Muslim Cleric gives the condition under which men can marry their own daughters

A MUSLIM cleric has suggested that Islam allows men to marry and have sex with their own daughters if they are born out of marriage.

Egyptian mullah Mazen Al-Sersawi — a prominent preacher of the Salafist sect in Egypt — says incest between men and their daughters is permitted if she is illegitimate.
Mazen Al-Sersawi

His comments are filmed at an open lecture from 2012 and the footage has now gone viral online.

Al-Sersawi quotes another extreme preacher, Imam Al-Shafi’i, who has also said there is permission in the Koran for the sick practice.

The professor, who teaches at Egypt’s Al-Azhar University, says that a girl born out of marriage cannot be considered the father’s “real daughter”.

He said: “She is not his daughter according to Sharia. She is not officially attributed to him”.

In September footage emerged of a Saudi cleric claiming women should not be allowed to drive as they have a “quarter” of a man’s brain power.

Sheikh Saad al-Hajari said there were “evils of allowing women to drive”, saying it wasn’t their fault as they were “made that way”.

“Would you give a man with half an intellect a driving licence? So how would you give one to a woman when she has half an intellect?”

He then added: “If they go out to the market this gets halved again! So they now have a quarter of an intellect.”