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Saudi Cleric Encourages Syrian Rebels to Engage in ‘Temporary Marriages’ With Girls as Young as 14

Dec. 31, 2012 3:15pm Erica Ritz

A hardline Wahhabi cleric from Saudi Arabia is encouraging rebel fighters in Syria to engage in “temporary marriages” with Syrian females as young as the age of 14, multiple international news outlets have reported.

Iran’s PressTV has more on what they describe as a “special religious decree”:

Sheikh Mohammed al-Arifi said that the marriages between the foreign-backed militants and Syrian women will satisfy the militants’ sexual desires and boost their determination in killing Syrians.

He added that the marriages, dubbed by him as “intercourse marriages,” can be with Syrian females as young as 14 years old.

He also promised “paradise” for those who marry the militants.

Arifi has issued similar decrees in the past in support of the violence in Syria.

He has also been organizing a fundraiser for the militant groups fighting Syrian government forces.

Eretz Zen, a YouTube channel by a “secular Syrian opposed to having [his] country turned into a Taliban-like state,” also posted a newscast describing the declaration from Lebanon’s al-Jadeed TV:

The broadcaster had more on the story:

[The cleric] expressed his annoyance with the deprivation of the fighters of Islam, who are fighting in Syria alongside the armed opposition forces, from earthly pleasures. He clarified that it has been two years since the jihadists last were with women. Al-Arifi’s fatwa allows the fighters in Syria to engage in a marriage…that lasts for a few hours from Syrian females, in order to give each fighter a turn. [Emphasis added]

Obviously, critics are pointing out that the fatwa encourages rebel fighters to rape Syrian women, and feel religiously justified in doing it.

Wahhabi Saudi Cleric Encourages Rebels to Temporarily Marry Syrian Girls

(Photo: Facebook/Shaykh Muhammed Al Arifi)

Commenters took the cleric’s Facebook page to weigh in on the fatwa, many hurling insults at the religious figure.

There are doubts, though, that the cleric would issue such a decree (though he wouldn’t be the first):

(Photo: Facebook/Shaykh Muhammed Al Arifi)

Less than one week ago, the Middle East Broadcast Center said Al-Arifi “should be at a psychiatric hospital” for saying a girl shouldn’t be alone with her father because she might “tempt him into lusting after her,” al-Arabiya relates.

(H/T: Gateway Pundit)

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Comments (78)

GuruMeditation
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 4:00pm
We have a sick b@st@rd here.

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- M13
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 4:14pm
  Which Muslim isn’t a sick b@st@rd?
  
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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 5:58pm
  I can’t think of one actually. Some are just worse than others.
  
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theotherberean
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 4:00pm
Hey RAY, don’t try and rationalize the hypocrisy and heresy of the LDS. Nor changing the subject with straw men. Face it. If you’re LDS and you are not practicing polygamy, you are toast.

http://utlm.org/newsletters/no66.htm#OTHER%20MEN%27S%20WIVES

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- RaydocX
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 4:26pm
  other bean,
  i am not LDS.
  i don’t pretend to know all of the LDS teachings
  the only straw man i see is your insinuation that past predictates present or future.
  with that attitude the Catholic church would still be claiming an earth centered universe.
  
  i’m sorry they wouldn’t teach you the handshake or that your wife ran off with an LDS member… whatever has made you so beligerent you sidetrack conversation about PRESENT DAY MISOGYNY by a group this administration lauds as being the bringer of new freedom.
  
  Or is your only tool a hammer and your mandate to stamp out anything related to Beck, and his being LDS means you feel obligated to slander the entire group of believers based on your reading of their teachings?
  
  pathetic… Dorothy’s scarecrow, indeed, straw man.
  
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- theotherberean
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 4:42pm
  You’re the one who is tossing straw men, and logical fallacies, while spouting off needlessly concerning things of which you admittedly are ignorant. Go beat you wife again if you need entertainment.
  
  It is my job, as a Christian, to point out heresy. If you can offer a rebuttal to my comments then please do so but next time you fill your diaper, it would be better to just tell your mommy rather than share it with us.
  
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- RaydocX
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 4:59pm
  sadly, you apparently believe Christians beat their wives.
  i’m sorry rose ellen so often disappoints you.
  if your job is to point out heresy, remember the glass house in which you live, and the teachings of your lord regarding throwing stones.
  
  as to straw men and fallacies, the article is about an imam… last I read, that was Islamic, not LDS, so unless you want to castigate the imam find a thread about LDS to rant.
  
  and i do not need to further rebut your comments but for this… the church you are attacking gave up the plurality in order to facilitate Utah’s becoming a state. so you are arguing old news as if it is present day dogma. fallacial thinking.
  
  and bringing up Joseph Smith (repeatedly) is the original straw man here. Have fun chasing your own circular logic, i am off to converse with adults…
  
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- theotherberean
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 5:54pm
  No, I don’t believe Christians beat their wives, just you. If you want a war of insults, talk to her.
  
  Stating relevant facts, is different than throwing stones.
  
  True, the article is not about LDS, but a correlation can be drawn between marrying 14 year old girls, polygamy and Joseph Smith, and if you don’t think there are a lot of Mormons hanging out here, well Ha!
  
  Unlike you, I know the history of polygamy in the Mormon church, and again, admittedly you are running your mouth in ignorance, (although the link I posted should give you all the info you need) while making ad hoc, belittling and ad hominem remarks concerning my motives and my person. Perhaps you have a self esteem problem? Since you seem to run off at the mouth at a rate much faster than your knowledge and wisdom can keep up with, I thank God He gave you two ears and only one mouth.
  
  And it’s good that you are off to converse with adults, but I would let them do most of the talking if I were you.
  
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- Joey8
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 4:18pm
  LOL, wow theother, you haven’t posted for a while but I’m glad to see you found a story where you thought you could bring up the LDS church. What a clown. “True, the article is not about LDS”. I can imagine your wife (or husband, none of my business what you choose) getting annoyed with you every night at the dinner table: “how was your day honey?” “Oh, it was a Joseph Smith is a pedophile great day”
  
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- Joey8
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 4:24pm
  I saved my favorite quote from you so I could reply it back to you. Here you go “You know, bigotry is the reason why I don’t belong to “a church” anymore. Too many people told me I wasn’t a Christian because I didn’t think like them.” AHHH, the irony! It hurts!
  
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thibx
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:59pm
what the hell is a temporary marriage–a one night stand. paradise these sob’s will never see paradise–a figment of their imagination. muslims–evil people who hate the true God.

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Walkabout
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:57pm
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – quoted from the following poem during a speech.

“The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers…

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Dismayed Veteran
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:56pm
He is just reaffirming what every 7th century barbarian knew: Kill the men, Rape the Women, Enslave the Children, Steal the Gold.

It is truly impossible for a rational human being to understand these 7th century barbarians.

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- RaydocX
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 4:32pm
  it’s understandable… it’s immoral and vicious and has no place in civilization, and hiding barbarity in religious ‘fatwas’ is a lame excuse for acting inhumanely, casting doubt on any God whose professed leader supports such behavior. But sadly, it’s understandable… and happens too frequently in a world where it is not necessary.
  
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RaydocX
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:56pm
once religion is torn down in America… and the economy is left in shambles, and the government is proven to be a dodering greedy clutch of theives, the influx of true believers can begin, a la France and Egland.

but in a free country, as conflict arises, just remember this was an offered ‘fatwa’… the same will be urged upon our wives and daughters if given a chance…

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- theotherberean
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 4:19pm
  Good point. Joseph Smith had no problem with such a “fatwa.”
  
  http://utlm.org/newsletters/no66.htm#OTHER%20MEN%27S%20WIVES
  
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Walkabout
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:51pm
The thought of having sex with 14 year old girls must have the Mormon’s hormones raging. Joseph Smith would be nodding in approval… – theotherberean

“That’s what happens when people realize only the doctrines of men are being taught, instead of Bible truths. So it’s a good thing.” – theotherberean

Does that include the gay LDS? Or do you just like to throw bombs?

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- theotherberean
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 4:34pm
  Bombs? No. But I do like to toss facts around.
  
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J@ck_KvK
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:49pm
Wow, the fallacy of presentism alive and well, seemingly justifiable to disparage those with which you don’t agree. Why don’t you do some research before opening your mouth and proving your ignorance: http://en.fairmormon.org/Joseph_Smith/Polygamy/Marriages_to_young_women

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- theotherberean
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 4:17pm
  I have done much research, and Joseph Smith was a womanizing false prophet with a penchant for 14 year old girls and other people’s wives. This is fact. Deal with it.
  
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- saranda
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 6:22pm
  Could you use a less credible source than FAIR? FAIR’s defense of the Book of Mormon has left many questioning members scratching their heads in disbelief. how a thinking person can accept this as “truth” is beyond belief.
  
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- saranda
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 6:53pm
  FAIRS? that is your source?! i trust you were born into this story.
  
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ICEDRAGONNITE
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:49pm
If I remember correctly Paradise is not for the women. They are not entitled to grave stones. So where does this guy get off changing the rules. Oh My bad they do as they please and lie like the bastards they are. They twist the Hidith and the quran to fit their purposes when it comes to their jihad. Which by the way is everything so the quran is worthless considering that only one third of the book has not be abrogated. These Troglodytes are absurd to the extreme.

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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:53pm
  Okay I am confused. Muslims get grave stones?
  
  I thought they got a generic burials so you could not tell one grave from another, the rich from the poor. In that way it is egalitarian. And yet men get grave stones but women do not?
  
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rick43302
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:48pm
Now we know why the Dems support the muslim brotherhood.

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- KidCharlemagne
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 6:42pm
  It ain’t just the Dems though:
  
  The Hill.com (Feb. 19, 2012): “McCain, Graham call for US to arm Syrian rebels”
  
  Boston Globe (May 29, 2012): “Mitt Romney urges US to arm Syrian rebels, lead effort to oust Bashar Assad”
  
  CBS News (June 26, 2012): “Condoleezza Rice calls on U.S. to arm Syria rebels”
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:47pm
Once again we see the genuine evil of Islam going forward from the radicals. Such darkness has only one ending – annihilation.

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DZ-015
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:46pm
But in this modern age of diversity, who dares call this Wahhabi Kemo Sabe an accessory to child molestation?

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Walkabout
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:45pm
Saudi Cleric Encourages Syrian Rebels to Engage in ‘Temporary Marriages’ With Girls as Young as 14
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Temporary? The results won’t be temporary.

It is more like “might makes right”, “Planet of the Apes” or “Lord of the Flies”.

You can begat them but you don’t have to raise them up to be doctors, teachers, accountants, electricians, plumbers or engineers?

There should be a fatwa against Sheikh Mohammed al-Arif for being so stupid.

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scrapadapolis
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:44pm
But two years ago they were saying to have anal with men to enlarge the butt to pack with explosives.

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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 4:15pm
  We can always hope the bottom has HIV, so the other belligerents will die off in 10 to 15 years in a decidedly embarrassing way.
  
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RaydocX
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:42pm
Nice tangential shot at a religion for practices in a time when living to the age of 30 was an exception, and where having a family was a saving grace and needed to be started early and repeated frequently…

how about a shot at the Christians for the crusades, the pagans for the crucifixion of Christians? how about a shot at the present day atheists who aren’t satisfied with not believing, but instead insist on interfering with the majority’s wish to demonstrate belief and remember the nation’s history?

You sir, are a tool, and a dull tool at that…

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- theotherberean
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 4:11pm
  Hey Ray, the cowards at the Blaze removed my comment about Joseph Smith. Probably because some sissy complained. All I said is that Smith would be proud, since he had a penchant for 14 year old girls himself, and the Mormon hormones are probably raging at the thought this article elicits.
  
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SilentReader
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:42pm
Why do they need “temporary marriages?” They are raping them as we speak! And the traitors in the White House are arming the vile Islamist savages. This civil war would have been over long ago if it wasn’t for this. But we all know this isn’t about “protecting” this is about the vile agenda of a cabal of globalist criminal elites.

It was just reported that these same vile Islamist savages that the criminals in the White House are traitorously arming just beheaded a Christian in Syria and fed him to the dogs.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/syrian-rebels-beheaded-christian-and-fed-him-to-dogs/story-fnb64oi6-1226545322022

Of course, no mention of this in the Pravda MSM. Just as they didn’t mention what happened to the civilians in Libya after thug Gadhafi was sodomized and dragged and murdered in the streets there by the vile savages who are no better than he was, and much worse! No mention of anything in Libya until the vile al Qaeda, that the Thief-in-Chief was arming there, murdered four Americans during an terrorist attack on them on 9/11 in Benghazi.

When are the globalist cabal of criminals and elites who hide behind their vile institutions of unaccountabiltiy and untouchability going to be brought to justice? And the Thief-in-Chief charged with treason. This is the definition of treason. Arming the vile Islamist enemy that are troops are dying and being maimed fighting in that hornet’s nest that they call the Middle East.

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:48pm
  Amen.
  
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- Robinking
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 4:36pm
  Hypocrisy is why I don’t vote anymore. I found the Bible holds all the answers I need, and so I’m free of this insane, evil world. Old me would be posting this story on FB and ranting… but everyone I know who’s going to wake up, is already awake. This has all been written about, and it’s only gonna to get much, much worse unfortunately. I won’t care to say “I told ya so” to anyone. The look in their eyes will be sufficient. Bible believers… get ready, there’s going to be a LOT of people… with many questions.
  
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- rose-ellen
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 4:44pm
  Marrying girls at 14 is not that unusual -even for westerners.If we are fighting in foreign lands and the choice is marrying 14year olds or no sex -we would marry them. In viet nam-we had whore houses.They at least make it legal before God. That they are trying to topple the evil assad regime is a noble cause and we should be helping them.If alquada is their helping the rebels -it is our belief about alquada that needs to change. They are indeed freedom fighters-oppossed to dictators and unjust meddling in their homelands. They oppossed saddam husein and the russian invasion of afghanistan long before we did.That mass murdering regime could have been overthrown had we not just stood by an allowed over 40thousand men women and children to get tortured and murdered. Shame on us.
  
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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:23am
  @ROSE-ELLEN
  
  You are a sicko. Statutory rape is ok you say?
  
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powedj
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:41pm
Maybe Nancy Pelosi and Hillary should volunteer to service the rebels. Oh, I forgot Hillary is faking a blood clot brought on by a “concussion”.

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Walkabout
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:37pm
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – quoted from the following poem during a speech:

“The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers…”

Meanwhile people on the left are demanding the birth control be supplied free of charge by the Uncle Slam.

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Frodo RinosBane
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:36pm
Yeah, sweetheart. You’ll go to paradise if you let them have their way. Got that?

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Cavallo
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:33pm
This is who they are. Rape young girls, call it holy. This is the culture that Bobo the Wonder Marxist lauds and promotes (for now, until they threaten his Master, The State)

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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:38pm
  Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – quoted from the following poem during a speech:
  
  “The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers…”
  
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The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:28pm
Since when do towelheads ask? Besides…are there not plenty of goats and donkeys to go around?

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powedj
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:26pm
Instead of “temporary” marriages; goats and sheep should do just fine.

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1776freedomofspeech
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:25pm
Muslim Priests promising heaven for having sex with underage girls. Amazing. Hows the left feel about this? Perfectly fine?

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- U.S. Constitutionist
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:30pm
  An often thought that when one martyrs himself in the ‘faith’, then they receive 72 virgins. But to find that the 72 are all 72yr old nuns…
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:37pm
  Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – quoted from the following poem during a speech:
  
  “The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers…”
  
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- 1776freedomofspeech
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 4:09pm
  @U.S.
  
  Good one!
  
  @WALK
  
  Roger, know the neighborhood.
  
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shorelineliz
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:21pm
Between this dude and the Obama Administration I can’t tell which one makes me wretch more today. It’s a toss up.

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:45pm
  Both are equally sick and twisted,a vile lot indeed.
  
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hauschild
Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:20pm
“Saudi Cleric Encourages Syrian Rebels to Engage in Temporary Marriages With Girls as Young as 14″

And, these backwards, inbred buggers should have the nerve to wonder why they can’t compete with the West???

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- shorelineliz
  Posted on December 31, 2012 at 3:23pm
  I LMAO every time they accuse the West of sexual immorality. They are a complete joke. And they like little boys too. Soft ones. Pretty ones. Can you say Pashtun? I can.
  
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