Really? Read what a Muslim cleric said concerning sodomy in Islam
Being sodomised is acceptable in Islam if the goal is to
carry out jihad, according to a cleric on a new video making the rounds online.
In a video posted
on YouTube last month, and as reported by the New York-based think-tank
Gatestone Institute more recently, cleric Abu al-Dema al-Qasab's instructions
include details on how to carry out a successful suicide bombing mission by
hiding explosives in the bomber's 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," al-Dema al-Qasab tells
followers in the video.
There is no
indication where or when the video was recorded, but appears by the screen to
have been aired on Fadak TV, a Shia-based satellite television station. The
background of al-Dema al-Qasab is also unknown.
Author Raymond
Ibrahim, who wrote the article for Gatestone, denies claims the video is a hoax
intended to insult Islam.
The Gatestone
Institute's homepage indicates it specializes in international policy and the
Middle East.
Sodomy is
forbidden in Islam but according to al-Dema al-Qasab's video, everything is
permissible if the objective is in the best interests of the jihad.
In 2009, Umar
Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian national, attempted to blow up a plane bound
for Detroit by igniting a bomb planted in his underwear. That led to the
introduction of body scanners at airports worldwide which can see through
clothing.
The scanners,
however, cannot see inside body cavities, and authorities expressed fear at the
time that terrorists would likely try to evolve their attacks to avoid
detection.
