OTTAWA - Being sodomized is acceptable in Islam if the goal is to
carry out jihad, according to a cleric on a new video making the rounds
online.

In a video [1]
posted on YouTube last month, and as reported by the New York-based
think-tank Gatestone Institute more recently, cleric Abu al-Dema
al-Qasab's instructions include details on how to carry out a successful
suicide bombing mission by hiding explosives in the bomber's anus.

"However, to undertake this jihadi approach you must agree to be
sodomized for a while to widen your anus so it can hold the explosives,"
al-Dema al-Qasab tells followers in the video.

There is no indication where or when the video was recorded, but
appears by the screen to have been aired on Fadak TV, a Shia-based
satellite television station. The background of al-Dema al-Qasab is also
unknown.

Author Raymond Ibrahim, who wrote the article for Gatestone, denies claims the video is a hoax intended to insult Islam.

The Gatestone Institute's homepage indicates it specializes in international policy and the Middle East.

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