Saudi Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz (Picture: HASSAN AMMAR/AFP/Getty Images)

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It’s okay to eat your wife in Saudi Arabia, but only if you’re extremely hungry.

A Mufti – a Muslim legal expert who is empowered to give rulings on religious matters – has allegedly given the green light for cannibalism.

Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah came under fire for this outrageous move, a number of Arabian websites are reporting.


A Tayyar report roughly translates as: ‘Mufti of Saudi Arabia issued a new fatwa which allows a man to eat his wife in the event he is afflicted with a severe hunger.

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‘The Mufti of Saudi Arabia said it is evidence of the sacrifice of women and obedience to her husband.’

But religious authorities denied he made such claims.

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.’

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