Breastfeeding fatwa causes stir

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6681511.stm

Breastfeeding fatwa causes stir

One of Sunni Islam's most prestigious institutions is to discipline a cleric after he issued a decree allowing women to breastfeed their male colleagues.

Dr Izzat Atiya of Egypt's al-Azhar University said it offered a way around segregation of the sexes at work.

His fatwa stated the act would make the man symbolically related to the woman and preclude any sexual relations.

The president of al-Azhar denounced the fatwa, which Dr Atiya has since retracted, as defamatory to Islam.

According to Islamic tradition, or Hadith, breast-feeding establishes a degree of maternal relation, even if a woman nurses a child who is not biologically hers.

'Family bond'

In his fatwa, Dr Atiya, the head of al-Azhar's Department of Hadith, said such teachings could equally apply to adults.

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."

The legal ruling sparked outrage throughout Egypt and the Arab world.

On Sunday, Dr Atiya retracted it, saying it had been the result of a "bad interpretation of a particular case" during the time of the Prophet Muhammad. Egypt's minister of religious affairs, Mahmoud Zaqzouq, has called for future fatwas to "be compatible with logic and human nature".

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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.

I like it!

Dr Izzat Atiya is a star.

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So sad.

[Dan J 277]

Well I think if a woman breast-feeding an adult male, later on he would want more than just "breasts".

-Gemvita

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So, in order for men and women to work together without there being a sexual conotation, the woman has to allow a man to suck her breasts at least five times? Now that really makes so much sense...

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So, in order for men and women to work together without there being a sexual conotation, the woman has to allow a man to suck her breasts at least five times? Now that really makes so much sense...

-Well since you put it like that...

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Good Lord !

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So, in order for men and women to work together without there being a sexual conotation, the woman has to allow a man to suck her breasts at least five times? Now that really makes so much sense...

That's my interpretation of it as well. Now give us yer tits, Muslim woman!

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