Sunday, December 1, 2013

Women of Egypt: Fatwas of Muslim Brotherhood and Salafis, 2012-2013


The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) are not Egyptians.  They are foreigners who live in Egypt.  The MB doctrine does not recognize Egypt as a homeland.

In their year in power, 2012-2013, with the highly unqualified and unfit Mohamed Morsi as President, the same Morsi who got elected through dubious internal and external meddling in elections proceedings and people's indifference and resignation to the better of two evils, the Military or the Islamists.

During that year, the MB with some help from their partners in Muslim extremism, the Salafis, managed to issue fatwas that would make any sane person in the world go berserk and ask for relocation to another planet.

 Al Azhar, Cairo, Egypt, one of the oldest and most prestigious Islamic universities in the world, recently published a new study written by Al Azhar’s Dr. Sayed Zayed, and entitled (in translation), “The Misguided Fatwas of the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafis,”

 The Al Azhar study exposes these scandalous fatwas of Brotherhood and Salafis in Egypt.  These fatwas are predominantly focused on women and girls, viewing women as strange creatures created solely for sex, their voices, their looks and presence outside the walls of their homes an offence, and considering women as a whole offensive.

The upshot of it all is simply that if the Brotherhood had gained real control of Egypt, Egypt would have lost its identity, its bearings and its soul, in no time at all, and with it lost its chance for a future better than its recent past and current present.

These fatwas include the following:
  • A woman swimming is an ‘adulteress’, the reason behind this particular fatwa, from their point of view, is that the sea is masculine [as with other languages, Arabic nouns are gender specific, and “sea” is masculine], and when the water touches the woman’s private parts she becomes an ‘adulteress’ and should be punished.
  • Women are forbidden from eating or touching certain vegetables, including cucumbers or bananas, this is due to their phallic imagery, which may tempt women to deviate.
  • If the husband forbids his wife from being supportive of the Islamists or their agenda; she may then, through taqiyya [dissimulation] a Muslim doctrine that permits deceit to empower Islam, still be supportive of the Islamists while pretending to be against them.
  • Other fatwas decreed that “it is unacceptable for women to turn the air conditioning on at home during the absence of their husbands as this could be used as a sign to indicate to neighbors that the woman is at home alone and any of them could commit adultery with her.”
  • One fatwa suggested that marriage to ten-year-old girls should be allowed to prevent girls “from deviating from the right path.
  • While another prohibited girls from going to schools located 25 kilometers away from their homes.
  • And another stated that a marriage is annulled if the husband and wife copulate with no clothes on.
  • Other fatwas also sanctioned the use of women and children as human shields in violent demonstrations and protests, as these are considered jihads to empower Islam.
  • Even slavery was permitted, according to the study: “the people who issued these fatwas [Brotherhood and/or Salafi members] demanded the enactment of a law allowing divorced women to own slaves,” presumably to help her, as she no longer has a man to support her.
  • Some other fatwas issued by the Brotherhood and Salafis during Morsi’s tenure:
    • advocating for the destruction of the pyramids and sphinx;
    • scrapping the Camp David Accords;
    • killing anyone protesting against ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi (which happened and is one of the main charges against the imprisoned Brotherhood leadership);
    • forbidding Muslims from greeting Christians;
    • forbidding Muslim cab drivers from transporting Christian priests (whose clothing makes them identifiable);
    • forbidding TV shows that mock or make light of Islamists; and
    • forbidding women from marrying any men involved with the former Mubarak government.


Below is the link to the article from the Gatestone Institute about this new study by Al Azhar’s Fatwa Committee that was recently published.

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