'Nudity invalidates marriage' - so sez Egyptian Muslim cleric

smh ^ | January 9, 2006 - 10:30AM

[dennisw]

An Egyptian cleric's controversial fatwa claiming that nudity during sexual intercourse invalidates a marriage has uncovered a rift among Islamic scholars.

According to the religious edict issued by Rashad Hassan Khalil, a former dean of Al-Azhar University's faculty of Sharia (or Islamic law), "being completely naked during the act of coitus annuls the marriage".

The religious decree sparked a hot debate on the private satellite network Dream's popular religious talk show and on the front page of today's Al-Masri Al-Yom, Egypt's leading independent daily newspaper.

Suad Saleh, who heads the women's department of Al-Azhar's Islamic studies faculty, pleaded for "anything that can bring spouses closer to each other" and rejected the claim that nudity during intercourse could invalidate a union.

During the live televised debate, Islamic scholar Abdel Muti dismissed the fatwa: "Nothing is prohibited during marital sex, except of course sodomy."

[dennisw]

This is series. Words can't describe how stuned I am

[music is math]

Bizarre. Maybe couples should keep their socks on?

[Petronski]

Not only must there be nudity, but apparently some parts actually have to be *gasp* touching!

[Blood of Tyrants]

?

[RockinRight]

I'm speechless. These people ARE nuts.

What I find funny is the last line-nothing is prohibited in marriage except sodomy...but yet Muslim clerics seem to have no problem with sodomy with young boys and "infidels"...

[TheBigB]

Hoep this won't cause problems. ; )

[Izzy Dunne]

If you are wearing only a condom, are you nude?

[Fintan]

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I'm replying to this post in the nude. So there.

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[TheBigB]

"Hoep" = "Hope"

Mondays. : )

[InsureAmerica]

It's quite obvious this particular cleric never got any, and he doesn't want anyone else to get any either. How selfish.

[aimhigh]

Islamic scholar Abdel Muti dismissed the fatwa

dismissed the fatwa.. dismissed the fatwa.. the infidel.

[gaijin]

Oh sure, those muzzie women are just dying to keep their burkhas on ALWAYS.

Man oh man, sometimes it's just astonishing, they way Islam markets itself, but still keeps growing....

[Petronski]

Ping.

[Semper Paratus]

He must be running a franchise of bath houses featuring cold showers.

[domenad]

If you're muslim, you should conduct yourself sexually as if Mohammed himself were holding the video camea and working the lights.

[Terabitten]

"Nothing is prohibited during marital sex, except of course sodomy."

You'd think, with all their emphasis on anything-goes sexuality, that the left would be deathly afraid that Sharia law would become the law of the land, and would thus be on OUR side in the war on terror.

[VeniVidiVici]

"Nothing is prohibited during marital sex, except of course sodomy."

Honey, did you put the sheep in the bed yet??

[Killing Time]

So having the wife trussed up in a La Perla basque is ok then?

[Tax-chick]

Too much information, thanks.

[Gay State Conservative]

I can certainly understand this.After all,what sane woman would want Bin Laden or Arafat gettin' nekkid with her?