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Welcome to Karachi, Pole guys...enjoy the diversity, just as we do. From TX, can bonus you some Mexican cartel border war, if you still want more nightlife.
CAIRO: An Islamic cleric residing in Europe said that women should not be close to bananas or cucumbers, in order to avoid any "sexual thoughts."
A perennial concern among the overly religious set.
The unnamed sheikh, who was featured in an article on el-Senousa news, was quoted saying that if women wish to eat these food items, a third party, preferably a male related to them such as their a father or husband, should cut the items into small pieces and serve.
Oh brilliant! Set the menfolk to cutting up the symbolic pen1ses themselves, then serving their women as if they were not men but mere wives themselves -- the perfect recipe for a happy Muslim home.
He said that these fruits and vegetables "resemble the male penis" and hence could arouse women or "make them think of sex."
I guess it'll work if it's presented as foreplay...
He also added carrots and zucchini to the list of forbidden foods for women.
The sheikh was asked how to "control" women when they are out shopping for groceries and if holding these items at the market would be bad for them. The cleric answered saying this matter is between them and God.
Answering another question about what to do if women in the family like these foods, the sheikh advised the interviewer to take the food and cut it for them in a hidden place so they cannot see it.
The opinion has stirred a storm of irony and denouncement among Muslims online, with hundreds of comments mocking the cleric.
One reader said that these religious "leaders" give Islam "a bad name" and another commented said that he is a "retarded" person and he must quite his post immediately.
Others called him a seeker of fame, but no official responses from renowned Islamic scholars have been published on the statements.
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I think I speak for a majority of women when I say, cucumbers, bananas, zucchini, and carrots make me think of . . . how bad I want a pizza and a pint of ice cream.
Josef Ackermann, the chief executive of Germany's Deutsche Bank, was the target of a mail bomb sent to the firm's headquarters in Frankfurt, according to a senior U.S. law enforcement officer quoted by Reuters Wednesday.
The device did not detonate and there were no reported injuries. Reuters said the package carried a return address from the European Central Bank's Frankfurt headquarters.
NBC New York reports that the NYPD has warned banks to be on their toes in the wake of the discovery of the package targeting Deutsche Bank.
Wednesday's news comes with a big weekend looming in Europe. The ECB is meeting on interest rate policy Thursday, while political leaders are gathering in Brussels for an EU Summit that will focus on the region's response to a sovereign debt crisis that could spread into the financial system and threaten major firms like Deutsche Bank and its ilk.
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Josef Ackermann, the chief executive of Germany's Deutsche Bank, was the target of a mail bomb sent to the firm's headquarters in Frankfurt, according to a senior U.S. law enforcement officer quoted by Reuters Wednesday.
