{"id":799,"date":"2010-07-02T12:11:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T16:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=799"},"modified":"2010-07-02T12:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T16:13:00","slug":"of-mothers-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=799","title":{"rendered":"Of Mother&#8217;s Milk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"eat drink woman child\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42346519@N00\/64561215\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/33\/64561215_ffa7fa678d.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"eat drink woman child\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a title=\"Attribution-NoDerivs License\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/photo-dropper\/images\/cc.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" align=\"absmiddle\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photodropper.com\/photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">photo<\/a> credit: <a title=\"maessive\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42346519@N00\/64561215\/\" target=\"_blank\">maessive<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably not news to anyone that in Saudi Arabia, women aren&#8217;t supposed to hang out with men they&#8217;re not immediately related to.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s also true that if the woman had breastfed the man when he was a child, then they&#8217;re considered related in a maternal\/child way, and they&#8217;re allowed to be in the same room together without a chaperone.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the Koran allows for this kind of workaround, and it&#8217;s not infrequent that an aunt will breastfeed a nephew, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Based on this, a recent couple of fatwas have been announced (and derided) in Saudi Arabia:<\/p>\n<p><em>If a woman and man are going to have to be together a lot, the woman should breastfeed the man.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s some debate about whether the milk should come from a glass or straight from the tap, but the idea is the same.<\/p>\n<p>This goes in the area of, &#8220;we&#8217;ve built a taboo for ourselves that isn&#8217;t working. How can we get around it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And the getting around the taboo is basically nuts.<\/p>\n<p>See:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saudiwoman.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/25\/whats-front-page-news-in-saudi-arabia\/\">Saudiwoman&#8217;s blog post about the fatwa<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/babylonbeyond\/2010\/06\/saudi-women-use-fatwa-in-driving-bid.html\">\u0016Saudi women demand right to drive; threaten to breastfeed drivers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>photo credit: maessive It&#8217;s probably not news to anyone that in Saudi Arabia, women aren&#8217;t supposed to hang out with men they&#8217;re not immediately related to. But it&#8217;s also true that if the woman had breastfed the man when he was a child, then they&#8217;re considered related in a maternal\/child way, and they&#8217;re allowed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}