Sunday, 17 April 2011

An Islamic fatwa that explicitly permits Muslims to wipe their anuses with pages from the Torah and New Testament

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

Daniel Pipes reminds us of an Islamic fatwa that explicitly permits Muslims to wipe their anuses with pages from the Torah and New Testament.

Charmed I'm sure.

A good one for the Interfaith Dialoguers to get their hands dirty with and get to the bottom of things.

The reason that such a fatwa can be issued is of course because islam regards the Bible and New Testament as having been falsified by "the Jews" and the Christians.

Here:

The doctrine preached by Muhammed was a simple one. The Koran is a book of divine origin revealed progressively to Muhammed through the angel Gabriel. Islam is the only true and eternal religion (Koran 3:17). The prophets of Israel and Jesus had already preached it and foretold the coming of Muhammed, but the Jews and the Christians, jealous of the perfection of the new religion, had rejected him and falsified their own sacred Scriptures. The Muslim faith stresses the divine character of the Koran and of Muhammed’s preaching: “Whoever obeys the Messenger obeys God.”

2. The perfection of the Koran, the duty of the Muslims to engage in jihad, and the inferiority of infidels are recurrent themes in the Koran and the Traditions (Sunna). […]

3. Koran 4:82, 106, 135; 5:22; 6: 114, 126; 11:17, 20; 12:2, 104. See n. 2 above.

The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians under Islam by Bat Ye'or p. 43.

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http://www.islam-watch.org/Others/Islam-Awakening-for-Infidel-World.htm

Islam Under Scrutiny by Ex-Muslims

Islam: An Awakening for the Infidel World

by Inquisitive Infidel

31 Aug, 2008

Excerpt

1.3 Sharia Law

Sharia Law is readily obtainable in English. In applying Sharia law, or Islamic law, or Doctrinal Islam, or Muslim jurisprudence: NO Muslim can reject ANY part of Qur’an or the hadiths and remain Muslim (the alternative is becoming an apostate). Sharia is the EXCLUSIVE SOURCE of law for both Muslims and non-Muslims (the Infidel), and embraces ALL human activities – both personal and communal.

Sharia is understood as a series of duties and obligations; is not severable from Islamic theology; and as such it does not tolerate parties of differing opinion in its application. It exercises absolute and centralized control over ALL aspects of life. Islam does not consider itself to be the third Abrahamic faith, contrary to fond imaginings. It considers itself to be the only Abrahamic faith, the true faith of all the patriarchs and prophets, including Joseph and Abraham, and of which Judaism and Christianity are but falsifications and perversions. (Qur’an: 12:40; 48:28; 61:9; 16.52; 5:3; 9:33.) In other words, Islam is “the last religion”.

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That should throw light on a particularly backward area of Islamic Shari'ah.

----The Law

Here is the Pipes article:

My reference in a column today, "'Rushdie Rules' Reach Florida," included this sentence: "A 2003 decree ruled the Bible suitable for use by Muslims when cleaning after defecation." That allusion deserves further explanation.

The link above goes to Fatwa #40378 of The Encyclopedia of Fatwas (Arabic: Mawsu'at al-Fatawi) on www.islamweb.net. Issued on November 23, 2003, it contains the standard question-and-answer format of a fatwa and reads thus in English translation:

Judgment: Despising the Torah or the New Testament

Question: "Does someone who insults the Torah or the New Testament engage in apostasy, given that these include some words of God?"

Answer: "It would be impermissible to disdain the Torah and New Testament if they contained the truth and the name of the exalted, such as the name of God the Most High. Whoever does this [i.e., disrespect the books] knowingly and by choice would be considered an apostate and would be despised by God. But [in fact] the Torah and New Testament do not have anything exalted in them. They are known to have been corrupted, so there is no problem disdaining them.

Ash-Shams[ad-Din] Ar-Ramli [d.1004 A.D.] said in [his book of fiqh] Nihayat al-Muhtaj: "It is impermissible to use respected books like those of hadith and fiqh for anal cleansing after defecation (al-istinja',الأستنجاء ), but non-respected books like philosophy, Torah and the New Testament, which are known as corrupt and which do not contain exalted names, can be used for anal cleansing after defecation."

Interestingly, Fatwa #40378 is no longer posted at the Encyclopedia of Fatwas; an announcement on its old page drably states that "There is no fatwa with this number." The screen shot posted on my website, however, establishes that this fatwa was once posted.

Fatwa #40378 appears to have been removed in late 2009, as a result of the Dena Milany controversy. Milany, a German woman, posted the fatwa inEnglish translation and Arabic original, then posted a call on Facebook for a "koran toilet paper roll," complete with graphic of such an item. Muslims demanded the deletion of this page and the agitation reached to Egypt, where Sheikh Ali Abu'l-Hasan, a former president of Al-Azhar University's Fatwa Committee, published a fatwa (reported in the Egyptian newspaper Al-Yawm as-Sabi' on September 27, 2009) in which he ordered the "shedding of [her] blood." Milany responded by publicizing the above fatwa on her blog,http://denamilany.blogspot.com.

Despite its removal, the fatwa remains valid. Taking it down from the website does not cancel it; that would require that the institution that issued it formally declare it illegitimate. This has not happened because the Shari'a clearly permits istinja' with the Bible. Indeed, specialists on Shari'a have through the centuries discussed the legitimacy of istinja' using the Torah and New Testament. (September 21, 2010)

Posted on 04/17/2011 5:44 PM by The Law

Comments

17 Apr 2011

Alan R

And a reminder:

-Left-handed Handshakes with Muslims:

-not recommended-

Muslim man gives brother 'dirty' handshake

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12927076