A hoax? Evidence of social blight? A legitimate form of jihad? In Tunisia, the controversy is still roiling. One noteworthy aspect of this study is that when the reports of this initially came out, many Muslim spokesmen in the West denounced the whole idea as an “Islamophobic” hoax. But unless “Islamophobes” have thoroughly infiltrated the Tunisian media, there is no way that could be the case. “Tunisian Daily Al-Shurouq’s Campaign Against ‘Sexual Jihad,’” by B. Chernitsky and R. Goldberg for MEMRI, January 31:Introduction
At the close of 2012, a tweet attributed to Saudi cleric Muhammad Al-’Arifi, a member of the Association of Muslim Clerics, in which he allegedly permitted young Muslim women to journey to Syria to have sexual relations with mujahideen fighting the Syrian regime, was circulated on the Internet. The tweet (see below) was construed by many in the media as a religious ruling (fatwa). Al-’Arifi himself repeatedly denied issuing the tweet, adding that ‘sexual jihad’ was equivalent to prostitution.
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