No way. No fucking way. But it was in the NYT…
Brief lesson in fatwas: Muslim people with personal dilemmas go to these guys who are supposed to be religious scholars to ask their advice. These guys supposedly interpret the Koran and tell the people what they should do in a given situation. The advice they give them is called a fatwa.
Now, you may know that strict Muslim men and women without some familial connection can’t hang out or live or work together.
So this guy in Egypt came up with a loophole for women who wanted to work with men they weren’t related to. A simple solution to establish family ties with these guys. He said all the women have to do is breastfeed all the men they work with. Five times each.
So much for employee productivity…
(This nutjob was roundly criticized and widely ridiculed in the region and by his own government. Just so you know. Wouldn’t want anybody drawing conclusions about entire religions or peoples based on one random incident, ya know.)
However, the whole fatwa procedure appears to be in dire need of some regulation. Or something. I could go on a rant about how wack all religion is and how the best thing, in my opinion, all these repressed religious nuts (of all stripes) could do would be to have more sex, but I just can’t. And I don’t really think I need to.
That’s all.
Pamela, while I totally agree on the high degree of wackiness of about any religion I can come up with, let’s not forget its major attribute:
religion kills.
Countless ongoing wars found and still manage to find their origin in (need for power/land/etc), incited by religion.
Pity we can’t abolish the drag queens of whatever religion used to continue all the killing in the name of an entity nobody ever met..
I know. Religion is utterly absurd and a deadly weapon. Hopefully the human race will figure that out. But it won’t happen in our lifetimes, unfortunately…
Just to clarify one thing, “wack” and “wacky” aren’t synonyms. Wack means “fucked up in a major way.” It’s very derogatory.