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  • Just to make us all feel a bit more shit:
    http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.606542

    I suspect that its taken out of context. Rape is, one need recall, a standard weapon of war. Its nothing new. When Muhammad's army took Khybar the army killed the men and "took the women".

    “Safiyah was born in Medinah. She belonged to the Jewish tribe of Banu 'I-Nadir. When this tribe was expelled from Medinah in the year 4 A.H, Huyaiy was one of those who settled in the fertile colony of Khaibar together with Kinana ibn al-Rabi' to whom Safiyah was married a little before the Muslims attacked Khaibar. She was then seventeen. She had formerly been the wife of Sallam ibn Mishkam, who divorced her. One mile from Khaibar. Here the Prophet married Safiyah. She was groomed and made-up for the Prophet by Umm Sulaim, the mother of Anas ibn Malik. They spent the night there. Abu Ayyub al-Ansari guarded the tent of the Prophet the whole night. When, in the early dawn, the Prophet saw Abu Ayyub strolling up and down, he asked him what he meant by this sentry-go; he replied: "I was afraid for you with this young lady. You had killed her father, her husband and many of her relatives, and till recently she was an unbeliever. I was really afraid for you on her account". The Prophet prayed for Abu Ayyub al-Ansari (Ibn Hisham, p. 766) Safiyah had requested the Prophet to wait till he had gone a stage away from Khaibar. "Why?" asked the Prophet. "I was afraid for you on account of the Jews who still happened to be near at Khaibar!"

    The biblical Israelites too "took women" .Both the stories of Dina (in Vayishlach) and later Pinchas in the Torah come to mind. From the Torah we learn that rapists are forced to marry their victims.

    “If a man finds a virgin girl who was not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, then the man who lay with her shall give fifty [shekels of] silver to the girl’s father, and she shall become his wife, because he violated her. He shall not be able to send her away all the days of his life.”

    From Pinchas we learn that these intermarriages can be viewed as a problem.
    Today rape continues to be a popular intrument of war be it in the Congo, Libyia, Syria, Sudan, Russia, Bosnia, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, or "Palestine".
    The issue at hand, following Dershowitz is to increase the price of terror. In his book "Why terror works" he points out why the usual deterents don't work. Why even trying to understand "the root cause" of the terrorists' grievences is morally wrong.
    But.. lets take the whole discussion out of context and give it a spin... Would the intermarrage with the leaders of HAMAS' families solve a problem .....?

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