Simply Dumb

Perhaps someone should explain to Ezzat Attiya the irony in claiming that a man breast-feeding from a woman at work would be proof that they are not involved in illicit sexual activity.

Imagine the situation: Hi Janet, I noticed you had a baby recently and I’m awfully thirsty. Mind if I avail myself of your healthy milk sacs in the back office? No culture of mysogeny here. Read on…

Al-Azhar University, one of Sunni Islam’s most prestigious institutions, ordered one of its clerics Monday to face a disciplinary panel after he issued a controversial decree allowing adults to breast-feed.

Ezzat Attiya had issued a fatwa, or religious edict, saying adult men could breast-feed from female work colleagues as a way to avoid breaking Islamic rules that forbid men and women from being alone together.

In Islamic tradition, breast-feeding establishes a degree of maternal relation, even if a woman nurses a child who is not biologically hers. It means the child could not marry the nursing woman’s biological children.

Attiya – the head of Al-Azhar’s Department of Hadith, or teachings of the Prophet Muhammad – insisted the same would apply with adults. He argued that if a man nursed from a co-worker, it would establish a family bond between them and allow the two to work side-by-side without raising suspicion of an illicit sexual relation.

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