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| Turks ease Ramadan fasting with diet patches |
| 2008-08-24 |
| Turkish Muslims plan to resort to appetite suppressing diet patches to help them get through the daily fast during the Ramadan holy month, Anatolia news agency reported on Friday. One of the most popular questions asked on a helpline run by Turkey's religious affairs directorate is "whether diet patches are suitable for fasting" and "whether the use of diet patches will amount to foul play," the report said. Other questions include "how many djinns can dance on the head of a pin" and whether efrits have wings. Theologists have reassured them they have nothing to worry about. "Fasting is a way of disciplining the body. Those who use diet patches try to achieve the same. That's why diet patches are not objectionable," said Mehmet Baris, the muftu, or highest Muslim authority, in the southern province of Adana. The patches, which release appetite-suppressing ingredients to the body through the skin, cannot be considered as corrupting the fast because their effect amounts to "showering or applying a pomade on the skin" rather than eating, theology professor Kerim Yavuz said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Damn, I haven't even looked at my EID list yet. There's 1 or 2 of them after Ramadan amairite? |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-08-24 18:10 |
| #4 The big question is whether diet patches are allowed for Yom Kippur. I'll have to ask a different set of mullahs. |
| Posted by: penguin 2008-08-24 14:43 |
| #3 So they cheat about Quelle surprise. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-08-24 10:08 |
| #2 I don't think Mo had a diet suppression patch. |
| Posted by: Beavis 2008-08-24 08:52 |
| #1 2008, The Highest Muslim authority in the Southern Province of Adana, Muftu Mehmet Baris says, "Showering the skin with a appetite suppressing pomade is perfectally OK during the holy month of Ramadan! Mufti Dawg says, "yea right... sure thing.... Pomade on the Holy Skin this year" and then I suppose Slamming Crystal Meth During Next Year's Ramadamadingdong! |
| Posted by: Red Dawg 2008-08-24 08:38 |