{"id":6649,"date":"2013-10-21T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=6649"},"modified":"2013-10-21T13:48:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T20:48:00","slug":"islamic-doctrines-justify-sex-jihad-with-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/islamic-doctrines-justify-sex-jihad-with-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic Doctrines Justify Sex Jihad (With Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/\u00a0RaymondIbrahim.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Note<\/em><\/strong>: A 15-minute video of men and women from various nations discussing their experiences with the sex jihad in Syria, translated from Arabic to English by my colleagues, appears beneath this article (you may need to click on \u201cCC\u201d (closed caption\u201d) for the English subtitles to appear<\/em>).<\/p>\n

\"burka-124601533266629000\"As news of the\u00a0sex jihad<\/a>\u00a0continues toproliferate in Mideast media<\/a>, and as the\u00a0West continues to bury its head in the sand<\/a>\u2014here for example is\u00a0Der Spiegel\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0attempt to portray as \u201cfalse\u201d the \u201ctales of rebels engaging in \u2018sex jihad\u2019 and massacring Christians\u201d\u2014it is instructive to note that even the practice of sex jihad has specific doctrinal validation in Islam (which should hardly be surprising considering that \u201cadult breastfeeding<\/a>\u201d also has validation).<\/p>\n

First there is the general justification for sex jihad, namely that, because Muslim men waging jihad have become sexually frustrated in their camps, losing morale and quitting the theatre of war, it is permissible, indeed laudable, for Muslim women to volunteer to give up their bodies to these men so that they can continue the jihad to empower Islam, in accordance with the Koran: \u00a0\u201cAllah has\u00a0purchased<\/em>\u00a0of the believers\u00a0their persons<\/em>\u00a0and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain\u201d (Yusuf Ali trans. 9:111).<\/p>\n

This verse has been traditionally understood as Muslim men selling \u201ctheir persons,\u201d that is, their bodies, to the jihad in exchange for paradise. In the context of sex jihad, however, Muslim women are also selling \u201ctheir persons\u201d (their bodies to be used for sex) to help empower the jihad, also in exchange for paradise.<\/p>\n

Aside from this logic which involves intention (niyya<\/em>) and the idea that the ends justify the means\u2014this is the same rationale, for example, used to justify Islamic suicide attacks (\u201cmartyrdom operations\u201d)\u2014in the hadith and teachings of early Islam, precedents exist that Islam\u2019s\u00a0ulema<\/em>\u00a0use to justify the sex jihad.<\/p>\n

Recorded in\u00a0Sahih Bukhari<\/em>\u2014for most Sunni Muslims, the second textual authority after the Koran itself\u2014is an anecdote of one Muslim giving another Muslim one of his wives for sexual purposes.\u00a0 The story is as follows: When some of Muhammad\u2019s followers from Mecca migrated to Medina, a complaint was raised that the people of Medina had better profited from following Muhammad than his original Meccan followers who had suffered more deprivations.\u00a0 In this context, Muhammad paired up the Meccan Abdul Rahman bin Awf with the Medinan Sa\u2018ad bin Rabi\u2018a, for the latter to share some of his possessions with the former. So Rabi\u2018a offered to Rahman half of all his possessions, adding \u201cLook at my two wives, and whichever of them you desire, I will divorce her so you can have her\u201d (Sahih Bukhari<\/em>: 118, 1943<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Based on this, divorcing one\u2019s wife for the use of another Muslim became acceptable\u2014indeed, laudable and generous behavior.\u00a0\u00a0Sahih Bukhari<\/em>\u00a0has an entire chapter (bab<\/em>) on the jurisprudence of this practice. Nor should it be forgotten that, recorded in the Koran itself, one man divorced his wife and gave her to Muhammad simply\u00a0because the prophet desired her<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In several of the videos that interview people involved with the Syrian sex jihad, this very same logic plays out.\u00a0\u00a0In this video<\/a>\u00a0for instance,\u00a0 one Muslim man explains how he was told that, since he had three wives, he should divorce one of them so she can wage sex jihad with the \u201cfreedom fighters\u201d in Syria.\u00a0 This, both he and his wives were told, was laudable, and so they complied.<\/p>\n

Then there is the whole idea of\u00a0mut\u2018a<\/em>\u00a0marriage<\/a>.\u00a0 Often translated as \u201ctemporary\u201d marriage, the word\u00a0mut\u2018a<\/em>\u00a0simply means\u00a0 \u201cpleasure\u201d\u2014i.e., a marriage for the sole purpose of \u201cpleasure.\u201d\u00a0 These \u201cmarriage\u201d contracts are made between a Muslim man and woman for a temporary duration and often for the sole purpose of legitimizing otherwise banned sexual relations\u2014not unlike a legalized form of prostitution.\u00a0 Koran 4:24 exonerates pleasure marriage, as many Muslim doctrinaires hold:<\/p>\n

And [also prohibited to you are all] married women except those your right hands possess [sex slaves]. [This is] the decree of Allah upon you. And lawful to you are [all others] beyond these, [provided] that you seek them [in marriage] with [gifts from] your property, desiring chastity, not unlawful sexual intercourse.\u00a0So whatever you enjoy of them, give them their due compensation as an obligation. And there is no blame upon you for what you mutually agree to beyond the obligation<\/em>. Indeed, Allah is ever Knowing and Wise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Although the practice of\u00a0mut\u2018a<\/em>\u00a0marriage is often pinned on the Shias, it\u2014as with\u00a0taqiyya<\/em>, which is also often treated as a Shia phenomenon\u2014often manifests itself among Sunnis,\u00a0especially in the context of sexually-deprived men waging jihad<\/a>.\u00a0 Moreover, it is well known that Muhammad and his followers used to have sex with the wives and daughters of the infidel men they killed, hence the recent\u00a0rape fatwa in Syria<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In light of all this, it is amazing that some in the West are still trying to exonerate the jihadis in Syria from the practice of sex jihad, since, apparently, those \u201cnoble freedom fighters\u201d would never stoop to such a level (the rampant beheadings, church bombings, and Christian persecution are all a \u201cmyth,\u201d too, according to Der Spiegel).<\/p>\n

Watch the following video<\/a> for more on the sex jihad in Syria straight from the horse\u2019s mouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/\u00a0RaymondIbrahim.com\u00a0 Note: A 15-minute video of men and women from various nations discussing their experiences with the sex jihad in Syria, translated from Arabic to English by my colleagues, appears beneath this article (you may need to click on \u201cCC\u201d (closed caption\u201d) for the English subtitles to appear). As news of the\u00a0sex […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[29,33],"tags":[1017,1061,30,1060,1041,1018],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-1Jf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6590,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/foreign-policy-magazine-covers-up-syrian-sex-jihad\/","url_meta":{"origin":6649,"position":0},"title":"Foreign Policy Magazine Covers Up Syrian Sex Jihad","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 3, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/ RaymondIbrahim.com\u00a0 Foreign Policy\u00a0magazine recently demonstrated why U.S. foreign policy, especially in the Middle East, is a disaster: because the establishment has a hard time factoring the\u00a0foreign\u00a0in their policies (more\u2019s the irony).\u00a0 Put differently, whatever information doesn\u2019t comport with modern Western epistemology\u2014our subjective worldviews\u2014must simply be false,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Religion"","block_context":{"text":"Religion","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/religion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6560,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/pregnant-with-aids-tunisian-girl-recounts-her-sex-jihad-in-syria\/","url_meta":{"origin":6649,"position":1},"title":"Pregnant with AIDS: Tunisian Girl Recounts Her Sex Jihad in Syria","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/\u00a0Jihad Watch\u00a0 The Arabic media has been full of interviews with some of the many Tunisian girls that went to the sex jihad in Syria. 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