My understanding is an enlightened religious leader issued a Fatwah on Air Conditioners after seeing Friends ... I kid you not.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/saudi-arabi...-decree-468236

A man identified on Twitter as Abul Ala and claiming to be a Salafist-Wahhabist cleric, has decreed women should not turn on air conditioners or coolers at home, in the absence of their husbands.

According to the Iran-based Al-Alam news network the cleric is alleged to have decreed: “turning on the cooler ventilator is prohibited for women in the absence of their husbands” because “the woman’s act is very dangerous, and may bring about immorality in the society.

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