[HiTech RedNeck]

where do they get mohammed-pee?

[wideminded]

A couple approached. The man’s clothes were tattered, and his wife looked distressed. Their 9-year-old son’s clothing was clean, his hair gelled, his smile bright. The man explained that they had adopted the child when he was 9 months old, and that they had just heard that under Islam their son had to be put out of the house, because the mother had not given birth to him or breast-fed him.

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.

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[MacDorcha]

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.)

[Ocracoke Island]

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.

I'm thinking: It's early, but this has gotta be Scrappleface.

[Diogenesis]

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.

Missed this one. Is that why Islam has taken off in CA and Michigan?

[Erik Latranyi]

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?”

[Ultra Sonic 007]

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.

Apparently, someone didn't think this through clearly enough. ;)

[martin_fierro]

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[cardinal4]

Where does the Mo-p*ss come from?

[doorgunner69]

These muzzies and all their complex laws for living.......

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.

[neverdem]

I hope all of you realize that this is frontpage, above the fold.

I verified that the story was true before I put it in the frontpage sidebar last night. I thought the Times must have buried it. When I checked the Times' frontpage today, I was quite surprised to say the least.

[steve-b]

the breast-feeding and urine fatwas have proved a source of national embarrassment in Egypt

Ya think?