Dinah Lord

A fatwa on your camel toe. Wearing jeans is un-Islamic...

and so is dying your hair black...and hair transplants and don't even get them started on the issue of LOVE, baby.

From the Deccan Herald.

After terming love as “un-Islamic”, the Darul Uloom Islamic seminary in Deoband has said that Muslilms wearing jeans is a gunah (sin).  The seminary recently issued a fatwa (religious decree) against the wearing of jeans and transplanting and dyeing of hair in black.

These fatwas have been issued in response to three different queries, according to the Darul Uloom's Darul Ifta (department of fatwa). In response to a query on wearing of jeans by women, especially in cold countries in Western Europe, the seminary has made it clear that “jeans pants and shirts are against the shariat (Islamic rules)”. “The physical structure (curves) of the body is reflected if one puts on a jeans. Wearing them by a woman is a sin”, the fatwa said adding that it should not be put on by the menfolk also. “It is barred for men as well. Women, who want to look as men, are cursed”, the fatwa went on to say.

On a query on dyeing one’s hair in black, the fatwa said that any other colour other than black is permissible. “Use of black hair dye is un-Islamic”, it said.

On another query pertaining to hair transplant, the Darul Uloom said transplanting artificial hair amounted to “cheating” and is therefore is “illegal”. The clerics say that Islam very clearly separates what is right and what is wrong. “He, who does even after knowing that it is wrong, is the sinner”, said a senior cleric.

Another fatwa against Israel.

The Sheikh speaks.

“All (Israeli) interests, and anything else related to Israel, are a permitted target for Muslims everywhere,” said Sheikh Awad al-Qarni in what he described on the internet as a fatwa (religious edict). “They (Israelis) should become targets. Their blood should be shed as the blood of our brothers in Palestine has been shed,” he said.

“They should feel pain more than our brothers,” the Imam added as Israeli air raids pounded the territory, which is controlled by the Hamas. “This is a fatwa that I am responsible for in front of Allah,” Qarni said on the Islam Online website.

Wait there's more.  What were we just saying about the sniping amongst the Muslim nations?

He also lashed out at Arab governments, mainly Egypt, which he accused of being "part of the conspiracy".

"The recent visit by (Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi) Livni to Egypt, and her embrace by Egyptian officials in front of cameras, followed by her confirmation that the situation in Gaza is going to change, and the lack of any response from Egyptian officials, are part of the conspiracy," he said.

He slammed Egypt's security reinforcements on the borders with Gaza "to ban Palestinians from breaking through the borders," saying it is "a proof of a conspiracy".

Egypt has opened its single crossing point into Gaza to allow the transfer of wounded Palestinians to hospitals and the passage of medical aid into the enclave.  However, Egyptian police fired in the air near the border on Sunday to prevent Palestinians entering Egypt, a security official said.

Iran: Big Daddy Khamenei lays down some Gaza smack.

Looks like Big Daddy Khamenei has issued a fatwa calling for all Muslim killers to strap on the bombs for Gaza.   

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a religious decree to Muslims around the world on Sunday, ordering them to defend Palestinians against Israel's attacks on Gaza, state television said.

"All Palestinian combatants and all the Islamic world's pious people are obliged to defend the defenseless women, children and people in Gaza in any way possible. Whoever is killed in this legitimate defense is considered a martyr," state television quoted Khamenei as saying in a statement outlining the fatwa.

Khamenei also criticized some Arab governments for their "encouraging silence" towards the Israel's raids on Gaza. "The Zionist regime must by held accountable by Islamic governments. The heads of this regime must be held personally accountable for these crimes and the ongoing siege," the religious leader said.

What do you think is on this Red Crescent ship Iran is sending to the Palis?  Relief aid?  If you believe that, I've got some credit default swaps I'd like to sell you.

P.S. Dinah usually leaves the coverage of Israel and Palestine to others but may I say how happy I am to see Israel taking action against those Pali thugs.  Go get 'em, Israel.  Let's hope the action will cause the Arab states to turn on each other...it sounds like the sniping in the Arab League is already beginning.

New Zealand: Slaughterhouse Jihad.

Troublemaker.

Meat Industry Association members said they were contacted by the Security Intelligence Service (SIS) this week after Ahmed Ghanem, an Egyptian-born halal slaughterman now living in Christchurch, published articles on a British website decrying New Zealand slaughter methods as inhumane and contrary to Islamic practice.

Ghanem said he and other anti-stunning activists in the Muslim world had successfully sought a fatwa, or religious ruling, from senior clerics condemning the practice.

Meat industry figures in New Zealand have called Ghanem a "troublemaker".

They fear his comments could affect the multimillion-dollar industry, particularly in the Gulf states, where New Zealand has extensive markets.

Meat Industry Association management support officer Michael Pran said Ghanem could provoke Muslim states such as Malaysia and Indonesia to send inspectors to review New Zealand methods.

"He could scare people and that could harm the industry," he said. "The SIS are on his case. They are looking at it as well."

The SIS could not be contacted for comment yesterday.

Attention Muslims: This just in...

Your prophet never existed and now God's gonna kick your a$$ for all the stuff you been pulling against Christians, Jews, and Hindus.  You are so totally screwed.

A Muslim scholar at a German university was told to stop teaching secondary-school instructors about Islam after he publicly voiced doubts about whether the prophet Muhammad really existed.

Muhammad Sven Kalisch, a professor of Islamic theology at the University of Münster, ran a program directed at secondary-school teachers with Muslim students...[snip]

Mr. Kalisch, who converted to Islam as a teenager, said in newspaper interviews that he doubted that the historical existence of Muhammad could be proved or disproved, but he leaned towards the latter side. Among things that bothered him, according to The Journal: The first coins bearing an image of the prophet did not appear until decades after the religion did.

source - The Chronicle of Higher Education

(Fatwa comin in 5...4...3...)

Malaysia: A Fatwa on your camel toe!

No pants for you, Missy.

Muslim Malaysia's National Fatwa Council recently issued a religious ruling that wearing trousers was un-Islamic. It said that, by wearing trousers, young girls risked becoming "tomboys" who became sexually active.

That move triggered small protests later from two non-Muslim non-government organizations -- Katagender and Food-not-Bombs. "I'm warning them and will take stern action as it involves national security," Inspector-General of Police Musa Hassan told reporters on Thursday, according to the state-run Bernama news agency.    

Malaysia frowns on oral and gay sex...

   

source - Reuters India