another Iraqi blogger

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Via Matt Yglesias, I give you the surreal website of Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Husaini Sistani. Okay, fine it’s not quite a blog. It actually reminds me an awful lot of the site my old boss (the one who couldn’t use a mouse and thought google was run by tiny monsters living inside my computer) tried to design for our non-profit.

Some observations:

1. I thought our presidential candidates’ websites were self-promoting, but none of them titles a section of their biography “His Scientific Genius.”

2. On the other hand, they don’t give useful advice like this:

Question:I am really sorry that I have to ask this type of Question. But Since I grew up in a western country; I rally don’t much about our religion. And I can’t ask this Question to my parents due to subject matter. Brother my question is, can we have an oral sex before or after the sexual intercourse or can we have oral sex at all? Is it haram?

Answer:Oral sex act is permissible with the consent of both husband and wife provided that no liquid gets into the mouth.

3. The link on the main Q & A page about “sea animals” is not what you may fear it is after reading item 2. (Get your mind out of the gutter.)

4. Don’t forget the photo gallery.

7 thoughts on “another Iraqi blogger”

  3. Hmm and a translation to Gangsta rap:
    ‘Ya’all listen up, I gots some science to drop on ya. If yo’ bitch dun be a chickenhead, make sure ya pull out the third leg before yo’ nut, else Sistani will wet ya with some muthafo’ing Farrakhan-type shit. Word is Bond.’

  4. “It actually reminds me an awful lot of the site my old boss (the one who couldn’t use a mouse and thought google was run by tiny monsters living inside my computer) tried to design for our non-profit.”
    What, no link? Damn. 😉

  5. If I post a link, it’ll be clear who he is, and semi-clear who I am, and I won’t be able to make fun of him on the internet anymore.
    Anyway, me, my successor and our consultants talked him out of the worst excesses. It does use the phrase “human spirit” way too many times, but what are you gonna do.

  6. Fascinating stuff. Actually, surprisingly good advice on keeping peace in the family and such.
    Yeah, a significant percentage of Baptists far more wound up on things sexual than Sistani. Though I’m having trouble wrapping my head around “permanent” and “temporary” marriage. Obviously, I have a few suspicions from the names, but would anyone in the know care to give a “real” explanation?

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