Strange Fatwas via Jihad Watch… this is as backwards a religious culture — well — as you could EVA get!
This fatwa is reminiscent of this from Iraq in 2007: “al-Qaida has warned street vendors not to place tomatoes beside cucumbers because the vegetables are different genders.”
“Fatwa: Women who swim in the sea commit adultery, should be punished,” from India Today, November 28 (thanks to all who sent this in):
“When a woman goes swimming, as the word for sea is masculine, when “the water touches the woman’s private parts, she becomes an ‘adulteress’ and should be punished.” – Summary of a report titled “The misguided Fatwas of the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafis”, as published in the Al Masry Al Youm.
A report by a committee set up by Al Azhar, one of the oldest and most prestigious Islamic universities in Cairo, to study the fatwas issued by the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafis reveals how Islamists view women.
The findings of the committee’s report were published in the Egyptian newspaper Al Masry Al Youm. In all, the committee studied 51 fatwas issued by the Brotherhood and the Salafis during President Mohamed Morsi’s tenure.
According to the report, “the fatwas issued by both groups (the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafis) regard women as strange creatures who are created solely for sex. They considered the voices of women, their looks and presence outside the walls of their homes an ‘offence’. Some even went as far as to consider women as a whole offensive.”