are extremely hungry.
Saudi Arabian grand *mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah allegedly
issued the guidelines to allow a husband to eat his wife's body parts
in extreme circumstances. The cleric is reported to have said the
ruling represents the "sacrifice of women and obedience to her
husband" causing outrage of human rights campaigners.
A statement reportedly from the cleric's office said: "A fatwa
attributed to the Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah,
which allows a man to eat his wife or parts of her body if the husband
was afflicted with a severe hunger, raised concern and debate over
social media since yesterday evening. The fatwa is interpreted as
evidence of the sacrifice of women and obedience to her husband and
her desire for the two to become one."
The controversial Muslim leader has previously called on all churches
to be destroyed under Islamic law. But his latest declaration is yet
to appear on his official website and no confirmation of its
legitimacy has been made. Religious authorities denied he made such
claims adding that this statement was fabricated.
"These ill thoughts cannot come from any Muslim, regardless of a great
scholar who Muslims refer to from around the world," Khalid ben
Abdel-Rahman El-Shaye, assistant secretary general of the Global
Commission for Introducing the Messenger, affiliating to the Muslim
World League, said.
*A Mufti is a Muslim legal expert who is empowered to give rulings on
religious matters.
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