{"id":17533,"date":"2013-04-24T18:27:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T22:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=17533"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:36:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:36:47","slug":"islamic-cleric-issues-fatwa-allowing-for-syrian-rebels-to-rape-non-sunni-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2013\/04\/islamic-cleric-issues-fatwa-allowing-for-syrian-rebels-to-rape-non-sunni-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic Cleric Issues Fatwa Allowing for Syrian Rebels to Rape Non-Sunni Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/syria03_s640x404.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17534\" alt=\"syria03_s640x404\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/syria03_s640x404.jpg?resize=490%2C309\" width=\"490\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000\">By<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/p.washingtontimes.com\/staff\/cheryl-k-chumley\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">Cheryl K. Chumley<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">An Islamic cleric has cleared the path for rebels in\u00a0Syria, who are trying to oust President\u00a0Bashar Assad, to rape women, so long as they\u2019re non-Sunni.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Salafi Sheikh Yasir al-Ajlawni, who hails from\u00a0Jordan\u00a0but who lived in Damascus for 17 years, sent a message via\u00a0YouTube: It\u2019s a \u201clegitimate fatwa\u201d for Muslims waging war against\u00a0Mr. Assad\u00a0and trying to put in place a\u00a0Sharia government\u00a0to \u201ccapture and have sex with\u201d Alawites and other non-Sunni, non-Muslim women, Human Events reports.\u00a0Mr. Assad\u00a0is part of the Alawites sect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">In the video, the cleric called non-Muslim women by their Arabic term, \u201cmelk al-yamin,\u201d Human Events reports. The term is from the Koran and refers to non-Muslim sex slaves, Human Events says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">This isn\u2019t the first time Islamists have called for the raping of women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">A preacher in Saudi Arabi, Muhammad al-Arifi, sent forth a fatwa a few months ago giving jihadi fighters the right to have \u201cintercourse marriage\u201d with Syrian women they caught, and for that act to take enough time \u201cto give each fighter a turn,\u201d Human Events reports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/p.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/apr\/3\/islamic-cleric-decrees-it-ok-syrian-rebels-rape-wo\/#.UXLvAk9zZM0.facebook\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Cheryl K. Chumley An Islamic cleric has cleared the path for rebels in\u00a0Syria, who are trying to oust President\u00a0Bashar Assad, to rape women, so long..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,43,187,84,106],"tags":[228,197,226,345,277],"class_list":["post-17533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-media-culture","category-science-tech","category-statements","category-women","tag-colonialism","tag-imperialism","tag-imperialist-war","tag-reactionary-watch","tag-syria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/syria03_s640x404.jpg?fit=640%2C404&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39471,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17533\/revisions\/39471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}