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Teufelswacht
Joined: 06 Sep 2004 Location: Land Of The Not Quite Right
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Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 11:55 pm Post subject: Those wacky Muslim clerics are at it again! |
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This gave me a laugh today. Thought I'd share.
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Egypt: Fatwa allows breast-feeding among adults
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
CAIRO, Egypt
Al-Azhar University, one of Sunni Islam's most prestigious institutions, ordered one of its clerics Monday to face a disciplinary panel after he issued a controversial decree allowing adults to breast-feed.
Ezzat Attiya had issued a fatwa, or religious edict, saying adult men could breast-feed from female work colleagues as a way to avoid breaking Islamic rules that forbid men and women from being alone together.
In Islamic tradition, breast-feeding establishes a degree of maternal relation, even if a woman nurses a child who is not biologically hers. It means the child could not marry the nursing woman's biological children.
Attiya - the head of Al-Azhar's Department of Hadith, or teachings of the Prophet Muhammad - insisted the same would apply with adults. He argued that if a man nursed from a co-worker, it would establish a family bond between them and allow the two to work side-by-side without raising suspicion of an illicit sexual relation. |
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1178708655924 |
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ChimpumCallao

Joined: 17 May 2005 Location: your mom
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 1:29 am Post subject: |
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Religion is awesome. |
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spliff

Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 1:34 am Post subject: |
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Another moronic fartwa...why would a grown man need to breast feed anyway?  |
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postfundie

Joined: 28 May 2004
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 6:59 am Post subject: |
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this is one reason why I hate wasting time tryin to discern god's law......waste waste waste...... |
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