How Islamists treat non-Muslim slave women
The evening after Jauhar, once the women had died,
the Rajputs and the surviving men donned saffron-colored robes (kesariya),
smeared turmeric on themselves,
and rode out of the fort gates for a suicidal,
fierce last stand against the enemy with no intent to return.
The Hindus called it the Saka.
The gift bestowed upon the enslaved women by their muslim master was humiliation and a degraded life. The unmitigated lust of the muslim invaders, like the Turks and the Mughals, who enslaved Hindu women solely for the purpose of obtaining sexual pleasure from them—reduced a Hindu woman’s existence exclusively to carnality and breeding.
To understand the plight of women who were unable to commit Jauhar, let’s take the example of the massacre of Chios by the Turks. What the muslims did to Hindu women, they also did to women across Eurasia.
Now, the concept of Jauhar (mass self-immolation by Kshatriya women) is absent in Europe, and those women suffered terribly. Many of them committed suicide, and the older women were burnt alive by the muslims.
About a massacre just 200 years ago, the Greek author Homer Pavlos writes:
On March 30, 1822, when the massacre in Chios began, the Muslim Turks had clear orders. The Sultan had commanded that all Greek Christians be slaughtered, except for boys aged 3-12 and women from 12 to 40. These would be captured and destined for the slave markets. Young girls were raped publicly in the streets, and newlyweds in front of their husbands, who were then slaughtered. Others were raped in front of their parents, after which the men’s genitals were cut off. Women over 40 were set on fire and left to burn alive. Pregnant women had their bellies ripped open and their fetuses pulled out, while small children were thrown forcefully against rocks.
The frenzy of the Muslims was unprecedented. Many Turkish soldiers cut off the heads of Greek Christians and then licked their swords. With this act, they believed they would earn a place in paradise. Others were hanged from the island’s trees for deterrence.
Severed human limbs and corpses were scattered on the streets, while the sea had turned red from the blood. The smoke from the burning houses had covered all of Chios, while the flames made the night look like day.
Several women from Chios preferred death to dishonour and slavery. They committed suicide by jumping off cliffs. Some were killed while defending their children, siblings, and husbands. Even among those who were captured, some died on hunger strike. Destitute women and children from the island were crammed into ships and transported to the markets of Smyrna and Constantinople, where they were sold as slaves at humiliating prices.
The priest Welsh from the English embassy in Constantinople recorded what he saw in those days at the city’s slave market
“The Turks treated the women from Chios with utmost contempt. They examined them, groped them like butchers do lambs, and bought them for 100 grosia (Greek money) to 3 pounds per head. About 500 women from Chios were sold in the fish market.”