Saudi Women to Breastfeed Adult Men in Exchange for Right to Drive

In the bizarre Muslim news world, you may have heard of various fatwas calling for Saudi women to breastfeed the grown men in their lives who are not "kin." Believe it or not, it's true, but that's not where the story ends. See a video below.

Saudi Women

The first fatwa came in 2007. An Egyptian at the Al Azhar University apparently couldn't get as close to the women around him, and issued a fatwa "calling upon women to breastfeed their male colleagues." This would create a "maternal bond," dontcha know. After an unknown time at the breast, the man becomes a brother or son.

Three years later, the fatwa is back again, and Saudi women are actually considering it, much to the chagrin of Saudi males.

Saudi women are forbidden to drive, so the ladies have threatened to "breastfeed their drivers," if not allowed to drive themselves. If that isn't desperate, I don't what is. The visual is just too, too....?

Obviously there are some problems, and one that I can think of that isn't being mentioned: generally, women don't tote breast milk around with them unless they have small children - hopefully babies. So, assuming a woman has breast milk, will she have enough for the child(ren) and the grown guy? What if the soon-to-be-kin doesn't want to quit when she's had enough? If she doesn't have small children to breastfeed, what do the fatwa-issuers expect the woman to do? Snap her fingers nipples and command the milk?

This blog quotes some Saudi women and sheds a light on some of the complications of this fatwa:

"I have not breastfed my own children. How do you expect me to do this with a foreign man? What is this nonsense?" she said.

Another woman said the fatwa should also apply to the husbands who should be breastfed by housemaids. By doing so, all will be brothers and sisters," she said

Saudi writer Suzan Al Mashhadi sarcastically asked Al Obaikan: "Do the women have to breastfeed the driver in the presence of their husbands or can they do this alone?"

Muhammad must bear the blame for this because his wife, Aisha, was one little-breastfeeding mama (once she reached puberty, of course). Source: Middle East Forum, LATimes.

Others bloggers talking about breastfeeding adult men:
BareNakedIslam

Fatwa for Saudi Women to Breastfeed Adult Men (video)

Middle East News Round-Up

By Findalis of Monkey in the Middle Things not allowed by Hamas in Gaza: Men and women walking together, holding hands, riding in a car together, swimming together, eating together, shopping together, studying together, living together, sleeping together, and now it is forbidden for women to ride motorcycles.

The Hamas government has banned women from riding motorcycles in the Gaza Strip, saying the move was in keeping with "Arab traditions." The decision to ban women from riding motorcycles was published by the Hamas-controlled Interior Ministry, which is in charge of the movement's security forces in the Gaza Strip. The decision is seen in the context of Hamas's efforts to enforce strict Islamic teachings in the area. Two months ago, a Hamas judge issued an order requiring all women who appear in court to wear the hijab. Men and women who are seen together are regularly stopped by Hamas policemen or militiamen who question them about the nature of their relationship.

Forbidden under Hamas!

Explaining its latest decision, Hamas said it was made to "safeguard the safety of residents and to maintain the stability of traditions and customs in Palestinian society." The Hamas statement said that men would not be allowed from now on to carry women behind them as they drive their motorcycles.

I wonder if they were afraid that some of the dissident happy slaves of Gaza were planning to form a branch of the Hell's Angels? If you ever have wondered what the region would e like if the energies directed at hating Israel would be better spent in worthwile pursuits, here is an example:

Nobel Prize winner 'happy, shocked'

Prof. Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science - whose highly abstruse field and targets were regarded with skepticism by colleagues and who was treated like "the village fool" for years - has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her four decades of research on protein "factories" in cells. Her dedicated work has led to the current struggle against antibiotic-resistant bacteria and many other applications. Yonath is the world's first woman to become a chemistry laureate since 1964, and only the fourth in history. Her prize will be Israel's ninth Nobel and its second in chemistry, and the Rehovot institute's first. The ceremony will be held in Stockholm on December 10. Continuing a message expressed numerous times by Prof. Aaron Ciechanover after he won the 2004 Nobel in Chemistry with his mentor, Prof. Avram Hershko, Yonath warned on Wednesday that inadequate government funding available for aspiring Israeli scientists would make it far more difficult for younger researchers to earn Nobel Prizes in the future. "Those who win the prize now do so because of what has happened before, not because of what is happening now," she said. However, she added that the world would soon be hearing about a promising new generation of Israeli scientists. Read the full story here.

In further news 75 Arabs have been arrested for rioting over their false claim to the Temple Mount. Construction has begun on new housing units in East Jerusalem, in open defiance of Barack Hussein Obama. Thousands of Christains marched in along side with Jews in the annual Sukkot March. I do believe this year's theme song was: "Praise The Lord, And Pass the Israeli Flag.". That ditty just might go high on the charts. And according to ABC News, the US is preparing to attack Iran. If there was anyone else in the White House other than Barack Hussein Obama, I just might believe this report. But with the Great Appeaser, the reincarnation of Neville Chamberlain sitting in the Oval Office, I will just laugh. The man doesn't have the balls to do it. Thus ends today's news. Have a good one!