{"id":14903,"date":"2014-08-22T11:24:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T11:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=14903"},"modified":"2014-08-22T11:24:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T11:24:21","slug":"egyptian-cleric-says-men-are-allowed-to-spy-on-women-in-the-shower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/22\/egyptian-cleric-says-men-are-allowed-to-spy-on-women-in-the-shower\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian cleric says men are allowed to spy on women in the shower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Osama al-Qusi, a Salafist or ultraorthodox preacher, peeping toms can watch a woman wash as long as they are interested in marrying her. &#8220;If you were really honest and wanted to marry that woman, and you were able to hide and watch her in secret, and see the things that she wouldn&#8217;t usually let you see before marrying her, then it is acceptable as long as your intentions are pure,&#8221; Qusi said in an online video translated by the al-Arabiya news network.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14904\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/22\/egyptian-cleric-says-men-are-allowed-to-spy-on-women-in-the-shower\/shower\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/shower.png\" data-orig-size=\"516,457\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"shower\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/shower.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/shower.png\" alt=\"shower\" width=\"516\" height=\"457\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/shower.png 516w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/shower-400x354.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Qusi&#8217;s words sparked heavy criticism from those who said he was using religion to win attention. Egypt&#8217;s minister for religious affairs, Mohamed Mokhtar, condemned the cleric &#8220;and his ilk&#8221;, saying: &#8220;Where is the glory and masculinity in watching a woman shower? Would you allow this to happen to your daughter?&#8221; Mokhtar stressed that fatwas, or Islamic edicts, should only be issued by qualified clerics, and denounced Qusi&#8217;s claims as anathema to Islam. \u201cIslam preaches that modesty should be in our nature and all religions concur,\u201d Mukhtar said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Osama al-Qusi, a Salafist or ultraorthodox preacher, peeping toms can watch a woman wash as long as they are interested in marrying her. &#8220;If you were really honest and wanted to marry that woman, and you were able to hide and watch her in secret, and see the things that she wouldn&#8217;t usually&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/22\/egyptian-cleric-says-men-are-allowed-to-spy-on-women-in-the-shower\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Egyptian cleric says men are allowed to spy on women in the shower&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-3Sn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14905,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14903\/revisions\/14905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}