“Fatwa Chaos” in the Arab World
October 1st, 2008 by Jason
Khalil Al-Anani writes in Daily News Egypt of the recent wave of fatwas that sanction murder and violence, emanating from Saudi clerics and the conservative scholars of Arab satellite television.
It’s quite fun to pick through and deride such inanity as the recent edict sanctioning the execution of “Mickey Mouse”. But Al-Anani worries about the “salifization” gaining ground in Arab media, and “the state of intellectual and cultural emptiness in Arab societies” that allows such fringe and incendiary characters to dominate religious discourse.
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