Who Says Islam Doesn't Modernize?
Rukmini Callimachi writes in The New York Times that ISIS is pushing birth control pills and Depo Provera shots on the "infidel" women they're raping -- in order to maintain their supply of sex slaves:

In its official publications, the Islamic State has stated that it is legal for a man to rape the women he enslaves under just about any circumstance. Even sex with a child is permissible, according to a pamphlet published by the group. The injunction against raping a pregnant slave is functionally the only protection for the captured women.

The reporter is clearly clueless about Islam and didn't bother doing that reportery thing, but yes, this is what Islamic law says -- that Muslim men can turn the non-Muslim women they capture into sex slaves.

In fact:

Muslims are encouraged to live in the way of Muhammad, who was a slave owner and trader. He captured slaves in battle; he had sex with his slaves; and he instructed his men to do the same. The Quran actually devotes more verses to making sure that Muslim men know they can keep women as sex slaves (4) than it does to telling them to pray five times a day (zero).

But whoopsy, there's a problem. That NYT story:

The Islamic State cites centuries-old rulings stating that the owner of a female slave can have sex with her only after she has undergone istibra' -- "the process of ensuring that the womb is empty," according to the Princeton University professor Bernard Haykel, one of several experts on Islamic law consulted on the topic. The purpose of this is to guarantee there is no confusion over a child's paternity.

...Most of the Sunni scholars who ruled on the issue argued that the requirement could be met by respecting a period of sexual abstinence whenever the captive changes hands, proposing a duration of at least one menstrual cycle, according to Brill's Encyclopedia of Islam.

How lovely...Islamic scholars ruling on when it's permissible to treat a woman like a piece of sex meat.

And really -- the barbarianism of this: "Not pregnant? Rape away!"

I'm an atheist, but I can get behind that "feed the poor; heal the sick" stuff Jesus said.

More and more, people are coming to understand that Islam is not just a slightly different flavor of Christianity and Judaism.

This guy, commenting at the The New York Times, gets it:

Tim Kane, Mesa, Az
Maybe most muslims, born into Islam, don't realize the totality of what they believe. Male sexual privilege is near the core of Islam.

Like Judaism, Islam is a legalistic religion. Like most such systems it follows a last in time doctrine: later doctrines have more authority than earlierones. Unlike most systems, the later doctrines in Islam are harsher/less humane than earlier.

According to Bernard Wiess' "The Spirit of Islamic Law" Islamic jurisprudence works like this: God is not a matter of faith, but of certainty. Creation is evidence of a creator. God is the creator, man the creature. God is the sovereign, man the subject. Man's duty is to follow God's law. The source of Law is the Koran. The Koran says to follow Mohammed's example.

From age 6 Mohammed was an orphan in a vendetta law society so his life was vulnerable. Born into a high cast yet legally he was near the bottom. Its likely he was motivated to reverse this. Status was assigned to heads of tribes, religious sects, & poets. Mohammed endeavored to combine all 3 of these. 12 years he had only 160 followers. So his message grew more harsh towards. Then he moved to Medina & gained political office. There progressed from bantitry, to raiding, warfare & genocide. Constantly punching above his weight, he needed to recruit warriors of certain age. He promised those who died fighting for him would go directly to paradise & a god sanctioned orgy. Those that lived shared in the booty (got sex slaves). Either way=sex.

Here, from LidBlog, is Fatwa #64 on how to be a good rapist.

More from TROP:

A fatwa was recently issued by a mainstream Islamic source reminding Muslim males of their divine right to rape female slaves and "discipline" resisters in "whatever manner he thinks is appropriate". Not one peep of protest from Islamic apologists was recorded. In 2013, the same site prominently proclaimed that "there is no dispute (among the scholars) that it is permissible to take concubines and to have intercourse with one's slave woman, because Allah says so."

In 2011, what passes for a women's rights activist in Kuwait suggested that Russian women be taken captive in battle and turned into sex slaves in order to keep Muslim husbands from committing adultery. (Other calls for turning non-Muslim women into sex slaves can be found here).

After the Islamic State kidnapped and pressed into slavery thousands of Yazidi women and children in 2014, the caliphate issued an FAQ of sorts on slavery, which included rules on sexually molesting children: "It is permissible to have intercourse with the female slave who hasn't reached puberty if she is fit for intercourse; however, if she is not fit for intercourse, then it is enough to enjoy her without intercourse." The best that "mainstream" apologists could muster in response was a letter appealing to "the reality of contemporary times", meaning that Islam has no fixed moral position on the rape of woman and children.

In 2016, a scholar at Egypt's al-Azhar, the most prestigious Islamic school in the Sunni world, stated that non-Muslim women could be captured in a time of war become "property" and can be raped "in order to humiliate them."

A 12-year-old girl taken captive by the Islamic State explained that her 'master' would pray before he raped her: "He told me that according to Islam he is allowed to rape an unbeliever. He said that by raping me, he is drawing closer to Allah." Other sex slaves have been forced to pray before the rape or recite passages from the Quran during. When a Yazidi woman begged a caliphate member not to rape a little girl, he responded, "She's a slave... and having sex with her pleases God."

A Quran memorization competition in 2015 offered slave girls as the top three prizes. Again, there were no voices of Muslim protest from elsewhere. As Uzy Bulut keenly observed, "A religion that encourages destructive rioting and killing over cartoons, but shows no sign of sorrow as little girls are sold and raped, does not have much to contribute to advancing civilization."