sahih Muslim 1697/1698a).
However, what does not fall within Zina is sexual intercourse with slaves—this is not unlawful within sharia. In fact, it is morally right.
Sexual Relations with Non-Muslims
Arguably the largest gap in modern discourse is the fact that slavery is not just a quaint relic of Islam, it is central to it. It is referenced throughout the Qur’an with the focus on sexual relations between Muslim men and their female slaves.
Muslims are, by theological doctrine, slaves to their god. It’s why so many are called ‘Abdul,’ followed by one of the many names of their god, which translates to ‘slave of god.’ Non-Muslims, on the other hand, are unclean (Sura At-Tawba 9:28), forsaken by the god of Islam (Sura al-Mu’minum 47:12), no better than cattle (Sura Al-Araaf 7:179), and are, in fact, the worst of creatures (Sura Al-Bayyana 98:6). They are subordinate to Muslims in every way and may be taken as slaves by Muslims.
Slavery in Islam is incredibly different from the understanding of slavery in the West. In the Western psyche, when images of slavery are conjured, they are commonly associated with the use of black men to pick cotton and black women as house help. The concept of slavery is very different in Islam, flowing as it does from killing all male combatants and enslaving their women and children which become ‘booty.’ Central to it is sexual slavery where Muslim men may do as they please to non-Muslim female slaves.
For example, many in the United Kingdom will be familiar with the current discourse about cousin marriage in the Pakistani community. This flows from Surah An-Nisa 4:23, which provides a precise listing of the types of women forbidden to Muslim men and cousins are not on it; they are therefore ‘halal.’ What does not currently form part of that discussion is the next verse which, much more egregiously, prescribes that Muslim men may have sex with their slaves, even if those females are already married.
The consequence of that verse is that a Muslim man may rape his female slaves as often as he desires without fear of consequence from his god, even if that female slave is already married and even if that slave is as young as nine. This is reflected elsewhere in the Qur’an, for example, Surah al-Mu’minun 23:1-6 and Surah Al-Ma’arij 70:28-30, which both expressly provide Muslim men will be successful/free from punishment where they have sexual relations with their slaves.
In classical Islamic jurisprudence, slaves are generally only permissible through conquest. Islam apologists often state women and children are not to be killed in war and, while Hadith validate this argument (Sahih al-Bukhari 3014; Sahih Muslim 1744b), what they do not tell you is their fate is worse than death: Women and children are to be taken as slaves (Sahih al-Bukhari 4024).
Of course, many will rightly point out that we in the West are not ‘at war’ with Islam and thus this element of sharia is redundant. While it is true that the West is not at war with Islam, it is also an inescapable fact that Islam is, by theological doctrine, at war with the West. While a larger topic, it is sufficient to note the Qur’an gives global dominion to Islam (e.g., Surah Al-Baqarah 2:115; 255; Surah An-Nisa 4:131; Surah At-Tawbah 9:33), multiple verses directly command Muslims to fight non-believers (e.g., Surah An-Nisa 4:76; Surah At-Tawbah 9:29; 73) and Muhammad is quoted in Hadith as saying he was ‘…ordered to fight all of mankind until they say there is no god except god…’ (Sahih al-Bukhari 392).
Taken together, this branch of sharia places the West into what is referred to as the Dar al-Harb, which roughly translates to the Abode of War. Although without a strict Qur’anic basis, this doctrine splits the world in two i.e., Dar al-Islam (the Islamic world) and Dar al-Harb. The latter is to be conquered, subjugated and forced into Dar al-Islam.
This approach to conquest and women is not just abstract theology; it plays out in the real world backed up by no less than 1,400 years of well-documented history. The most obvious modern example being the genocide of the Yazidis in Iraq by the Islamic State followed by the sexual slavery of their women and children. In that case, there have at least been some prosecutions in Germany for Crimes Against Humanity but far from enough.[3]
Prostitution in Islam
Perhaps the most troubling verse in the Qur’an is Surah An-Nur 24:33. This verse provides that a Muslim man may force his young slave girls into prostitution for money provided she does not wish to remain chaste (and it logically follows if she is not chaste already then she cannot wish to remain so). If there is no money involved, it appears the qualification of chastity is removed and the Muslim man may simply force her into prostitution. It sets out a very precise test and there is clear evidence it has been deployed by Muslim men in the United Kingdom. In fact, this verse explains the entire typology of sexual slavery and enforced prostitution illustrated by the Muslim Rape Gangs (aka the Grooming Gangs).
Islam’s Paradise
As is perhaps unsurprising for an ideology born in the desert, paradise in Islam includes luscious terrain, flowing rivers and, crucially, wine and maidens (Huris). The Qur’an is replete with references to marrying Muslim men to these ‘Huris’ (Surah Ad-Dukhaan 44:54; Surah At-tur 52:20), untouched by man or jinn (Islamic spirits) (Surah Ar-Rahman 55:56; Surah Ar-Rahmaan 55:74) who will have eyes like pearls as a reward for the Muslim men’s earthly deeds (Surah Al-Waaqiah 56:22-24; Surah As-Saaffaat 37:48).
What we in the West view as debauched desires form the basis of heaven in Islam. An objective cynic might observe that these revelations concerning sexual slavery and paradise tapped into the fact Muhammad’s male followers, it seems, were motivated to fight by the reward of sex, either in this world or the next. This is particularly the case when read against Surah al-Baqarah 2:216, which betrays the fact Muhammad’s male followers did not enjoy fighting and had to be compelled by their god to do so.
Europe’s Rape Problem
After the Second World War, for reasons that cannot be sensibly explained,[4] Muslims have been permitted to self-import en masse into western Europe. The last 30 years have seen an exponential increase with waves upon waves of male, fighting-age illegal migrants from Muslim countries supplementing unsustainable levels of legal migration from the same.
These illegal migrants are often of little means and their education and morality, unsurprisingly, flows from religious education in their home jurisdiction. Their moral universe, which can only be objectively described as deeply supremacist, includes the following:
They are now in the Dar Al-Harb.
Their ultimate reward in paradise includes sex.
Non-Muslims are slave material.
There is no concept of consent for having sex with slaves.
Girls as young as nine are permissible.
Sharia takes primacy over man-made laws i.e., the laws of the land.
It is even reasonable to conclude that raping European females is a driving factor for some migrants given Qur’anic exegesis gives Muhammad as personally authorizing the rape of European women, seen as extra seductive, by his subordinate in return for jihad.[5]
This theological doctrine bears out in the evidence. Illustratively, it is not uncommon in court for these Muslim migrants to plead ignorance to the concept of consent as a mitigating factor.[6] In one recent case, a convicted Iranian rapist was sent for lessons in ‘understanding consent.’[7] In another, involving the gang rape of a young woman by an Iranian and two Egyptians, one migrant put it more bluntly, simply saying: ‘Rape to me is sex.’[8]
Thus, when considering the underlying ideology, the almost daily headlines of rape and sexual violence, particularly targeting of young girls, is wholly unsurprising. Most European nations feel it, from the 2015 New Year’s Eve sex attacks in Cologne, Germany, to the almost daily headlines in the UK and wider Europe where Muslim men kidnap girls off the streets and rape them. It is similarly unsurprising that European countries with mass-migration have seen up to 500% increases in rapes since the early 2000s while countries like Poland, which has refused to take migrants, have experienced no material increase.
Moreover, this is not simply a problem for recent illegal immigrants. Taking the United Kingdom as an example, there are over 2,000 mosques and Pakistani communities, famous for practicing cousin marriage and living in ethnic enclaves, as evidenced by census data. You do not need to spend more than five minutes on Google or YouTube to discover sharia views on consent and slavery are being taught in mosques across the UK and polling suggesting a third of British Muslims view the imposition of sharia as desirable.[9]
The logical conclusion of concentrating men with such a moral framework leads to controversies like the UK’s ‘Grooming Gangs’ scandal. Of course, ‘grooming gangs’ is a gross misnomer. They are, in reality, gangs of Muslims engaged in sexual slavery and enforced prostitution of non-Muslim girls, permitted as these acts manifestly are by a literal reading of sharia.
The reality is there is no difference between the ideology these men follow and that of the Islamic State. Contrary to what many politicians would have you believe, Islamic State was simply what it said on the tin: An Islamic state. In other words, Muslims, following Islam in its raw, unfettered form. It is precisely the reason we see Muslims carrying out the same depraved acts i.e., rape, sexual slavery and enforced prostitution, in Europe as they have in the Middle East.
The difference, of course, is that where Western governments were all to keen to take action against the Islamic State, they remain unwilling to grasp the nettle and instead are busily engaged in downplaying the crimes they have visited on their people through mass migration. For example, alleging the perpetrators were involved with drugs and alcohol. Maybe the men did drink, maybe they didn’t. It doesn’t really matter. What matters is these men subsist within a moral framework that permits these acts. Branding victims with initials,[10] beating them,[11] and, in at least three cases, killing them.[12] This is notwithstanding the most depraved sexual activity with children that simply cannot be processed by most Western minds.[13]
And it is far from isolated. An analysis suggests that 1 in 16 Pakistani men Rotherham were suspects.[14] With a circle of knowledge this broad, these acts cannot be anything other than institutional. The scale of these atrocities would simply be impossible in a non-Muslim community. It should similarly come as no surprise that the wives of these men regard white girls as ‘filth’[15] and that the men have reportedly prayed in the next room after raping a victim.[16] What’s worse, Muslim sex slavers have been found to subsist in over 50 British towns and cities.[17]
Of course, apologists and those complicit in the crimes tend to revert to the slogan ‘it’s just bad men,’ deliberately obfuscating the truth. But the evidence speaks for itself:
Afghan migrant Jan Jahanzeb was recorded as saying, moments before he and another Afghan migrant raped a girl he kidnapped: ‘Oh my god, I’m a Muslim in one minute.’ [18]
In another case from 2024, a victim made the following statement:
‘I was only 11. You made me do a test to see if I was still a virgin or not. At that moment my abuse started. You made it sound like it was a crime to be a virgin. You made me feel ashamed of being a virgin. That same day you sent me off and forced me to commit a sexual act and my innocence was stolen. You started to pass me around as if I was a fresh piece of meat, man to man, city to city.’ [19]
As is evident, the Muslim man tested whether his child victim was chaste. Having presumably been a virgin, the Muslim man appears to have then convinced her that she did not wish to be chaste and, apparently successful in this endeavor, immediately started prostituting her out.
It is the exact test for forced prostitution as set out by Qur’an 24:33.
In fact, the typology prescribed by Qur’an 24:33 neatly plays out in every rape gang. That is, as explained by Sir Trevor Phillips OBE, former chair of the United Kingdom’s Equality and Human Rights Commission:
‘The girls are first attracted by usually young men from within those communities. Flash cars, cigarettes, they give them drugs, all the rest of it... and I did… this film 10 years ago, and what the girls tell you, “This is my boyfriend” because they think that is what’s happening. Only later do they discover they’re hooked on drugs, they need the alcohol and all of that and then they’re passed around amongst older men.’ [20]
In other words, a relationship forms between a Muslim man and a young girl. Once he has had sex with her [and she is self-evidently no longer chaste] and has control over her by vice or violence, he pimps her out to dozens of Muslim men. Exactly as verse 24:33. Exactly as sharia permits. This behavior is therefore ‘halal’ and morally virtuous.
That is the truth of the matter. The mass sexual slavery and enforced prostitution of little girls by gangs of Muslim men and the mass rape of women and girls across Europe by Muslim migrants is founded in the institution of Islam. A virulent, hyper-sexualized supremacist ideology that views non-Muslims as chattel for slavery and sexual abuse.
Until we confront the hideous truth that Islam has a rape problem—and confront it we must—the sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, and mass rape of European women and girls will continue.
Jonathan Smith is a contributor at the Ideological Defense Institute.
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Notes
[1] Hardy, Jack. “Chilling Moment Afghan Asylum Seekers Drag 15-year-old Girl Into the Bushes Before Raping Her: Pair Jailed Over ‘horrific’ Attack.” Mail Online, December 8, 2025. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15364309/Teenage-asylum-seekers-raped-15-year-old-schoolgirl-park-filmed-dragged-away-footage-horrifying-cause-riot.html.
[2] Hasan, Mehdi (Tom Marshall), “Mehdi Hasan Says Non-Muslims and Atheists Live Like Cattle,” December 19, 2018,
[3] See, for example, the German case of Taha al-J: 3 StR 230/22
[4] Unless you accept Islamic migration as a deliberate attempt to destroy Christian hegemony.
[5]The tafsir of Ibn Kathir for verse 9:49 is explicit that the prospect of raping European females was permitted in return for jihad.
[6] See, for example, the sentencing remarks in R v. Jahanzeb [2025] [3.5; 3.7], https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/R-v-Jahanzeb-and-Niazal.pdf.
[7] McDonald, Dan. “Migrant Crisis: Iranian Boy, 14, Avoids Jail after Being Convicted of Raping Schoolgirl as Victim’s Family Left ‘Furious.’” GB News, April 25, 2026. https://www.gbnews.com/news/migrant-crisis-iranian-avoids-jail-raping-schoolgirl-victim-family-furious.
[8] Dartford, Katy. “Asylum Seeker Accused of Filming Brighton Beach Rape Claims: ‘Rape Is Sex’” LBC, April 2, 2026. https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/asylum-seeker-brighton-rape-sex-5HjdXHQ_2.
[9] J.L. Partners and Henry Jackson Society, “British Muslim and General Public Attitudes Polling,” April 2024, https://henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HJS-Deck-200324-Final.pdf.
[10] R v. Dogar, June 27, 2013, [54]. https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/JCO/Documents/Judgments/sentencing-remarks-r-v-dogar-others.pdf.
[11] Ibid, [53].
[12] See the cases of Lucy Lowe, Charlene Downes and Becky Watson. NB A fourth victim, Laura Wilson was murdered but not a sex related victim of the gangs—it was her sister. The murder of Becky Watson was denied and instead framed as a prank with no official findings otherwise.
[13] See for example, the sentencing remarks in R v. Dogar, June 27, 2013, [53-54]. https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/JCO/Documents/Judgments/sentencing-remarks-r-v-dogar-others.pdf.
[14] Ashworth-Hayes, Sam. “The True Horror of the Rotherham Grooming Scandal.” The Telegraph, January 13, 2025. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/13/grooming-gang-victims-rotherham/.
[15] Alibhai-brown, Yasmin. “Wives of Men Jailed for Rape Blame the Victims Too.” Daily Mail, September 30, 2017. https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-4936754/Wives-men-jailed-rape-blame-victims-too.html.
[16] Moffett, Rebekah. “New Grooming Gang Report Avoids Discussing Islamic Connection.” Christian Concern, July 15, 2022. https://christianconcern.com/comment/new-grooming-gang-report-avoids-discussing-islamic-connection/.
[17] Chapman, Adam. “MAPPED: The 50 Towns and Cities in Britain Rocked by Grooming Gangs Abuse—Is YOUR Area Included?” GB News, January 6, 2025. https://www.gbnews.com/news/uk/starmer-grooming-gangs-uk-areas.
[18] Hardy, Jack. “Chilling Moment Afghan Asylum Seekers Drag 15-year-old Girl Into the Bushes Before Raping Her: Pair Jailed Over ‘horrific’ Attack.” Mail Online, December 8, 2025. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15364309/Teenage-asylum-seekers-raped-15-year-old-schoolgirl-park-filmed-dragged-away-footage-horrifying-cause-riot.html.
[19] Patrick Christy quoting a grooming gang survivor in the sentencing of R v. Saddiq and Ors [2024] (citation unavailable and case name approximated).
[20] Trevor Philips. “Why White Victims of Grooming Gangs Is Different, ‘They Covered It Up’.” Times Radio, March 5, 2026.
Jonathan Smith is a contributor to the Ideological Defense Institute
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