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	<title>Comments on: Ahh,&#160;Shariah</title>
	<link>http://cominganarchy.com/2008/05/22/ahh-shariah/</link>
	<description>Speak Victorian, Think Pagan</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: [ meme - hazard ] &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Shariah</title>
		<link>http://cominganarchy.com/2008/05/22/ahh-shariah/#comment-384259</link>
		<dc:creator>[ meme - hazard ] &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Shariah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] while back, there was a post on Coming Anarchy that referenced this fatwa concerning the question of whether a woman could, under Shariah, [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] while back, there was a post on Coming Anarchy that referenced this fatwa concerning the question of whether a woman could, under Shariah, [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Michael</title>
		<link>http://cominganarchy.com/2008/05/22/ahh-shariah/#comment-383921</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 03:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://cominganarchy.com/2008/05/22/ahh-shariah/#comment-383921</guid>
		<description>Wouldn't it be easier to just say "If you can't agree on sex, both of you shall suffer."? :P</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be easier to just say &#8220;If you can&#8217;t agree on sex, both of you shall suffer.&#8221;? :P</p>
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		<title>By: von Kaufman-Turkestansky</title>
		<link>http://cominganarchy.com/2008/05/22/ahh-shariah/#comment-383916</link>
		<dc:creator>von Kaufman-Turkestansky</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 21:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Interesting link. It has a "Search Fatwa" keyword search function in English! There is some interesting stuff there, such as:

"Number 4020 
Subject Passive smoking 
Date 9/23/2007 
Question 
We have reviewed request no. 1997 for the year 2004 which includes the following: 

Is a passive smoker – in front of Allah – sinful, especially since the law protects his rights? All he must do is demand his rights – which he does not do out of disdain for the matter, being courteous to his friends, or embarrassment. 

Answer 

Fatwa Council
A passive smoker is one who does not actually smoke, but rather sits with smokers and is affected by their smoke and the polluted air produced by the smoking around him. 
It has been medically and experimentally proven that inhaling [cigarette] smoke is seriously harmful. Therefore, the ruling is that one is inflicting himself with harm and gradual destruction if he remains in these places unless there is some necessity or need requiring him to remain. ...
We advise our Muslim brothers to deal with such situations in the same manner as they must deal with any other abomination: by either removing the abomination, or removing themselves from it and where it occurs."

And this nest one is very interesting, especially for lovers of frogs legs... the minutiae includes the question of whether you consider frogs seafood.

"Number 5492 
Subject Catching and slaughtering flogs, and exporting them to lands where they are eaten 
Date 1/29/2008 

Question 
We have reviewed request no. 949 for the year 2007 which is dated 16 June 2007, submitted by … and includes the following: 

Is it permissible to catch frogs and, after slaughtering, export them to lands where they are eaten? 
 
Answer 
Fatwa Council
  
This is a multifaceted issue since it discusses the rulings of catching, slaughtering, and exporting frogs to be eaten. The issue of exporting frogs is built upon the issue of slaughtering them, and the matters return to the ruling of killing them. There are hadiths which forbid killing frogs. One of them is the hadith narrated by ‘Abd Allah ibn ‘Uthman who said that the Prophet  forbade killing frogs ...

...
Some other scholars permit consuming frogs, based upon the generality of the words of Allah the Almighty: 

It is permitted for you to catch and eat seafood [5:96]
and due to the generality of the well known hadith: “Its water is purifying and its dead are lawful." This opinion is reported from Malik, Ibn Abi Laila, al-Sha‘bi, and al-Thawri in one of his two opinions. In addition to this, they considered the hadiths about killing frogs to be weak. 

We side with the opinion held by the majority scholars who prohibit eating frogs based upon their prohibition of killing it, which is itself based upon the ‘People of Hadith’ considering the hadith concerning the subject to be fair. 

Based on the above and in reference to the question: it is impermissible for you to hunt, slaughter, and export frogs. 

And Allah knows best. "</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting link. It has a &#8220;Search Fatwa&#8221; keyword search function in English! There is some interesting stuff there, such as:</p>
<p>&#8220;Number 4020<br />
Subject Passive smoking<br />
Date 9/23/2007<br />
Question<br />
We have reviewed request no. 1997 for the year 2004 which includes the following:</p>
<p>Is a passive smoker &#8211; in front of Allah &#8211; sinful, especially since the law protects his rights? All he must do is demand his rights &#8211; which he does not do out of disdain for the matter, being courteous to his friends, or embarrassment.</p>
<p>Answer</p>
<p>Fatwa Council<br />
A passive smoker is one who does not actually smoke, but rather sits with smokers and is affected by their smoke and the polluted air produced by the smoking around him.<br />
It has been medically and experimentally proven that inhaling [cigarette] smoke is seriously harmful. Therefore, the ruling is that one is inflicting himself with harm and gradual destruction if he remains in these places unless there is some necessity or need requiring him to remain. ...<br />
We advise our Muslim brothers to deal with such situations in the same manner as they must deal with any other abomination: by either removing the abomination, or removing themselves from it and where it occurs.&#8221;</p>
<p>And this nest one is very interesting, especially for lovers of frogs legs&#8230; the minutiae includes the question of whether you consider frogs seafood.</p>
<p>&#8220;Number 5492<br />
Subject Catching and slaughtering flogs, and exporting them to lands where they are eaten<br />
Date 1/29/2008</p>
<p>Question<br />
We have reviewed request no. 949 for the year 2007 which is dated 16 June 2007, submitted by &#8230; and includes the following:</p>
<p>Is it permissible to catch frogs and, after slaughtering, export them to lands where they are eaten?</p>
<p>Answer<br />
Fatwa Council</p>
<p>This is a multifaceted issue since it discusses the rulings of catching, slaughtering, and exporting frogs to be eaten. The issue of exporting frogs is built upon the issue of slaughtering them, and the matters return to the ruling of killing them. There are hadiths which forbid killing frogs. One of them is the hadith narrated by &#8216;Abd Allah ibn &#8216;Uthman who said that the Prophet  forbade killing frogs &#8230;</p>
<p>...<br />
Some other scholars permit consuming frogs, based upon the generality of the words of Allah the Almighty:</p>
<p>It is permitted for you to catch and eat seafood [5:96]<br />
and due to the generality of the well known hadith: &#8220;Its water is purifying and its dead are lawful.&#8221; This opinion is reported from Malik, Ibn Abi Laila, al-Sha&#8216;bi, and al-Thawri in one of his two opinions. In addition to this, they considered the hadiths about killing frogs to be weak.</p>
<p>We side with the opinion held by the majority scholars who prohibit eating frogs based upon their prohibition of killing it, which is itself based upon the &#8216;People of Hadith&#8217; considering the hadith concerning the subject to be fair.</p>
<p>Based on the above and in reference to the question: it is impermissible for you to hunt, slaughter, and export frogs.</p>
<p>And Allah knows best. &#8221; </p>
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