Minister: Tunisian Women Return Home Pregnant after 'Sex Jihad' in Syria
Tunisian women have traveled to Syria to wage "sex jihad" by comforting Islamist fighters battling the regime there, Interior Minister Lotfi ben Jeddou has told MPs.
"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 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 traveling via Turkey or Libya.
Abu Iyadh, who leads the country's main Salafist movement Ansar al-Sharia, is the suspected organizer of a deadly attack last year on the U.S. 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-Qaida attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and Pentagon in Washington.
20 September 2013, 14:00
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we might joke about this but it is a very slippery slop. Syria, thanks to Baath, had, for instance, no honor crime. Not because citizens are well above passionate crimes but because the culture of Baath lead the country to understand that women are not articles. Something M14 can NOT understand. However, in my opinion, and for that fact, the West-Israeli are dying to remove Baath: civilized culture DOES NOT suite Israel
20 September 2013, 12:09
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Disgusting, Repulsive, Grotesque...! God Bless the Secular Islamic Resistance for banning this sexual holy war among its warriors on the fronts. The Warriors of the resistance never have sex outside holy wedlock and that is what has earned them the respect and admiration of every Zainabiyeh, the world over. This cheap method of enticing young arab youth to fight in Syria is testimony to the low moral values these terrorists uphold. The Secular Islamic Resistance believes in one man one woman equation and this should also be added to the defense strategy equation to read as follows " Army, Resistance, People, one man one woman, No to sexual holy wars". Thank you
20 September 2013, 12:39
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sex jihad? my God have we seen everything? if we act like animals why you want the world treat us as humans?
Anyways for all whores and their senders have u heard about the pill?!
if u wana act less than animals in the name of your GOD which is not the same as mine of course, its your call, take the pill coz we dont need anymore bastards in the middle east!! we have so much of them we could export!! What a Shame and degradation.
20 September 2013, 13:34
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Thank you for deleting my post: What do you expect from Saudi-backed service? And we are talking about DEMOCRACY?
20 September 2013, 13:56
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The thing that you are trying to play innocent is not going to work. When M14 supports the rebels fighting Syria, it means they support their action. Whether they issue a statement or not does not change the fact that the rebels has a culture and this culture comes with all of the above including this Nukah thing. Before aligning yourself with someone, better check what they are up to.
