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Fatwa: Necrophilia Is An Acceptable Practice In Islam
An Imam in Morocco issued a fatwa stating that necrophilia is "Halal" or
religiously acceptable practice in Islam. He said that a husband has the right
to have sex with his dead wife.
New York / Morocco Board News--- Yes, we do have a freak show going on these
days. But none of our Monstres Sacrés can match the latest Fatwa published by
the (respected) Islamic Scholar and member of the religious establishment,
Abdelbari Zemzami. He basically allows sexual intercourse with a corpse.
Yes. Necrophilia is now Halal in Morocco by the grace of Alem Zemzami.
I should perhaps be more specific in Zemzami’s Fatwa: he allows the widowed
husband to have sexual intercourse with the corpse of his deceased wife. The
Fatwa does not say whether it reciprocates for a woman (although I suspect even
with rigor mortis, it will not do) nor does it specify how many hours after the
wife’s death a man can still, you know… perform their marital duties. If it was
not for the scholar’s level of seniority, I would dismiss this fatwa as yet
another deranged, lonely individual who did not get some for a while. But this
is Zemzami. And it is a Fatwa from an official of the Habous ministry. If
indeed such Fatwa is genuine.
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But the issue goes beyond our funny Zemzami – please follow the
hashtags#FunnyZemzami and #ZemzamiFatwa, you will get a kicking out of the
twittoma’s imagination and acerbic witticism- and strikes at the very heart of
individual freedom and the rule of positive law; Zemzami is empowered to
produce Islamic rulings that can easily be considered an obligation on the
Muslim community in Morocco; As a Alem, an Islamic Scholar, his Fatwas are
norms. He can claim to actually dictate what we, as members of the Ummah,
should do or not do. We are thus submitted to the double fetter of God’s law,
and Man’s law. We individual citizens have no grip on such legislation, an
infringement on our democratic rights, and perhaps the most straightforward
argument in favour of the criticism that Morocco is no democracy.
Zemzami justifies his ruling by means of analogy: Since a good Muslim couple
will meet again in Heaven, and since death does not alter the marital contract
(in his opinion) it is not a hindrance to the husband’s desire to have sexual
intercourse with the corpse of his (freshly) deceased wife. A deranged mind and
flawed logical thinking seem not to be part of the position of Senior Alem’s
requirements. I am no Islamic Scholar (thank God) but I remember from my
(compulsory and utterly boring) High School Islamic courses that there is a
minimum amount of logical thinking when the Imam (or Alem) makes their Ijtihad,
or investigations. And quite frankly, I really don’t see how he managed to find
a ruling for the deceased; The Islamic literature is very extensive on the
living (as it normally it should be) but Zemzami’s ruling tops them all. He
seemed to overlook the procreating objective of marital mating (this is why
concepts such as “نكاح المتعة” are forbidden) or even
Indeed, Zemzami’s ruling is funny. It is so, because if one wants to think of
it otherwise, the first thing to spring to mind is something like: “what goes
on the man’s life to take such a keen interest in such an obscure issue to
devote time and resources and come up with a an even stranger ruling”? I mean,
perhaps the Habous officials do bore themselves to death in their offices, but
still, they are civil servants and receive their salaries (comfortable salaries
in Zemzami’s case) on the taxpayer’s dime. It is only just to question the
man’s competence (never mind sanity) and legitimacy to dream up rulings
regulating our lives.
Abdelbari Zemzami, again, is no ordinary scholar: he is formally a “الخبير في
فقه النوازل“ which means an Expert in Exceptional Matters, issues that have not
been delineated in the Quran, the Hadith, or anywhere in Sharia law. Zemzami
actually did his job: such a bizarre occurrence never happened before, and was
never discussed in past scholarly work or in the original Islamic laws, so it
is up to him, the expert, to come up with something. Yes, Zemzami is the chief
scholar at the vanguard of new Islamic rulings designed to make life more
harmonious within the Islamic community. Frightening.
The whole idea of a Ulema corps is at odds with democracy. First because it is
another infringement on individual rights; Indeed, we are living in a society,
and because of it, individuals need to sacrifice some of their rights for the
sake of the collective freedom. The democratic setting minimizes these fetters
to the necessary rules required for a peaceful coexistence. This means that no
restrictions should be put on intimate issues -which religions, especially
Islam, want to regulate in accordance to their teachings, so as to achieve
their Holy City utopia. In view of these elements, positive law is sufficient
an infringement on individual freedom to indulge in adding yet another
restriction. And even though there is no direct link between the Penal sanction
of non-marital sexual relationships and Zemzami’s fatwa, I suspect frustrations
due to the repressive sexual policy, as it were, do lead to suchVaudevillian
situations; Opening up to sexual tolerance and essential the breaking of
‘wedlock monopoly‘ could help stem dangerous behaviour (rather than encourage
them, as the conservative theory goes)
Zemzami’s ruling is a blessing in disguise: it furthers the cause of
secularists; It is the proof that dogmatic and conservative policies are a
failure, and frustrations and social deviances arising from such fettering
rules are a blatant rebuttal to those who believe all Moroccans will be moral
knights and dames. Subsequently, instead of treating everyone as a devout
Muslim (and punishing anyone who does not care about it) it is easier, and
nicer, to scrap these pieces of legislation. It also have the courage to do
away with hypocrisy (the penal code punishes non-observant ofRamadan but not
those who do not go to the Mosque, even though prayers have seniority as an
Islamic pillar)
Oh, and one last thing. Zemzami really should be put in some asylum. Or allowed
to set up a One Man Show; that way he will do no harm to the saner people. And
it seems he stands by his ruling: necrophilia is Halal. Looking forward to the
next ruling on f**king goats.
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