"Did an Islamic cleric really ban women from touching bananas and cucumbers?"
This past week, an email pinged around the world, claiming that a Muslim cleric "residing in Europe" issued a, well, interesting fatwa, or religious ruling, banning Muslim women from touching bananas or cucumbers: "He said that these fruits and vegetables 'resemble the male penis' and hence could arouse women or 'make them think of sex, according to a report in a supposed Egyptian website, BikyaMasr.