{"id":6816,"date":"2013-12-05T10:05:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T18:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=6816"},"modified":"2013-12-05T10:05:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T18:05:22","slug":"new-study-exposes-scandalous-fatwas-of-brotherhood-and-salafis-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/new-study-exposes-scandalous-fatwas-of-brotherhood-and-salafis-in-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"New Study Exposes Scandalous Fatwas of Brotherhood and Salafis in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/ Gatestone Institute<\/a>
\n<\/i><\/p>\n

As the full ramification of the Muslim Brotherhood\u2019s year in power continues to be exposed, a new study by Al Azhar\u2019s Fatwa Committee dedicated to exploring the fatwas, or Islamic decrees, issued by the Brotherhood and Salafis\u2014the Islamists\u2014was recently published.<\/p>\n

Al Azhar, in Cairo, is considered by many to be one of the oldest and most prestigious Islamic universities in the world.\u00a0 The study, written by Al Azhar\u2019s Dr. Sayed Zayed, and entitled (in translation), \u201cThe Misguided Fatwas of the Muslim Brotherhood\u00a0 and Salafis,\u201d reveals a great deal about how Islamists view women.<\/p>\n

The Egyptian newspaper\u00a0Al Masry Al Youm<\/em>\u00a0summarized<\/a>\u00a0some of the Al Azhar study\u2019s main findings and assertions on November 15 in a report entitled (in translation), \u201cMuslim Brotherhood fatwas: A woman swimming is an \u2018adulteress\u2019 and touching bananas is \u2018forbidden.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the report, \u201cfatwas issued by both groups [Brotherhood and Salafis] regard women as strange creatures created solely for sex. They considered the voices of women, their looks and presence outside the walls of their homes an \u2018offence.\u2019 Some went as far as to consider women as a whole \u2018offensive.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The study addressed 51 fatwas issued during the rule of ousted president Mohamed Morsi. Among them, the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafis \u201cpermitted wives to lie to their husbands concerning politics,\u201d if the husband forbids her from being supportive of the Islamists or their agenda; she may then, through\u00a0taqiyya<\/em><\/a>[dissimulation] a Muslim doctrine that permits deceit to empower Islam, still be supportive of the Islamists while pretending to be against them.<\/p>\n

The study similarly revealed that some of these fatwas decreed that women who swim in the sea are committing \u201cadultery\u201d\u2014even if they wear a hijab: \u201cThe reason behind this particular fatwa, from their point of view, is that the sea is masculine [as with other languages, Arabic nouns are gender specific, and \u201csea\u201d is masculine], and when the water touches the woman\u2019s private parts she becomes an \u2018adulteress\u2019 and should be punished.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moreover, \u201cSome of these fatwas also forbade women from eating certain vegetables or even touching cucumbers or bananas,\u201d due to their\u00a0 phallic imagery, which may tempt women to deviate.<\/p>\n

Other fatwas decreed that \u201cit is unacceptable for women to turn the air conditioning on at home during the absence of their husbands as this could be used as a sign to indicate to neighbors that the woman is at home alone and any of them could commit adultery with her.\u201d<\/p>\n

One fatwa suggested that marriage to ten-year-old girls should be allowed to prevent girls \u201cfrom deviating from the right path,\u201d while another prohibited girls from going to schools located 25 kilometers away from their homes. \u00a0Another stated that a marriage is annulled if the husband and wife copulate with no clothes on.<\/p>\n

These fatwas also sanctioned the use of women and children as human shields in violent demonstrations and protests, as these are\u00a0considered jihads to empower Islam<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Even slavery was permitted, according to the study: \u201cthe people who issued these fatwas [Brotherhood and\/or Salafi members] demanded the enactment of a law allowing divorced women to own slaves,\u201d presumably to help her, as she no longer has a man to support her.<\/p>\n

An earlier report (summarized in English here<\/a>) listed some other fatwas issued by the Brotherhood and Salafis during Morsi\u2019s tenure: advocating for the\u00a0destruction<\/a>\u00a0of the pyramids and sphinx; scrapping the Camp David Accords; killing anyone protesting against ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi (which happened and is one of the main charges against the imprisoned Brotherhood leadership); forbidding Muslims from greeting Christians; forbidding Muslim cab drivers from transporting Christian priests (whose clothing makes them identifiable); forbidding TV shows that mock or make light of Islamists; and forbidding women from marrying any men involved with the former Mubarak government.<\/p>\n

Predictably, the Al Azhar study criticizing the Brotherhood\/Salafi fatwas concludes by saying that only al Azhar, which styles itself as a moderate institution, is qualified to issue fatwas.\u00a0 Of course, one of the most sensational of all fatwas\u2014\u201cadult breastfeeding<\/a>,\u201d which called on women to \u201cbreastfeed\u201d strange men, thereby making them relatives and justifying their mixed company\u2014was issued by Al Azhar, but later retracted.\u00a0 \u00a0And it is apparently this retracting that makes Al Azhar more moderate than the Brotherhood.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Salafis\u2014who, in light of the Brotherhood\u2019s ousting have become Islam\u2019s standard bearers\u2014continue successfully to push<\/a>\u00a0for strict Sharia interpretations, the very sort that justify the above fatwas,\u00a0 in Egypt\u2019s new constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/ Gatestone Institute As the full ramification of the Muslim Brotherhood\u2019s year in power continues to be exposed, a new study by Al Azhar\u2019s Fatwa Committee dedicated to exploring the fatwas, or Islamic decrees, issued by the Brotherhood and Salafis\u2014the Islamists\u2014was recently published.<\/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":[118,140,227],"tags":[1017,1043,1060,1018],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-1LW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1339,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/muslim-brotherhood-confessions-ex-member-exposes-subversive-tactics\/","url_meta":{"origin":6816,"position":0},"title":"Muslim Brotherhood Confessions: Ex-Member Exposes Subversive Tactics","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 8, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim Hudson New York The online version of the long-running Arabic journal\u00a0Ruz al-Yusif\u00a0carries anexclusive interview\u00a0with Sheikh Osama al-Qusi entitled, \"Former Salafi: Salafis Have Distorted Islam.\" In the interview, Qusi discusses the \"true thoughts\" of the various Islamic groups, which \"they conceal under a political mask\"; he insists they\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Muslim Brotherhood"","block_context":{"text":"Muslim Brotherhood","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-world\/the-middle-east\/muslim-brotherhood\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":702,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/salafi-sex-scandals\/","url_meta":{"origin":6816,"position":1},"title":"Salafi Sex Scandals","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 16, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim Gatestone Institute Sheikh Ali Wanis, an Egyptian parliament member and prominent figure in the Nour Party \u2014 the Salafi party which preaches a return to early Islam based on Muhammad's practices \u2014 was recently caught in a \"compromising position\" with a female other than his legal spouse(s).\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Egypt"","block_context":{"text":"Egypt","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-world\/the-middle-east\/egypt\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":641,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/calls-to-destroy-egypts-great-pyramids\/","url_meta":{"origin":6816,"position":2},"title":"Calls to Destroy Egypt’s Great Pyramids","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 15, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim FrontPage Magazine According to several reports in the Arabic media, prominent Muslim clerics have begun to call for the demolition of Egypt's Great Pyramids \u2014 or, in the words of Saudi\u00a0Sheikh Ali bin Said al-Rabi'i, those \"symbols of paganism,\" which Egypt's Salafi party has long planned to\u00a0cover\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Egypt"","block_context":{"text":"Egypt","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-world\/the-middle-east\/egypt\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":606,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/msm-facilitates-destruction-of-the-pyramids\/","url_meta":{"origin":6816,"position":3},"title":"MSM Facilitates Destruction of the Pyramids","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 29, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim Frontpage Magazine Because the article \"Calls to Destroy Egypt's Great Pyramids Begin\" went viral on the Internet \u2014 read nearly 400,000 times on\u00a0FrontPage Magazinealone where it first appeared \u2014\u00a0as expected, the infamous \"hoax\" charge has been made to lull the West back to sleep. 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