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It would make our start-of-the-year faculty orientation meetings interesting, anyway

By pharyngula on May 27, 2010.

A Muslim cleric thought he'd discovered a loophole in Islamic religious law that would allow the restrictions on Muslim women in the workplace to be loosened.

He said that if a woman fed a male colleague "directly from her breast" at least five times they would establish a family bond and thus be allowed to be alone together at work.

"Breast feeding an adult puts an end to the problem of the private meeting, and does not ban marriage," he ruled.

"A woman at work can take off the veil or reveal her hair in front of someone whom she breastfed."

Just when you think the Abrahamic attitude towards women couldn't get weirder or more demeaning…

To their credit, nobody seems to have taken this fatwa at all seriously, and it has been decreed a bad interpretation of Islamic law. Now they just have to take the next step:

Egypt's minister of religious affairs, Mahmoud Zaqzouq, has called for future fatwas to "be compatible with logic and human nature".

I guess that's an end to all fatwas, then.

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