What was Muhammad saying and doing? Perhaps his magical shirt would transport the dead woman to heaven, and his blessed body would protect her from the “pressures of the grave”? A more cynical—a more human—reading is that he stripped his shirt as a natural step before copulating; that he precisely meant the act of sex would “alleviate” the pressures of death from the corpse; and that the observers covered them with dirt for privacy and/or for shame. http://frontpagemag.com/2012/05/01/islamic-‘death-sex’-in-context/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=68fb46528a-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag