Fatwas

Yet last year, under the noses of warders, it is said that Qatada and Adel Abdel Bary, leader of the UK branch of Egyptian 'Islamic Jihad', were able to smuggle out a series of 'fatwas' - religious decrees - legitimising attacks by al Qaeda. ❋ Unknown (2009)

His fatwas are the nearest equivalent that al-Qaeda has to an ex cathedra statement from the pope. ❋ Peter L. Bergen (2011)

(He holds the same rank as Iraq's Ali Sistani; Shiites recognize a small number of "grand ayatollahs" who issue religious rulings known as fatwas and serve as objects of "emulation.") ❋ Unknown (2009)

But Osama bin Laden does issues these things called fatwas, these religious decrees. ❋ Unknown (2004)

At the institution's ministry-size headquarters in Ankara, state-employed astronomers calculate prayer times around the world, while state-educated theologians pore over the hadiths of the Prophet Muhammad in the library and issue the religious rulings known as fatwas. ❋ By SUSANNE GUSTEN (2011)

The Westminster-based think-tank Civitas found that Muslim clerics have been handing out hundreds of Sharia judgments - known as fatwas - through mosques around the country. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This led to a very rigid reading of the Koran and also to a series of fatwas, meaning legal opinions, that scholars could no longer question. ❋ Unknown (2007)

After the Arabs' defeat in 1967 at the hands of the Israelis, he let his beard grow "like Castro," he said, and soon got super-secret theological "fatwas," or rulings, giving him sacred permission to overthrow the Tunisian government. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Several examples of these 'fatwas' will be found among the papers bound up with the author's 'Ramaseeana'. ❋ William Sleeman (1822)

According to family sources, the wedding was advanced due to the 'fatwas' being issued by various ulemas against Shoaib living in Sania's house before marriage which was termed as unislamic. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There is no tradition or parampara of 'fatwas' for killing of these couples. ❋ Ranbir Dahiya (2010)

Issues 'fatwas', an ambigious term for the viewers, the majority of whom it only conjures up memories of the Salam Rushdi affair. ❋ Unknown (2010)

CHANDIGARH: Political as well as public opinion is divided in Haryana over the role of self-styled Khap Panchayats (caste councils) especially in the context of recent phenomena of honour killings and "fatwas" issued by them against marriages in the same gotra ❋ Unknown (2010)

1. [Mufti] issued a fatwa concerning fast [observance] during Ramadan. 2. [Khomeini] issued a fatwa calling for Rushdie's death. ❋ Shuravi (2006)

The [imam] [delivered] a fatwa saying that women cannot drive [cars]. ❋ Toso Mad (2012)

1. Yo motherfucka... You don't pay up I'm gonna put a [fatwa] on your sorry sick ass! 2. Salmon Rushdie--How dare you call [the Qur'an] a book of satanic verses? A fatwa on you, [unbeliever]! ❋ G.H. Hadden (2005)

the [mullah] issued a [fatwa] against the [freedom fighters] ❋ Mehmet Abu Feigler (2009)

"fatwa" examples: "Do you want to [come over] and smoke a fatwa?" "I [smoked] [too many] fatwas last night" ❋ Alexis Flint (2014)

A guy approched me, [whispering] "[Look down] my [swimsuit]. You're giving me a real fatwa!" ❋ Agent Chainsawlady (2004)

Bill [Donohue] and the Catholic League showed grade-A fatwa envy when they issued [death threats] and [howled] for the expulsion of a Florida college student who took a cracker out of a church to show his friend. ❋ Stogoe (2008)

i have a [really] [bad] fatwa from [last night] ❋ -camila (2022)

"why you always want to [take] photos of [every single] [flower], fatwa?' ❋ Anonymousnature (2021)