Slavery in 21st-century jihadism

Quasi-state-level jihadist groups, including Boko Haram and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, have captured and enslaved women and children, often for sexual slavery.

[11] According to an August 2015 story in The New York Times, "The trade in Yazidi women and girls has created a persistent infrastructure, with a network of warehouses where the victims are held, viewing rooms where they are inspected and marketed, and a dedicated fleet of buses used to transport them.

"[12][13] In April 2015, Zainab Bangura, the United Nations special envoy on sexual violence in conflict, visited Iraq and was given a copy of an Islamic State pamphlet including a list of prices for captured women and children.

This has caused at least one scholar (William Clarence-Smith[16]) to criticize the notable "evasions and silences of Muhammad Qutb" and the "dogged refusal of Abul A'la Maududi to give up on slavery".

"[21] Abul A'la Maududi, the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami in the early 20th century, meanwhile wrote: Islam has clearly and categorically forbidden the primitive practice of capturing a free man, to make him a slave or to sell him into slavery.

The words of this Tradition of the Prophet are also general, they have not been qualified or made applicable to a particular nation, race, country or followers of a particular religion.....After this the only form of slavery which was left in Islamic society was the prisoners of war, who were captured on the battlefield.

"[25][26] In response to the Nigerian extremist group Boko Haram's Quranic justification for kidnapping and enslaving people,[27][28] and ISIL's religious justification for enslaving Yazidi women as spoils of war as claimed in their digital magazine Dabiq,[29][30][31][32][33][34] 126 Islamic scholars from around the Muslim world, in late September 2014, signed an open letter to the Islamic State's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, rejecting his group's interpretations of the Qur'an and hadith to justify its actions.

[43][44][45][46][47] Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram, a Nigerian Islamist group, said in an interview "I shall capture people and make them slaves" when claiming responsibility for the 2014 Chibok kidnapping.

"[48] In April 2023, Nihad Jariri, a senior Al Aan TV journalist, reported on Twitter that according to a leak document, Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) have engaged in slavery of women and children in Congo.