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Tunisian women waging 'sex jihad' in Syria
They allegedly 'comfort' Islamist fighters with sex and return home pregnant
TUNISIAN women have travelled to Syria to wage "sex jihad" by "comforting" Islamist fighters battling the regime there. Tunisia's Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou said.
"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," the minister said.
He did not elaborate how many Tunisian women had returned to the country pregnant with the children of jihadist fighters.
Legitimate
Jihad al-nikah, permitting extramarital relations with multiple partners, is considered by some hard-line Islamists 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 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 al-Assad.
Mr Ben Jeddou added that since he assumed office in March, "6,000 of our young people have been prevented from going there" to Syria.
He said previously that border controls have been boosted to intercept young Tunisians seeking to travel to Syria.
Indeed, media reports said thousands of Tunisians have, over the past 15 years, joined jihadists across the world in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, travelling mainly via Turkey or Libya. - AFP.
They allegedly 'comfort' Islamist fighters with sex and return home pregnant
TUNISIAN women have travelled to Syria to wage "sex jihad" by "comforting" Islamist fighters battling the regime there. Tunisia's Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou said.
"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," the minister said.
He did not elaborate how many Tunisian women had returned to the country pregnant with the children of jihadist fighters.
Legitimate
Jihad al-nikah, permitting extramarital relations with multiple partners, is considered by some hard-line Islamists 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 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 al-Assad.
Mr Ben Jeddou added that since he assumed office in March, "6,000 of our young people have been prevented from going there" to Syria.
He said previously that border controls have been boosted to intercept young Tunisians seeking to travel to Syria.
Indeed, media reports said thousands of Tunisians have, over the past 15 years, joined jihadists across the world in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, travelling mainly via Turkey or Libya. - AFP.
