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Oct 20, 2005
Soccer Fatwah
from the There are sports rules, and then there are SPORTS RULES! dept.
Fatwas, the legal opinions proclaimed by Islamic scholars, have proliferated in the Muslim world since the 1980's, driven by rising literacy rates and the Internet. The growth in fatwas - some of them contradictory - has led to a debate over who can legitimately issue them and has alarmed governments in the Middle East, since the decrees sometimes challenge state-sanctioned interpretations of Islam. Yet criticizing fatwas about divisive issues like the propriety of killing civilians and Shiites can be dangerous for officials. So the Saudi government is trying a different tactic, zeroing in on what it considers frivolous fatwas in order to rally support for tougher measures on who can and who cannot issue opinions. Recently, Al Watan, a semiofficial Saudi daily newspaper, reported that a young athlete had joined the jihad in Iraq under the influence of a fatwa forbidding playing soccer by regular rules. The newspaper also republished the fatwa, said to have originally appeared on an Islamic Web site. Portions of the fatwa, which I translated from the Arabic, follow....
posted by al at 06:19:27 PM | More Know Your Rights »
Oct 19, 2005
One Way Death
from the who'd a thunk? dept.
"OneWay" Bullet Resistant Glass means "unidirectional" armor. This unique product allows return fire through the glass while protecting from hostile fire. This is unconventional armor for unconventional warfare and uncommon tactical situations: for when there is no other option but to shoot back in order to increase the chances of survival.
