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    Richard Dawkins‏Verified account @RichardDawkins 4 Dec 2013

    Arabic word for "sea" is masculine, so women who swim in sea punished for adultery. http://bit.ly/IDKxk9  One of many brilliant fatwas.

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      2. ClaudioDeSat‏ @ClaudioDeSat 4 Dec 2013
        Replying to @RichardDawkins

        @RichardDawkins Behead all men who swim in sea, for they are guilty of sodomy.

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      2. Abraham Lincoln‏ @honeyvizsla 4 Dec 2013
        Replying to @RichardDawkins

        @RichardDawkins The colloquial French word for penis (une bite) is feminine and vagina (un vagin) is masculin.

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      4. Abraham Lincoln‏ @honeyvizsla 4 Dec 2013

        @Psylegal Did we ever define genders for nouns in old English, similar to the Latin languages? @RichardDawkins

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      1. terminalinsanity‏ @terminsane 4 Dec 2013
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        @RichardDawkins then shouldnt arabic men get punished for homosexuality for swimming?

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      1. Brian Snowden‏ @brianfsnowden 4 Dec 2013
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        @RichardDawkins Hard to swallow this kind of thing. Sounds like some are living in the early paleolithic not C XXI.

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      1. Chris Lawrence‏ @RationalBug 4 Dec 2013
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        @RichardDawkins The Arabic word for war is feminine, so does that mean all soldiers are guilty of rape?

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      1. Juan Hernández‏ @Juanchoh 4 Dec 2013
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        @RichardDawkins What about air? Women couldn't even get nude... Wow...

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      1. Eugene Glover‏ @lone_locust 4 Dec 2013
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        @RichardDawkins Good thing the word “sea” isn’t feminine in Arabic, they’d be trying to cover it with a giant tarp.

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      1. Generation Medics‏ @GenMedX 4 Dec 2013
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        @RichardDawkins @jbentley1992 This screams of propaganda, for the people to lazy to look it up- don't believe everything you read on twitter

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      1. Guido Tresoldi‏ @GuidoTresoldi 4 Dec 2013
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        @RichardDawkins @Eric_T_Music Iranian, Malay and Indonesian muslim women must be relieved.

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      1. Karnika Kapoor‏ @karnikakapoor 4 Dec 2013
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        @richarddawkins something is very wrong with the world!

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      1. Shooby‏ @Shooby88 4 Dec 2013
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        "@RichardDawkins: Arabic word for "sea" is masculine, so women who swim in sea punished for adultery. http://bit.ly/IDKxk9  #WhatTheFatwa

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      1. Peter Fodor‏ @Youjutsusha 4 Dec 2013
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        @RichardDawkins Can you clear this up for me: If the sea is masculine does it mean men are gay if they swim in it?

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      1.  🎛 Thélonius 🌹Moine 🦎‏ @Monde_de_Droite 4 Dec 2013
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        @RichardDawkins In that context, is it considered homosexuality for a man to swim in the sea?

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      1. Lars Balker‏ @larsbalker 4 Dec 2013
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        @RichardDawkins do they punish the men for homosexuality then?

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