"Saudi Clerics Advocate Adult Breast-Feeding"

[The Bread Guy]

One of the.... lower profile? ... issues some clerics are discussing....

From aolnews.com:

Women in Saudi Arabia should give their breast milk to male colleagues and acquaintances in order to avoid breaking strict Islamic law forbidding mixing between the sexes, two powerful Saudi clerics have said. They are at odds, however, over precisely how the milk should be conveyed.

A fatwa issued recently about adult breast-feeding to establish "maternal relations" and preclude the possibility of sexual contact has resulted in a week's worth of newspaper headlines in Saudi Arabia. Some have found the debate so bizarre that they're calling for stricter regulations about how and when fatwas should be issued.

Sheikh Al Obeikan, an adviser to the royal court and consultant to the Ministry of Justice, set off a firestorm of controversy recently when he said on TV that women who come into regular contact with men who aren't related to them ought to give them their breast milk so they will be considered relatives.

"The man should take the milk, but not directly from the breast of the woman," Al Obeikan said, according to Gulf News. "He should drink it and then becomes a relative of the family, a fact that allows him to come in contact with the women without breaking Islam's rules about mixing."

Obeikan said the fatwa applied to men who live in the same house or come into contact with women on a regular basis, except for drivers.

Al Obeikan, who made the statement after being asked on TV about a 2007 fatwa issued by an Egyptian scholar about adult breast-feeding, said that the breast milk ought to be pumped out and given to men in a glass ....

 

[TimBit]

Reminds me of that time when PETA wrote to Ben & Jerry`s telling them that they should make their ice cream out of breast milk, seeing as humans should not be drinking cow milk and all.

http://blog.peta.org/archives/2008/10/breast_milk_hea.php

Now, I'm not saying that there any similarities b/w PETA and fundamentalist muslims. Well, not really... well, are there?  :blotto:

 

[Michael OLeary]

Now, I'm not saying that there any similarities b/w PETA and fundamentalist muslims. Well, not really... well, are there?  :blotto:

Neither will eat bacon .... manna from heaven that it is.    ;D

 

[PMedMoe]

Just more proof that these guys are out there like Pluto.  :