{"id":182638,"date":"2015-07-17T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/07\/17\/i-expect-to-see-a-massive-increase-in-tourism-to-turkey\/"},"modified":"2015-07-17T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T23:30:00","slug":"i-expect-to-see-a-massive-increase-in-tourism-to-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/07\/17\/i-expect-to-see-a-massive-increase-in-tourism-to-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"I Expect to See a Massive Increase in Tourism to Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In response to a previous opinion by another Turkish theologian, Ahmet Mahmut Unlu, a Turkish televangelist <a href=\"http:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/en\/variety\/2015\/07\/16\/Turkish-Muslim-televangelist-tells-rival-Oral-sex-is-allowed-in-Islam.html\">has specifically stated that oral sex is a permitted sex act under Islam<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Last week, Turkish theologian Ali R\u0131za Demircan made headlines when he described \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/en\/variety\/2015\/07\/11\/Turkey-theologian-talks-oral-sex-TV-host-has-laughing-fit-.html\">advanced oral sex<\/a>\u201d as forbidden in Islam during a television interview, as viewers watched the presenter erupt into laughter.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">However, in a response to the controversial claim, a popular Muslim televangelist in Turkey offered an opposing view, saying Islam permits oral sex.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cDo not invent a lie on behalf of Allah,\u201d said Ahmet Mahmut Unlu, popularly known as \u201cCubbeli Ahmet Hoca\u201d (Robed Ahmet Hoca) among his followers, during his latest televised sermon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/muslim-televangelist-defends-oral-sex-slams-colleague-for-declaring-it-haram.aspx?PageID=238&amp;NID=85507&amp;NewsCatID=393\">Hurriyet Daily News <\/a>reported.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Unlu said the Quran does not have verses that stipulate such ban on oral sex.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cNo Islamic jurisprudence calls it a haram act, but some find it inappropriate. So, how can [Demircan] say that it is haram? What is your source?\u201d Unlu said. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess that &#8220;Advanced Oral Sex&#8221; is a 300 level course.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, I can see how a debate about this issue might get out of&nbsp; \u2026\u2026\u2026 hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to a previous opinion by another Turkish theologian, Ahmet Mahmut Unlu, a Turkish televangelist has specifically stated that oral sex is a permitted sex act under Islam: Last week, Turkish theologian Ali R\u0131za Demircan made headlines when he described \u201cadvanced oral sex\u201d as forbidden in Islam during a television interview, as viewers watched &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1021,1075,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-sex","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}