Scott Allan’s World

I found some fascinating recent posts regarding Islam around the world at Little Green Footballs. Head over there for the full story and links to the original articles.

In Line Of The Day, the Lebanese have been fighting a battle with Al Qaeda near a Palestinian Refugee camp in North Lebanon. The Lebanese Cabinet released the following statement:

The Lebanese government has pledged to root out the militants, who it says are being backed by Syria.

On Monday evening, the cabinet authorised the army to step up its efforts and “end the terrorist phenomenon that is alien to the values and nature of the Palestinian people”.

Roll reaction audio which I’ve been able to use twice this week:

In Palestinian Moderates Hate Beards, Hamas men are afraid to wear beards for fear of being kidnapped or killed by the ruling Fatah party of Mahmoud Abbas.

In Media Disgrace of the Day: Covering Up the Muslim Survey, there was a recent survey that showed 25% of American Muslims believed suicide bombing can be justified and 29% have a favorable or no opinion of Al Qaeda. The AP headline? “Most U.S. Muslims reject suicide bombings” Is that really the news they derived from that poll? Michelle Malkin has more.

In Iranian Talk Show from Hell, Iran has a news talk show which focuses on denying the Holocaust ever happened.

And topping it off with the best story of the day, in Weird Fatwa of the Day well just read for yourself

Al-Azhar University, one of Sunni Islam’s most prestigious institutions, ordered one of its clerics Monday to face a disciplinary panel after he issued a controversial decree allowing adults to breast-feed.

Ezzat Attiya had issued a fatwa, or religious edict, saying adult men could breast-feed from female work colleagues as a way to avoid breaking Islamic rules that forbid men and women from being alone together.

In Islamic tradition, breast-feeding establishes a degree of maternal relation, even if a woman nurses a child who is not biologically hers. It means the child could not marry the nursing woman’s biological children.

Attiya - the head of Al-Azhar’s Department of Hadith, or teachings of the Prophet Muhammad - insisted the same would apply with adults. He argued that if a man nursed from a co-worker, it would establish a family bond between them and allow the two to work side-by-side without raising suspicion of an illicit sexual relation.