It's possible.
I fucking can't stand people telling me it's not. I've gotten that all my life... from, surprise surprise, Muslims. My mom loves to say this all the time too. It's so aggravating.
Because I'm living proof of it. I have some completely platonic relationships with guys that I really value, and the thing is that most of my friends are guys because I find that I get along with them better. So telling me I can't fucking be friends with men is almost like telling me I can't have any friends.
And then there might be those relationships where only one side is attracted to the other, but they know, very clearly, that the other person is probably never going to consider dating them - so that works too. And like Q said even where the attraction is mutual, but for whatever reason both sides have decided that's not enough and they still don't want to date, they can also be friends in this situation.
So fuck these people's medieval bullshit. I don't want to watch the video... maybe later when I'm more in the mood for laughs.
The problem with Islam is that it eliminates everything based only on a "risk" factor. But what they don't realize is that a lot of things in life are risks, but they don't eliminate those either because life would be truly unlivable for them then.
Like with sex, don't place a man and a woman in the same room alone just because they MIGHT end up fucking each other's brains out.
That's it. It fails to even consider that maybe a particular man and woman may not even be attracted to each other at all. In fact, depending on which Muslim you talk to, it's not even a "maybe" it's a "definite" that they will end up having sex because shaytaan is in the room with them.
With alcohol, although it's prohibited on all grounds, I believe the background on why Islam prohibits it (one of the many reasons) is just because again, of the risk factor of getting drunk, and the problems that may come with that, and they thought it would be easier to eliminate it completely instead of teaching people responsible drinking - because that would be a "blurry" or "gray" line and there is no gray in religion, just black and white thinking.
Lazy way of thinking and living = Islam.
Topic: Men and Women Can't be Friends :O