By Yasmine Saleh
CAIRO: Reconstructive hymen surgery for women who lost their
virginity before marriage is halal (religiously permissible), said to
Aly Gomaa, the Grand Mufti of Egypt.
Gomaa, the highest authority with the power to issue a fatwa
(religious edict), appeared the popular terrestrial Channel Two’s
talk show El Beit Beitek, where he condoned the controversial fatwa,
released by Soad Saleh, the ex-dean of the faculty of Islamic studies
at Al-Azhar University and noted scholar.
Category: News (Page 7 of 13)
New York, Feb 8 2007 11:00AM
The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) voiced his “deep concern” today over construction work initiated by Israel in the Old City of Jerusalem and called for the suspension of any action that could exacerbate tensions.
By Charles Haviland
BBC News, Kathmandu
Nepal has a community of men identifying themselves as women
The authorities in Nepal have granted a man who dresses and behaves as a woman both male and female citizenship.
What else can I possibly say about this piece of news from the BBC?
CAR leader orders house burning
President Francois Bozize confirmed his order on radio
The president of the Central African Republic has ordered the army to set fire to the homes of two church leaders “to teach them a lesson”.
The Baptist Church pastors had burnt down the home of another pastor in a row over the use of a chapel for Christmas services in the capital.
One of the men was subsequently beaten up and the other has been arrested.
Francois Bozize said he wanted them “to experience the suffering they had inflicted on others”.
The BBC’s Joseph Benamse says people in the capital, Bangui, are surprised that the order came from the head of state.
But Mr Bozize confirmed on a private radio station and he himself gave the instructions.
“It is the anger of God which strikes those who offend or do wrong to a servant of God,” AFP news agency quotes him as saying.
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