The Jihad al-Nookie

    Well, one of the most interesting stories in the media in recent days is the one about "sexual jihad."  It was carried on the Huffington Post and elsewhere.   The main part of the story is this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/09/20/sexual-jihad-tunisian-women-return-syria-pregnant-rebels_n_3960370.html

Sexual Jihad Sees Tunisian Women Return From Syria Pregnant By Rebels, Says Minister

Huffington Post UK  |  By Sara C Nelson Posted: 20/09/2013 11:48

Tunisian women are travelling to Syria to partake in a “sexual jihad” by comforting rebel fighters, a minister has claimed.

“They have sexual relations with 20, 30, 100 militants”, Interior Minister Lofti Bin Jeddou reportedly told members of the National Constituent Assembly on Thursday.

“After the sexual liaisons they have there in the name of ‘jihad al-nikah’ (sexual holy war), they come home pregnant,” he added in quotes provided by AFP.

While he did not put a figure on the number of women allegedly partaking, Bin Jeddou claimed 6,000 Tunisians had been banned from travelling to Syria since March, and that 86 individuals had been arrested on suspicion of forming “networks” to send them there, Al Arabiya reports.

The full text of the story is pasted below.

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Now I know exactly what you are thinking when you read this, and that is that this is a wonderful opportunity for far-Leftist anti-Israel Jews to join in these delegations of solidarity with the jihadi fighters in Syria.   I mean, after all, why should anti-Semitic Jews be excluded from this Jihad al-Nikah???

SO I wanted to suggest that you take a moment and send an email to a group of radical anti-Israel Jewish women activists and suggest to them that they join in one of these solidarity delegations.   Heck, I know I would be willing to chip in to cover their travel costs.   Here they have a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate their opposition to colonialism and Zionism and show their embrace for the jihad al-nikah.   (I do not know all that much Arabic and so I am trying to clarify whether nikah comes from the root nookie.)

And since we certainly do not want to appear to be discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation, I see no reason why male homosexual anti-Israel radicals cannot also be invited to join in these delegations

In any case, why not take a moment and send your own invitation to the following group of anti-Israel Jewish extremists.  You can paste the email addresses in a BCC slot if you want to send them all at once.

Here are the addresses.  The names that go with these appear just below them, in the same order:

jb_crittheory@berkeley.edu, sroy@fas.harvard.edu, jsarin@wisc.edu, giorar@post.tau.ac.il , matar@post.tau.ac.il, anatbi@post.tau.ac.il , lubin@post.tau.ac.il, rellyaz@netvision.net.il , cwp@coalitionofwomen.org, dbaum@afsc.org, dor_naor@netvision.net.il, bilhagolan@bezeqint.net, tikva20@zahav.net.il, noa.shaindlinger@utoronto.ca, rlentin@tcd.ie, machsomwatch@gmail.com , nuritpeled@gmail.com, quaia.toronto@gmail.com

These are:

Judith Butler,  Sara Roy, Jennifer Lowenstein, Rachel Giora, Anat Matar, Anat Biltzki, Orly Lubin, Ariella Azoulay, coalition of women for peace, Dalit Baum, Dorothy Naor, bilha golan, Tikva Honig Parnas, Noa Shaindlinger, Ronit Lentin, Machsom Watch, Nurit Peled Elhanan, Queers against Israeli Apartheid

Full text of above news story:

Tunisian women are travelling to Syria to partake in a “sexual jihad” by comforting rebel fighters, a minister has claimed.

“They have sexual relations with 20, 30, 100 militants”, Interior Minister Lofti Bin Jeddou reportedly told members of the National Constituent Assembly on Thursday.

“After the sexual liaisons they have there in the name of ‘jihad al-nikah’ (sexual holy war), they come home pregnant,” he added in quotes provided by AFP.

While he did not put a figure on the number of women allegedly partaking, Bin Jeddou claimed 6,000 Tunisians had been banned from travelling to Syria since March, and that 86 individuals had been arrested on suspicion of forming “networks” to send them there, Al Arabiya reports.

Hundreds of Tunisian men have also gone to join the ranks of jihadists fighting to overthrow the regime of President Bashar Assad.

Sexual jihad fatwas typically allow armed members to have sexual intercourse with women as part of a temporary contract. It also allows women to sleep with more than one man a day, Fars News explains.

It is considered by some hardline Sunni Muslim Salafists as a legitimate form of holy war.

It emerged the practice was occurring in Syria some months ago.

According to the Jerusalem Post, Former Mufti of Tunisia Sheikh Othman Battikh complained in April that 13 Tunisian girls were "fooled" into traveling to Syria to offer sexual intercourse to rebel fighters, in order to create an army strong enough to topple the regime.

The origins of these “temporary marriages” have been attributed to Saudi Arabian scholar Sheikh Mohammed al-Arifi, Iranian channel Press TV reported in December last year.

Al-Arifi was claimed to have issued a fatwa permitting militants to engage in short-term marriages with Syrian women as young as 14 to “satisfy… their sexual desires and boost their determination in killing Syrians.”

According to CNS.News, al-Arifi later disowned the fatwa, though some Arab commentators are sceptical, with one source telling Al-Bawaba in March: “Then again, one might backtrack, standing accused of selling young innocents to militant Muslims.”

Al-Arifii has sparked controversy with previous fatwas, including one which demanded daughters do not wear revealing clothing or sit alone with their fathers, lest they incite his lust.