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Representatives Keith Ellison (D-MN) and André Carson (D-IN), the nation's two Muslim Congressmen, and a host of Muslim leaders have published an open letter condemning Boko Haram, the Party of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad, as un-Islamic, and calling upon the group's leader, Abubakar Shekau, to release the girls the group has kidnapped.
The U.S. Muslims' argument is based on the claim that Boko Haram kidnapped the girls because they were seeking an education, while in Islam both men and women are enjoined to get educated. This neatly avoids the real objection that Boko Haram has to girls (and boys) getting educated: that the education they were getting was Western in style and orientation, rather than based on the Qur'an and Islam.
Once again we see Muslim leaders condemning the kidnapping of these girls without even mentioning the Qur'an's allowance for a man to have "captives of the right hand" with whom he can have sexual intercourse (4:3; 4:24; 33:50. etc.). It would be refreshing if even once these "moderate" Muslim leaders would address these passages and explain how Boko Haram and other Muslims who kidnap girls and use them as sex slaves are misunderstanding and misusing the Qur'an. But it hasn't been done yet.