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Sodomy "For the Sake of Islam"
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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 Asiri "feigned
repentance for his jihadi views"—but this "holy-warrior"
apparently had fellow jihadists repeatedly sodomize him to "widen"
his anus to fit the explosives—and all in accordance with the fatwas of
Islamic clerics.
A 2010 Arabic news video that
aired on Fadak TV gives the details. Apparently a cleric, one Abu al-Dema
al-Qasab, informed al-Asiri and other 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."
Others inquired further by asking for formal
fatwas. 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. For the overarching rule of [Islamic]
jurisprudence asserts that 'necessity makes permissible the prohibited.' And
if obligatory matters can only be achieved by performing the prohibited, then
it becomes obligatory to perform the prohibited, and there is no greater duty
than jihad. After he sodomizes you, you must ask Allah for forgiveness and
praise him all the more. And know that Allah will reward the jihadis on the
Day of Resurrection, according to their intentions—and your intention, Allah
willing, is for the victory of Islam, and we ask that Allah accept it of you.
Two important and complementary points emerge
from this matter: 1) that jihad is the "pinnacle" of Islam—for it
makes Islam supreme (based on a Muhammad hadith); and 2) that "necessity
makes permissible the prohibited." These axioms are not limited to
modern day fatwas, but in fact, were crystallized centuries ago, agreed to by
the ulema, or Islam's leading doctrinaires.
The result is that, because making Islam
supreme through jihad is the greatest priority, anything and everything that
is otherwise banned becomes permissible. All that comes to matter is one's
intention, or niyya.
From here one may understand the many
ostensible incongruities of Islamic history: lying is forbidden—but permissible
to empower Islam; intentionally killing women and children is forbidden—but
permissible during the jihad; suicide is forbidden—but permissible during the
jihad, called "martyrdom."
Indeed, the Five Pillars of Islam—including
prayer and fasting—may be ignored during the jihad. (So important was the
duty of jihad that the Ottoman sultans, who often spent half their lives on
the battlefield, were not
permitted to perform the obligatory pilgrimage to Mecca.)
More recently, these ideas appeared in
different form during Egypt's elections, when Islamic leaders portrayed
voting as a form
of jihad—leading to the abuse
and even killing of those not voting for the Muslim Brotherhood.
According to these two doctrines—which
culminate in empowering Islam, no matter how—one may expect anything from
would-be jihadis, regardless of how dubious the effort may otherwise
seem.
Even so, this uncompromising mentality, which
is prevalent throughout the Islamic world, especially along the frontlines of
the jihad, is the same mentality that many Western leaders and politicians
think can be appeased with just a bit more respect, well-wishing, and
concessions from the West.
Such are the great, and disastrous,
disconnects of our time.
Raymond
Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center
and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum.
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