The Unthinkable Cruelty of Multiple “Official Fathers” in Islamic Slavery: A Child’s Stolen Identity

Imagine a child born into a world that denies them a single, loving father—instead forcing upon them the shame of multiple “official fathers”: the men who, one after another, raped their mother under the sanction of Islamic law. According to Sharia, when a slave woman was jointly owned by two or more men, she could […]