Rmember that Ayatollah Khomeni use to write a similar ask-the-mullah column. I think his first published work, actually, was a column saying it was okay for a Muslim man to have sex with a chicken as long as he didn’t eat it afterwards. I don’t recall whether it was okay to sell it in the market to some other Muslim.
I kid you not.
When I first spotted the article myself over at Drudgereport, from Der Spegel via Drudge, and read as much as I could, I could not believe my eyes that this Imam was a Muslim verson of “Dear Abby”.