translated The Works of the grandest Ayatollah into English so I went to a large bookstore there to research dog fatwas the references remarkably uniform to the extent that they read like some had cribed from therest um sorry one for the next in placing dogs high on the list of unclean things
that any good Muslim shuns in addition the Islamic propaganda office col published an a bridge compilation of fatwas called everything you need to know it's list of things that all Muslims should have avidly avoid wastupped by beer wine infidels and dogs emerging from the bookstore I spotted a glass storefront labeled the information
I'll leave such soporific matters to you in your dusty grave, but as to your wish, I not only accept it as my command, the fatwa against you, and the victim of fundamentalism in a serious way.
And it turns out that the Quran is very queer. Cue fatwah. No, but there's a lot of stuff in there that is actually quite hospitable to queer identity. And the more which I looked back to Arab heritage in that really early period of my life, when I was really loving in the Middle East,
secretly pleased that he had a dilemma to resolve in this the homeland of Islam it gave him an excuse to call a Saudi cleric for a fatwa a legal opinion drawn from religious law on the on the matter in theory making any pilgrimage to Mecca wipes the Slate clean in terms of accumulated sins so what worried Muhammad was whether riding in the same
Hussein invaded Kuwait in August 1990 the princes Twisted the arm of the grand Muti to isue a fatwa endorsing the idea shik abdulaziz bin baz the chairman of the Supreme Council of religious Scholars declared that the need to engage all possible means to defend the nation made that permissible he cited
supreme leader that we took out, this particular hole, this was the guy who had two fatwas , they're called. These are religious edicts. It's like a people edict. What does that mean?
blaspheming um of uh Islam in the Satanic Verses but um fatwas are something that uh are really depending on how the time goes I I may come back
Claudia, I'm sorry if I butcher your name or butcher your accent. I'm going to have the equivalent of an Italian fatwa on me, which is a vendetta, actually. Moving on. So every story, whether it's a comic, a film, a book, comes from a basic idea.
All writers and readers knew that human beings had broad identities, not narrow ones. How concerned are you that even though the fatwa was officially withdrawn about 20 years ago, that someone will take it upon themselves
Islam having no formal ruling structure um and then I'm going to jump to uh another example of a a social battle involving fatwas perhaps my fam my favorite all-time wrestling match between mullah's issuing repeated FW and Iranians opening flouting them concerned
Mhm. And he is actually issuing religious doctrine. No. And as And that's called a fatwa . And as a religious doctrine, he issued two that said Iran should not have nuclear weapons. The guy we killed was one of the guardrails against nuclear weapons.
Why aren't you doing this? No, he said-- there was a sheik giving a fatwa .
Then the threat of crime itself came to B. Dalton. In 1989, when the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for his novel 'The Satanic Verses', my colleagues and I were swept into what felt like a mission of global import.
Now, we took out the person who at the very tippy top was balancing the hawks and doves, and he had decided for decades to issue this these fatwas . He did it not just once, but twice. His son, who took over, the new supreme leader, no fatwa yet. That fatwa died with this guy.
problems start I think I'll stop there on that one um and then there's a chapter about fatwas and um FAS are sometimes misunderstood in the west because there was such a famous one promulgated by the ayat in 1989 against salmon rushi when he
and doves, and he had decided for decades to issue this these fatwas . He did it not just once, but twice. His son, who took over, the new supreme leader, no fatwa yet. That fatwa died with this guy. So, will the new leader come in? Uh it's not clear. He's got the religious authority to do anything like what his
We are delighted to welcome Salman Rushdie to discuss his 12th novel, "Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Days." Nights. Nights. Excellent start. Anyway, it's now being 26 years, seven months, and 28 days, or nights, since the fatwa against Rushdie was announced, and 17 years in 14 days since the government of Iran announced a public commitment that it would neither support nor hinder assassination operations.