Tag: Fatwa
Salman Rushdie brushes off call for festival ‘blasphemy’ ban
By Amanda Hodge January 12, 2012.
Print: The Australian
An Indian Muslim leader has demanded Salman Rushdie be banned from the country’s biggest literary festival, warning that an invitation to the novelist who endured a fatwa will add “salt to injury”.
Indonesians ignore religious edicts against smoking, yoga
February 5, 2009.
La Times
Although Indonesia is an overwhelmingly Muslim country, many view Islamic clerics’ fatwas as anachronistic and unnecessary. br/br/ Indonesia’s most powerful Islamic scholars weren’t looking for a debate when they handed down their latest fatwas on how to be a good Muslim.
