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Goatse James Bond: Mar 28, 2010; If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

Tendai posted:

Sort of. Until you go in the water, then it turns into the usual argument. Most people think the carnivores-are-haram thing doesn't apply to ocean creatures, so people can eat crab, tuna and the like. Then there's the subset of the Shafi'i school of jurisprudence that believes that every terrestrial animal has an aquatic counterpart and you can eat only those things that have a halal terrestrial version.

Did you know that beavers are dogs of the sea? So don't eat beaver.

That one has always bewildered me a little bit. Other variations in Islam include "yes if it has scales but no if it doesn't," and "everything but squid and frogs."

It's worth noting that Iranian scholars adjusted their scales-related justification for the sort of fish that produce most Iranian caviar, because when it was forbidden for a bit the Iranian fishing industry lost a ton of money. :toot:

I love technicality arguments in religion, not least because some of them are totally not rooted in economics and it's mean to say they are.

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Goatse James Bond: Mar 28, 2010; If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

Cingulate posted:

Why does God dislike extramartial sex?

Because God is a huge fan of soldier-on-soldier pornography.

(sorry)

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Goatse James Bond: Mar 28, 2010; If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

Cingulate posted:

That's IME the self view of Muslims, and it's pretty clearly the intent of the text I think, and it's generally the style of response you'll get to that kind of answer.

For example, I've spoken to muslims about segregated prayers. To you and me, it's sounds like draconic barbarism right? The answer I got won't satisfy your liberal heart, but it's still in the above style: it's because the way men are, looking at rising female buttocks in front of them will reliably distract them and induce uncouth thoughts. This is not helpful in prayer. So we put the women at the back. This doesn't mean God likes women less or whatever, it simply reflects the nature of man.
And of course, this is not a liberal answer, but the point is, it's an entirely pragmatic conclusion given a bunch of assumptions. And this is IME Islam's natural style.

But what about women watching boy butts? :ohdear:

Maybe the assumption is that women are inherently more pious and sensible, and boys are dumb and need to be nannied.

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Goatse James Bond: Mar 28, 2010; If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

Fuzz posted:

Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India always start/end one day later than the Saudis. Pretty consistently.

Now I'm curious whether Sri Lankan Muslims do it on the Pakistani schedule, or the Saudi schedule because gently caress you mainlanders, we're a special snowflake :mad:

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Edit update: It appears to be on the Mainlander schedule.

Goatse James Bond fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Jul 8, 2016

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