I received a threatening email today from one of my followers saying simply “Blog this” and a link.

For fear of my life, I will post about it.

An Egyptian cleric’s controversial fatwa claiming that nudity during sexual intercourse invalidates a marriage has uncovered a rift among Islamic scholars.

According to the religious edict issued by Rashad Hassan Khalil, a former dean of Al-Azhar University’s faculty of Sharia (or Islamic law), “being completely naked during the act of coitus annuls the marriage”.

The religious decree sparked a hot debate on the private satellite network Dream’s popular religious talk show and on the front page of today’s Al-Masri Al-Yom, Egypt’s leading independent daily newspaper.

Suad Saleh, who heads the women’s department of Al-Azhar’s Islamic studies faculty, pleaded for “anything that can bring spouses closer to each other” and rejected the claim that nudity during intercourse could invalidate a union.

During the live televised debate, Islamic scholar Abdel Muti dismissed the fatwa: “Nothing is prohibited during marital sex, except of course sodomy.”

Seriously.  I had to look up some words because I have absolutely no idea what this means.

fatwa:  Legal opinion concerning Islamic Law
edict:  a formal or authoritative proclamation
coitus:  Sexual intercourse
sodomy:  Any of various forms of sexual intercourse held to be unnatural or abnormal, especially anal intercourse or bestiality.

So, basically, according to Islamic Law, they are saying that if you have sex completely naked, it annuls your marriage.  Now, I know that Islamic Law states that a woman should not show off their adornment except only that which is apparent and to keep their faces covered sometimes… but I didn’t know anything about this rule.  Sounds a little harsh.  And who is going to punish this??  Do they have sex police that monitor your every move in the bedroom?

Come on…