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".<<Don't have a clue as to why anyone would think that.



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.

Hope he knows what he can do with the Bananas and Cucumbers!

Can't we just bomb Islam and get it over with?

What about the men feeling a couple of soft juicy melons?

Don't 'cha know? Islam is made to benefit the man.
The man can think and do as he pleases.
His woman gets out of line, he's supposed to whip her until she is submissive.

I know only too well.

I saw a clip taken of a whipping because the woman was wearing trousers under her black long clothing, (I don't know what it's called) and therefore the punishment was a whipping in public with an audience. The poor woman was begging and crying in pain.

There is no equality and the husband is instructed in how to beat his wife according to sharia law.

yeesh, the fundamentalists seem to be actually terrified of sex ... so its ok for men to handle bananas and cucumbers? ... tho i bet these fundamentalists aren't too keen on homosexality either ...

every kind of group everywhere have their share of crazies, I suppose

Carrots???? Makes me wonder if those Muslim guys are shaped a bit differently.

A few Islamic countries punish or put to death people who have been found out as being homosexual. It is not a crime in Israel though to be homosexual.

Haha, I wonder if people say to them, "is that a carrot in your trousers or are you pleased to see me."

spike jones yes we have no bananas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT6JkceQ9FU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKf7RXPhHl0

Its peanut butter jelly time!

That FATWA is a-coming!

I dunno, I am sure Osama had a bunch of goats in the caves with him........

"Next thing you know it will be forbidden to for them to have anything to do with Peanuts!"