Islamic cleric bans women from touching bananas

[rug]

TNN | Dec 7, 2011, 06.14PM IST

NEW DELHI: An unnamed Islamic cleric based in Europe has issued a ban on women touching fruits and vegetables resembling the male sexual organ to avoid "sexual thoughts".

The Egyptian news website Bikya Masr on Wednesday quoted the cleric whose diktat featured in an article on el-Senousa, a religious publication. The cleric has said that women should not even get close to bananas or cucumbers. "If women wish to eat these food items, a third party, preferably a male related to them such as their a father or husband, should cut the items into small pieces and serve," the cleric dictated.

According to the cleric, bananas and cucumbers "resemble the male penis" and therefore could arouse women or "make them think of sex." The cleric also added carrots and zucchini to the list of forbidden foods for women.

The news about this latest diktat against women went viral on the web with liberal Muslims feeling enraged and embarrassed. Repression of women in ultra-conservative Islamic societies has been an intense subject of debate throughout the world.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/mad-mad-world/Islamic-cleric-bans-women-from-touching-bananas/articleshow/11020659.cms

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

1. How about when a woman looks at a minaret?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

2. Doesn't sound like it's the women thinking of fruit sex

I'd be interested in looking under his bed (AND inside his crisper...)

Wanna have a kickass Chef's Salad or just go straight to the orgy? :rofl:

[TwilightGardener]

3. Do they really think they can control what goes on in a woman's mind?

This is so insane, I don't know whether to laugh or just be disgusted.

[applegrove]

4. Why not just cover all bananas and cukes with burkas? See. It doesn't make

sense to make the object of desire pay the price.

[rug]

5. He must really hate Veggie Tales.

[whistler162]

6. That will eliminate Muslim women cleaning with

mops, brooms, and vacumn cleaner's!

[NMMNG]

7. They may have a point

Then again, maybe they're just pulling crap out of their asses as usual.

[Speck Tater]

8. This was published by The Onion, right?

There's no way this can be real. Nobody is that fucking crazy!

[lbrtbell]

9. Sadly, a lot of Muslims ARE that crazy

They're right up there with right-wing Christian fundies in that respect.

[Silent3]

10. Aren't nuts like him usually more hung up about men playing with bananas?

We also need a new, safely numeric scale for banana ripeness so that no one succumbs to the impure thoughts which can arise from referring to bananas as either "soft" or "firm".

[DinahMoeHum]

11. And Muslims wonder why their religion gets bashed.

That cleric has a teeny-weenie problem.

[Happyhippychick]

12. Yes. We women always get aroused by the sight of zucchini.

:eyes:

[Odin2005]

13. Paging Dr. Freud!

[DinahMoeHum]

14. "Vegetables are sensual. People are sensuous"

- Marion Wormer on National Lampoon's Animal House