By Aneesa Malik
A Kuwaiti woman and political activist, has called for the use of sex slaves to be legalised- and non-Muslim female prisoners should fulfil this role as concubines.
Salwa al Mutairi argued buying a sex-slave would protect decent, devout and ‘virile’ Kuwaiti men from adultery and buying an imported sex partner would be equal to marriage.
Mutairi recommended that offices could be opened to run the sex trade in the same way that recruitment agencies provide housemaids. And in consideration of the women, she argues that they should at least have reached the age of 15.
Mutairi claimed: ‘There was no shame in it and it is not haram’ (forbidden) under Islamic Sharia law”.
She stated that during a recent visit to Mecca, she asked Saudi muftis – Muslim religious scholars – what the Islamic ruling was on owning sex slaves. They are said to have told her that it is not haram.
The ruling was confirmed by ‘specialized people of the faith’ in Kuwait, she claimed.
‘They said, that’s right, the only solution for a decent man who has the means, who is overpowered by desire and who does not want to commit fornication, is to acquire jawari.’ Jawari is the plural of the Arabic term jariya, meaning ‘concubine’ or ‘sex slave’.
