The Sex Jihad That Never Happened

[ismnotwasm]

You know, I'm a little speechless at this shit.

Leila is one of hundreds of women who have been accused of going on a “Sex Jihad” in Syria. Last month, her parents appeared on a local Tunisian television network to speak about their “lost daughter.” Her mother stands silently as her father tearfully recounts how his daughter was led astray to “prostitute herself to Syrian dogs.”

The video was one of many quoted by Tunisia’s interior minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou when he promised to stem the phenomenon of Tunisian women traveling to Syria to wage “sex jihad” where they were having sex with “20, 30, [or] 100” militants, before returning pregnant to Tunisia. Sex jihad, or Jihad al-nikah, permits extramarital sexual relations with multiple partners, and is considered by some hardline Sunni Muslim Salafists as a legitimate form of holy war.
“After the sexual liaisons they have there in the name of Jihad al-nikah they come home pregnant,” said Ben Jeddou, though he declined to name any specific cases.

Leila, who asked that her real name and details of her identity remain private, says that the entire story is a lie. The only part that is true is that two years ago she left her small village in Tunisia to volunteer as a nurse among the Syrian rebels fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
It was there that she met her husband.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/the-sex-jihad-that-never-happened

[Sheldon Cooper]

1. I read this article when I got home from work yesterday.

I was tired and hungry and none of it made any sense to me. I thought I'd try re-reading it today, and it still makes no sense. What are they saying here - that their women are going to Syria to wage war by having multiple sex partners? What am I missing?

[ismnotwasm]

2. It's apparently a hoax

I posted it because I hasn't heard about it. I thought it was a little FEMAN style, so I thought I'd toss it out and see if anyone could weigh in

[seabeyond]

3. i had read about it a week or two ago. i hadnt heard it was a hoax. i was waiting to see how forced

the women were because the articles were never clear in what exactly was happening. i could not find if the women absolutely were doing it free will or a sex slave type thing. last i heard, people in the country were calling it out as prostitution. was an embarassment for the country it appeared. if i am clear, people working to stop it.

[JI7]

4. started by some Louie Gohmert type from Tunisia