Weird Fatwa of the Day
Charles Johnson
Tue Jun 5, 2007 at 8:34 am PDT • Views: 212
According to an Iranian cleric, Muslims who want to get their freak on may indulge in “temporary marriages,” and rest secure in the knowledge that Allah’s OK with it.
SOME see it as a divinely sanctioned safety valve to ease sexual frustration; others call it a hypocritical cover for prostitution.
The Shia Muslim tradition of temporary marriage, or sigheh, allows a man and a woman in Iran to marry for a set period of time, ranging from an hour to 99 years.
However, the practice is regarded as illicit sex by the majority Sunni community.
Even in Iran, it has been considered socially taboo and uncommon, but now the country’s hardline interior minister has ignited controversy by promoting temporary marriage as a way of countering a perceived increase in illegal extra- and pre-marital sex.
Mostafa Pourmohammadi, a cleric, said: “We have to find a solution to meet the sexual desire of the youth who have no possibility of marriage. Temporary marriage is God’s rule. We must encourage that.”
(Hat tip: LGF readers.)
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