Diyanet is the highest religious authority in Turkey and the final authority in the interpretation of Islam. He controls the country’s 85,000 mosques.
Recently, he issued a fatwa – an interpretation of Islamic rules – which created intense debate.
To a question from a believer, Diyanet replied that from an Islamic view this had no impact on a marriage “if a father kisses his daughter with lust.”
It was also, according to Diyanet, no sin “if the father looks at his daughter and feels lust.” The daughter must, however, “be over nine years old.”
This fatwa comes shortly after another fatwa from Diyanet, which said that engaged couples should not hold hands because it could lead to other things, things that are haram (illegal) in Islam. In some countries, it could even give grown men a reason to pick up stones and throw them at the couple until they are dead.
Put the two latest fatwas together and it gives a view of sexuality in Islam that is completely unreal and disgusting seen with Western eyes.
“Regrettable error in translations”
The fatwa naturally triggered a storm of outrage online, so much that the page where the fatwa had been, was removed. But it is still in circulation, as people have saved and honor it.
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When the feminine is removed from society, it becomes unbalanced. In some countries, men have to take on the characteristics of women in an attempt to achieve some measure of balance, though it is an unnatural balance.
Rosemary S said:
I can understand why. Look at the way women are dressed. In country where radical Islam exhists, they cannot show body forms. They cannot show the colour of their hair and if they have eye colour different from the main stream, they have to wear sunglasses. A young man from Cairo explained that most men cannot marry until they have a job, an appartment and a car. By the time men have all these things, they are in their early 30's. By being quite sever on women dress code, men have become fustrated to the point of being harrasser. In Egypt, 90% of women are sexually harrass by men.
Well if you control human sexuality, you control everything in their life. Unfortunatly, this has been in existance for far too long. It seem that whenever we reach an understanding of human sexuality, there is an external pressure to reverse things.
Mohamed allow men to have 4 wives after returning from war. He saw women doing prostitution to get money to buy food for their hungry family. The ratio of men to a woman was low at that time. By allowing poligamy, he wanted to make sure that all women would be cared for. His message was twisted around.
As far as I am concern, Diyanet is increasing the duality between men and women by increasing their separation.
It certainly IS sick!!!
Byron wilkins said:
Very possible, but there is a great deal of sexual sickness in Islam.
Keith H said: