women can remove their headscarves at work if they breast-feed their male colleagues, says a fatwa from the head of the "department which deals with sayings of the Prophet Muhammad at the al-Azhar university, part of the al-Azhar institute, one of the most prestigious in Sunni Islam". He claimed he drew on medieval islamic scholarship. he was then fired. [1]
the positive liberty blog says this is actually voltairean satire, from "a satirist who ridicules fundamentalism", quoting the fatwa author/"satirist": "The fact that the hadith regarding the breastfeeding of an adult is inconceivable to the mind does not make it invalid," Dr Atiyaa said, in defending his ruling. "Rejecting it is tantamount to questioning the Prophet’s tradition." -rishab 1. http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL2173061220070521 2. http://www.positiveliberty.com/2007/05/that-breastfeeding-fatwa.html
