Sentence examples for fatwa that from inspiring English sources

Rushdie has said he conceived "Haroun" before the fatwa that was issued in response to "The Satanic Verses," in 1989.

"Midnight's Children" was voted Best of the Booker winners; "The Satanic Verses" triggered a fatwa that sent him into hiding for a decade.

Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri has issued a fatwa that essentially dismisses Khamenei as the country's Supreme Leader, on the ground that an unjust leader has no legitimacy.

They also attempted to call Abu Qatada in London's Belmarsh Prison, apparently seeking a fatwa that would morally sanction their suicide.

He questioned a 13th century fatwa that justified the death of innocents in a jihad – directly challenging al-Qaida doctrine on human shields.

Islamic Jurist Condemns Sculptures in Homes Egypt's leading Islamic jurist has issued a fatwa that declares the exhibition of statues in homes un-Islamic.

"People look for red herrings when they don't want to look inward, when they don't want to summon the moral courage to produce the counter-fatwa that would say: stabilizing Iraq is an Islamic duty and bringing peace to Afghanistan is part of the survival of the Islamic umma," or community.

Most clerics in the Gulf rely heavily on government support and reciprocate it with fatwas that serve the governments in return.

In the early 1990s, he had been a fervent supporter of the Algerian Groupe Islamique Armé (GIA) – issuing fatwas that gave GIA terrorists license to kill with little discrimination.

Sheikh Omar obligingly issued fatwas that allowed attacks on Christians and the plunder of jewelry stores, on the justification that a state of war existed between Christians and Muslims.

We must develop a new discourse based on our own realities here in Britain and not rely on importing fatwas that come out of conditions that are not conducive to the current climate.