Religion News Blog » fatwa http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:58:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Saudi Arabia: Cleric in hot seat after calling for women to give men breast milk to avoid illicit mixing http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24488/islam-fatwa-breast-milk http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24488/islam-fatwa-breast-milk#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:01:22 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24488 Breast milk A Saudi cleric finds himself in the hot seat after issuing a decree permitting unrelated women and men mingle so long as the guy drinks the woman's breast milk.

Sheik Abdel Mohsen Obeikan, a scholar and a consultant at Saudi Arabia's royal court, has called for women to give men breast milk to establish maternal relations and get around the ultra-conservative kingdom's ban on mixing between men and women who are unrelated.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24488/islam-fatwa-breast-milk/feed 0 Homosexuality – punishable by death? http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21959/islam-fatwa-homosexuality http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21959/islam-fatwa-homosexuality#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:37:05 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21959 Islam The Norwegian Islamic Council is still waiting for a reply from the European Fatwa Council before it decides whether or not it is in favour of the death penalty for homosexuality.

"Unacceptable," says lesbian Sara Asmeh Rasmussen.

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