Tajik Mullah's Bizarre "Infertility Treatments" Could Land Him In Jail

A Tajik Mullah's so-called 'infertility treatments' have landed him in beaucoup trouble. Apparently, someone videotaped the married pervert's bizarre session with a 26-year-old woman (as he recites the Quran), and it somehow wound up on YouTube, as these things often do. No-one seems to know who actually videotaped the whole episode, but he'd have to be an idiot to have done it himself.

Asadullo Ibrohimov is facing up to 7 years in jail for fraud and sexual misconduct. However, he refuses to fess up, claiming only partial guilt because "the woman forced him to do what he did." 

The mullah's wife is standing by her man, and family have placed total blame on the victim, even though it's quite obvious from the video that he's the instigator.

"It's her fault, entirely. Can't you see on the video that the woman willingly embraces his shoulders?"

A link to the video and more on the story at RFE/RL.

No Radicals Or Polygamists Allowed In The First Ever Matchmaking Agency In Tajikistan

No E-Harmony or Match.com for the Tajiki people.  However, there's a new matchmaking agency in the northern city of  Khujand, actually the first ever in Tajikistan, but no radicals or polygamists need apply.  It's targeted towards middle-class, divorced and widowed men and women in their 30s and 40s.

Arranged marriages for young ones are commonplace in the secular, predominately Islamic country, but no-one wants to arrange marriages for the divorced, so Shuhrat Ayomov stepped in to take care of that demographic. He took over a failed, bankrupt matchmaking company, and turned it around.  Yusuf and Zulaikha is doing gangbusters business arranging love matches for a mere $4.00 a pop, plus commission if the match turns into a marriage.

"We have received more than 200 applications from men and women looking for a potential spouse, and the number is growing as more people are hearing about our service," Ayomov says. "So far, eight people we introduced to each other have gotten married."

An electrical technician and nursery-school teacher, both divorced, were the first to get hitched a few weeks after their first date. Firdavs and the unveiled Nigora both have a child from their previous marriages.

 "In our traditional society you don't go out and socialize with the opposite sex when you're a divorced man in your mid-30s," Firdavs says.

It was Firdavs's grandmother who "heard some gossip about a matchmaking agency in the neighborhood" and encouraged him to check it out. "I didn't know what to expect and it didn't seem like a good idea at first," says Firdavs, speaking outside the electronics repair shop where he works in downtown Khujand.

As for the requirements for those looking for permanent love:

"We have three major requirements," Ayomov says. "An applicant has to be physically and mentally healthy. If they have some kind of disease, we tell them to get medical treatment first. We don't accept people affiliated with illegal extremist groups. And we don't accept applications from married men looking for a second wife, because polygamy is illegal."

But that's not the only requirement.

Clients are required to attend workshops on how to manage a household budget and how to deal with in-laws, and female applicants are offered cooking and sewing classes. "Most of our male clients are looking for a fairly good-looking, intelligent woman who is a good homemaker and has strong moral values," Ayomov says. "Female customers as a rule want a good husband who is financially capable of looking after his family."

Ayomov has four employees.  He predicts matchmaking will become the norm throughout Tajikistan, but no mention of taking it to the Internet.

Tajik Imam's Home Sex Tapes Cause Outrage

I always thought Muslim women were allowed to remove their head scarves in the privacy of their homes, but apparently the wife of a Tajik imam was wearing her green hijab when her hubby took pictures with his cell phone of the two of them having sex.  No-one quite knows how those three videos wound up on YouTube and Facebook, and no, I have not seen them, and no, they are no longer available, not that I have checked. But apparently those videos of a middle-aged, buck-nekkid, stocky man with a dark beard and his green hijab-headed wife (no mention of whether she too was naked) have caused quite a stir in Tajikistan.

An imam in Bolshevik, Tajikistan confessed to filming his sexual activities with his wife on his cell phone, but denies that he was the one who posted them on the YouTube. Supposedly he lost the phone, which is entirely possible, since he would have to be terribly stupid to post them himself, considering it is un-Islamic to take photos of sexual activities, at least in Tajikistan.

No names have been revealed, though the person who posted them on YouTube- Soleh Hotamyon- incorrectly identified the man.

One caption erroneously identified the man in the video as Muhiddin Kabiri, the nonbearded chairman of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT). The captions for the two other clips mention IRPT Deputy Chairman Mahmadali Hait, who has a white beard.

The imam might lose his job, and authorities are trying to find out who posted them on the Internet. Invasion of privacy.

The local population are outraged.

On the website of RFE/RL’s Tajik Service, one visitor wrote:

"Nowadays our blind people believe anyone wearing a beard or a turban and worship him. The guy recorded his intimate scene on his mobile phone. Do you really believe that he thinks about the image of Muslims? I don't believe so!"

Others wrote:

“It's so disgusting. How is it possible to record sex with your wife and publish in on the Internet?? He does not deserve to be a cleric. Don't call him a cleric."

"Mullahs like you are discrediting our dear Islam. Do you know how much you pleased the enemies of Islam? If I were an official, I would give you a life jail sentence."

On June 20th, the powers that be will discuss the situation and what, if anything, should happen to the imam.

Source: RFE/RL