Turkey's top religious body allows toilet paper

[Piling]

This ability to religious leaders to make a joke of their own faith…

Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has released a fatwa stating that usage of toilet paper is permissible within Islam, though it emphasized that water should be the primary source of cleansing.

Reminding that for a prayer to be religiously legitimate, one’s body, clothes and the place where the prayer is to be performed should be free of items defined as “unclean” by Islam, the fatwa said the cleaning should be conducted with water.

“If water cannot be found for cleansing, other cleaning materials can be used. Even though some sources deem paper to be unsuitable as a cleaning material, as it is an apparatus for writing, there is no problem in using toilet paper,” read a part of the statement.

Meanwhile in a separate statement, the Diyanet also ruled that people who beg in order to earn money beyond their immediate needs are “demanding the fire of hell.” Begging is limited only to people in the most desperate conditions and does not reflect human dignity.

Diyanet had stated in late March that it was okay for substances produced for cleaning and containing alcohol to be used for cleaning purposes, while stressing that drinking alcohol was forbidden by the Islamic religion.

“If [substances containing alcohol] spill onto a dress or the body, they must be washed or they cannot perform a prayer. While it is forbidden to drink substances containing alcohol that were produced for cleaning purposes, it is acceptable to use them for cleaning. Therefore the places that were cleaned with such substances need not be washed before performing a prayer,” read a part of Diyanet’s answer.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Defaul ... &nid=80671

[Anthea]

Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has released a fatwa stating that usage of toilet paper is permissible within Islam, though it emphasized that water should be the primary source of cleansing.

After I stopped laughing I realised that this was a genuine ruling by Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs

Turkey really a Sunni Islamic State

I find this very worrying especially since it's move away from secularism within the education system with the reintroduction of Hijab and Burkas in schools colleges and Universities

Also following Piling's link I discovered the following article:

Turkish university students demand Jedi, Buddhist temples amid mosque frenzy

Thousands of Turkish students have raised their voices in online campaigns to build Jedi and Buddhist temples at their universities, after a series of mosques were constructed on their campuses by rectors who stressed “huge demand.”

The debate started last month when Mehmet Karaca, rector of Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ), announced that “a landmark mosque” would be built on the campus.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkis ... sCatID=341

The world has sat back and watched as Erdogan has suppressed and manipulated the Kurds through Ocalan - supported and helped fighters of the jihadist ISIS - ended secularism - become a Sunni Islamic State in their own right - now it seems that many of it's young people fear Islamic indoctrination in it's universities

It is time we saw the EVIL ERDOGAN as he really is - a carbon copy of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei