udaism simply declare such behavior to be sinful, Islam addresses them from a juridical point of view. The underlying problem, says Islamic scholar Mehdi Khalaji, a former seminary student in the Shiite epicenter of Qom, is not that such issues were addressed, but the fact that "Islamic jurisprudence hasn't ye

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