Can I get an alhamdulillah? Seriously, Muslims get so uptight over the fact that women are capable of, well, actually using their bodies that Muslim girls often get shafted in PE in Muslim schools, and in general, don’t get to know and use their bodies. This has got to stop.

fashion….do not forget that ‘al-haya shu3batun min al eiman’.  you are asking for the abandonment of al-haya…

Those are exactly the issues I am wondering about.  Yes, women have to be able to take part in sports yet somehow keep a sense of modesty.  Although Ayatullah Arman is not a real marja` (he just plays one on the internet), his point about intention is a good one. 

In wrestling class, there are social signals, clear signals, one gives to indicate there is nothing sexual going on nor is there any sexual interest.  First, do not look at anyone when you change.  No one looks at you, either.  If I have to change my top, I go to the bathroom.  But if it just my jeans, I do it on the far side of the ring from the guys.  The guys do not look.  I do not look at them.  The trainer yells at any of the new kids who just out of natural curiosity look anyone else.  He suggests that they are looking for x, y, and z.  Tells the whole class, loudly, they are asking for x, y, and z.  They do not look again.  When the men touch each other in the ring, they make a lot of homophobe comments that indicated "this is not sexual when I touch you there."  The homophobic comments die off as they get comfortable with each other.  I did the same with them only heterosexual comments.  No one in class bothers me even slightly.  In fact, I feel completely safe there.  It is an entirely consensual environment.  To make an analogy, it was not one of those "don’t talk about the elephant in the room" situations, we talked about the elephant, detailed its parts, and realized we could live with it safely and respectfully.  There is no sense one should not express one’s concerns about learning any move for any reason.  I am not fond of moves that require me to get too close to men’s privates.  I made a modified school boy so I wouldn’t have to do that.  It looked great.  I told my teacher that I would not do a certain move that would require a man sitting on the top rope to have have his legs over my shoulders and his junk in face.  No issues there.  There are a lot of different wrestling moves, one need not do them all. 

I am just impressed that Ayatollah Arman is classy enough to end his Fatwa with the traditional statement of humility and human fallibility: "واللہُ عالم" or "... and Allah knows best" (or, in my humble opinion, more appropriately/exactly, "...and (only) Allah Knows (it all—the rest of us are just blindfolk feeling up the cosmic elephant)". [The elephant metaphor is the one I always use in this regard—the co-incidence of your using it here, Laury, is very convenient, but intended.]

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PS: isn’t the tag/category for this mis-named? Shouldn’t it be "wrasslin’"?

Decrease his neck by 2 inches, remove the tattoos and tape bangles, and increase the size of the plumbs that he’s smuggling and that man above has a perfect body. I’m starting on HGH tomorrow in sha Allah.