Posted on 08/05/2010 5:10:41 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Islamic population in the Middle East has been caught up in a new war, but it is its own enemy in the fight over a "fatwa" that authorizes the breastfeeding of adult men.
"The fatwa-issuing thugs give orders, pass judgment, and make decisions: love is forbidden; looking [at a man] is a sin; expressions of love are contemptible – [but] as for breastfeeding, that is permissible, permissible, permissible," wrote Nadine Al-Budair, a presenter for the U.S. Arabic-language television station Al-Hurra.
The dispute has been monitored by the Middle East Media Research Institute, which has compiled a history of it and added comments from contemporary Muslims interests.
The issue first arose in Egypt in May 2007 when a "fatwa" – an Islamic religious decree – was issued from "Izzat" Atiyya, who used to be chief of the Hadith Department at Al-Azhar University. Atiyya permitted a woman to breastfeed a man with whom she must work in private, which MEMRI reported led to Atiyya's dismissal from his school position.
The dispute returned to headlines just a few weeks ago when Sheik Abd Al-Muhsin Al-Obikan, in the Saudi Justice Ministry, issued a "fatwa" allowing the breastfeeding of adults.
MEMRI documents how the rules are aimed at "enabling an unrelated man and woman to be secluded in the same room, a situation which Islam considers forbidden gender mixing."
The report explained the fatwas regarding breastfeeding suggest it creates "a bond of kinship between the man and woman … thus making it acceptable for them to be together in seclusion."
The latest edict "created a stir in Saudi Arabia and in the Arab media at large, arousing a wave of criticism from clerics and columnists alike," MEMRI reported.
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I am commentless.
Well, that’ll take some pressure off of the goats.
What if the man is lactose-intolerant? Can she mix him up some Soy Enfamil?
These people are sick in the head.
Yes, this is your brain on Islam.
Dammed degenerates
these people are nuttier then squirrel sh**
Well, that was a bust.............
Are they all dead yet?
There are just no words...
When your prophet (Mohammed) is a pedophile and a murderer, I would guess that anything goes
Yes. Everytime I think they have exhausted the limits of freakish attitudes and desires, they astonish me once again.
As far as I am concerned, beer and BLTs are proof that God loves us, and that Islam is a misguided cult.
Well, that just sucks.
Or does it?
So I guess Nadine Al-Budair is the titular leader of the Milk It Movement.
“Breastfeeding adult men sparks holy war”
...I was sure this story would be about fat cross-dressing sand fleas.
Fatwa on the benefits of drinking camel urine, as prescribed by Mohammad
Well—it’s not as bad as I first thought—from the headline, I thought adult men had somehow figured out how they could breast feed their infants, or something like that—LOL!
You don’t have to be Sigmund Freud to see the psycho-social implications of this. Islam truly is a religion for men who never grow up.
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