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Do you know that:

• Hijab in Islam (both Shia / Sunni) was not meant for MODESTY, but only to differentiate between the Free Muslim woman and the Slave woman
• And Shia Imam also kept the breasts of slave women naked (just like Sunni Islam)

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Tafsir al-Tabrasi, under the commentary of verse 33:59 (link):

فقال { يا أيها النبي قل لأزواجك وبناتك ونساء المؤمنين يدنين عليهن من جلابيبهن } أي قل لهؤلاء فليسترن موضع الجيب بالجلباب وهو الملاءة التي تشتمل بها المرأة عن الحسن. وقيل: الجلباب مقنعة المرأة يغطين جباههنَّ ورؤوسهنَّ إذا خرجن لحاجة بخلاف الإِماء اللاتي يخرجن مكشفات الرؤوس والجباه عن ابن عباس ومجاهد. وقيل: أراد بالجلابيب الثياب والقميص والخمار وما تستتر به المرأة عن الجبائي وأبي مسلم. { ذلك أدنى أن يعرفن فلا يؤذين } أي ذلك أقرب إلى أن يعرفن بزيّهن أنهنَّ حرائر ولسن بإماء فلا يؤذيهن أهل الريبة فإنهم كانوا يمازحون الإِماء وربما كان يتجاوز المنافقون إلى ممازحة الحرائر فإذا قيل لهم في ذلك قالوا حسبناهنَّ إماء فقطع الله عذرهم.And regarding the verse, {O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers that they should draw down their outer garments over them (Verse 33:59)}, it was said: The women’s veils cover their foreheads and heads when they go out for a need, unlike the female slaves who come out uncovering their heads and foreheads, … and regarding the verse {So that they should be recognised as free women and not be offended (Verse 33:59)}, that is, they are known by their dress that they are free women and not female slaves, so that the people with ill intentions do not hurt them, like they were teasing the female slaves. And sometimes the hypocrites were teasing the free women. And when they (i.e. the hypocrites) were asked about it, they made an excuse that they thought them to be slave women. So, Allah cut off their excuse (through Hijab for the free women, while prohibiting it for the slave women).**More Shia References:**Tafsir by al-Tousi (link)Tafsir al-Safi (link)

Wasail-us-Shia (link) and Alal Sharai (link):

سألت أبا عبد الله (ع) عن المملوكة تقنع رأسها إذا صلت؟ قال لا قد كان أبى إذا رأى الخادمة تصلى في مقنعة ضربها لتعرف الحرة من المملوكة“I asked Aba `Abd Allah [al-Sadiq] (as) concerning the possession’s (i.e. the slave women) covering of her head when she prayed? He replied: ‘No! For when my father (i.e. Imam al-Baqir) saw the female servant *praying* with a Muqna (outer garment sheet) on, he *hit* her; so that the free (Muslim woman) can be known from the possession (i.e. slave woman).”

And it is in Man La Yahduruh al-Faqih – the author al-Saduq – [1:373] and Wasail-us-Shia (link) that Imam al-Baqir said:

ليس على الأمة قناع في الصلاة
“There is no cover for the slave girl during prayer.”

This report is declared “Sahih” by the Grand Ayatullah al-Sayyid Muhammad Sadiq al-Ruhani in Fiqh al-Sadiq [4:228].
In fact, it is narrated in Qadi Nu`man al-Maghribi’s Da`a’im al-Islam [1:177] and al-Nuri’s Mustadrak al-Wasa’il [3:217] that Ja`far al-Sadiq was asked about the permissibility for a slave girl to cover her through Muqna (outer garment sheet) during prayers and he replied (link):

لا كان أبى رضوان الله عليه إذا رأى أمة تصلى وعليها مقنعة ضربها وقال يا لكع لا تتشبهي بالحرائر
“No, when my father, `alayh as-salam, saw a slave girl praying and she had a Muqna, he hit her! And he said: ‘You rascal! Do not resemble the free women!’”

Bahar-ul-Anwar (Arabic Online link):

ابن طريف، عن ابن علوان، عن الصادق، عن أبيه عليهما السلام أن عليا عليه الصلاة والسلام كان إذا أراد أن يبتاع الجارية يكشف عن ساقيها فينظر إليها
Translation:Imam Sadiq (as) said when Imam Ali (as) wanted to buy a slave girl, then he used to undress her thighs and check them.

According to Shia Madhab too the "Awra"(nakedness) of a slave girl is only from naval to knees. Bahar-ul-Anwar (Link):

ابن طريف ، عن ابن علوان ، عن الصادق ، عن أبيه عليهما‌السلامأنه قال : إذ ازوج الرجل أمته فلا ينظرن إلى عورتها ، والعورة ما بين السرة إلى الركبة
Translation:Imam Sadiq (as) said: If the owner wants to marry his slave woman to another person, then the owner should not see her "Awra" (nakedness) which is between naval till knees (i.e. her breasts are naked).

Bahar-ul-Anwar (Link):

ابن طريف، عن ابن علوان، عن الصادق، عن أبيه عليهما السلام أن عليا عليه الصلاة والسلام كان إذا أراد أن يبتاع الجارية يكشف عن ساقيها فينظر إليها
Imam al-Sadiq said: When Imam Ali wanted to buy a slave girl, then he used to uncover her thighs and inspect them.

And Dhimmi woman also has no "Sanctity" (حرمۃ) like the slave woman.Wasail-us-Shia (link):

ـ محمد بن يعقوب ، عن علي بن إبراهيم ، عن أبيه ، عن النوفلي ، عن السكوني ، عن أبي عبدالله ( عليه السلام ) قال : قال رسول الله ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) : لا حرمة لنساء أهل الذمة أن ينظر إلى شعورهن وأيديهن
Translation:The holy Prophet said: "There is no Sanctity (حرمۃ) of Dhimmi women (i.e. Non-Muslim woman living in Muslim Country). The hairs and hands of such woman could be seen.

Shia Fiqh: An owner is allowed to separate the slave-wife of his slave, and have sex with her

Just like Sunni Fiqh, in Shia Fiqh too, an owner is allowed to separate the slave-wife of his slave and start doing sex with her after she is free from her first menstruation blood.

Tafsir al-Mizan of Allamah Tabatabai (tafsir of verse 4:24, and those around it -- can be accessed here):It has been narrated in traditions that the owner of a married slave woman may take away that woman from her husband, keep her untouched for the prescribed term, then have sexual relation with her, and thereafter return her to her husband. ۔۔۔ Ibn Muskan has narrated through Abu Basir, from one of the two Imams (a.s.), about the word of Allah: And all married women except those whom your right hands possess, that he said: "They are the women having husbands except those whom your right hands possess. If you have given your slave girl in marriage to your slave boy, you may remove her from him if you so wish." "I said: 'Do you see, if he has given her in marriage to other than his own slave boy?' He said: '(Then) he has no right to remove (her from him) until she is sold away; then if he sells her, her affair is transferred to other than him (i.e, to the buyer); then the buyer may separate (her from her husband) if he so desires, and may reconfirm (the marriage) if he so wishes." (at-Tafsir, al-'Ayyashi)

The same thing is present in these 3 traditions of Al-Kafi:

Al-Kafi, vol. 5, page 481 (link):(باب) * (الرجل يزوج عبده أمته ثم يشتهيها) * 1 - علي بن إبراهيم، عن أبيه، عن عبد الله بن المغيرة، عن عبد الله بن سنان، عن أبي عبد الله (عليه السلام) قال: سمعته يقول: إذا زوج الرجل عبده أمته ثم اشتهاها، قال له: اعتزلها فإذا طمثت وطئها ثم يردها عليه إذا شاء. 2 - محمد بن يحيى، عن أحمد بن محمد، عن ابن محبوب، عن أبي أيوب، عن محمد بن مسلم قال: سألت أبا جعفر (عليه السلام) عن قول الله عز وجل: (المحصنات من النساء إلا ما ملكت أيمانكم) (1) قال: هو أن يأمر الرجل عبده وتحته أمته فيقول له: اعتزل امرأتك ولا تقربها ثم يحبسها عنه حتى تحيض ثم يمسها (2) فإذا حاضت بعد مسه إياها ردها عليه بغير نكاح. 3 - محمد بن يحيى، عن محمد بن أحمد، عن أحمد بن الحسن، عن عمرو بن سعيد، عن مصدق بن صدقة، عن عمار بن موسى، عن أبي عبد الله (عليه السلام) قال: سألته عن الرجل يزوج جاريته من عبده فيريد أن يفرق بينهما فيفر العبد كيف يصنع؟ قال: يقول لها: اعتزلي فقد فرقت بينكما فاعتدى فتعتد خمسة وأربعين يوما ثم يجامعها مولاها إن شاء وإن لم يفر قال له مثل ذلك، قلت: فإن كان المملوك لم يجامعها، قال: يقول لها: اعتزلي فقد فرقت بينكما ثم يجامعها مولاها من ساعته إن شاء ولا عدة عليها.
Chapter on a man who marries his (male) slave to his slave-girl, then desires her (the slave-girl).The three hadith basically say the same thing that Allamah Tabatabai mentioned in his tafsir--that an owner of a slave girl, who is married to his (male) slave, can separate the slave-girl from her husband until she menstruates (or separate her for a period of 40 to 50 days, according to the third hadith), and then can have sexual relations with her. And then she can be returned to her husband (the male slave) without any need to renew their nikah.The gradings of these three Ahadith, according to Allamah Majlisi are: (1) Hasan (i.e. Fair), (2) Sahih (i.e. Authentic and (3) Muwaththaq (i.e. Reliable).

Kitab al-Kafi: Whole chapter about slave women

The most important Hadith book of Shias is Al-Kafi. And it contains a whole chapter regarding slave women, which contains more than a hundred Ahadith, and all of them are about the worse type of humiliation of slave women.
Shias did translate the whole book of Al-Kafi into English, except for this particular chapter about the humiliation of slave women.
No wonder, they had to show this dishonesty, as these Ahadith about slave women were exposing the Injustice that the so-called Allah did against the poor slave women.
Shias made an excuse (for not translating the chapter about slave women) in the following words (link):

Chapter 112 to 137:Chapters one hundred twelve to one hundred and thirty-seven deal with issues of slaves and slave-girls, which are not of any practical benefit today and its translation may not be of any benefit as well.

Nevertheless, we are presenting a few traditions (with English Translation) from this chapter of Al-Kafi regarding slave girls, so that you can see for yourself why Shias didn't translate it.

Minor slave girls can be used for driving sexual pleasure by multiple men without any waiting period

Al Kafi – V 5 – The Book of Marriage Ch 112 H 3:

3 - محمد بن يحيى، عن أحمد بن محمد، عن ابن محبوب، عن ابن بكير عن هشام بن الحرث، عن عبد الله بن عمرو قال: قلت لأبي عبد الله أو لأبي جعفر (ع): الجارية يشتريها الرجل وهي لم تدرك أو قد يئست من المحيض؟ قال: فقال: لا بأس بأن لا يستبرئها.
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Ibn Bukeyr, from Hisham Bin Al Haris, from Abdullah Bin Amro who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullahasws or to Abu Ja’farasws, ‘The slave girl whom the man buys, and she has yet to be an adult, or has despaired from the menstruation’. So, the Imam said: ‘There is no problem if he does not clear her womb (i.e. observe any waiting period before penetrating in her vagina)’.

It practically means, multiple men can drive sexual pleasure from a minor girl (from the age of breastfeeding till the age of 12 when she gets her first menstruation) one by one even in one day, while there is no "waiting period" for her, even if her vagina is penetrated by these multiple men.
According to Shia Fiqh, marrying a minor girl (even if she is breastfed) with the permission of her father, and then driving sexual pleasures is "Halal Allah" (i.e. permissible). This minor girl can be made naked and then her husband can kiss her body, and he is also allowed to do "thighing" (i.e. rubbing their penis in the thighs of that minor girl and ejaculate), or if she is 4 or 5 years old, then he can compel her to masturbate his penis. And if she is 6 or 7 years old, then she can even be penetrated into her vagina if the husband thinks that she is strong enough to bear the penetration.
For details, please read our article: Islam: Even a breastfed baby girl can be married and used for sexual pleasure. Shia Mujtahideen like Khomeini and Khoi etc. gave this fatwa in the light of the Quran.
The differences are:

• If a minor girl is a "Free person", then his father gives her in Nikah of any man. He does not need any "consent" either from his minor daughter, or of her mother, or of any Islamic court, or society.
• But in the case of a minor "Slave girl", even the consent of the father is also not needed. A rich Muslim can directly buy a minor slave girl from the slave market, and he can drive all kinds of sexual pleasures from her and no one can stop him even if he is a psychopath, and even if he beats and tortures the minor slave girl while raping her.
• And another difference is if the minor girl is a "free person", then only her husband can drive sexual pleasure from her. Nevertheless, if the minor girl is a slave, then the master, along with his brothers or friends (i.e. multiple men) can drive sexual pleasure from her (including penetration in her vagina) in a single day.

Not only a minor girl, but it is also true about a slave woman who does not get any menstruation due to her age (i.e. when she is 45 years old when menstruation stops naturally). Such a slave woman can also be raped by multiple men in a single day one by one, and it is totally Halal Allah (i.e. permissible).

The waiting period for a slave girl is only becoming pure from her menstruation (i.e. 3 to 5 days)

Al Kafi – V 5 – The Book of Marriage Ch 112 H 6:

۔۔۔ وسألته عن رجل اشترى جارية وهي حائض، قال: إذا طهرت فليمسها إن شاء..
He (the narrator) said, ‘And I asked the Imam about a man who bought a slave girl and she was menstruating. He said: ‘When she is pure, then let him touch her if he so desires to’.

Taking all kinds of pleasures except for penetration in her vagina is allowed even before the end of the waiting period

Al Kafi – V 5 – The Book of Marriage Ch 112 H 9:

محمد بن يحيى، عن أحمد بن محمد، عن علي بن الحكم، عن موسى بن بكر، عن زرارة، عن حمران قال: سألت أبا جعفر (ع) عن رجل اشترى أمة هل يصيب منها دون الغشيان ولم يستبرئها؟ قال: نعم‘
I asked Abu Ja’far about a man who bought a slave girl. Can he attain from her besides the overwhelming (copulation), and he has not cleared her womb?’ He said: ‘Yes, when it Obligates her, and she comes to be from his wealth. So, if she were to die, it would be from his wealth’.

Taking pleasure is allowed (except for the vagina) even if the slave woman is pregnant from another man

Al Kafi – V 5 – The Book of Marriage Ch 114 H 5:

محمد بن يحيى، عن أحمد بن محمد، عن ابن فضال، عن ابن بكير، عن زرارة بن أعين قال: سألت أبا جعفر (ع) عن الجارية الحبلى يشتريها الرجل فيصيب منها دون الفرج قال: لا بأس، قلت: فيصيب منها في ذلك؟ قال: تريد تغرة.‘
I asked Abu Ja’far about the pregnant slave girl whom the man buys, so he attains from her besides the private part. He said: ‘There is no problem’. I said, ‘Supposing he attains from her in that (i.e. vagina) too?’ He said: ‘Do you intend deception?’

If a slave woman marries a person without the permission of her master, then it is adultery, while if a male slave marries a woman without permission, then it is not an adultery

Al Kafi – V 5 – The Book of Marriage Ch 118 H 1:

عدة من أصحابنا، عن سهل بن زياد، عن أحمد بن محمد بن أبي نصر البزنطي، عن داود بن الحصين، عن أبي العباس قال: سألت أبا عبد الله (عليه السلام) عن الأمة تتزوج بغير إذن أهلها، قال: يحرم ذلك عليها وهو الزنا‘
I asked Abu Abdullah about the slave girl who gets married without the permission of her owner. He said: ‘It is Prohibited unto her and it would be the adultery’.

Al Kafi – V 5 – The Book of Marriage Ch 117 H 5:

محمد بن إسماعيل، عن الفضل بن شاذان، وعلي بن إبراهيم، عن أبيه، عن ابن أبي عمير، عن عبد الرحمن بن الحجاج، عن منصور بن حازم، عن أبي عبد الله (ع) في مملوك تزوج بغير إذن مولاه أعاص لله؟ قال: عاص لمولاه، قلت: حرام هو؟ قال: ما أزعم أنه حرام وقل له أن لا يفعل إلا بإذن مولاه
(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah regarding an owned slave who married without permission from his master, has he disobeyed Allah?’ He said: ‘He disobeyed his master’. I said, ‘Prohibited, is it?’ He said: ‘I do not claim that it is Prohibited, and say to him that he should not do it except with the permission of his master’.

A new master can rape the slave woman after purchase, even if she previously had a husband

Al Kafi – V 5 – The Book of Marriage Ch 121 H 1:

محمد بن إسماعيل، عن الفضل بن شاذان، وأبو علي الأشعري، عن محمد بن عبد الجبار جميعا، عن صفوان بن يحيى، عن ابن مسكان، عن الحسن بن زياد قال: سألت أبا عبد الله (عليه السلام) عن رجل اشترى جارية يطؤها فبلغه أن لها زوجا؟ قال: يطؤها فإن بيعها طلاقها وذلك أنهما لا يقدران على شئ من أمرهما إذا بيعا
I asked Abu Abdullah about a man who bought a slave girl. He slept with her, and (news) reached him that for her is a husband. He said: ‘He can sleep with her, for her sale is her divorce.

Raping a pregnant slave woman with penetration in her vagina, after buying her

Al Kafi – V 5 – The Book of Marriage Ch 126 H 1:

محمد بن يحيى، عن أحمد بن محمد، عن علي بن الحكم، عن سيف بن عميرة، عن إسحاق بن عمار قال: سألت أبا الحسن (عليه السلام) عن رجل اشترى جاريه حاملا وقد استبان حملها فوطئها قال بئس ما صنع، قلت فما تقول فيه؟ قال: أعزل عنها أم لا؟ قلت: أجبني في الوجهين، قال: إن كان عزل عنها فليتق الله ولا يعود وإن كان لم يعزل عنها فلا يبيع ذلك الولد ولا يورثه ولكن يعتقه ويجعل له شيئا من ماله يعيش به فإنه قد غذاه بنطفته.‘
I asked Abu Al-Hassan about a man who bought a pregnant slave girl and her pregnancy had manifested, so he slept with her. He said: ‘Evil is what he has done’. I said, ‘So what are you saying regarding it?’ He said: ‘Is he isolated from her or not?’ I said, ‘Answer me regarding the two aspects’. He said: ‘If he had isolated, so let him fear Allah and he should not repeat (i.e. there is no physical punishment for him), and if he had not isolated from her, so he should not sell that child, and the child would not inherit him, but he should emancipate the child and make something from his wealth to be for the child so that the child can live by, for he had nourished the child with his seed (i.e. semen)’.

Al Kafi – V 5 – The Book of Marriage Ch 126 H 2:

علي بن إبراهيم، عن أبيه، عن النوفلي، عن السكوني، عن أبي عبد الله (عليه السلام) أن رسول الله (صلى الله عليه وآله) دخل على رجل من الأنصار وإذا وليدة عظيمة البطن تختلف فسأل عنها، فقال: اشتريتها يا رسول الله وبها هذا الحبل، قال: أقربتها؟ قال: نعم، قال: أعتق ما في بطنها، قال: يا رسول الله وبما استحق العتق؟ قال: لأن نطفتك غذت سمعه وبصره ولحمه ودمه
.(It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah that Rasool-Allah went over to a man from the Helpers, and there was a mother with a large belly arguing. So he asked about her, so he said, ‘I bought her, O Rasool-Allah, and with her was this pregnancy’. He said: ‘Did you go near her?’ He said, ‘Yes’. He said: ‘Emancipate whatever is in her belly’. He said, ‘O Rasool-Allah, with what is emancipation deserved?’ He said: ‘Because your seed nourished his hearing, and his vision, and his flesh, and his blood’.

Therefore, even if he rapes the pregnant slave woman with penetration, still there is no punishment for him.
It happened during the Jihadi wars, where the poor prisoner women were hand-cuffed and then distributed among the Jihadi Muslims, where they were alone with them in their camps during the night. Although it was not allowed to penetrate their vaginas if they previously had husbands, nevertheless, we can better imagine that it was almost impossible for Jihadi Muslims not to penetrate them, while:

• Jihadi Muslims didn't have their wives with them.
• And the prisoner women were handcuffed, and they were alone with them in their tents.
• The upper garments of the poor prisoner women were taken off, and their hair and breasts were made naked, as they were slaves and they were not allowed to resemble the free Muslim women by hiding their hair and their breasts.
• And Jihadi Muslims were allowed to drive sexual pleasures from their bodies (and compel them to masturbate them etc.). So what if any Jihadi lost control over himself and also raped her with penetration in her vagina?
• Please note that the testimony of slaves against their owners was not accepted in Islamic Sharia. Thus, even if the poor prisoner women were raped, still they were not allowed to go to Islamic courts. Thus, nobody could punish the Jihadi for raping the prisoner women with penetration.

Scientific Mistake of Shia Imam/Prophet:

Both Shia Imams/Prophet and Sunni Prophet (i.e. Muhammad) made a huge scientific mistake as they thought similarly, like the people of Jahiliyyah (i.e. the time of ignorance), that the semen of another person can indeed nourish the fetus. And due to this huge scientific mistake, both the Shias and the Sunnis put an extra burden upon the poor divorced/widow pregnant woman and prohibited them from marrying another person until the delivery of the fetus. A woman needs a lot of love and care and financial support during her pregnancy, and the only way for a divorced/widowed pregnant woman to get all these things is to marry another man. But Islam again oppressed the poor divorced/widow pregnant women in this case, by imposing unnecessarily the hardships of the waiting period upon them and taking away the chance from them to have the love, care and support of another man during their pregnancy.

The Evil of "Separating the child from the slave mother, and selling in the market" in Shia Islam:

Just like Sunni Islam, Shia Islam also allows the owner to separate the child from the slave mother and then sell the child in the Bazar of Slavery. Just look at this hadith, where the Shia Imam is asking the owner to not to sell the child. This means, if the owner had not penetrated the vagina of the pregnant slave mother, then he would have all the right to sell the child in the slave market.
Therefore, it was actually a blessing for the child if the owner raped his/her slave mother with penetration in her vagina. It became a reason for the freedom of the child, and his good luck that he/she would not be separated from his/her mother and sold in the slave market.

The Evil of "Slavery By Birth" in Shia Islam:

Just like Sunni Islam (link), Shia Islam also has the same evil of "slavery by birth". The child of a slave woman, who is not from the owner, he/she will be automatically born as a slave to the owner of the slave woman.
For example, if she was pregnant from the earlier owner (as in the above-mentioned hadith), or if her master marries her to another free Muslim man, or to any of his slaves, then the children from such a union will automatically be born as slaves to the owner of the slave woman.
A child from a slave woman can only be free if the owner himself rapes the slave woman, and then his own child is born, then that child will be free.
In the Quran, it was "discouraged" that a free man does Nikah with a slave woman of any other person. And the reason behind this is, the children of that free Muslim men will automatically born as slaves of the owner of the slave mother.
Quran 4:25:

And whoever among you has not within his power ampleness of means to marry free believing women, then (he may marry) of those whom your right hands possess from among your believing maidens; and Allah knows best your faith: you are (sprung) the one from the other; so marry them with the permission of their masters ... This (permission of marrying a slave woman) is (only) for him among you who fears falling into evil; and that if you abstain (from marrying a slave woman) is better for you (while your children will be automatically born as slaves), and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

All Shia Muffasirin and Fuqaha (jurists) are unanimous on this. Allamah Tabatabai wrote under the commentary of this verse 4:25 (link):

However, abstinence and patience is better (than marrying the slave women), in any case. If it indicates abstaining from marrying slave girls, it is because of the rights their masters have on them and on their offspring — as described in books of jurisprudence.

Note:
An 'Akhbari Shia Website' (that doesn't follow Shia Mujtahidden, but only Shia traditions) in fact translated this chapter into English. You can read all these Ahadith here (link). Please start from reading page 31 to read all these Ahadith, which are humiliating and discriminate against the poor slave women in the worst possible way.

Excuse from Shia Apologists: These Ahadith are not 'authentic' and against 'The Quran'

As usual, Shia apologists came, and they claimed that these Ahadith about slavery are not 'authentic', and they are also against the Quran.
But we ask them that:

• Please tell us the verses of the Quran which are against these Ahadith.
• The Quran is a thick book. But this thick book is only filled with boasting and self-praise of Allah, or with the cursing of opponents, and promising them hellfire, or some old stories.
• Nevertheless, when it comes to important issues, like Human Rights, then the Quran is empty of them.
• The writer of the Quran knew very well about the sufferings of the slave women (even of those who could happen to them in the future). But still, he didn't reveal any direct verses about their human rights in that big thick book i.e. the Quran. Why?
• There are only a few verses about slave women, which tell only that Muslim masters have the full right to have sex with them.

Therefore, if Shia Muslim apologists claim that ALL these Ahadith are weak, then we ask them why the writer of the Quran didn't reveal the human rights of slave women in the Quran, which could have saved them from these sufferings.
As far as these Shia Ahadith are concerned, then please note that:

• Sahih Ahadith is a small issue, we have here "Mutawati" (متواتر, Mutawātir; meaning: successive) Shia Ahadith, whose numbers are above hundred (alone in al-Kafi there are more than 50 Ahadith present), which are openly telling about the exploitation and slave women. They are telling only **one-**sided things like owners are allowed to rape their slave women without their consent. They are telling only that owners can also hand them over to their brothers and slave (without their consent). They are telling only this how multiple men can rape them in a such TEMPORARY sexual relationship. They are telling only that owner can sell the children from his slaves in the slave markets without their consent etc.
• This means, there exists not even a SINGLE Shia Hadith, which refutes them and tells contrary to them. There is not even a SINGLE Shia Hadith which tells that slave women have to take Hijab when they are not working, or they have to cover their naked breasts in public. There is not even a SINGLE Shia Hadith present which claims that owners cannot compel their slave women not to sleep with his brothers/slaves in temporary sexual relationships etc.

Today, these Shia apologists want to declare these tons of Shia Ahadith to be weak, but the reality is, this is the 1300 years long history of Islam (both Shia and Sunni) where slave women were prohibited from taking Hijab, where breasts were kept naked, where they were raped by multiple Muslim men, where their children were taken away from them and sold in the slave markets etc.
How are you going to deny this 1300 years long history of your Shia and Sunni Islam now (due to which millions of poor slave women suffered badly), by making the lame excuse of Weak Ahadith?

Please also read our article about Slavery in Sunni Islam too:

Even if you are a Shia, we request you to please still read our article about slavery in Sunni Islam too, while it has 5 times more material than the Shia article, and you will find a lot more evils of Islamic Slavery there.
Sunni Islam: Hijab is not 'modesty', as Islam prohibited the Slave-Women to take Hijab or even to cover their naked breasts in public

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I'm not an attorney and this is not legal advice.
You wrote: A father of a child in foster care was granted placement, has gone to court many times and has had multiple caseworkers, yet has not been able to pick up his child for twenty months (Anonymized)
If they give him placement, they lose Title IV-E incentives. Foster Placement is not for fathers. Fathers normally obtain custody through a change of custody with the reason being that mom is unfit.
Giving him misinformation that they might give him placement may be fraud. Stringing him along with useless proceedings may be obstruction of justice.
Consider an emergency motion to change custody to change custody from the allegedly abusive or neglectful parent who lost the child to foster care.
Illinois but other states are similar:

When There Are Grounds for An Emergency Motion
When considering restricting parental responsibilities the court will consider additional factors and the factors set out below will give you an idea of what the court deems an emergency:
Abuse, neglect, or abandonment of the child;
Abusing or allowing abuse of another person that had an impact upon the child; Use of drugs, alcohol, or any other substance in a way that interferes with the parent’s ability to perform caretaking functions with respect to the child; and Persistent continuing interference with the other parent’s access to the child, except for actions taken with a reasonable, good-faith belief that they are necessary to protect the child’s safety pending adjudication of the facts underlying that belief, provided that the interfering parent initiates a proceeding to determine those facts as soon as practicable.
https://gatevillerealestatellc.com/emergency-motions-to-modify-child-custody/

Possible failure to:

"protection of civil rights".
"use of the reasonable and prudent parenting standard"
42 U.S. Code § 671
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/671

Possible failure to respect:

"There is a fundamental right under the Fourteenth Amendment for a parent to oversee the care, custody, and control of a child."
Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57 (2000)
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/530/57/

Possible honest services fraud:

For the purposes of this chapter, the term “scheme or artifice to defraud” includes a scheme or artifice to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services.
18 U.S. Code § 1346.Definition of “scheme or artifice to defraud”
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1346
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honest_services_fraud

Possible criminal conspiracy against rights:

"If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or"
18 U.S. Code § 241.Conspiracy against rights
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/241

Other possible federal crimes.
Possible:

Fraud
Fraud is both a civil tort and criminal wrong.
In civil litigation, allegations of fraud might be based on a misrepresentation of fact that was either intentional or negligent. For a statement to be an intentional misrepresentation, the person who made it must either have known the statement was false or been as to its truth. The speaker must have also intended that the person to whom the statement was made would rely on it. The hearer must then have reasonably relied on the promise and also been harmed because of that reliance.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/fraud

Possible cause for a federal civil rights action under:

42 U.S. Code § 1983 - Civil action for deprivation of rights
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1983

US courts provide forms:

Complaint for Violation of Civil Rights (Non-Prisoner)
https://www.uscourts.gov/forms/pro-se-forms/complaint-violation-civil-rights-non-prisoner

Coercing him to waste time to obtain the federal incentive money for his daughter may be exortion:

Extortion
Forcing action or obtaining something by illegal means. Anyone may commit extortion through force or coercion. A public or private official may also commit extortion under the color of office.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/extortion

Any deceptive telephone calls, messages, e-mails, or texts may be:

Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
18 U.S. Code § 1343.Fraud by wire, radio, or television
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1343

For both dad and his child, these actions may be the basis of a lawsuit for intentional infliction of emotional distress.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/intentional_infliction_of_emotional_distress
This may be part of a pattern or practice of anti-father bias in Title IV-E funded child welfare programs.
https://www.reddit.com/MensRights/wiki/faq#wiki_14._is_there_evidence_of_sexism_and_corruption_in_the_child_protective_services_bureaucracies_in_the_united_states_.28title_iv-e.29.3F
This may be in effect a conspiracy to kidnap the child. Any conspiracy to kidnap may be racketeering:

(1)“racketeering activity” means (A) any act or threat involving murder, kidnapping, gambling, arson, robbery, bribery, extortion, dealing in obscene matter, or dealing in a controlled substance or listed chemical (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act), which is chargeable under State law and punishable by imprisonment for more than one year;
18 U.S. Code § 1961.Definitions
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1961

A social worker or school worker who may have deceived dad to force the child to stay in foster care when dad is willing to care for the child mayb be denying the child access to a loving father intentionally for money, and may be abusing that child. In so doing they are failing to report their own abuse or if they are aware of it, the abuse of their coworkers, a crime.

A person who, while engaged in a professional capacity or activity described in subsection (b) of section 226 of the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 on Federal land or in a federally operated (or contracted) facility, or a covered individual as described in subsection (a)(2) of such section 226 who, learns of facts that give reason to suspect that a child has suffered an incident of child abuse, as defined in subsection (c) of that section, and fails to make a timely report as required by subsection (a) of that section, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 1 year or both.
18 U.S. Code § 2258.Failure to report child abuse
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2258

Possibly defrauding the United States:

If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
18 U.S. Code § 371 - Conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud United States
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/371

State child support, parenting time, and child protection, and elder abuse are all primarily funded under federal law Title IV-D and Title IV-E. Consider filing complaints.

HHS Office of Inspector General
Phone. 1-800-HHS-TIPS (1-800-447-8477)
https://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/report-fraud/contact.asp
HHS Office of Civil Rights
https://www.hhs.gov/civil-rights/filing-a-complaint/index.html

Department of Justice Civil Rights

The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, created in 1957 by the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1957, works to uphold the civil and constitutional rights of all Americans, particularly some of the most vulnerable members of our society. The Division enforces federal statutes prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, disability, religion, familial status and national origin.
https://www.justice.gov/crt

Anyone may report federal crimes to the FBI.

(202)324-3000
http://tips.fbi.gov/

Possible basis of a class action lawsuit for similar situated people:

WHAT ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF CLASS-ACTION LAWSUITS?
There are many cases and issues that can be brought as class-action lawsuits. Often, class actions fall into one of the following categories:
...
Consumer: These class actions hold accountable business entities who engage in systematic and fraudulent or illegal business practices that scam or harm the consumer. Examples include antitrust cases like price-fixing, market allocation agreements and monopolistic schemes.
Employment: Employees who have been discriminated against, employees with immigrant worker issues, workers who have hour and wage issues and employees who have on-the-job injuries or suffer because of employer safety violations can bring class-action lawsuits against employers.
https://www.hbsslaw.com/about/what-is-a-class-action-lawsuit
CIVIL RIGHTS CLASS ACTIONS:
A SINGULARLY EFFECTIVE TOOL TO COMBAT DISCRIMINATION
For over 50 years, class actions have been among the most powerful tools to secure civil rights in America. Brown v. Board of Education, 1 which outlawed school segregation and set the stage for the entire civil rights movement, was a class action lawsuit. More recent examples include the case portrayed in the Hollywood movie “North Country,” based on the case Jenson v. Eveleth Mines and considered to be the first sexual harassment class action lawsuit.
CENTER FOR JUSTICE & DEMOCRACY
https://centerjd.org/system/files/CivilRightsClassActionsF.pdf

Any deceptive action by a social worker:
The National Association of Social Workers has a Code of Ethics:

https://www.socialworkers.org/About/Ethics/Code-of-Ethics/Code-of-Ethics-English

Possible misconduct by a social worker:

Social Workers:
How To File a Complaint
Steps for filing a request for professional review
NASW is very interested in reviewing situations that affect the integrity of our profession.
https://www.socialworkers.org/About/Ethics/Professional-Review/How-To-File-a-Complaint

Any lawyer involved in any potential deception leading to forcing the child to stay in foster care:

Complaints Against Lawyers
The ABA is not a lawyer disciplinary agency and has no authority to investigate or act upon complaints filed against lawyers. Each state has its own agency that performs that function in regard to lawyers practicing in that state. Locate your state agency from the Directory of State Disciplinary Agencies.
https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibility/resources/resources_for_the_public/

I wish you the best of luck in your search for justice.
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Hi there! I can tell from my group chats and the white-hot steam emanating from every electronic device connected to the internet that the latest USNWR Rankings^† have dropped. Apparently my alma mater, the University of Minnesota Law School, has done quite well. Some people like this! Some people think it's "absurd." Some have even gone so far as to call it "dangerous."
^† A thing that literally only law school applicants and their parents care about. No literally, you might joke about your own school's ranking now and then, but no one takes USNWR seriously once you enroll.
You may be wondering how a humble land grant school from a Midwestern state has done so well compared to more storied public institutions, a Midwestern Catholic college most notable for producing christofascist judges and their C.H.U.D. clerks, a school in Atlanta with famously inflated employment numbers, and a new school in California that spent years gaming the USNWR system to build its reputation.
EDIT: I can't believe I have to add this, but I didn't mean the prior paragraph to come off as slagging those schools or the students who go there. It was intended to interrogate the ways this subreddit talks about certain schools, and the biases or arbitrary perceptions we carry about schools compared to certain contextualizing details. If you went to NDL, great. Emory and UCI are good schools. Whatever. But there is a wide range of acceptable choices for where you go to school. Federal clerkships and BigLaw are not the full story of the legal profession. If you're happy with your choice, though, I'm happy. Unless you went to NDL to clerk for a bigoted, abortion-hating federal judge. Then you can get stuffed.
Well that sign can't stop me because I can't read! I refuse to waste my life puzzling over the USNWR methodology that only serves to perpetuate the elitism and gatekeeping of our profession. Instead, I want to tell you why Minnesota Law is a great place to go.
Let's start with your career outcomes:

1. My class (the most recent one for which data is available) had great employment outcomes. 98% of us have jobs or continued graduate studies. 92% were straight-up bar passage required (as opposed to some schools which rely on J.D. advantage jobs to goose their numbers) and only 1 person had a university-funded position (*coughcoughEmorycoughcough*).
2. 10% of the class went straight up BigLaw. I know at least one person who went to a V3 firm, and another who's deferring his offer at Hogan Lovells to clerk.
3. While BigLaw gets all the press, don't forget to take markets into account. Minnesota has a lot of regional MidLaw employment that's still in firms of 100 or more and pays close to (if not on) the Cravath scale. Including those people puts 23% of our class in highly remunerative firm jobs.
4. We also cranked out 10 federal clerkships and 44 state clerkships. While appellate clerkships are not broken out separately, UMN does very well with our state appellate courts.

But still, 23-year-olds with an internet connection will bleat at you "Minnesota is only great if you want to work in Minnesota." First of all, that's not really true? Only 59% of our class stayed in Minnesota. And it's a little insulting to think that we didn't largely stay by choice, because Minnesota is a great place to live!
Here's why you can believe me: I'm not from Minnesota. I moved to Minnesota from Boston at age 30 to attend law school here, in part based on a lot of good advice I got here in lawschooladmissions. I've lived a bunch of places and Minnesota is a good place to live. Lots of Minnesotans have a real case of brain worms about the exceptionalism of their state. While it's incredibly annoying, they are kind of on to something.

1. We have the highest life expectancy in the country.
2. The average home price is less than $260,000. Even if you only consider the Twin Cities, Minneapolis has an average price of $330k and St. Paul (which is approximately 10 feet away) has an average price at $266k. I personally know a half-dozen people who bought nice starter homes in the year following school.
3. The Twin Cities have an incredible parks systems, good and always-improving bike infrastructure, and a very good public transit system. There's so much outdoor recreation—lakes, parks, bike paths, river roads—within a 5 or 10 minute walk of wherever you happen to be in the cities. We have free concerts, street festivals, and a beloved State Fair that will boggle the mind of anyone who didn't grow up in the Midwest.
4. Our state government has passed laws to proactively and aggressively protect rights that conservatives are seeking to take away. We codified abortion protections, restored the right to vote for people with felony convictions, we banned conversion therapy, and we're about to legalize cannabis and expunge old pot convictions. We also updated our anti-discrimination laws, which already go beyond federal protections, to specifically outlaw race-based discrimination centered on hair texture and styles.
5. If that wasn't enough, Minnesota has drawn a line in the stand with the hateful policies of other states. We passed a law that prevents other state's courts from reaching into Minnesota to punish people who get abortions or doctors who provide them. We also enacted legislation to become a "trans refuge" state, protecting people who come to Minnesota for gender-affirm the care, and the doctors that help them.

That said, as you may have noticed, this state (and Minneapolis specifically) has a lot of issues with systemic and individual racism. Nowhere is perfect, and I wouldn't blame BIPOC individuals from being hesitant to consider Minnesota. But if you look outside the Fox News and far-right slant, towards our thriving Somali and Hmong communities, towards our efforts to do right by our Native population (both rural and urban), towards the efforts of our state and local governments to do better, and to the difference UMN Law grads can make in the world, you'll see a different story.
So, if you're going to slag Minnesota Law just because it exists outside of a half-dozen major cities, roughly between D.C. and L.A.? Go ahead. If you want to put it down because you're not used to seeing it above an arbitrary line in an arbitrary list of barely scientific rankings? Go ahead.
But if you want to go to a school full of good people who do great things, with staff and faculty that really and truly care about their students, in a state that cares about its people and is always trying to do better?
Well, consider the Gopher.

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Some two and three letter acronyms (TLA's) appear to land many more meanings for English speakers than others. For example, taking a look at Wikipedia's list of A acronyms, there are 7 entities identified by ABA, but only one by ABB.
Does anyone know of any work identifying and/or explaining the distributions of meanings across the permutations of two and three-letter English acronyms? I'm interested to hear others' thoughts on the phenomenon. I feel these observations illustrate an underlying tendency in how we interact with language.
Some easy explanations for why some acronyms get more meanings could be:

1. Simple association with previous experiencesWhen we experience some cultural relevance or importance of an utterance, we are primed to find new applications for it because it has been useful in the past. ACC in the Wikipedia list tells a story of a tradition in aviation and engineering with 6/7 relatively similar meanings like "Air Combat Command" and "Automatic Climate Control."
2. Morphological logic about how utterance should formACE has 5 meanings, itself being a complete word form. But KJ has only 2, being a consonant combination with no sensible pronunciation. It seems an easy conjecture that regular use of the spoken language will provide easement to the adoption of phonologically expedient utterances over those we cannot so easily pronounce. I imagine there is a lot of cultural implication to explore about which institutions and legacies can impose the adoption of these more difficult acronyms, like JPM being recognizable for the JP Morgan company while we have no more convenient way to utter that acronym than each letter in sequence. Similarly, I would conjecture that the explosion of text-based online communication has allowed the adoption of many difficult-to-pronounce acronyms that would not otherwise circulate, belying the importance of online discourse in modern thought.

One paper I found describing the relevance of the question, "The growth of acronyms in the scientific literature," describes the increasing trend of using new acronyms in scientific papers as the body of scientific research grows more specialized.
I feel these trends in acronym usage are ripe with information about underlying patterns in our collective thought and communication practices in our rapidly evolving information environment. Interested in you all's discussion.

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Even if the Spurs win today and tie the Houston Rockets in the standings, they will finish in last place in the Western Conference. They split their season series 2-2, but the Rockets own the tiebreaker due to a better division record.
The Spurs began playing in the ABA in 1967, before moving to the NBA in 1973, and they never finished last place in the Western Conference in either league until now.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_San_Antonio_Spurs_seasons
https://www.espn.com/nba/standings