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2007-05-22 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Mullah busted for breastfeeding fatwa
James Taranto, "Breast Best of the Web," Wall Street Journal

This is quite a story, from the Associated Press in Cairo:

Al-Azhar University, one of Sunni Islam's most prestigious institutions, ordered one of its clerics Monday to face a disciplinary panel after he issued a controversial decree allowing adults to breast-feed.
"You're busted!"

Ezzat Attiya had issued a fatwa, or religious edict, saying adult men could breast-feed from female work colleagues as a way to avoid breaking Islamic rules that forbid men and women from being alone together.
"What a boob!"

In Islamic tradition, breast-feeding establishes a degree of maternal relation, even if a woman nurses a child who is not biologically hers. It means the child could not marry the nursing woman's biological children.

Attiya--the head of Al-Azhar's Department of Hadith, or teachings of the Prophet Muhammad--insisted the same would apply with adults. He argued that if a man nursed from a co-worker, it would establish a family bond between them and allow the two to work side-by-side without raising suspicion of an illicit sexual relation.
"Plus, it'd be fun!"

Well, it's certainly a creative attempt to resolve a conundrum that must bedevil many a jihadi human-resources manager. One wonders if a similar approach could help shield American employers against sexual-harassment lawsuits. Nah, one realizes, probably not.
Posted by Mike 2007-05-22 16:04|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top

#1 I'll have to try that with one of my breast-feeding colleagues. Move over junior...
Posted by danking_70 2007-05-22 16:56||   2007-05-22 16:56|| Front Page Top

#2 "Milk brothers"? Ick. On so many levels, ick.
Posted by trailing wife 2007-05-22 17:33||   2007-05-22 17:33|| Front Page Top

#3 I think we have a winner for the Best Cairo Bar Pickup Line.
Posted by ed 2007-05-22 18:34||   2007-05-22 18:34|| Front Page Top

#4 This really slays me. Islam can be used to justify damn near anything, can't it?

When I go to "Ask The Imam" websites like www.askimam.org and look around, I get the impression that Islam gives its adherents absolutely no ethical or moral framework within which an individual can tell right from wrong-- only a seemingly-endless canonical list of arbitrary do's and don't's.

No wonder they're so fucked up.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D.  2007-05-22 18:38||   2007-05-22 18:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Got milk?
Posted by DMFD 2007-05-22 22:25||   2007-05-22 22:25|| Front Page Top

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