The Long History of Muslim Enslavement of European Women: Europe, Take Heed

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The Long History of Muslim Enslavement of European Women:

Europe, take heed.

The Pakistani grooming gangs in the UK have made as many as 250,000 English girls and women into sex slaves for Muslims, with many the victims suffering long-term trauma as a result. For years the British police did not investigate these gangs, for fear of being labeled as “racists” and “Islamophobes.” But finally, there were so many outcries from parents and other relatives of these girls, and fury among politicians of the center-right, that the police had to act. Trials have been held, and so far hundreds of grooming gang members have been sent to prison. Now, Rupert Lowe, the head of the newly-founded anti-Muslim immigrant party, Restore Britain, has released a report on the rape gangs. The report details the long history of Muslim enslavement of European women.

More on the historical origins of today’s Muslim grooming gangs can be found here: “Islam’s European Slave Trade,” by Jonathon Van Maren, European Conservative, July 4, 2026:

On June 16, Rupert Lowe’s Rape Gang Inquiry was released. The grotesque details of this 219-page report can only be read in sections. The systematic trafficking of British girls by Muslim slavers who often called them slurs like “kuffar”—infidels—as they were gang-raped and subjected to tortures better left undescribed and the decades-long cover-up are rage-inducing. Right-wing figures from Geert Wilders to Tommy Robinson have highlighted the context for these crimes—the historical hostility of Islam to the Christian West. This vile enmity can be found on almost every page.

“Evidence in grooming gang trials has repeatedly shown…victims [some as young as 11] described as ‘white slags,’ ‘white trash,’ ‘kuffar b**ches,’” the report notes on page 140:

Perpetrators shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ and boasted of racial supremacy. Yet as far as available public records are concerned, racial aggravations have never once been invoked against anti-white rape gangs, either by prosecutors or judges. This is in stark contrast to what tends to happen whenever white criminals are held to account for interracial crimes.

The grooming gang horror may seem like a uniquely modern phenomenon, the screaming bastard child of mass migration and Western self-loathing. It is more than that. It is a continuation in the grim story of the Muslim slave trade of Europeans in general and Christians in particular, a subject that is rarely mentioned in the ongoing self-flagellation about the centuries-old crimes of the Middle Passage, which were banned by the British over two centuries ago by Christian abolitionists. Slavery lasted well into the 20th century in the Muslim world; Mauritania only banned it in 1981.

Saudi Arabia and Yemen banned slavery most reluctantly, and only under Western pressure, in 1962. Oman banned it in 1970. And despite the formal ban on slavery, Arabs still hold hundreds of thousands of black slaves in Mali, Mauritania, and Niger. The UN, obsessed with the charge of “genocide” being flung at the Jewish state, has paid no attention to this continuing slavery.

The Ottomans kidnapped over a million Christian boys from their homes, forcibly converted them to Islam, and trained them as elite shock troops (‘janissaries’) to fight the empire’s battles under the official policy of the ‘Devshirme System,’ or blood tax. This was part of the broader dhimmi system, which relegated non-Muslims like Christians and Jews to second-class subjects. Muslim boys could not be enslaved under Islamic law, so about 20% of Christian boys were seized instead.

Some Christian parents tried to hide their boys in the forests or mountains to prevent the kidnappings; the forced conversion of their children to Islam gave rise to trauma-driven folklore about ‘taken boys.’ Most never saw their sons again. This lasted for over three centuries. At the same time, as historian Leslie Peirce noted in The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (Oxford University Press, 1993), Christian girls were seized from their communities to serve as domestic slaves or concubines.

Ottoman armies and Muslim pirates also kidnapped hundreds of thousands of Christian women and girls from across Europe, selling them in slave markets across the Islamic world. The most beautiful girls were often forced into sex slavery for high-ranking Ottoman officials or imprisoned in the Sultan’s harem; forced conversion to Islam was also routine. In his seminal work Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500–1800, Robert C. Davies estimates that about 1.2 million Europeans were enslaved by Muslims; between a third and a half of those were women.

For centuries, Muslim corsairs from North Africa made raiding parties up and down the coasts of southern Europe, making off with what wealth they could find and kidnapping Christians who would then be brought back to Muslim lands to serve, and service, as slaves, their Muslim masters. Those Muslim corsairs traveled all the way up to Ireland, and in one famous instance, even got as far as Iceland. --->READ MORE HERE

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