A dispute has broken out in Saudi Arabia after a fatwa was issued by Ahmad Qasim Al-Ghamdi, director of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice for Mecca, permitting mixing of the genders.
Al-Ghamdi also said that there are hadiths proving that a woman can shake a man's hand.
Source: Alarabiya.net, December 12, 2009
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