◼ ‘Sexual Jihad’ Fatwa Urges ‘Temporary Marriages’ for Syrian Rebels - Patrick Goodenough/CNS
Reports about a fatwa urging young girls to travel to Syria to provide sexual services for jihadist rebels are causing a stir in Tunisia, while also drawing attention to the Islamic concept – little-known in the West and controversial among Muslims themselves – of “temporary marriage.”
...Although al-Arifi reportedly is now disowning the fatwa, Arab commentators seem skeptical.
“Sources close to the sheikh denied that he had issued any such fatwa,” the pan-Arab news service Al-Bawaba said in a report Thursday. “Then again, one might backtrack, standing accused of selling young innocents to militant Muslims.”
