Bloggers Feud Over Story Alleging Cleric Encouraged Sodomy as a Jihad-Promoting Tool (Who Do You Believe?)
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Sharona Schwartz
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Warning: this story contains sexually explicit material.
Over the past week, there’s been a nasty feud underway between a writer for Jihad Watch – a blog that exposes radical Islamic developments – and an anti-Israel website over the veracity of one outrageous-sounding fatwa.
It all started when Raymond Ibrahim – a fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center – posted a story based on Arabic videos which he regularly translates for his columns. The TV clip he found of a Shiite cleric suggested that for radical jihadi Muslims, anal sex is permissible if it is in the service of a suicide mission in which explosives need to be hidden. Ibrahim explains:
Abdullah Hassan al Asiri
Not only did the original “underwear bomber” Abdullah Hassan al-Asiri hide explosives in his rectum to assassinate Saudi Prince Muhammad bin Nayef—they met in 2009 after the 22-year-old holy warrior “feigned repentance for his jihadi views” — but al-Asiri apparently had fellow jihadis repeatedly sodomize him to “widen” his anus in order to accommodate the explosives— all in accordance with the fatwas [religious edicts] of Islamic clerics.
A 2010 Arabic news video that is making the rounds on the Internet gives the details. Apparently a cleric, one Abu al-Dema al-Qasab, informed jihadis of an “innovative and unprecedented way to execute martyrdom operations: place explosive capsules in your anus. However, to undertake this jihadi approach you must agree to be sodomized for a while to widen your anus so it can hold the explosives.”
The video which can be found on YouTube has had more than 155,000 views as of this writing.
Ibrahim writes that jihadis asked for official fatwas on the matter since homosexuality is forbidden in Islam and carries the death penalty in some Muslim countries. Ibrahim adds:
Citing his desire for “martyrdom and the virgins of paradise,” one jihadi, (possibly al-Asiri himself) asked another sheikh, “Is it permissible for me to let one of the jihadi brothers sodomize me to widen my anus if the intention is good?”
After praising Allah, the sheikh’s fatwa began by declaring that sodomy is forbidden in Islam,
However, jihad comes first, for it is the pinnacle of Islam, and if the pinnacle of Islam can only be achieved through sodomy, then there is no wrong in it.
Cue Electronic Intifada, a stridently anti-Israel website that promotes the “one-state solution,” that is an Arab-majority state replacing Israel on territories including all of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Blogger Benjamin Doherty called Ibrahim’s story a “vile Islamophobic hoax” and “pure nonsense:”
It is a hoax purveyed by someone affiliated with the David Horowitz Freedom Center, an extreme right-wing organization whose founder and namesake is well-known for uncivil and racist attacks on liberal, progressive and leftist political groups.
Doherty believes that the person in the video – Abdallah al-Khallaf, host of the show “The Morals of the Prophets, Peace Be Upon Them” is actually trying to incite his Shiite audience against Wahhabi Sunni Muslims using a phony story. Doherty also claims the original text the presenter read on television “is written in a style commonly used for stories in which both the teller and listener know it is a joke or fiction.” Raymond Ibrahim dismisses the suggestion it was all a joke or that the story is a hoax.
Doherty calls Ibrahim’s column “racist trash” and points to the fact that Sheikh Abu al-Dema al-Qasab – who suggested the “innovative” explosives-hiding system in the vein of drug mules – is not actually a real person. The name translates to “Sheikh Bloody Butcher.”
But Ibrahim counters that this is a typical nom de guerre for jihadi spiritual leaders. Doherty wrote a letter to the site that first published Ibrahim’s column (Gatestone Institute), demanding it retract the piece. After The Middle East Forum examined the criticism and found “no evidence to substantiate the charges,” the Gatestone Institute decided to stand by Ibrahim’s piece.
MEMRI has also weighed in, posting a translation of an excerpt of the original video on which Ibrahim based his column and backing up the gist of the story. Electronic Intifada also has a problem with MEMRI which it calls “an outfit that disseminates highly selective and often distorted translations from Arabic-language media.” Here is the clip courtesy of MEMRI:
For his part, Ibrahim is swinging back, accusing Electronic Intifada of not offering “a shred of evidence” when disparaging his work:
In short, for all its triumphant howling, EI fails to deliver, abysmally. The facts remain: such a fatwa does exist; it is written exactly like a fatwa (despite EI’s intentional distortions); and a well-known Arabic program quoted it as fact—which is precisely what I originally reported in the first place.
That a religious authority – obscure as he or she may be – could condone suicide bombing in this novel and vile manner might be hard for any peace-loving individual to believe. But there have been some very unusual fatwas. Al-Arabiya listed the “weirdest fatwas” of 2011 last December, including a Moroccan cleric allowing sex with a just-deceased wife, a prohibition on the consumption of “Trinity-like” triangle pastries, and a prohibition on women eating phallic-shaped vegetables like cucumbers and carrots.
Is the sodomy-for-jihad fatwa real or hoax? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
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Comments (79)
term limits for congress
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 12:44pmI hope the TSA doesn’t read this story. It already takes too long to get through airport security.
Report Post »docgreen
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 3:02pmSo, they do it to hide explosives. It must be the Wests Fault. Thats what Dumoudan stated yesterday. They also rape little boys and girls to convert them to islam. Then once they convert the boys are made into child soldiers and told they can have boys and girls that they take in War until they convert! Isn’t it such a wonderful religion? NOT! These people are Evil! Have you ever asked yourself why Africa has so many people with aids? Islam spreads it even more, because they rape women, girls, boys, and men after they burn their villages! I believe its the spoils of War islam calls it.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/nonsense-muslim-rep-keith-ellison-slams-assertion-that-islamic-extremists-have-infiltrated-the-u-s-government/#respond
He seemed to say its the Wests fault that muslims turn to porn, alcohol, and a few other things. Isn’t it funny to hear muslims say its not their fault and blames the West for Everything? It sounds exactly the same as what our potus says! Its all America’s fault!
Report Post »jaylew
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 7:30pmOpen wide for Allah.
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 7:37pmIt is okay as long as they don’t enjoy it.
Report Post »ObserverOnTheHill
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 4:08pmNo worries, coming soon to TSA agents near you is new laser scanning technology that will know everything in and on you from 50 meters away. Article here
http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/tag/genia-photonics/
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 12:26pmAfter word of this gets out thousands of western gay men around the world may start to warm up to the idea of islam.
Report Post »calyptratus
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 1:03pmI hope it is a lit fuse that warms them
Report Post »garbagecanlogic
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 12:22pmAnyone who believes they will encounter 72 virgins when they die – for killing infidels on earth will believe just about anything. They probably still put their teeth under the pillow hoping the fairy will visit them.
Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
Report Post »The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
paulusmaximus
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 5:15pmYes after they use their 72 virgins do they then spend eternity with 72 cranky pregnant women.Muslims have a stupid idea of eternity. Mohammad was a ******!
Report Post »kalli
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 11:27amThe good news is God removes this cult of perverted people from existing forever. If the deceiver-in-chief remains in the WH after 2012, I predict the end game is on. With evil at the helm, the way events are popping in the Middle East, the coming downfall of this nation’s power and standing, and the build-up of power in Russia and China, I believe that prophectic event is not too far away. There’s only One power who can change it!
Report Post »Constructionist
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 11:05amTalk about coming out of the closet with a bang…
Report Post »thom1
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:54amSure does give a whole new meaning too. Taking one for the team!
Report Post »Iamnotanumber
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:46amLets see, if you look at how they treat their women, christian women, and western female reporters, I would say….myth busted!!!! They are a foul smelling stone aged culture, why should they be expected to act civilized? The only thing they respect is force and violence, it has been proven time and again. READ about the culture of the enemy!
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 5:21pmExactly. And as for the claim that MEMRI’s reports are “often distorted translations from Arabic-language media”, then if the claim is true, they could give a few examples.
Report Post »bobbyjoe
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:43amAh! So this was Barry’s plan all alone on how to bring a bomb into the white house and take out the president.
Report Post »glocker
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:16amJoin the Jihad and never leave your buddies behind !
Report Post »RANGER1965
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:26amLol
Report Post »Leadthemtothelight
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 4:03pmROFL…..Good one!
Report Post »RANGER1965
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:14amIt’s a strange religion, obstensibly filled with moral absolutes and directives from god himself. Then you start looking deeper and you find a tangled mess of exceptions and work-arounds.
Cursed is the lying tongue——unless you can reason out a way that it’s in service to Allah (liars always can), or if you are speaking to an infidel, then you can lie all you want.
Rape and debauchery stains a man’s righteousness—-unless it’s done to a slave, a wife, an infidel, or any woman that you have captured (because if you captured her, then it must have been Allah’s will)
Sex out of wedlock is forbidden among believers—–which is why we have the new and improved temporary marriage! “Feeling a little blue? Tired of the ole ball and chain at home? Vacation in lovely Dubai, we have legions of beautiful ladies as young as 13 who will meet you at the plane, and become your wife for a night, a week of nights, or even a month!!! It’s all perfectly legal, and approved of by the prophet!”
Homosexuality is a forbidden act deserving of death—-unless it’s a young boy and a mature man, or among warriors of allah who are far from home, and wives, or it’s being done to an infidel as a form of shame and punishment (see rape), or we need to widen a stalwart warrior’s anus, all for the glory of allah.
So in conclusion, everything is permissible if you are good at circular reasoning, and do it to the glory of allah.
Report Post »InVinoVeritas
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:23amObama Akbar!
Report Post »mtcountrygrl
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 12:31pmIf you know the history of Mohammad, it makes sense. The modern term for what he was is a “warlord”. He went around conquering people and then would write the religion around his current actions. Like the part about the male witnesses and adultery (for the stoning of women) came about to protect his favorite wife who was rumored to be commiting adultery. He didn’t want to have to stone her, so he came up with the (I think it’s 3) male witnesses must testify thing. Now it has been turned into, if a woman is raped, she has to have 3 male witnesses to tesify that it was rape. If you try to read the Koran it is like it was written by a child. Which makes sense since Mohammad was not educated and kept changing the text to suit his current actions. Several of his scribes were executed for pointing out flaws in the text. The history of Mohammad is facinating and filled with every kind of debauchery (from killing whole families in front of their daughers and then forcing the daughters to marry his men, to taking bides as young as 9 years old). And to this day holy leaders can issue degrees changing the religion to suit their conquest for “convertion by the sword”, just like Mohammad did.
Report Post »TEARS FOR AMERICA
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 1:13pmAnimals…blowing up innocent people from their butt that has been screwed by other animals…God help us…
Report Post »pap pap
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:13amIf they’re going through all that trouble to get their anus expanded then they should also make sure that the explosives are going to go off in there by igniting them as a test.
Report Post »Watcher1952
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:10amCAT747….You are exactly correct…..as long as they kill infidels nothing is sacred. We have Muslims in our Government that will do the same thing if and when called upon. DO NOT BELIEVE ONE DAMN WORD THEY SPEAK…… Michelle Bachman is correct and John McCain is completely wrong on this
Report Post »billrow
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:05amI read that back during Saddam’s reign, anyone who wanted to be in his inner circle of advisors and deputies had to be gang sodomized to prove their submission.
Yeah, Islam is a sick perverted cult of molesters and butchers.
Report Post »deeberj
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 12:56pmSaddam wasn’t really a good muslim he was secular, so I would not use him and his sons’ sick perversions as an example.
Report Post »kat747
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:57amDo I understand that correctly…….if a muslim is going to murder someone, every rule written in the Koran can be broken ?
Report Post »Real nice bunch of cult followers…..murdering preverted pigs.
sWampy
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:53amWhen you have a society where the ruling class claims all young girls as property of the rich, and they must stay virgins until they produce kids for the rich ruling class, an explosion of homosexuality is the end result.
Report Post »woodyee
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:50amI don‘t believe it’s a hoax. I‘ve read several statements written by soldiers in Afghanistan and a few who’ve returned; written with disdain for Afghani they’ve either worked with or had some other contact with, claiming the Afghani sometimes have what they consider their own boys and/or bragging about it. It all stems from the vile stigma they assign to women in general and their ******’s.
Women are not allowed to come into contact of any kind with men they are not closely related to; womens’ “natural processes” are looked upon as a vile curse to be avoided; in general they’re taught that women are disgusting at a very young age.
So what happens when the hormones kick in after puberty? They naturally look for relief. The young men always do, but there is no relief for young men except those that can afford to leave for Western countries. Hence, sans women, they find relief in other ways…
Report Post »deeberj
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 12:55pmCan they just find relief in their hand?
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:44amIslam is a sick, fake religion. It talks about not sinning but urges sin and revolting acts if it furthers the religion. In other words….,do anything to further jihad and the religion and the means are justified. Muslims are permitted to lie also. They can lie about being Muslim if it furthers Islam. Hence…obama’s denial of being muslim. Islam is dangerous and should be teated as such.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:09amThe lying business: no wonder the Far Lefties and the Muslims are on the “ same bus ” right now . They have the same dedication to lying to achieve their goals : the end justifies the means . Saul Alinsky taught that to his community organizers . Hmmmmmm…..
Report Post »scrapadapolis
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:44amIt’s a win win for the radicals,Anal sex is forbiden you recieve the death penelty,Take several for the team still the same sentence.
Report Post »Latter-Day-Soldier
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:43amIn Arab culture, once a male is sodomized (for any reason), he is then considered “a woman” from then on out
Report Post »Verceofreason
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 5:29pmLike Marcussa Bachmann?
Report Post »BlackCrow
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:43amWhat else would be expected from a religion that was founded by a pervert.
Report Post »bobbyjoe
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:43amSo Achmed says he was just doing that to make it wider so he could hold a bigger bomb. I can’t stop laughing.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:54amIf he had only used Crisco to ease the insertion of the bomb, then today he wouldn’t be such an Islamic girlie-man.
Report Post »IronSights
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 11:08amI know. Who in their right mind upon hearing this “great” plan says “yah boy….sign me up!”
“hit it again, I just don‘t think I’m big enough, get a run at it!“ or ” no, can’t do lunch today, I have an anus reaming scheduled at noon. Should be able to walk again in a couple of days, we can get together then.”
vile, vile, vile ignorate pigs they are.
Report Post »Michigander
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 12:13pmRjjingadsden,
how about lard?
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 12:21pmMany years ago in a small Indonesian madrasa, a small mixed race boy dreams of the pinnacle of Islam.
Report Post »term limits for congress
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:43amSounds like something from Sacha Cohen (Borat).
Sacha, here is a ready-made script. Get on it.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:50amThat just might be his first movie that I would see.
Report Post »Amy
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:42amIf one is to believe that the ultimate goal is to ‘glorify’ their maker, and that any means or methods is acceptable in attaining that goal, then … After all, suicide bmber is homocide, is mrder.
If you read ancient Gnostic texts (Coptic) you will find mention of the vrgin spirits, but they ain‘t young ladies breathlessly ’in waiting.’
Report Post »Michigander
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:37amThat‘s the funniest story I’ve ever read. Sounds like a bunch of gay Muslims trying to cover up their behavior. ” We aren’t having sex, we’re just trying to become suicide bombers.”
Report Post »barber2
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:05amagree about the logic : we can’t be gay but blowing up others and killing ourselves is just excellent ?! ( These guys do not need mullahs ; they need mental health experts . )
Report Post »kat747
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 10:06amThose people have a typical liberal mind set…. if it is what they want to do, they will come up with a stupid excuse to do it !
Report Post »We have been living with that mind set for three and ahalf years.
barber2
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:33ameeeeeuuuhh…..how low can these crazy, dysfunctional , hate-filled , degenerates go ??? Something is seriously wrong in that gene pool…
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 19, 2012 at 9:48amBARBER2, Gene pool? More like a puddle.
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