[xJones]

The fascinating part is that this is even a serious question that someone would want an answer to! It shows how ridiculous these people are.

'Wake, there seems to be a fatwa (ruling) on just about everything. I've read Muslims asking the imams how to go to the bathroom correctly. For instance, if you're afraid of jinn (devils) attacking you in the bathroom (or wherever you are relieving yourself) you can't pray to Allah while doing that, so there's a special prayer of protection before you enter that area. Or, for instance, here's this very recent question: " Passing Urine While Standing: Is It Permissible? ". They ask the most childlike questions sometimes.

[FITZ]

The Muslims even have to ask how to clean their noses and for some reason there's a special way because they think the devil gets up in their noses at night.

[wideawake]

Interesting. Orthodox Jews have very similar structures for dealing with questions (although their questions are quite different and relate to human behavior).

I'm a Catholic and have done extensive study into the disputations of our medieval theologians - while they might have argued about whether an angel was a separate substance and therefore indivisible by genus into species, they never tackled such topics as praying while on the thunderbox.