Fatima Nejjar
Benhammad is married with seven children. Nejjar is a widow and has six children. If they are found guilty of indulging in extramarital affairs, they could be sent to prison in Morocco for one year. Facebook/Mouksit Jhd

With the Islamic State reported to have auctioned 3,000 female sex slaves for US$12,500 (A$16,800), Islamic leaders teaching about chastity seems to be a misnomer. As it turned out, two Islamist politicians who were pushing for chastity were caught having sex on a beach in Morocco.

The New York Post reports that 63-year-old Moulay Omar Benhammad and 62-year-old Fatima Nejjar have been suspended from all structures of the Islamic Unity and Reform Movement (MUR) after police found them in a sexual position inside their vehicle. The two, vice presidents of MUR, the ideological wing of the Islamic Justice and Development Party, were suspended from all structures of the movement.

They were caught on Saturday at a beach in Mohammedia, 16 miles north of Casablanca and 40 miles south of Rabat. He was charged with attempted corruption, while Nejjar was booked for complicity to adultery. The attempted corruption charges stem from Benhammad claiming he is in a common-law marriage with Nejjar, and his wife does not want him prosecuted for adultery.

Benhammad is married with seven children. Nejjar is a widow and has six children. If they are found guilty of indulging in extramarital affairs, they could be sent to prison in Morocco for one year.

Prior to her arrest, Nejjar was photographed wearing a full Islamic headdress and urging female Islamic students not to give in to “temptation and vice.” The two, who party officials says breached MUR values, claim the charges are part of a political smear campaign ahead of legislative elections in October.

India Today reports that pair were released by a magistrate, but they are scheduled to appear before a Moroccan court on Sept 1.

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