An interesting Islamic ruling

An Islamic scholar in Cairo has got into trouble for his novel solution to the problem of the prohibition in Islamic religious law against a woman working in private premises with a man who is not her close relative.

His solution was to have the women in a shared office start breastfeeding the men, which would “transform the bestial relationship between two people into a religious relationship based on [religious] duties” as in Islamic tradition, breastfeeding establishes a degree of familial relationship even if there is no biological relationship.

And if you do get the office women to breast feed you, they are then allowed to remove their head cover in your presence.

I can’t quite see it catching on, I have to say!