“The female captives, in compliance with Quranic sanctions and prophetic traditions were used as sex slaves by the Muslim masters. Therefore, they did not only add to the growing Muslim population but also became valuable tools for expanding the Muslim populace through procreation. When those women, especially the ones of childbearing age, were taken away, the Hindu men, who had fled, came back to find that their women and children gone. As a result, they did not have sufficient partners for procreation. That means, whenever Muslims made a successful assault, procreation in the Hindu community dropped sharply. On the other hand, the few thousand Muslim soldiers who came to India with Muhammed bin Qasim had plenty of sex partners for reproduction to the maximum capacity. Even Emperor Akbar had amassed 5,000 beautiful women in his harem. Sultan Moulay Ismail of Morocco (r, 1672-1727) had sired about 1,2000 children through his 2000-4000 thousand wives and sex slaves. The extensive enslavement of the vanquished Hindus, particularly the women — who were engaged in the breeding of Muslim children —helped the rapid growth of the Muslim populace” (M.A. Khan, p, 103).
Reference
Khan, M. A. (2009). Islamic Jihad: A Legacy of Forced Conversion, Imperialism, and Slavery. IUniverse.
Milton, G. (2004) White Gold, Hodder & Stoughton, London.
