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Strange Fatwas

Discussion in 'Politics & Religion' started by wwws, Feb 27, 2010.

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    I ran into this blog which list the top 10 bizarre fatwas.
    (http://listverse.com/2010/02/25/top-10-bizarre-or-ridiculous-fatwas/)


    • 1. Sun and Earth
    The Fatwa: Grand Mufti Sheikh Ibn Baaz: The Sun Revolves Around the Earth
    In a 2000 Fatwa titled “The Transmitted and Sensory Proofs of the Rotation of the Sun and Stillness of the Earth”, Saudi Arabian Grand Mufti Sheikh Ibn Baaz asserted that the earth was flat and disk-like and that the sun revolved around it. He had insisted that satellite images to the contrary were nothing but a Western conspiracy against the Islamic world.
    Source: Al-Ahram Weekly Issue 477, 13-19 April, 2000.



    • Satanic Verses

    The Fatwa: Ayatollah Khomeini: Kill for A Book None of Us Can Should Read!


    In 1988, publication of Salman Rushdie’s novel “The Satanic Verses” led Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa against Rushdie, with a huge bounty for his death. This triggered several attacks on the novel’s translators, publishers and booksellers, including the murder of Japanese translator Hitoshi Igarashi. Millions of Muslims around the world who had never read a single line of the book, and who had never even met Rushdie before, wanted him dead. Interesting fact, 24% of Iranians at the time couldn’t even read.
    Source: “The West Is Choked by Fear”, Der Speigel Jan 4, 2010, Henryk Broder


    • 3.Tomboys
    The Fatwa: Malaysian National Fatwa Council: Tomboy fatwa
    A University of Massachusetts study recently reported that girls who play sports have higher self esteem, and are less likely to enter (or remain in) abusive relationships. Could this fact have threatened the he-men at the Malaysia National Fatwa Council? Maybe. Perhaps that’s why Kuala Lumpur had a near riot on their hands when the Sisters in Islam marched against a Malaysian fatwa banning tomboys, which branded any girls who act un-ladylike as violating Islamic tenets. Fortunately, the as-yet undefined punishment for Malaysian girls in t-shirts and jeans hasn’t been incorporated into Sharia law yet.
    Source: The Malaysian Insider


    • 4. Mickey Mouse (lmao!)
    The Fatwa: Muhammad Al-Munajid: Bring Me the Head of Mickey Mouse
    That’s right, somebody put on hit on Mickey Mouse. Calling Mickey “one of Satan’s soldiers,” Sheikh Muhammad Al-Munajid decreed that household mice and their cartoon cousins must be “killed in all cases”, according to the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph.
    And get this—the guy’s not your average nutjob, either—Munajid used to be a former diplomat at the Saudi embassy in Washington D.C. He made the remarks on Arab television network al-Majd TV after he was asked to give Islam’s teaching on mice.
    But don’t worry, Mickey won’t be alone. Munajid also put a hit on Jerry from “Tom and Jerry”. Maybe they could rent a flat with Salman Rushdie (above).
    Source: Report: Saudi Cleric Says Mickey Mouse ‘Must Die’.



    • 5. Emoticons:eek:

    The Fatwa: Multaqa Ahl al Hadeeth: Emoticon fatwa
    I can almost get behind this one. Sure, they’re annoying, but evil? Really? Well, to a Muslim forum looking to make a name for itself—yes.
    According to Muslim Internet Forum Multaqa Ahl al Hadeeth, “Emoticons are forbidden because of its imitation to Allah’s creatures whether it is original or mixture or even deformed one and since the picture is the face and the face is what makes the real picture then emoticons which represent faces that express emotions then all that add up to make them Haram.” Additionally, “A woman should not use these images when speaking to a man who is not her mahram, because these faces are used to express how she is feeling, so it is as if she is smiling, laughing, acting shy and so on, and a woman should not do that with a non-mahram man. It is only permissible for a woman to speak to men in cases of necessity, so long as that is in a public chat room and not in private correspondence.”
    Source: Jihadwatch



    • 6 Football (Soccer)

    The Fatwa: Football fatwa
    No, not even the beautiful game is safe from stupid fatwas. As part of a government drive to eliminate frivolous fatwas, the Saudi newspaper Al Watan lampooned one very real edict setting out new rules for football. Ridiculous demands included “do not play with 11 people like the heretics, Jews, and Christians”, and “play in your pyjamas or regular clothes (because) colored shorts and numbered T-shirts are not Muslim clothing”. Especially ridiculous is the edict to “remove the crossbar in order not to imitate the heretics and in order to be entirely distinct from the soccer system’s despotic international rules.”
    Source: “A Fatwa on Football”, The Guardian, Monday 31 October 2005.



    • 7. Vaccine
    The Fatwa: Infidel Vaccine
    Polio is actually increasing in India, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Why? Because an anti-polio fatwa by anti-Western clerics forbid Pakistani children from immunizations, because the clerics are saying the vaccine is a conspiracy to make Muslims sterile. Ironically, it’s the clerics’ plans that would produce this result, as dead/paralytic kids don’t breed all that much.
    Source: “POLIO ERADICATION: Looking for a Little Luck”, Roberts Science 6 February 2009



    • 8. Nudity and Sex
    The Fatwa: Rashad Hassan Khalil: No Nudity for Sex
    In 2007, the former dean of Islamic law at al-Azhar University in Cairo issued a fatwa that nudity during sexual intercourse invalidates a marriage between husband and wife. Debate was immediate. Suad Saleh, head of the women’s department of Al-Azhar’s Islamic studies, pleaded for “anything that can bring spouses closer to each other” and Islamic scholar Abdel Muti concurred, saying “Nothing is prohibited during marital sex, except of course sodomy.”
    For his part, Al-Azhar’s fatwa committee chairman Abdullah Megawar backpedaled and said that married couples could see each other naked but should really cover up with a blanket during sex.



    • 9. Urine
    The Fatwa: Sheik Ali Gomaa: Urine Fatwa
    According to Egypt’s Grand Mufti, Sheikh Ali Gomaa, drinking the urine of Muhammad is deemed a great blessing. What, they have a lot of this stuff lying around, going to waste or something? Remember, Muhammad never claimed that he himself was divine—so why does his piss have magic properties? Failing to pass the laugh test with Muslim scholars, Mufti later recanted, saying it was only his “personal opinion”.
    Source: “A Fatwa Free-for-All in the Islamic World”, New York Times, Michael Slackman Published: Monday, June 11, 2007



    • 10 Breast feeding

    The Fatwa: Ezzat Attiya: Adult Breastfeeding in the Workplace
    In May 2007, Ezzat Attiya wondered how unrelated men and women could work together in the same office, when Islam forbids men and women who aren’t married or related to be alone together. His answer: let her suckle him FIVE TIMES. Yes, that’s right, an adult female breastfeeding an adult male coworker will defuse all sexual tension in the office. See, the female worker will now be the male worker’s foster mother, and they can be alone together anytime. Attiya’s ruling was intergalactically mocked, and quickly condemned on the homefront as well. He was later suspended from his job, pilloried in Arab newspapers, and issued a hasty retraction saying it was a “bad interpretation of a particular case.”
    Source: “A Fatwa Free-for-All In the Islamic World”, New York Times, Michael Slackman, Monday, June 11, 2007.
     
    wwws, Feb 27, 2010 IP
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    lack of link of the original source... have to look my self....
    Abd_al-Aziz_ibn_Abd_Allah_ibn_Baaz
     
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    Appreciate the clarifications. I guess I do find a lot of the fatwas extremely foreign. Maybe the Muslims here can clarify as what bferbrian had done. The backgrounds as to why the fatwas were issued and what was the reaction of the mainstream Muslims in general will certainly help.

    I hope this thread can be a learning thread about Islam rather than a Muslim Bashing thread. I will be monitoring it closely.

     
    wisdomtool, Feb 27, 2010 IP
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    @WWS
    You need to be smarter than that.
    Fatwa is a religious edict which must not contradict with Quran and Hadith.
    A Fatwa issuing scholar can not forcibly enforce his or her fatwa. Most of these you have mentioned seem ridiculous. Many muslims have already replied on that blog from where you copy pasted this crap.
    BTW how did you ran into this blog what were you searching for??mind sharing it with us? This will give us some more insight into your mind.lol
     
    newbie191, Feb 27, 2010 IP
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    Rebecca Prominent Member

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    What is your opinion on the fatwa of 1998 by bin laden to kill Americans...

     
    Rebecca, Feb 27, 2010 IP
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    How did I ran into it? StumbleUpon
     
    wwws, Feb 27, 2010 IP
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    Sometimes I eat Jacobs cream crackers, on the odd occasion I pull Chrismas crackers on other occasions I read things that are crackers.

    Don't think much of "Cracker" though the TV show is pretty naff imho.
     
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    chandan123, Feb 28, 2010 IP