Read some time back about a fatwa being issued in Egypt. It was regarding working women & was issued by Mabruk Attia, a professor of theology at Egypt's Islamic Al Azhar university and this is how it went -
"Since working women spent time with male co-workers who are unknown people, if they breast fed the male co-worker five times then theres a family bond established and the male is no longer an unknown person. This way the Islamic rule of which forbids an unknown man and a woman from working together is not violated"
Outrageous as it may be, but I could not help from looking at the humourous side of it -
1. The professor who issued that edict, did he have a fetish of breast feeding? And was he refused by his wife?
2. If there are 5 males working with a woman and she goes ahead and honour the fatwa which means breast feeding 5*5 =25 times and then two of them resign and there are 2 new joinees then what? The cycle starts again? What if its an industry with a high turnover rate?
3. Does this also apply to her boss?
4. What if she's in a job which requires a lot of client interaction?
"When you walk into a government building, you should not be shocked to find a 50-year-old civil servant suckling his colleague," the independent daily Al Dustur said ironically after the fatwa was issued.
Well good sense prevailed in the country where the fatwa was denounced and the professor retracted his fatwa. Guess when these people will start treating women as equals!!!
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4 comments:
vow!!...good lord!!...
ONLY a man could come up with a law requiring the breast-feeding of male co-workers LOL :-)
And Egypt touts itself as a progressive islamic country. On the same thought, probably they revoked the fatwa to live upto that image.
Gee - Yes, in the name of the Lord!!
J - well yes. i tend to agree :)
DC - Yep Egypt proclaims itself to be progressive. But probably Turkey is the most progressive of all the Islamic states.
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