Outrage has been caused throughout Egypt and the Arab world by the reported comments of a cleric at one of Sunni Islam’s most respected institutions.
Dr Izzat Atiya of Egypt’s al-Azhar University is to be disciplined after he issued an decree allowing women to breastfeed their male colleagues….. According to the BBC His fatwa (decree) stated it offered a way around segregation of the sexes at work. The act would make the man symbolically related to the woman and preclude any sexual relations.
“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 president of al-Azhar denounced the fatwa, which Dr Atiya has since retracted, as defamatory to Islam.
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