by Raymond Ibrahim • Jul 28, 2012 at 4:29 pm
Cross-posted from Jihad Watch

The seriousness of recent calls to legalize sex-slave "marriages" in Egypt as a way to allow Muslim men to have premarital sex within the bounds of Sharia was recently demonstrated by the fact that many Islamic authorities—including Egypt's Grand Mufti and the Grand Imam of Al Azhar—made it a point to condemn the practice as contrary to Islam.

While it is refreshing to see Islamic leaders reject this perverse call, it is typical to see others portraying it as a foreign conspiracy. For instance, after rejecting the notion of sex-slave marriages, Dr. Muhammaad al-Mukhtar al-Mahdi, a professor of Islamic studies at Al Azhar, said "the crime is not that someone suggested it, but that someone made it easy for him to say and spread such things among the people," adding that "this is a matter that international Zionism stands behind."

In other words, Wael al-Ibrashi, the Egyptian liberal talk show host who first aired this matter, followed of course by the default bad guys, "international Zionism," are the true "criminals"—not the self-proclaimed "expert" at Islamic jurisprudence who studied at Al Azhar and came up with this idea of sex-slave marriages in the first place (click here for original story).

by Raymond Ibrahim • Jul 28, 2012 at 4:36 pm
Cross-posted from Jihad Watch

During a televised interview earlier this week, Dr. Safwat Hegazy, a popular preacher in Egypt, known for his desire to unify the Arab world into a "United Arab States"—with Jerusalem for a capital—dropped the Western language and made clear what it is the Muslim Brotherhood ultimately seeks: a caliphate and world domination, which even the Supreme Guide of the Brotherhood maintains is the group's mission.

In the interview, which Coptic Solidarity has translated with subtitles (click here), Hegazy simply declares: "If you read the literature of the Muslim Brotherhood, you will find in the literature of the Brotherhood, that which they can never abandon: The Islamic Caliphate and mastership of the world. Yes, we will be masters of the world, one of these days" (emphasis his).