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Posted on 06/11/2007 11:55:46 PM PDT by Lorianne
CAIRO, June 11 — First came the breast-feeding fatwa. It declared that the Islamic restriction on unmarried men and women being together could be lifted at work if the woman breast-fed her male colleagues five times, to establish family ties. Then came the urine fatwa. It said that drinking the urine of the Prophet Muhammad was deemed a blessing.
For the past few weeks, the breast-feeding and urine fatwas have proved a source of national embarrassment in Egypt, not least because they were issued by representatives of the highest religious authorities in the land.
“We were very angered when we heard about the Danish cartoons concerning our prophet; however, these two fatwas are harming our Islamic religion and our prophet more than the cartoons,” Galal Amin, a professor of economics at the American University in Cairo, wrote in Al Masry Al Yom, a daily newspaper here.
For many Muslims, fatwas, or religious edicts, are the bridge between the principles of their faith and modern life. They are supposed to be issued by religious scholars who look to the Koran and teachings of the Prophet Muhammad for guidance. While the more sensational pronouncements grab attention, the bulk of the fatwas involve the routine of daily life. In Egypt alone, thousands are issued every month.
The controversy in Cairo has been more than just embarrassing. It comes at a time when religious and political leaders say that there is a crisis in Islam because too many fatwas are being issued, and that many of them rely on ideology more than learning.
The complaint has been the subject of recent conferences as government-appointed arbiters of Islamic standards say the fatwa free-for-all has led to the promotion of extremism and intolerance.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
where do they get mohammed-pee?
It’s possibly a by-product of consuming adult female coworker breast milk? For, as we all know, “a woman at work can take off the veil or reveal her hair in front of someone whom she breast-fed.”
Ai caramba! Muslimos locos!
Um, why did the NYT call the article “A Compass that Can Clash with Modern Life”? How about “Islamist Maniacs Show that Sexual Harrassment is not a Crime, It’s a Privelege”. I don’t hear any feminist outrage, either. Just how selfish and hypocritical can modern feminists be? Oh, but I forgot, power must be sooo enticing and addictive for feminists so they don’t dare ally themselves with the opposition.
He would reach puberty as an outsider, and could not, technically, be around the woman he knew as his mother. The imam at their local mosque said it was haram — forbidden under Islam — to live with the boy.
The sheik said yes, that was right, that the boy could not live with them. The father leaned in, disturbed, and said, “And that’s it.”
The sheik seemed stuck and referred them to another sheik for another opinion.
That was their fatwa.
Apparently the problem is that the boy is nearing puberty. It sounds as if, under Islam, an adopted boy past the age of 9 cannot live in any house where there is a woman.
> where do they get mohammed-pee?
Re-constituted. The dried stuff is scraped off a rock in Mecca.
thanks, bfl
So... it’s like an Edict from the Pope, except anyone can issue it...
Imagine if Christianity had “cult” built into it’s modern functions. And I don’t mean as a whole religion, but regionally. “The Church of Kentuky has deterined that since Noah’s family did it, Incest is mandatory!”
While New York has determined that “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” is in effect. (And later finds that *in keeping with the edict* 73% of New Yorkers must be nihilistic.)
I'm thinking: It's early, but this has gotta be Scrappleface.
Gawd, what a $h|tty country, what a horrid “faith”.
Missed this one. Is that why Islam has taken off in CA and Michigan?
ALL RELIGIONS HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM.........
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People screw up a good idea with their silliness.
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From Jim Baker saying “Build me a waterpark” to the various fatwas issued by clerics. People are the problem in religion.
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I can see God slapping his forehead thousands of times a day, thumbing through the bible going “Where did they get the idea of using donations for limousines?”
Apparently, someone didn't think this through clearly enough. ;)
“I can see God slapping his forehead thousands of times a day, thumbing through the bible going ‘Where did they get the idea of using donations for limousines?’”
... and humming “not with water but with fire next time...”
I dunno; sounds to me like he gave it a great deal of thought.
Ya.
Whether this is lunacy or genious depends upon whether or not you'd hit it.
The bottlers of Mecca Cola will simply rename, and remove the caramel coloring from their product..
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Where does the Mo-p*ss come from?
I want to see a republishing of Khomeini's writings on all this. Remember reading excerpts after he took over Iran. Wild stuff, like rules about what you could and could not do with a goat after you humped it. Just unbelievable this thinking can still exist in 2000 A.D.
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