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2003-08-28 Iraq

Iraqis: Al Azhar Fatwa regarding council ââshamefulââ

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Posted by Steve 2003-08-28 11:07:29 AM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This is exactly the point: any fatheaded mullah/imam can issue a fatwa on any subject he likes, regardless of any familiarity with the subject. And these morons act like it means something.

Freakin' hopeless. "Game over, man!"

Posted by mojo 2003-8-28 11:16:59 AM|| 2003-8-28 11:16:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 The Egyptian government-appointed head of Sunni Islam's highest seat of learning Thursday suspended a senior cleric who had called on Muslim states to boycott Iraq's US-appointed Governing Council. Al-Azhar chief Sheikh Mohamad Sayyed Tantawi said Egyptian cleric Sheikh Nabawi Mohamad al-Ish "does not represent Al-Azhar."
"No Egyptian cleric has the right to pass verdict on the affairs of another country," Tantawi said in a statement carried by the official MENA news agency. "I cannot overstep the Iraqi sheikhs and proclaim fatwas (religious edicts) on matters that concern them. Iraqi ulema (clerics) have to pronounce their opinion on this matter as they are more familiar with their own affairs."

Humm, egyptian government controlled cleric backing off? Somebody get a phone call?

Posted by Steve 2003-8-28 11:21:53 AM|| 2003-8-28 11:21:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Oooh, an "Up Yours" moment to their elitist elders.

They're catching on quickly, aren't they?

I'm so proud!

Posted by Anonymous 2003-8-28 1:14:46 PM|| 2003-8-28 1:14:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 The mullahs, muftis, ad nausium, have issued so many Fatwas that we now have Fatwa Inflation, so the value of the individual Fatwa has declined precipitiously.

The world has heard so many Fatwas that it is suffering from Fatwa Fatigue.

Ye Olde Fatwaâ¢ ain't what it used to be
Many long years ago...

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-8-28 1:17:19 PM|| 2003-8-28 1:17:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 apparently this was a "rogue" Fatwa, and the cleric who issued it is now in trouble with his university.

AFP:

'The highest seat of learning for Sunni Islam said it would investigate a senior cleric who called on Muslim states to boycott Iraq's US-appointed Governing Council, but it denied reports he had been fired.

"No decision was taken to suspend or lay off Sheikh Nabawi Mohamad al-Ish. There will be an internal investigation only," a spokesman of the Cairo-based Al-Azhar mosque and university told Egypt's official MENA news agency.

Earlier, an official from Al-Azhar said Ish was suspended from his functions there, and the government-appointed grand sheikh of Al-Azhar, Mohamad Sayyed Tantawi, said the cleric "does not represent Al-Azhar." '

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-8-28 3:46:51 PM|| 2003-8-28 3:46:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 So what's the penalty for a rogue fatwa? Double secret probation, no ice cream, they take away your bullets, they make you work with Shaky, the alcoholic bomb maker? What's the deal?

Posted by tu3031 2003-8-28 10:58:46 PM|| 2003-8-28 10:58:46 PM|| Front Page Top

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