How Vetteman, AlterNet and Salon fell for “gang rape” fatwa peddled by Islamophobes

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Progressive news organization AlterNet has fallen for and disseminated a story, pushed by Zionist, Islamophobic and Iranian outlets, claiming that a prominent Saudi cleric issed a religious edict authorizing sex-deprived fighters in Syria to rape women there.

Earlier today, AlterNet claimed:

A prominent Saudi cleric has issued a fatwa (a religious ordinance) that calls for the gang rape of Syrian women. Expressing frustration that the “warriors of Islam” fighting in Syria may be getting weary for the lack of sexual pleasure, the religious leader issued a decree that promotes hours-long “intercourse marriages.”

The story was later updated to include a statement that the cleric, Muhammad al-Arifi, had issued a denial. But the story has – as of this writing – not been retracted (see update below), and even worse, it was picked up by Salon.com whose story has not – as of now – been amended with the denial (see update 3 below).

Al-Arifi is an ultra-conservative Wahhabi cleric with 3.5 million Twitter followers and more than 1.4 million Facebook fans.

He has been prominent in calling Syrians to join the armed opposition to the government of President Bashar al-Assad and demanded that other countries intervene militarily and send weapons to overthrow it.

Al-Arifi has openly engaged in sectarian incitement against Shia Muslims, for example in this video from February 2012, which has more than 1.1 million views.

The claim about the “gang rape” fatwa should raise immediate red flags. It is reminiscent of other recent shocking claims about Muslims that turned out to be libels disseminated by Islamophobic organizations.

These include a false story – disseminated credulously by LGBT magazine The Advocate – that a Muslim cleric had issued a “fatwa” declaring that sodomy between men was permissible if it was for the purpose of widening their anuses for the insertion of explosives to carry out “jihad.”

There was also the libel of a Muslim “rape epidemic” in Norway that The Electronic Intifada debunked a year ago.

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs...lon-fell-gang-rape-fatwa-peddled-islamophobes
 
FWIW, it's easy to believe stories like these when women are gang raped in India who die from internal injuries and women are gang raped elsewhere, women are beaten and stoned, etc, in Muslim countries for either being falsely accused of adultery or some other poor excuse, and women in Saudi Arabia can't drive due to their backwards laws towards women. I could go on.
 
FWIW, it's easy to believe stories like these when women are gang raped in India who die from internal injuries and women are gang raped elsewhere, women are beaten and stoned, etc, in Muslim countries for either being falsely accused of adultery or some other poor excuse, and women in Saudi Arabia can't drive due to their backwards laws towards women. I could go on.

Of course you could.

You only hear the bad stories.

Women are never beaten or raped in Western civilizations.
 
So long as it fits someone's agenda, it's veracity is trivial in comparison.

Though I would say that for most sane people, warning bells would sound as they read through the original story.

Lemmings, on the other hand, trip over themselves to C&P. Still others are quick to make themselves feel better with a one-size fits all "but this could actually happen given all the other bad things happening in the world, but more so in Muslim countries, well, you know how those people can be" band-aid.
 
Of course you could.

You only hear the bad stories.

Women are never beaten or raped in Western civilizations.


Now, Squibbs, don't get me started on this subject. I'm trying to keep my equilibrium because of an temporary immune problem. Let's just say many women are beaten and raped in the U.S., and the laws are basically shit for these issues. And Congress can't even include American Indian women and others in the VAWA bill. So, American women don't have it as bad as some countries, but there's a war on women here. It's just underground.
 
Now, Squibbs, don't get me started on this subject. I'm trying to keep my equilibrium because of an temporary immune problem. Let's just say many women are beaten and raped in the U.S., and the laws are basically shit for these issues. And Congress can't even include American Indian women and others in the VAWA bill. So, American women don't have it as bad as some countries, but there's a war on women here. It's just underground.

I never mentioned America.

Quite telling indeed.
 
I never mentioned America.

Quite telling indeed.

Yeah, I know you never mentioned America, but as I'm American I know more about American issues. Although we could talk about a woman dying in Ireland because of the Catholic Church, etc.
 
Ah, yes, the Clarion Fund, a pro-Israel group that the Council on American-Islamic relations believes attempts to foster a hatred of Islam and its muslims.

A veritable bastion of impartiality.
 
Ah, yes, the Clarion Fund, a pro-Israel group that the Council on American-Islamic relations believes attempts to foster a hatred of Islam and its muslims.

A veritable bastion of impartiality.

Hmm, a little reading says they're a bunch of Zionist fanatics. What a shock.
 
Hmm, a little reading says they're a bunch of Zionist fanatics. What a shock.

They got busted during the '08 election for providing support to the McCain campaign, a direct violation of the non-profit status.

Back then they were mass-mailing copies of a DVD that equated Muslims to the Nazis, and Obama as an enabler of these latter-day Nazis.


As you said, what a shock.
 
They got busted during the '08 election for providing support to the McCain campaign, a direct violation of the non-profit status.

Back then they were mass-mailing copies of a DVD that equated Muslims to the Nazis, and Obama as an enabler of these latter-day Nazis.


As you said, what a shock.

28 million copies of that film, apparently. That's a lot of money. And yet they haven't declared their income to the IRS.
 
Hey Squibbs did you get into some of seanh's drugs again?

Also why is he replying in your thread? He claims to have you on ignore.. What a liar he is..hey...
 
He never claimed to have me on ignore.

You however, always claim to have me on ignore.

What a lying, inbred, racist piece of shit I am ..hey...



Why do you keep calling your so called wife the "n" word?
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..oops caught another one of your racist posts .. you shitstain...


http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=373557


Acksherly, I had you on iggy for ages. It was the K(ar)en shenanigans that made me take you off. The whole board united in an orgy of hilarity and schadenfreude.

Haha

lol


Squibbs looks like a lying racist piece of shit again..

Hey proved you wrong again mcgee... I mean squibbs.
 
Acksherly, I had you on iggy for ages. It was the K(ar)en shenanigans that made me take you off. The whole board united in an orgy of hilarity and schadenfreude.

You had that nipples and semen guy on iggy, you made that fact quite evident.

Not once have you claimed to have me on iggy or referred to me as the moron I was just talking to, since my rebirth as Squibbs.

So technically he's still a lying, racist shitbag.
 
You had that nipples and semen guy on iggy, you made that fact quite evident.

Not once have you claimed to have me on iggy or referred to me as the moron I was just talking to, since my rebirth as Squibbs.

So technically he's still a lying, racist shitbag.

LOL. Point.
 
it is kinda sad that salon apparently just removed the story without saying shit. i used to read that site all the time when i didn't have cable.
 
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