Yes, he's read the reports that a Muslim cleric announced women should not touch cucumbers, carrots or bananas lest they become sexually impure, admits Egyptian newspaper editor Muna Khan in the Cairo daily al-Arabiya.
And Khan says he is just shaking his head in disbelief.
"Sometimes a cleric has to issue an edict for the jokes to write themselves," he writes. "This was evidenced on Thursday in a so-called edict by a Muslim cleric calling for a ban on women touching...
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