News emerged a few weeks ago in Arabic media that yet another fatwa had called on practicing Muslim women to travel to Syria and offer their sexual services to the jihadis fighting to overthrow the secularist Assad government and install Islamic law.Reports attribute the fatwa to Saudi sheikh Muhammad al-\u2019Arifi, who, along with other Muslim clerics earlier permitted jihadis to rape Syrian women.<\/p>\n
Muslim women prostituting themselves in this case is being considered a legitimate jihad because such women are making sacrifices\u2013their chastity, their dignity\u2013in order to help apparently sexually-frustrated jihadis better focus on the war to empower Islam in Syria.<\/p>\n
And it is prostitution\u2013for they are promised payment, albeit in the afterlife. The Koran declares that \u201cAllah has purchased of the believers their persons [their bodies] and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain (Yusuf Ali trans. 9:111).<\/p>\n
On the basis of this fatwa, several young Tunisian Muslim girls traveled to Syria to be \u201csex-jihadis.\u201d Video interviews of distraught parents bemoaning their daughters\u2019 fates are on the Internet, including one of a father and mother holding a picture of their daughter: \u201cShe\u2019s only 16\u2013she\u2019s only 16! They brainwashed her!\u201d pleads the father.<\/p>\n
Most recently, the Egyptian-based news service Masrawy published a video interview with \u201cAisha,\u201d one of the Tunisian Muslim girls who went sex-jihading in Syria, only to regret her actions. While in Tunisia, Aisha said she met a Muslim woman who began talking to her about the importance of piety, including wearing the hijab; she then went on to talk about traveling to Syria to help the jihadis \u201cfight and kill infidels\u201d and make Allah\u2019s word supreme, adding that \u201cwomen who die would do so in the way of Allah and become martyrs and enter paradise.\u201d (According to mainstream Islamic teaching, dying in jihad is the only guaranteed way to avoid hell.)<\/p>\n
Aisha eventually came to the conclusion that she was being exploited in the name of religion and left.
\nWhile news that Muslim girls in hijabs are prostituting themselves in the name of Islam may surprise some, Islamic clerics regularly issue fatwas permitting forbidden things\u2013so long as they help the jihad. For instance, not only did the original \u201cunderwear bomber\u201d Abdullah Hassan al-Asiri hide explosives in his rectum to assassinate Saudi Prince Muhammad bin Nayef\u2013they met in 2009 after the 22-year-old Asiri \u201cfeigned repentance for his jihadi views\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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