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Islamic ‘Adult Breastfeeding’ Fatwas Return
Front Page Magazine ^ | April 13th, 2012 | Raymond Ibrahim

Posted on 04/13/2012 8:15:48 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Back in May 2007, Dr. Izzat Atiya, head of Al Azhar University’s Department of Hadith, issued a fatwa, or Islamic legal decree, saying that female workers should “breastfeed” their male co-workers in order to work in each other’s company. According to the BBC:

He said that if a woman fed a male colleague “directly from her breast” at least five times they would establish a family bond and thus be allowed to be alone together at work. “Breast feeding an adult puts an end to the problem of the private meeting, and does not ban marriage,” he ruled. “A woman at work can take off the veil or reveal her hair in front of someone whom she breastfed.”
Atiya based his fatwa on a hadith—a documented saying or doing of Islam’s prophet Muhammad and subsequently one of Sharia law’s sources of jurisprudence. Many Egyptians naturally protested this decree—hadith or no hadith—though no one could really demonstrate how it was un-Islamic; for the fatwa conformed to the strictures of Islamic jurisprudence. Still, due to the protests—not many Egyptian women were eager to “breastfeed” their male coworkers—the fatwa receded, and that was that.

However, because it was never truly rebutted, it kept making comebacks. …

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1 posted on 04/13/2012 8:15:51 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Uh...wow. Trying to picture this. Just can’t.... won’t.


2 posted on 04/13/2012 8:18:40 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: Olog-hai
"Just try me..."


3 posted on 04/13/2012 8:21:08 PM PDT by Wierzbowski
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To: Olog-hai

Islam makes me laugh......sometimes...


4 posted on 04/13/2012 8:21:55 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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To: Dallas59

Mohammedanism never ceases to amaze.


7 posted on 04/13/2012 8:25:35 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: Olog-hai
In addition to being a political anomaly, Islam is now officially revealed as a psycho-sexual perversion.
8 posted on 04/13/2012 8:27:16 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Olog-hai

Prolonged drug use has very serious side effects, as evidenced by these so called religious experts.


9 posted on 04/13/2012 8:31:07 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)
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To: Olog-hai
Bizarre.
10 posted on 04/13/2012 8:31:21 PM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Yes, its all geared around the men. What other religion portrays heaven as a sensual orgy?


11 posted on 04/13/2012 8:35:12 PM PDT by ~Pandora
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To: Olog-hai

Works-based religion: making rules and then finding ways to get around them.


12 posted on 04/13/2012 8:36:12 PM PDT by lurk
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To: hinckley buzzard

If you think THAT is perverted.... you MUST watch this lecture on Islam.

N S F W !!!


13 posted on 04/13/2012 8:38:18 PM PDT by Waywardson (Carry on! Nothing equals the splendor!)
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To: hinckley buzzard

If you think THAT is perverted.... you MUST watch this lecture on Islam.

N S F W !!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCfbYkXtHuA


14 posted on 04/13/2012 8:38:52 PM PDT by Waywardson (Carry on! Nothing equals the splendor!)
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To: Olog-hai

This story proves that sometimes, when goats are molested, fertile offspring are produced.


15 posted on 04/13/2012 8:40:54 PM PDT by WMarshal (Bitter Clinger)
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To: Olog-hai

This story proves that sometimes, when goats are molested, fertile offspring are produced.


16 posted on 04/13/2012 8:41:25 PM PDT by WMarshal (Bitter Clinger)
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To: Olog-hai

This story proves that sometimes, when goats are molested, fertile offspring are produced.


17 posted on 04/13/2012 8:41:40 PM PDT by WMarshal (Bitter Clinger)
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To: ~Pandora
What other religion portrays heaven as a sensual orgy?

Arderkragism. Just founded it.
18 posted on 04/13/2012 8:45:32 PM PDT by arderkrag ("WAAHH WAAAHHH SCOTUS" is no excuse to vote for Romney. LOOKING FOR ROLEPLAYERS. Check Profile.)
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To: Olog-hai

Note to American Islamic readers:

“Don’t try this at work”


19 posted on 04/13/2012 8:45:52 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Olog-hai

This is the will of Allah!??
Hell of a sense of humor.


20 posted on 04/13/2012 8:46:28 PM PDT by bossmechanic (If all else fails, hit it with a hammer)
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