First the raping of a young man by the eyes of Saudi females. I was appalled, but to what depths of depravity will muslim women stoop to next?

CUCUMBERS

Oh stuff it !


Islamic cleric bans women from touching bananas, cucumbers for sexual resemblance

Manar Ammar | 6 December 2011 | 82 Comments


Cucumbers are forbidden for women, says Islamic sheikh.

CAIRO: An Islamic cleric residing in Europe said that women should not be close to bananas or cucumbers, in order to avoid any “sexual thoughts.”

The unnamed sheikh, who was featured in an article on el-Senousa news, was quoted saying that 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.

He said that these fruits and vegetables “resemble the male penis” and hence could arouse women or “make them think of sex.”

He also added carrots and zucchini to the list of forbidden foods for women.

The sheikh was asked how to “control” women when they are out shopping for groceries and if holding these items at the market would be bad for them. The cleric answered saying this matter is between them and God.

Answering another question about what to do if women in the family like these foods, the sheikh advised the interviewer to take the food and cut it for them in a hidden place so they cannot see it.

The opinion has stirred a storm of irony and denouncement among Muslims online, with hundreds of comments mocking the cleric.

One reader said that these religious “leaders” give Islam “a bad name” and another commented said that he is a “retarded” person and he must quite his post immediately.

Others called him a seeker of fame, but no official responses from renowned Islamic scholars have been published on the statements


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That religions have had a negative impact on human affairs for as long as they've existed

freediver wrote on Dec 29^th, 2011 at 11:46pm:


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Not as short sighted as to deny that religion is a major cause of conflict and human suffering.

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Poppycock! Nothing has been done in the name of religion that couldn't be done without religion.

Grey, most of the largest massacres in human history have been carried out by atheists. Stalin, Mao, Pol pot etc. were all atheists.

Argument: Stalin had faith, but not religionSome evidence suggests Stalin, although not following a particular religion, may have been spiritual (had personal faith, but did not practice a religion).

English historian Simon Sebag Montefiore studied Stalin’s hobbies and personal library, what Stalin liked to read, what kind of marks he left in his books. He found that Stalin liked to quote long quotes from the Bible. Stalin left such mark about God in the book by Anatole France "Last pages. Dialogues under a rose. About God": "Don‘t know traces, don‘t see. There is no Him for them." ("Следов не знают, не видят. Его для них нет."). It seems that Stalin thought he knew God’s traces and saw God, not like others.

Stalin "denied categorically to prescribe atheistic literature to his personal library, fastidiously calling it ""antireligious waste-paper (junk)"". ("Secret life of Stalin : By materials of his books and archive : According to Stalinism" by Ilizarov.B.S. 2004)

Stalin wrote poems in Georgian language. They are so good that were being published in local magazines. Few fragments sounds so (translation from Georgian to Russian language by L.Kotiukov (Л. Котюков), Newspaper "Duel" N10(101)1999-03-09. "Poet Josef Dzhugashvili" (Газета "Дуель", "Поет Иосиф Джугашвили" N 10(101) 1999-03-09. Б.М. Гунько)):

(...) In his burden and song like the beam of the Sun, lived great truth – DIVINE dream.

(...) But people who forgot GOD, with darkness in their hearts, instead of wine served poison to him in the cup.

And told to him: "Damn you! Drink this cup to the bottom!... And your song is alien for us, and we don’t need your truth!"

The above poem is probably a reference to Socrates who history says was made to drink poison from a cup because he "introduced a foreign god into the city gods." "More specifically, Socrates’ accusers cited two ‘impious’ acts: ‘failing to acknowledge the gods that the city acknowledges’ and ‘introducing new deities.’ as noted in =http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Socrates.]Socrates was not an atheist.
http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Was_Stalin_an_atheist%3F