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Malaysian and South African Muslims Warned Not to Use Botox

By Howard Friedman

In both Malaysia and South Africa, influential Muslim legal bodies have banned the use of botox for cosmetic purposes. They have ruled it can be used only in emergency situations or situations of great necessity. In Malaysia, according to a report today by Religious Intelligence, the ban was issued by the National Fatwa Council, made up of Islamic scholars chosen by Malaysia's Sultans, the constitutional monarchs of nine Malay states. Today's Johannesburg Times reports that South Africa's Muslim Judicial Council, based in Cape Town, followed suit this week. (The Times story says that Malaysia's ruling was made two years ago.) The ban was issued after it was discovered that the manufacturing process for botox includes growing bacteria in a culture containing an enzyme derived from pig's milk.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on February 03, 2008 (boomark / email).