Religious edicts can be such a pain in the ass . . .

And I mean that literally.


Others inquired further by asking for formal fatwas. Citing his desire for "martyrdom and the virgins of paradise," one jihadi (possibly al-Asiri himself) asked another sheikh, "Is it permissible for me to let one of the jihadi brothers sodomize me to widen my anus if the intention is good?"

After praising Allah, the sheikh's fatwa began by declaring that sodomy is forbidden in Islam,

However, jihad comes first, for it is the pinnacle of Islam, and if the pinnacle of Islam can only be achieved through sodomy, then there is no wrong in it. For the overarching rule of [Islamic] jurisprudence asserts that 'necessity makes permissible the prohibited.' And if obligatory matters can only be achieved by performing the prohibited, then it becomes obligatory to perform the prohibited, and there is no greater duty than jihad. After he sodomizes you, you must ask Allah for forgiveness and praise him all the more. And know that Allah will reward the jihadis on the Day of Resurrection, according to their intentions—and your intention, Allah willing, is for the victory of Islam, and we ask that Allah accept it of you.

I did not include all of the article, but the "good intention" is to widen the anus so that more explosives can be fit in for a suicide bomber to go undetected.  I suspect these jihadis have no doubt that whatever it might take to fit more into the body cavity of a woman, Allah is just peachy with that, too.  And children.

Is there any doubt in anyone's mind that Islamic fundamentalist jihadism is a barbaric, profane culture?  And, in being such, diplomacy and negotiation is futile?