By Amr Mostafa 
7h ago
Riyadh – A Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia says wives are permitted to refuse to have sex with their husbands who do not comply with precautions against the novel coronavirus.
“You are not a sinner at all… you are protecting yourself,” Sheikh Abdullah Ahmed al-Mutlaq, a member of a senior scholars’ authority in the conservative kingdom, answered a viewer who sent her question to a TV religious show called Fatwa, which is aired on state TV.
The woman said that her husband does not stay at home and is not sticking to the declared restrictions. She added she fears getting infected with the coronavirus if she responds to his desire to sleep with her.
“Immunise yourself and stay away from him. If a husband is careless, so the wife has the right to refrain from him,” the cleric said.
dpa