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Is the Muslim view on sexuality corrupt? Here's a Jewish response

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Rabbi Josh Zebberman

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the chapter of jihad. So nobody says we're making things up. Chapter of jihad. We will open the chapter of jihad that is present in all of our mosques that I wish that I could be killed for the sake of Allah, then brought back to life, then killed, then brought back to life, then killed once again, and then you go become a mart and you go and get your 72 virgins. And this is not something that we are uh just reading. This is not a magazine. This is the authentic means authentic. After intense filteration for 1,200 years, this is what we have now come with to form the religion of Islam. So when you see its nonstop attacks towards the west, you know why? because they themselves wish to die, come back to life, to die again, come back to life, and die and come and non-stop this love for death that they have. Okay, where do we start with all of this? If somebody believes, and I'm not saying that the person in that video necessarily believes this because I understand that it may have been taken out of context, but if somebody believes that they can trade death for sex, killing other people for sex, that is not just a perversion of morality. I think that goes without saying, but there is an ethos here of this perversion of sexuality because the truth is trading anything for sexuality, whether it be death or even just being a little bit nicer, is on some level, maybe even subtly, but on some level a perversion of sexuality. And the reason is because sexuality shouldn't be treated as the reward for something you do. It's the mechanism by which we connect by which two human beings connect on the most intimate level which is why it's only reserved for people who are married for people who are already inherently connected. It's the act of expressing expressing an inherent connection. If you look in the book of Genesis in the Bible in the Torah, when God had first created Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, he instructs them to leave your parents' home and cleave to your wife, connect to your wife. And commentaries wonder why is that uniquely human? Animals were created as well and animals cohabitate. So why is this uniquely human? And the reason is this is what the explains explains that animals physically cohabitate and because it's purely physical they can cohabitate with any other animal. There's no dedication and because there's no dedication there's no relationship. It's purely utilitarian. It's purely just a function of fun a function of reproduction. But for human beings, there's dedication. There's the dedication to one human being, to your spouse, which means it's not just utilitarian. It's not just for enjoyment. It's not just for reproduction, but it's actually for connection. Sexuality is not the product or reward of certainly not of death or killing other people, but of anything. It's a means of expressing and experiencing an inherent deep connection. This is how Judaism sees it. This is why it's considered to be eternally sacred. That's my story and I'm sticking to