fatwain a sentence
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The fatwa called for Rushdie's execution for a book that insulted Islam.
fatwa = ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority
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Bin Laden issued a fatwa that amounted to a declaration of war against the United States.
fatwa = a ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority
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Dr. Farooq was an Islamic scholar and former member of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, and as one of the biggest voices against Talibanization he had even issued a fatwa against suicide attacks.
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fatwa = ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority
- He knew not everyone would understand his ironic version of a holy text; what he could not imagine was that he could be so far misunderstood as to induce a fatwa, a sentence of death, to he issued against him. (source)
- But that problem was solved when a group of radical clerics in Khartoum issued a fatwa in April 1992. (source)
- Parvi said that a local sher, a religious leader who doesn't like the idea of us educating girls, just declared a fatwa on me, trying to prevent CAI from building any more schools in Pakistan. (source)
- The panelists were discussing a recent Islamic State fatwa regarding sexual relations between males and their female slaves. (source)
- Many students argued that the book should be banned and burned and the fatwa upheld. (source)
- Two days later Ayatollah Khomeini, the supreme leader of Iran, issued a fatwa calling for Rushdie's assassination. (source)
- In our province Maulana Sufi Mohammad, who had fought in Afghanistan against the Russians, issued a fatwa against the US. (source)
- Subject: fatwa declared on Greg Mortenson, text: Greetings from Bozeman!† (source)
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- "Mortenson knew from the venom in Parvi's voice how serious a problem the fatwa presented.† (source)
- When they refused, he had it destroyed and issued his fatwa.† (source)
- ' "Ghulam Parvi spoke calmly to the group about the fatwa, his anger having cooled to practicality.† (source)
- Agha Mubarek had issued a fatwa, banning Mortenson from working in Pakistan.† (source)
- I told them Agha Mubarek has no business making a fatwa on a saintly man like Dr. Greg.† (source)
- "The fatwa, is it…""Forget all that small-minded, small-village nonsense," Parvi said, beaming.† (source)
- "I've contacted the sher of Chakpo and asked him to withdraw his fatwa," Syed Abbas said, sighing, "but he refused.† (source)
- He has no business pronouncing a fatwa!† (source)
- When I look back at everything we accomplished that year, despite the fatwa, I have no idea how I did it, how I had that kind of energy.† (source)
- With the fatwa dangling over his head like a scimitar, who knew how long he would be allowed to work in Pakistan?† (source)
- The court declared Agha Mubarek's fatwa illegitimate and ordered him to pay for the eight hundred bricks his men destroyed.† (source)
- FYI: a fatwa is a religious ruling.† (source)
- Mortenson had also won a landmark victory in Shariat Court, overcome his second fatwa, and humbled his most vocal opponent.† (source)
- Mehdi was an activist for education whose father, Sheikh Mohammed, had written asking for a ruling from Iran after the first fatwa had been declared against Mortenson.† (source)
- —Rabindranath Tagore AT 3:00 A.M., in the Central Asia Institute's Bozeman "office," a converted laundry room in the basement of his home, Greg Mortenson learned that the sher of Chakpo, a village in the Braldu Valley, had declared a fatwa against him.† (source)
- "Parvi also said that Sheikh Mohammed, a religious scholar and rival of the sher of Chakpo, had, along with his son, Mehdi Ali, petitioned for a CAI school to be built in his village of Hemasil and written a letter to the Supreme Council of Ayatollahs in Qom, asking Iran's leading clerics, the ultimate authority to the world's Shia, to rule on whether the fatwa was justified.† (source)
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