Full Fatwa Milk
Sheikh Abdel Mohsen Obeikan, a former royal court advisor with his own radio program, “Fatwas On the Air“, caused an international stir a few weeks ago when he issued a fatwa (IE: religious edict) allowing unrelated men and women to mingle in public so long as a woman allows the guy to drink her breast milk in order establish a maternal bond.
UAE-based Gulf News quotes Obeikan as saying:
The man should take the milk, but not directly from the breast of the woman. 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.
This week another cleric, Youssef Al-Ahmed, issued another fatwa, this one urging the faithful not to shop at a Saudi Arabian supermarket chain because it employs women as cashiers, a job that allows them to mix with men. The fatwa forced the chain to reassign 11 female employees.
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