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Olde Tyme Religion

Saudi Arabia launches official fatwa site

2007-10-06

The highest religious authority in Saudi Arabia, where a strict version of sharia, or Islamic law, is applied, has launched an official website for fatwas, or religious edicts. The site (www.alifta.com) aims at providing "quick access to fatwas on an official website," says a committee for research and edicts affiliated with the Council of Senior Ulema (Muslim scholars), which operates the site.

The site features edicts issued by a number of official religious scholars, devoting a a section to the former head of the council and mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Baz. Bin Baz, who died in 1999, was known for opposing the empowerment of women, who are subject to a host of restrictions in the oil-rich kingdom. In 1991, he issued a fatwa prohibiting women from driving cars.

The launch of the website is apparently a response to the issuing of fatwas by Saudi and other Muslim scholars that clash with the official line of the Saudi religious establishment led by the Council of Senior Ulema.

Posted by:ryuge

#8 LOL! and animated Gif's?

Posted by: Frank G 2007-10-06 22:00

#7 Not to worry, my flock. I will hack into their fatwa site and show them what a real fatwa should look like, complete with special effects.

Posted by: Al Aska Paul, Resident Imam 2007-10-06 21:00

#6 "The earth is flat. Whoever claims it is round is an atheist deserving of punishment."

Sheik Abdel-Aziz ibn Baaz, 1993

Posted by: john frum 2007-10-06 20:41

#5 If the earth is rotating as they claim, the countries, the mountains, the trees, the rivers, and the oceans will have no bottom and the people will see the eastern countries move to the west and the western countries move to the east."

Evidence that the Earth is Standing Still
1974
By Sheikh Abdul Aziz Ibn Baz

Posted by: john frum 2007-10-06 20:25

#4 "The Holy Koran, the Prophet's teachings, the majority of Islamic scientists, and the actual facts all prove that the sun is running in its orbit... and that the earth is fixed and stable, spread out by God for his mankind.... Anyone who professed otherwise would utter a charge of falsehood toward God, the Koran, and the Prophet."

Sheik Abd el Aziz bin Baz, 1966, in a letter to the Saudi King asking him to suppress the "Copernican Heresy"

Posted by: john frum 2007-10-06 20:21

#3 They want you to use JavaScript to use their site .. good way to install malware with win and internet explorer...
"Evil, and Pure Evil.
Posted by: rhodesiafever 2007-10-06 13:07 "

Posted by: Linker 2007-10-06 19:10

#2 Google has an Arabic-English translator.
http://translate.google.com/translate_t

Kinda hit and miss.

Posted by: ed 2007-10-06 14:06

#1 Is there a way of reading www.alifta.com site in English?

The launch of the website is apparently a response to the issuing of fatwas by Saudi and other Muslim scholars that clash with the official line of the Saudi religious establishment led by the Council of Senior Ulema.

Like there are differences in degree of evil:

Evil, and Pure Evil.

Posted by: rhodesiafever 2007-10-06 13:07

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