(June 5) -- 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.”
As just one more element of this hyperdimensional absurdity, I must ask how these puffed-up self-important Saudi towelheads propose to ensure that these women are lactating. Is it perhaps something they mean to take care of themselves by getting and keeping them pregnant?
Stupidity is certainly not the domain of the Muslims only. Here’s a quote from Dante’s "The Divine Comedy’: Muhammad is considered to be in the Eighth Circle of Hell together with scismatics. This is how Dante saw him:
"No cask stove in by cant or middle ever
So gaped as one I saw there, from the chin
Down to the fart hole split as by a cleaver.
His tripes hung by his heels; the pluck and spleen
Showed with the liver and the sordid sack
That turns to dung the food it swallows in."
Wonder if they ever issued a fatwa against Dante??
I assume by “dumb” you mean “dim-witted” rather than “bereft of speech.” Substitute “religious believers” for “Muslims.” Now substitute “adults who believe in the tooth fairy” for “religious believers” and perhaps you’ll see why I cannot agree with this statement. If you believe in the reality of the fanciful and essentially unintelligible which flies wholly in the face of all reason and evidence, then I hold with Lewis Wolpert that you are, by definition, daft. I’m well aware that it’s not polite to say so, but that doesn’t affect the veracity of the assessment.
I would, however, agree that not all religious believers are fundamentalist whackjobs.