[piytar]

Note the tense. It’s present. As in he does this NOW.

[muawiyah]

I know "historic present" is used in French ~ which is why most translations of French news stories make little sense to anybody. Subjunctive mood gives you the same effect ~ if you want it to.

I'm not sure about Arabic. The biggest cluster of Arabic speakers on Earth is in Egypt so they kind of dictate ideomatic expressions ~ so I'll guess that the Imam, if he was explaining the Koran, actually did so in "historic present".

Professor Jwadeh at Indiana University regularly did that when discussing the 7th Century ~ so it's possible the Imam wasn't justifying selling female sex slaves in modern times ~ there, in fact, being no such markets in Egypt at the moment.

[vladimir998]

It’s not only present tense, but the Muslim women too:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2732655/posts