Anna Boss

[Anna Boss @AnnaBoss94595]

@brekebeentje @DaklozenNieuws @EsthervanFenema Wat mooi om te horen! Dank voor het delen!

[Anna Boss @AnnaBoss94595]

@EsthervanFenema Dat is precies ook mijn vraag. Er zijn altijd mensen die vanuit een schijnbaar uitzichtloze situatie komen en jaren later blij zijn te leven

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

The Jewish Bride captured by Muhammad

Safiyya bint Huyayy was the daughter of a Jewish tribal leader, respected, noble, and newly married. Her family had already been expelled once when Muhammad drove Banu Nadir from their land. They relocated to Khaybar, trying to rebuild their lives. But Khaybar was attacked as well.

During the raid on Khaybar, her father was killed. Her husband was killed. Her brother was killed. Many of her tribe were killed. Safiyya, a young bride, was taken captive along with hundreds of other Jewish women. They were treated as spoils of war — divided among the victors to be kept, used for sex, or sold.

One of Muhammad’s companions, Dihya al-Kalbi, chose Safiyya for himself. Then Muhammad was told that Dihya had taken an exceptionally beautiful captive. He summoned Dihya and exchanged her for other women (two according to some reports, seven according to others). She became his share of the war booty.

On the journey back from Khaybar — about 180 kilometers away — the army made several stops. During one of those nights, Muhammad instructed that Safiyya be prepared for him for sex. She had just lost her father, husband, and brother. She was grieving and devastated. Nevertheless, that night he slept with her in his tent.

Islamic sources themselves record that one of his companions stood guard outside the tent the entire night — afraid she might attempt revenge. Other narrations attributed to Safiyya state that Muhammad was the most hated person in her life because he had killed her father, husband, and brother.

Later versions of the story attempt to soften it. We are told he apologized repeatedly until she became pleased. We are told she had a dream about him before the battle. We are told that freeing her and declaring her his wife erased the brutality of the circumstances. We are told she “chose” Islam.

But none of these additions change the core facts: her family was killed, she was taken as war booty, transferred between men, and sexually raped within days of her capture.

This episode is not a minor footnote. It forces uncomfortable questions about power, conquest, consent, and the moral character of Muhammad. No amount of later embellishment removes the brutality of what happened to Safiyya.

[Anna Boss @AnnaBoss94595]

@demo_demo_nl https://t.co/DYmu8M3dqC Hier in de Volkskrant ook een relatief eerlijk verhaal, het door verhuizen uit Griekenland, Duitsland en België. NL specifiek uitkiezen ivm kansen op woning en gezinshereniging. Kosten van de smokkelreis en overlast van bepaalde groepen.

[Anna Boss @AnnaBoss94595]

@CynicalBossman @martenvisser Wie heeft het over andere rechten/kansen?

[Anna Boss @AnnaBoss94595]

@MeulM85 @P0eMPieDinges Maar hun vrouwen moeten dus naar hun luisteren, als ze wat anders willen. Dat is juist het punt. Dochters tzt ook

[Anna Boss @AnnaBoss94595]

@Dijk_E_van @RJKonrad Haha precies. Ik leef kom ook van de biblebelt en daar wordt gewoon samen gesport, gewerkt en zitten mannen en vrouwen door elkaar in de kerkbanken en in zangkoren etc

[Anna Boss @AnnaBoss94595]

@ShashiRoopram En als een vrouw voor zo’n man gekozen heeft (al dan niet onder druk) en van gedachten veranderd en met een gemengd werketentje mee wil terwijl haar man haar dat verbiedt? Wat dan?

[Anna Boss @AnnaBoss94595]

@TineVeluw @ShashiRoopram @KathinkaVeer Dit.

[Anna Boss @AnnaBoss94595]

@GuusjeBlaaser Altijd!

[Anna Boss @AnnaBoss94595]

@Chivaz1984 @petervanlimpt6 Dank voor het delen van uw ervaringen. Ik woon mijn hele leve in NL en zie verreweg de meeste mensen normaal met iedereen omgaan

[Anna Boss @AnnaBoss94595]

@gd_ouder @zaelefty Reproductive systems do exist, there are two kinds of it

[Anna Boss @AnnaBoss94595]

@CynicalBossman @martenvisser Met discriminatie wordt meestal ongeoorloofd onderscheid maken bedoeld en/of het ongelijk behandelen van mensen vanwege een bepaalde eigenschap (bij afkomst). Onderscheid op zich maken is niet per se slecht (bijv korting voor 65+ ers ofzo)

[Anna Boss @AnnaBoss94595]

@oddcrittergirl Same for me. Most women are very romantic and want to be the one and only for their man, at least that was what I dreamed of and found (maybe harder when you are older, I met my now-husband in my late teens)

[Anna Boss @AnnaBoss94595]

@Tsartoshi @MahlerI Toevallig enig idee wat “Pabo-student” inhoudt?

[Anna Boss @AnnaBoss94595]

@cybelethebest Still in Leviticus 18:18 God explicitly forbids to take your wife’s sister as a wife while your wife is still alive, which Jakob did. The story of Rachel and Leah also shows a problematic family dynamic for the wifes and for the children even more

[Anna Boss @AnnaBoss94595]

@realMaalouf Of course!

[Anna Boss @AnnaBoss94595]

@suzania Haha that was me as a teenager definitively very well behaved and nerdy. luckily my now-husband was looking for someone to discuss all kind of things with for hours and joing him at classics concerts

[Anna Boss @AnnaBoss94595]

@StefVrijman Zitten hier ook mensen tussen die als vluchteling naar Nederland zijn gekomen en inmiddels genaturaliseerd? En statushouders? En kinderen van asielzoekers/staruhsouders/genaturaliseerde vluchtelingen die in Nederland geboren worden?

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

The Arab slave trade started centuries earlier, enslaved millions more Africans, and lasted longer than the European/Atlantic slave trade.

So why are we only taught about the latter in school?