Men in Saudi Arabia are allowed to eat their wives but only if they 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.
