Tunis: Tunisian women have travelled to Syria to wage “sex jihad” by comforting Islamist fighters battling the regime there, Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou has told MPs.
Region | Syria
Tunisian women waging ‘sex jihad’ in Syria
Media reports say hundreds have gone to have sex with multiple jihadists
- AFP
- Published: 00:00 September 21, 2013
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Dear Gulf News Please have common sense before posting this type of news, particularly in muslim countries. if any one doing such thing and claiming it is holy war, sexjihad or whatsoever ask them to bring proper authentication or any Hadeeth [sayings of the Prophet Mohammad (PNUH)] in which its mentioned that it is accepted. i humbly reuquest Gulf News editorial team to stop posting such useless news.
Mohammed Nadeem, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates
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This is completely rubbish and a media propaganda to discredit the Islam or the Mujahideen. The editors of Gulf News have to be taken to task for publishing such unverified news that obviously looks fake. Completely irresponsible.
Syed, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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I believe behind this act is some anti islamist to insult Islam. This is a pre-planned drama
shihab, dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Please stop defaming Islam. Already GN took many opportunity to do this job. Please remove this right now.
Naushad, sharjah, United Arab Emirates
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Utter Non-sense. These acts are haram in Islam and there are no evidence of such practice in Islam. GN should have consulted the scholars on this matter before tying it to Islam. Shame.
Umar, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Mr. Mohammed Shameem Sait, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, If you consider yourself a teacher of the islamic religion, then your above comment is wrong by saying the word Muslim is one who follows Islam. Allow me to say that the word Muslim is ANYONE, and i mean ANYONE who gives himself/ herself in to GOD. Muslim = Mann Salama 7alahu lilaah. Whatever religion you are, if you give yourself in to GOD you are considered a Muslim.
Joseph, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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//Jihad Al Nikah, permitting extramarital sexual relations with multiple partners, is considered by some hardline Sunni Muslim Salafists as a legitimate form of holy war.// Who are among the scholars who held the above view? Could Gulfnews give some reference?
Ahamed Firdhous, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
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Whoever invented this story is laughing very hard right now. Women are always the ones who are the joke, they are always denigrated in the media, isn't that so?
Sonia, Munich, Germany
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These are false allegations. This has never happened in islam neither during the time of prophet and his companions nor during present days conflicts where muslim fighters are involved. There are people with muslim names out there to defame muslims and islam in whichever way possible and this is one such effort. I am really disappointed to read this news in Gulf news which has an excellent tradition of responsible journalism. Gulf News shall ask for proof from the minister and shall remove this story untill verified.
Amir, Toronto, Canada
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am feeling very bad about this news
Yasmin Kamran, Pakistan, Pakistan
“They have sexual relations with 20, 30, 100 militants, the minister 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, in Arabic) - they come home pregnant,” Ben Jeddou told the MPs.
He did not elaborate on how many Tunisian women had returned to the country pregnant with the children of jihadist fighters.
Jihad Al Nikah, permitting extramarital sexual relations with multiple partners, is considered by some hardline Sunni Muslim Salafists as a legitimate form of holy war.
The minister also did not say how many Tunisian women were thought to have gone to Syria for such a purpose, although media reports have said hundreds have done so.
Hundreds of Tunisian men have also gone to join the ranks of the jihadists fighting to bring down the regime of President Bashar Al Assad.
However, Ben Jeddou also said that since he assumed office in March, “six thousand of our young people have been prevented from going there” to Syria.
He has said in the past that border controls have been boosted to intercept young Tunisians seeking to travel to Syria.
Media reports say thousands of Tunisians have, over the past 15 years, joined jihadists across the world in Afghanistan Iraq and Syria, mainly travelling via Turkey or Libya.
Abu Iyadh, who leads the country’s main Salafist movement Ansar Al Sharia, is the suspected organiser of a deadly attack last year on the US embassy in Tunis and an Afghanistan veteran.
He was joint leader of a group responsible for the September 9, 2001 assassination in Afghanistan of anti-Taliban Northern Alliance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud by suicide bombers.
That attack came just two days before the deadly Al Qaeda attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York and Pentagon in Washington.
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