[DeaconBenjamin]

Such questions were not a concern in Turkey before it started becoming a caliphate.

[Impy]

The Chinese had toilet paper in the 6th century AD.

[ilovesarah2012]

These people (muslims) cannot live in civilized society.

[boycott]

A few pages of that twisted book of theirs would work just fine if they don’t have any toilet paper.

[BykrBayb]

If [substances containing alcohol] spill onto a dress or the body, they must be washed or they cannot perform a prayer.

Isn't there a death penalty for not praying?

To be a good muslim, one must be a filthy pig.

[don-o]

http://www.askimam.org/

For some truly bizarre aspects of the ROP

[StAntKnee]

Turkey’s top religious body allows use of toilet paper
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NYT stock values shot up 8% on the news.

[paterfamilias]

“Even though some sources deem paper to be unsuitable as a cleaning material, as it is an apparatus for writing, there is no problem in using toilet paper...”

I am glad that this point of personal hygiene has been clarifed.

Also, I find that my fountain pen ink tends to blot when I write on toilet paper.

This fatwa notwithstanding, one should still avoid personal contact with a Moslem’s left hand.

[BamaDi]

I lived in Ankara 1969-1971 and laughed myself silly when I saw the first Turkish john - a small room (closet size) with a hole in the floor, raised footprints and a faucet. It was considered an insult to offer anything to someone using your right hand as that was the one you “wiped” with. I even brought a brass Turkish john ashtray back - don’t know where it’s at now. What TP they did have was like wax paper......slick! One of our neighbors was an American married to a Turkish doctor so whenever my Mother went to the BX she always bought her American TP....we had a normal bathroom - my Mother had the washing machine placed over the Turkish john with the drain hose going into the hole in the floor.

[dfwgator]

Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has released a fatwa stating that usage of toilet paper is permissible within Islam, though it emphasized that water should be the primary source of cleansing.

Sheryl Crow approves.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Grand Mufti Whipple?

[Loyalist]

Meanwhile in a separate statement, the Diyanet also ruled that people who beg in order to earn money beyond their immediate needs are “demanding the fire of hell.”

Which raises this question: now that toilet paper is permissible, can you beg for it as an immediate need?