The Tunisian interior minister warned in September of 2013 that women were traveling to Syria to engage in “sex jihad,” where they hoped to assist in the war against President Bashar Assad by having sexual relations with countless militants.
In late June, Egyptian cleric Mazher Shahin claimed the Muslim Brotherhood has taken the notion of “sex jihad” to a new level with a fatwa permitting “anal jihad.” It apparently states that when militants run out of women to turn to, they may turn to one another.
While Shahin speaks passionately about the subject, it is likely his claims are just propaganda against the recently-ousted Muslim Brotherhood.
Egyptian cleric Mazher Shahin speaks on Egypt’s Egyptian Al-Tahrir TV channel on June 26, 2014. (Photo via MEMRI-TV)
“We have recently heard of a new kind of jihad, called ‘anal jihad,’” Shahin began, according to a translation by the Middle East Media Research Institute. “Do you know what that is? They practice homosexuality with one another, thinking, wrongly, that this constitutes jihad for the sake of Allah.”
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Not according to Iraqi Shiite leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani. His website, on which he gives out marital advice along with political commentary, states unequivocally that anal sex between me is forbidden. Between men and women, it’s not forbidden, just “strongly discouraged.”
Perhaps we’re misinterpreting what kind of jihad these guys actually have in mind. Can’t help wondering which company will be the first to release a vid titled “Anal Jihad!”
Actually, I think that might be a very bad idea, but that’s one thing of which we’re never short in this business.
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