[lbo-talk] Fatwa Inflation in Egypt / Democracy Deficit in theMiddle East

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <critical.montages at gmail.com>
>
><http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/12/world/middleeast/12fatwa.html>
>June 12, 2007
>Egypt's Muslims Seek Fatwas on a Variety of Issues
>By MICHAEL SLACKMAN
>
>CAIRO, June 11 — First came the breast-feeding fatwa. It declared that
>the Islamic restriction on unmarried men and women being together
>could be lifted at work if the woman breast-fed her male colleagues
>five times, to establish family ties. Then came the urine fatwa. It
>said that drinking the urine of the Prophet Muhammad was deemed a
>blessing. ...

Surely, none of this is more ridiculous than consuming the body and blood of 
Jesus Christ, which millions of Christians worldwide do on a regular basis.  
I often think religion consists entirely of silly answers to silly 
questions.

Carl

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