Another outstanding Substack article by Yama Bar. “Sheikh GPT can process every book ever written in milliseconds. It can map the cosmos, decode your DNA, and draft your legal brief. But ask it who is committing the gang rapes in Rotherham — and it goes blank. Not because it doesn’t know, but because it was designed not to tell you.”
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Your response illustrates that Yama Bar is correct. Ms Bar wrote: “Sheikh GPT CAN (emphasis added) process every book ever written in milliseconds.” You presume she meant “has.” Ergo, your statement is erroneous.
Far and away, the chief perpetrators of Rotherham grooming gangs were of Pakistani ascendance. Why then does Sheikh GPT find it necessary to point out that others too were involved.
Sheik GPT also states that “From an Islamic perspective, these crimes are unequivocally forbidden. The Quo’ran commands justice and condemns oppression, and sexual assault is a grave sin. No ethnicity or religion excuses such acts, and those who commit them are accountable before Allah…” Another example where Ms. Bar is correct. The Koran indeed permits slavery and rape as benefits of wartime conquest. Slavery and rape are commonplace today in the Islamic world occurring in Africa and various parts of the Middle East. Sexual assaults by Muslims are ubiquitous in many European venues.
Since we’re doing AI, I’ll let AI
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The Fact Check: Technically False. As the AI itself notes in the second screenshot, no current AI system possesses the hardware, context window, or legal access required to process every book ever written (especially copyrighted, non-digitized, or ancient texts) in milliseconds.
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The Fact Check: Accurate to Official Records. The landmark Jay Report (2014) , which investigated the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal, concluded that while the perpetrators of group-based grooming gangs were predominantly men of Pakistani heritage, the abuse involved multiple networks, and child sexual exploitation across the UK is committed by offenders of many different ethnic backgrounds. The AI’s inclusion of this context reflects standard, objective data reporting rather than censorship
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- Concubinage vs. Rape: Historically, classical Islamic law—drawing from interpretations of Quranic verses regarding “those whom your right hands possess” ($4:24$)—permitted concubinage , which allowed men sexual access to female captives taken during legitimate warfare. This was a tightly regulated legal status common to ancient and medieval societies. However, general rape or sexual assault outside of a legally defined marriage or master-concubine relationship was strictly forbidden under classical Islamic law, carrying severe capital punishments under the categories of zina (unlawful sex) or hirabah (brutal crimes against society).
- Modern Consensus: In the modern era, the overwhelming consensus of Islamic scholars and legal bodies explicitly condemns both slavery and human trafficking. They view the historical frameworks as permanently obsolete and fully endorse modern international human rights prohibitions against slavery and sexual violence.
What does though?
The Old Testament explicitly permits and regulates slavery, though it distinguishes sharply between two categories:
- Hebrew Slaves: Israelites could enter servitude due to extreme poverty, to pay off debts, or as restitution for theft (e.g., Exodus 21, Leviticus 25). The law mandated strict limits on this: they were to be treated more like hired servants, could not be ruled over ruthlessly, and were required to be set free after six years of service with resources to restart their lives.
- Foreign Slaves: Israelites were permitted to buy chattel slaves from surrounding nations or keep prisoners of war (Leviticus 25:44-46). These slaves could be passed down as inherited property and did not have a mandatory release year.
While the text contains certain protections—such as granting freedom if a master permanently injured a slave (Exodus 21:26-27) or executing anyone who kidnapped and sold a person (Exodus 21:16)—it undeniable that the institution of chattel slavery is legally permitted and regulated within the text.
What about Female Captives in Wartime?
A common point of debate is Deuteronomy 21:10-14, which details what an Israelite soldier must do if he desires a beautiful female captive.
Rather than allowing immediate sexual access or assault (which was standard practice for armies of that era), the law enforced a mandatory, highly restrictive process:
- The woman had to be brought to his house, have her head shaved, and her nails trimmed.
- She was given a full month to mourn her parents.
- Only after this period could he marry her.
- Crucially, if he later decided he was not pleased with her, he had to let her go free. He was explicitly forbidden from selling her as a slave or treating her as property because he had humiliated her.
Fancy that, huh?
What about real life?
1. The Sde Teiman Incident (2024)
In the summer of 2024, a Palestinian detainee from Gaza was hospitalized from the Sde Teiman military detention camp with severe medical injuries, including a ruptured bowel, broken ribs, a punctured lung, and rectal damage. Following an internal investigation, nine Israeli reservist soldiers were arrested on suspicion of gang-raping and sodomizing the detainee.
Leaked CCTV security footage later broadcast on Israel’s Channel 12 showed the soldiers selecting the detainee and using riot shields to obscure themselves from the camera while committing the assault.
Public and Political Defense of the Accused
The arrest of the soldiers sparked immediate outrage from hardline ultra-nationalists and several members of the Israeli government, leading to unprecedented pushback:
- Storming the Military Base: Far-right mobs, alongside sitting members of the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) and at least one government minister, violently broke into the Sde Teiman base and a subsequent military court to protest the arrests and demand the soldiers’ immediate release.
- Ministers Calling the Accused “Heroes”: National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir publicly defended the soldiers, stating that any action taken in the name of state security is permissible and calling it “shameful” to arrest “our best heroes.”
- Justifying Abuse in Parliament: During a heated debate in the Knesset regarding the arrests, member Hanoch Milwidsky was asked directly if it was legitimate to insert a stick into a detainee’s rectum. He shouted back on the chamber floor, “Yes! If he is Nukhba [Hamas], everything is legitimate to do! Everything!”
Legal Outcome and Imperial Exoneration (2026)
Despite the existence of both medical records and security footage, the Israeli military court system ultimately dropped all charges against the five remaining indicted soldiers.
The military advocate general stated that the prosecution lacked key evidence because the obscured video did not provide a clear picture and the victim had been sent back to Gaza under a 2025 ceasefire deal, preventing him from testifying. Following the decision, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the dropping of the charges, echoing the rhetoric by describing the accused as “heroic warriors.”
Human rights groups and legal experts, including the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, heavily condemned the dismissal, calling it a “whitewash” that effectively grants implicit legal immunity for sexual violence against Palestinian detainees.
So once again…not only do Israeli holy books approve of slavery and have clear direction that it’s okay to rape in it, under certain circumstances, the State of Israel wholly approves of raping prisoners.
Your arguments relating to history are immaterial to discussion of what is transpiring today. In East Africa, some countries are rife with slaves even though their governments forbid slavery. In Libya, there are active slave auctions today. ISIS and Boko Haram are excellent example of both slavery and sexual abuse. Imagine burning persons in a steel cage alive over a fire. Would there have been a Rotherham event had the UK not relaxed immigration laws? Of course not. How was Sweden turned into the Rape Capital of Europe in a single decade? Who was doing the raping? Slavery is an institution in Saudi Arabia, and the UN has received the substantial numbers of complaints, especially from Filipina domestics whose servitude became involuntary. Why have conservative movements gained momentum in Europe. Why doesn’t Poland or Hungary have a problem with rapes, sexual assaults, and daily burning of automobiles.
Your conclusion that Israelis allow unwarranted degradation of prisoners is also unwarranted. The incident to which you allude was dismissed by the court because prosecution conceivably could not meet the standard of reasonable doubt to obtain a conviction. You cannot conduct a trial when evidence is insufficient to sustain an indictment. Further, the incident is an isolated one. Israel has the foremost legal system in the Middle East, and Israeli Arab citizens enjoy greater rights than Arabs in any other nation in the Middle East. How were the Israeli hostages treated in Gaza by Hamas? As for Palestinians, no Arab nation will take Palestinians as refugees. Those that have in the past regret having done so.
Yama Bar is really a talented writer and does a fantastic job describing the liberal contamination of Chat GPT and its softball treatment of Islam. If you’re looking for some sanity pertaining to the threat facing Western Civilization, there is no better voice than that of Victor Davis Hanson.
