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| Yes | 79% | 533 votes | Total: 671 votes | |
| No | 21% | 138 votes |
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by Foxbaron
The only "fatwas" these idiots issue are to kill other people who somehow insulted them, hurt their feelings somehow, or didn't agree with some aspect of their hate inspired rel...read more
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The uproar among Muslims over public expressions of criticism of Islam and the prophet Mohammad is more deplorable than the criticisms themselves. It exposes the rigidity and in...read more
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by V. Kumar
There is a very thin line between religion and communalism ! While religion is a matter of personal faith and belief, an individual's very personal identification with spirit...read more
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by Ebey Soman
Wahhabi or the Wasabi Sect of Islam is spreading throughout the western world and into Europe and Americas. This sect originates in Saudi Arabia and they are training new mullah...read more
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In the world most of us know, we have nothing analogous to Wahhabi Islam. This may explain why we appear to be ignoring this ominous threat, despite everything we have accomplis...read more
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Well, let's look at three of the fatwas that are extant at the moment from the Shi'as. That should make the answer VERY clear that at times these edicts are INTENDED to create ...read more
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The draw of religious orders and of proclamations from someone that you trust is quite large. Consider this, it is a commonly accepted that people in a crowd will behave differ...read more
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I know that some of these fatwas are official appeals emitted by religious and/or politic authorities, manly of the Sciite world against single persons for something they would...read more
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by Ian Loft
The problem with Islam today is that it is it's own worse enemy in terms of conflicting fatwas and squabbling clerical hierarchy. The blind hatred between the two main sects of...read more
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by Eve Del Rey
Fuel for Islamic extremism has to originate from some formidable basis of religion and the only one that comes to mind is the Muslim fatwas. The very foundation of any religion ...read more
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Muslim fatwas fueling Islamic extremism? What a silly notion. We should examine a few fatwas issued in contemporary times by Islamic dictators and religious leaders in order ...read more
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by Ted Sherman
Humans are considerably more stupid than animals. Animals kill each other for food or territorial control. Humans kill each other because some old guy in a beard issues a fatwa ...read more
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Contrary to Christianity or Judaism, Islam does not have anything remotely similar to a canonical hierarchy such as the Vatican and the pope so there are no real leaders of Isla...read more
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by Kurt Kawohl
Extremism is wrong in religion and government. The question thereafter arises as to whose religion is the correct one. The ironic fact is that the followers of various religi...read more
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There is something analogous to the fatwa that Christians (especially Catholics) should be able to relate to: the dicta of the Pope. When the Pope's total authority on all Ca...read more
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Actually, asking if fatwas fuel extremism is somewhat akin to asking if fire is good or bad. It depends on which fatwa you mean. I take the side that some fatwas fuel extremis...read more
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Yes. Muslim fatwas are fueling Islamic extremism. Yet, that is not the only fuel on the scorching fire. Evangelical fundamentalism has taken on new terms with Ted Haggard and th...read more
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by Phil Hill
In our so-called Christian society, we don't attach too much importance to statements issued by church leaders any more. Maybe we have become more secular. Or perhaps we feel th...read more
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Yes, fatwas do fuel islamic extremism. To understand why, you have to first understand the muslim mindset. Unlike christianity where practices differ from country to country and...read more
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by Basit Ali
The topic of this debate has been recurring to me for all these days. Consciously or unconsciously I have been thinking about it in my working and free hours. The last evening w...read more
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Fatwa by modern Muslim and its implications. Here are few things which one needs to explore and understand before the question could be tackled in general. What is fatwa an...read more
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by Zabri Abidin
Actually I should not be writing in the yes or no side of the argument but it should be the ''not applicable'' which is obviously not available. Just think about the question an...read more
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by Nimmi Fox
The answer is strongly no, in my opinion. Recent 'modern' fatwas have been passed by the most knowledgeable scholars and leaders, who do not pass these fatwas flippantly, as the...read more
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by Ahmed Zaki
"Modern Muslim Fatwa" needs to be defined. Yet, writers over here or in any parts of the world have not defined it clearly enough for ordinary understandings. In my owned view, ...read more
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by R.S.
Fatwas are issued by learned clerics that the muslim world (mostly shias) listen and have to follow.Fatwa's are issued when a problem arises that either a current fatwa does not...read more
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by Aisha Stacey
A fatwa is an Islamic legal ruling, and it is issued by a mufti, someone qualified to make such a ruling. Allah told us in the Quran " ..so ask the people of the reminder if yo...read more
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by Khair Bakhsh
If you one of those people who have some information that any political, diplomatic, religious statement, order or command given by any Muslim cleric, politician or a beard dude...read more
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by Fuad Murad
As a modern day Muslim I can tell you that the answer to this question is definitely no. There are many reasons but the main reason being is that due to the shear number of fat...read more
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by Paul Cowan
The question itself is wrong. A fatwa is not a religious order from a leader of Islam, it is a legal opinion, based upon precedent and Qu'ranic teaching, delivered by an acknowl...read more
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by Nasheem
Are modern Muslim Fatwas fueling Islamic extremism? Sometimes I fail to understand the meaning of applying the word "extremism" to anyone who doesn't immediately agree or...read more
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First of all I must mention that there is no extremism in islam People who are considered to be extremists are either not following their religion as a whole or some of them ar...read more
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by Sabrine Elk
For years now, I've had a headache. A headache both in the literal and metaphorical sense. For the last 6 years, Ive been told by my auburn-haired, arrogant anchorwoman that Isl...read more
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To say that Islamic fatwas are "fueling" Islamic extremism is, I believe, confusing the fuel with the fire. Everyone is familiar with an example of an extreme and hostile fat...read more
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by Sajid Naseer
The debate's topic is very delicate and above the understanding of Muslims having average or basic knowledge of Islam. Because of this reason, I was reluctant to take it but one...read more
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Modern fatwas are not fueling Islamic extremism. It is lamentable that one should even debate extremism in regard to fatwas; for they should provide guidance. However, it is the...read more
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Muslum Fatwas In Modern Times I have noted that most of the articles concerning the no vote treated the so-called fatwas of a few to represent most of the Earth's more then...read more
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What are the modern fatwas you are referring to? To date, there are no fatwas that says you can kill other than the fatwas the extremists themselves created based on the misinte...read more
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by J. C. Hoops
I respond "no" to this question, but I think the answer to this question is more complicated than a simple "yes" or "no" will allow. I say this because I think by its very esse...read more
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by Sharmin Khan
What a question. Of course they don't. Fatwas do no such thing. Debates like these do, news that we hear all the time about supposed "terrorists" are the cause of confused being...read more
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i have to disagree with the statement modern Muslim fatwas are not fueling Islamic extremism because we have bigger influences such as the media which is being totally overlooke...read more
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