Egyptian news site Bikya Masr reports that an Islamic cleric in Europe has forbidden women from touching — or even being near — bananas and cucumbers because they resemble dicks too much. Or as they put it: “their oblong shapes can make women think of sex”.
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 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.
According to Bikya Masr, the sheik was asked how to “control” women when they are out grocery shopping, and whether even holding the fruits and vegetables at the store would be bad. The cleric said the matter is between them and God.
Meanwhile: a Salafist Sheikh in Egypt says a woman’s face is like a vagina…
“What is a veil? A veil is what covers the woman’s face. Therefore the woman’s face is like her vagina,” Sheik Abou Ishak al-Houwayni was quoted on the Elaph news website as saying.
His remarks were in reference to a discussion of the late Egyptian feminist, Hoda Shaarawi, who became the first woman to publicly remove her veil in a Cairo train station in 1923.
Houwayni is essentially arguing that the reason a woman’s face should be fully covered is because, like a vagina, it attracts men.
I am no longer surprised by disgusting displays of religious conservatism coming from sexually repressed men who’ve likely never even seen a vagina; they just feel around “down there,” while glancing away and mumbling something to Allah.
