You Can Now Eat Your Wife If You're Hungry. Wait, What?
However, you can only do that when faced with 'severe hunger', according to alleged reports.
By Sadho Ram — 10 Apr 2015, 03:36 PM
According to alleged reports in the major pan-Arab, London-based Al Quds Al-Arabi and several other Arabic-language media, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Abdul Aziz ibn Abdullah Al-Asheikh has issued a fatwa (religious ruling) permitting Muslim husbands to eat their wives in the event that they are really hungry!
The report claimed that the Grand Mufti clarified that the husband could choose to eat his wife entirely or, if he wasn't that hungry, to limit himself to a limb or two, or a "portion of flesh". According to the report, the ruling's basis was that it exhibited the degree to which a woman should be devoted to her husband and desire for them to become "of one flesh," International Business Times reported.
However, the Grand Mufti has denied the reports
According to Metro, Khalid ben Abdel-Rahman El-Shaye, Assistant Secretary General of the Global Commission for Introducing the Messenger, affiliating to the Muslim World League, told CNN Arabic: "The truth is that this is fabricated and made up from its basis. These ill thoughts cannot come from any Muslim, regardless of a great scholar who Muslims refer to from around the world."
Still, if proved true, it wouldn't be the first time that the current Grand Mufti has made such controversial statements. According to IBT, back in 2012, he had declared that "all churches in the Arabian Peninsula must be destroyed."
Similarly in April 2012, he had issued a fatwa allowing 10-year-old girls to marry, insisting that girls are ready for marriage by that age!