Jihad al-nikah

Jihad Al-Nikah (, often translated as Sex jihad or Sexual jihad) is the alleged religious practice of Muslim women offering themselves in consensual sex to fighters for the establishment of Islamic rule ("jihadis"). Publicity first arose in 2013, and the veracity of the alleged practice became the subject of greater debate in September 2013 after the Interior Minister of Tunisia made a public statement as a significant issue.
Background
The subject was first publicized in the Arab media around March 2013, when it was reported that Saudi Wahabi cleric Sheikh Mohamad al-Arefe had allegedly issued a fatwa called Jihad ul Nikaah, that called for women supporters to come forward for sex jihad and boost the mujahideen fighting the Bashar al Assad regime in Syria. The fatwa is based on the interpretation that Muslim women can go to Heaven only through the way of jihad. According to Wahabi clerics, Muslim women can earn the virtues of jihad by serving the sexual needs of the mujahideen fighting the Bashar al Assad regime in the Syrian Civil War. Sources close to Sheikh Mohammad al Arifi denied issuing the fatwa.
On the basis of the fatwa, it was reported in Tunisian media that young Tunisian Muslim girls traveled to Syria to serve as sex jihadis.
On September 19, 2013, Lofti bin Jeddou, the Interior Minister of Tunisia stated in the National Constituent Assembly that Tunisian women traveling to Syria for sex jihad were having sex with 20, 30 and even up to 100 rebels, and that some of the women had returned home pregnant.
Jihad Al-Nikah in Sharia
Jihad Al-Nikah is apparently related to the following two concepts:
# Zina (Adultery), forming sexual relations with persons one is not legally married to;
# or temporary marriage, having sexual relations,the woman whose marriage was consummated (sexually) must finish her Iddat (period in which the woman can not remarry); in case she wants to marry another person. Its Iddat finishes in two menstrual periods followed by divorce,
Adultery or Prostitution is allegedly strictly prohibited in Islam and it is listed among major sins condemned in the Quran, 17:32 which states, "Do not go near to adultery. Surely it is a shameful deed and evil, opening roads (to other evils)."
Moreover Quran 7:33 says, "Say, 'Verily, my Lord has prohibited the shameful deeds, be it open or secret, sins and trespasses against the truth and reason."
Adultery, that is sex with anybody except a spouse or a female slave/war captive, is strictly prohibited for Muslims and such sin commands capital punishment such as 100 lashes or stoning to death. Also, according to the precept of Iddah, a woman is not allowed to marry any other man, after divorcing from one man, for a three month period known as the Iddah. Therefore such alleged Jihad Al-Nikahs performed within hours of divorce would be apparently un-Islamic or forbidden in any circumstance to Muslims.
Several Islamic scholars, however, consider un-Islamic acts legitimate, when they are performed with the intention to further Islam. An example is the fatwa in which Al Qaeda operative al-Asiri was allowed to be sodomized prior to concealing 0.5 kg of PETN explosive in his rectum.
Denial
After the rapid spread of publicity about this alleged fatwa attributed to Sheikh al-Arefe, he publicly denied authorship of the alleged fatwa, dismissing it on his Twitter account as a "fabrication."

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