http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11630/islam-death-sex-necrophilia
Islamic 'Death-Sex' in Context
by Raymond Ibrahim
FrontPage Magazine
May 1, 2012
Aside from provoking shock, disgust, and denial, last week's news of Egyptian
parliamentarians trying to pass a "farewell intercourse" law legalizing sex
with one's wife up to six hours after she dies has yet to be fully appreciated.
An Egyptian cartoon pokes fun at the proposed "farewell intercourse" law.
As the spirit of the deceased woman ascends, and as her husband sexually eyes
her corpse, she remarks: "O please, man—where were you when I was alive!"
To start, consider the ultimate source of this practice: it's neither the
Muslim Brotherhood nor the Salafis; rather, as with most of Islam's
perversities—from adult breastfeeding to pedophilia marriage—Islamic
necrophilia is traced to the fount of Islam, its prophet Muhammad, as found in
a hadith (or tradition) that exists in no less than six of Islam's classical
reference texts (including Kanz al-'Umal by Mutaqi al-Hindi and Al-Hujja fi
Biyan al-Mahujja, an authoritative text on Sunni Doctrine, by Abu Qassim
al-Asbahani).
According to this hadith, Muhammad took off his shirt and placed it on a dead
woman and "lay with her" in her grave. The gravediggers proceeded to hurl dirt
atop the corpse and the prophet, exclaiming, "O Prophet, we see you doing a
thing you never did with anyone else," to which Muhammad responded: "I have
dressed her in my shirt so that she may be dressed in heavenly robes, and I
have laid with her in her grave so that the pressures of the grave [also known
as Islam's "torments of the grave"] may be alleviated from her."
What was Muhammad saying and doing? Perhaps his magical shirt would transport
the dead woman to heaven, and his blessed body would protect her from the
"pressures of the grave"? A more cynical—a more human—reading is that he
stripped his shirt as a natural step before copulating; that he precisely, if
not sardonically, meant the act of sex would "alleviate" the pressures of death
from the corpse; and that the observers covered them with dirt for privacy
and/or for shame.
This interpretation is given much more weight when one considers that the
secondary meaning for the word I translated above as "lay with" is
"intercourse," further demonstrating that the proposed Egyptian law is, in
fact, based on this hadith: after all, the Arabic root-word used for
"intercourse" in the phrase "farewell intercourse" is derived from the same
root-word that Muhammad used to explain what he did with the dead woman
(d-j-''). As if this was not enough, necrophilia finds more validation in
Islam's legal texts. For example, according to al-Sharwani's Hawashi, "there is
no punishment for having intercourse with a dead woman" and "it is not
necessary to rewash the dead after penetration."
Incidentally, this issue of "death-sex" far precedes Egyptian parliamentarians.
In fact, I first wrote about this macabre topic back in 2009, based on an
episode of Father Zakaria Botros, where he explored the perverse sexual habits
of Islam's prophet Muhammad (see here). Interestingly, when that episode first
aired, many Muslims were livid, denying the existence of the hadith, and
renewing calls to assassinate the priest for trying to "defame" Islam: yet here
it is, once again—only this time, the hadith is being passed into a "law,"
further documenting the existence, if not legitimacy, of necrophilia in Islam.
Which leads to another eye-opener: it is no longer this or that "radical"
cleric, but parliament members who are, not merely acknowledging bizarre
Islamic practices, but trying to implement them as "laws." (Perhaps this should
be unsurprising, considering weeks earlier in Egypt, suit-and-tie wearing
Muslim court lawyers attacked with knives a Christian defendant for supposedly
"blaspheming" Muhammad.)
What else do such "parliamentarians" and "lawyers" have in store for Egypt and
its neighbors? If this little know, ghoulish practice is being endorsed simply
because of one arcane hadith, how much more support must Egypt's
Islamist-dominated parliament be giving to those other ironclad teachings of
Islam—for instance, Muhammad's unequivocal commands, recorded in hundreds of
canonical hadiths, to fight, deceive, and subjugate all non-Muslim infidels?
When it comes to Islam, it is high time for the West to learn to connect the
dots.
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