Fatwa

The Price of Tweeting

Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: Islam, Social Media, Twitter, Social Networking, Fatwa, New Media, Facebook, Hamza Kashgari, World News, Video, World News

It may very well be "micro-blogging", but the recent global row over what were considered to be blasphemous tweets by a Saudi columnist have proven, yet again, how "macro" the impact of just 140 characters can be.

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Muslim Scholars Issue Fatwa Declaring No Conflict Between Islamic Law And U.S. Constitution

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Ground Zero Mosque, Islam, Video, Bill of Rights, Lapd Chief Charlie Beck, Fatwa, American Muslims, 9/11, Sharia Law, Constitution, Muslim, Khomeni, Sharia Law Courts, Salman Rushdie, Muslim Radicalization Hearings, Lapd, Politics News

Islamic scholars tired of conservative charges that Muslims in the United States constitute a radical fifth column bent on subverting American values ...

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Libyan Muslim Leaders Issue Fatwa Against Government

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gaddafi, Islam, Fatwa, Libya, Muslims, Moammar Gadhafi, Libyan Government, Libya Protests, Network of Free Ulema, Libya News, Gadhafi, Libya Fatwa, Ulema, Religion News

A group of Muslim leaders in Libya has endorsed the ongoing revolt against the nation's government, headed by President Moammar Gadhafi. The newly fo...

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Leading Cameroonian Gay Rights Activist Fears Arrest

Mark Canavera | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: LGBT Rights, European Union, Cameroon, Ngos, Gay Rights, Alice Nkom, Minority Rights, Fatwa, Advocacy, Human Rights, World News

LGBT people in Cameroon are subject to abuse in prison, violent attacks in their communities, and loss of custody of their children. Alice Nkom's organization works to combat these human rights violations.

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Woman Dies From Caning Injuries Over 'Affair' With Stepson

Posted 05.25.2011

Two Bangladeshis -- including a Muslim cleric -- have been arrested after a local woman who had been caned for allegedly having an extramarital affair...

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Portland Bomber: How Must Muslim Americans Respond?

Frank Fredericks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Interfaith, Islamophobia, Bomber, Islam, Portland, Fatwa, Terrorism, Portland Terrorist, Muslim Americans, Portland Bombing, Religion News

Many Muslims do protest and mobilize against extremism. However, if you haven't heard them, it's because the media didn't cover it with anywhere near the same zeal with which they covered the attacks themselves.

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Muhammad: A Story of the Last Prophet interview by Alan Steinfeld

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Muhammad, Muhammad: A Story of the Last Prophet, Fatwa, Books News

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Fatwa: Muslim Men Can Divorce Wives Over Cell Phone

The Times of India | PTI, Nov 15, 2010, 05.02pm IST | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Muslim Divorce, Darul-Ifta, Islamic Law, Divorce Around the World, Fatwa, Sharia, Talaq, Divorce News

Talaq uttered thrice by a Muslim man on a mobile phone will be considered valid even if his wife is unable to hear it all the three times due to netwo...

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A Fatwa That Takes Us Back to the Days of "Girl Burying"

Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Fatwa, Islam Women, Women's Rights, Muslim Women, Saudi Arabia Human Rights, The-National-Cash-Register-Co, World News

A newly released religious edict prohibits women from working on cash registers in supermarkets in Saudi Arabia.

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Muhammad and the Litmus Test

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terry Jones, Muhammad, Muhammad: A Story of the Last Prophet, Salman Rushdie, Child Marriage, Fatwa, Religion News

Outsiders are allowed to peer in the window of churches, temples, mosques, and synagogues. Those inside then have a choice: slam the window shut or open it and let in some light.

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Biased Journalism in The Guardian

Ali Safavi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights, Islam, PMOI/MEK, Iran, Crime Against Humanity, Iranian Opposition, Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah Montazeri, United Nations, Fatwa, Ayatollah Khomeini, Political Prisoners, 1988 Massacre, Amnesty International, Mujahedin-E Khalq, Media News

The Guardian recently took out the red pen and brazenly changed the wording in a piece regarding the MEK to say: "a guerrilla Sunni-Marxist movement" -- a label used by the regime to disparage the organization in the public eye.

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Breast-Feed Adult Men, Saudi Clerics Tell Women

AOL News | Dana Kennedy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mixing of the Sexes, Religion, Women, Islam, Abi Ishaq Al Huwami, Fatwa, Sheikh, Saudi Arabia, Breast Feeding, Al Obeikan, Men, Wahhabi, Wahhabism, Breast Fed, World News

Women in Saudi Arabia should give their breast milk to male colleagues and acquaintances in order to avoid breaking strict Islamic law forbidding mixi...

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Salman Rushdie Fatwa No Longer Affects His Daily Life, Author Says

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ayatollah Khomeini, Elie Wiesel, Salman Rushdie Fatwa, Iran, Books, Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, Fatwa, Books News

TORONTO — Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie says the death sentence imposed on him by Iran's late leader no longer affects his daily life, but the...

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Iran: People's Vitality, Regime's Paleness

Ali Safavi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Movement, President Obama, Irgc, Ali Khamenei, Protests, Mir Hossein Moussavi, World, Mehdi Karroubi, Uprising, Mujahedin-E Khalq, Iran, PMOI/MEK, Festival of Fire, Fatwa, Terror Label, World News

Despite a flurry of threats and a hodgepodge of suppressive measures arranged by flustered authorities, Iranians, led by youths, came out in force in defiance of the regime and its Supreme Leader.

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Iranian Author Roxana Shirazi's 'The Last Living Slut' Chronicles Her Hot Sexcapades With Rock Stars

New York Daily News | Rush & Malloy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Pamela Des Barres, Sebastian Bach, Fatwa, Iran, Tommy Lee, Salman Rushdie, I'm With the Band, Motley Crue, Guns N Roses, Dizzy Reed, Authors, Groupies, Books News

Roxana Shirazi engaged in some risky sex while hanging with rock's raunchiest hair bands. But the unrepentant groupie is courting bigger danger with h...

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Iran's Latest Fatwa: A Fiery Fury

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011

Despite the Supreme Leader's outright ban of the fire festival with a fatwa, Norooz, a New Year's celebration with pre-Islamic roots, will prevail in Iran.

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Jews, Muslims Worry Body Scanners Violate Religious Laws

pewforum.org | Omar Sacirbey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airport Screening, Islam, Jews, Tsa, Airport Body Scan, Dignity, Body Scanners, Judaism, Orthodox Jews, Airports, Airport Security, Pope Benedict, Pope Benedict XVI, Airport Body Scanners, Religion, Screening, Fatwa, Jewish, Modesty, Religious Law, Full-Body Scan, Muslims, Full-Body Scanners, Body Scan, Transportation Security Administration, Muslim, Pope, Orthodox Judaism, Religion News

Full-body scanners are the latest clash between religious sensitivity and national security. Some religious groups say the scanners are forcing an unc...

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Why I Oppose the Saudi Cleric's 'Kill Bill'

Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Catholic Church, Islam, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Muslim, Fatwa, Saudi Arabia, World News, World News

A recent (fatwa) by a Saudi cleric calling for opponents of strict segregation of men and women to be put to death if they refuse to abandon their ideas has, unsurprisingly, created a storm of negative reactions.

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Fatwas Can Be A Force For Good

guardian.co.uk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion, Religion News, Islam, Shariah, World, Fatwa, Muslims, Huffpost Religion, Islamic Law, World News, Religion News

to most Muslims, the word fatwa is not a political term, but an unbinding religious edict issued by erudite scholars who take into consideration the n...

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Airport Body Scanner Fatwa: TSA Scans Violate Modesty, Muslim Groups Say

Detroit Free Press | By Niraj Warikoo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Fiqh Council of North America, Islam, Underwear Bomber, Tsa, Homeland Security, Travel, Qaran, Privacy, Airport Body Scanners, Pat Downs, Fatwa, Modesty, Cair, Detroit, Scanners, Muslims, Quran, Full-Body Scanners, Michigan, Home News

Saying that body scanners violate Islamic law, Muslim-American groups are supporting a "fatwa" -- a religious ruling -- that forbids Muslims from goin...

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Iranian Ayatollah Issues Fatwa Against Nukes

The New Republic | Abbas Milani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democratic Protests, Nuclear Proliferation, Iran, Green Movement, Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri, Fatwa, World News

There has been much debate about where Iran's democratic protesters stand on the country's nuclear program. In the past weeks, there have been many ne...

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Mr. Fitzgerald, In Your Threat to Sue for Libel, Please, Either Put Up or Shut Up

Peter Lance | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jack Cloonan, Triple Cross, Ali Mohamed, Andy McCarthy, Patrick Fitzgerald, Fatwa, Ali Amiriki, 9/11, Fbi, Day of Terror Trial, 9/11 Commission, Al Qaeda, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

Patrick Fitzgerald, the most intimidating Federal prosecutor in America, sent me a letter threatening to sue for libel if a book I wrote, critical of his anti-terrorism track record, was published.

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Iranian Leader Issues Fatwa Against Israeli Goods

Apakistannews.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel Fatwa, Fatwa, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Iran, Iran Fatwa Israel, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Israel, World News

TEHRAN: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, issued a fatwa (religious decree) on Tuesday stating that Muslims should boycott Israeli ...

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