Awesome: The world’s dumbest fatwas
posted at 7:25 pm on July 20, 2007 by Allahpundit
I’m pleasantly surprised that Foreign Policy, a “serious” international journal, would be willing to take a hard look at this sort of thing. A teaser: one of the two recent absurd Egyptian fatwas makes the top five. Guess which.
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Now, Allah, if you tried the first recent absurd fatwa you listed and it worked, would you be calling it dumb?
Also, looking at the photos on the page linked, it never ceases to amaze me how western these people want to be yet destroy everything that is western. Specifically, I’m referring to all the brides wearing western bridal gowns and carrying bouquets and wearing a bag over their heads. Jeesh.
Blake on July 20, 2007 at 7:40 PM
A little glimpse into the “logic” of an illogical religion. Wooo.
IrishEyes on July 20, 2007 at 7:41 PM
Ah, wouldn’t that be people-of-girth-wa? I mean we wouldn’t want to upset anybody would we?
This absurd comment brought to you courtesy of Alan Colmes!
On-my-soap-box on July 20, 2007 at 7:51 PM
Ah yes, the evil Zionist Pokeman. Woooo is right Irish.
BadgerHawk on July 20, 2007 at 8:00 PM
I have seen some women who would never be able to work with alone with another man…ewww.
boomer on July 20, 2007 at 8:03 PM
Now, think for a second. Has anyone ever heard of a fatwa that sounded rational?
flipflop on July 20, 2007 at 8:23 PM
So if a muslim woman breast fed a pokemon, could she have sex with it if they weren’t naked?
Kowboy on July 20, 2007 at 8:33 PM
the pokemon one was from 1999, when the saudis were….normal and weren’t hating bush so much
Defector01 on July 20, 2007 at 8:35 PM
“When Khalil ruled in January 2006 that for married couples, “being completely naked during the act of coitus annuls the marriage,” liberal Egyptians howled with derision. Other scholars rejected Khalil’s logic …”
They just can’t help writing that way; they’re are born with the superiority gene.
Dusty on July 20, 2007 at 8:47 PM
A fatwa against…. Pikachu?
What, no fatwa against Teletubbies?
Maybe Farfur’s successor, the Jihad Bee, will prononuce that one.
Think of it. An entire civilization predicated on perpetual outrage against things they cannot comprehend.
/It sort of reminds me of Hollywood.
cheers
eon
eon on July 20, 2007 at 9:50 PM
I thought some of the stuff I learned in CCD was weird. When can we expect Amanda Marcotte to comment on Mohammed’s sex life?
ticticboom on July 20, 2007 at 9:52 PM
I love the phrase “Jewish-Darwinist theory.” Gotta slap “Jewish” in front of that to make its perfidy clear I guess.
I think I’m going to start just prefixing “Jewish” to every proper adjective I use from now on.
“The Jewish-Cubist works of Picasso were enormously inventive.”
“The Jewish-Calvinist strain of Protestantism is probably the strictest form.”
“Tyrannosaurs date back to the Jewish-Cretaceous period of the Jewish-Mesozoic era.”
“The Jewish-Jacobean period of English theater had many great actors, but Richard Burbage was distinctive for his lifelike Jewish-Shakespearean style, parting from Ned Alleyn’s more declamatory Jewish-Marlovian style.”
Alex K on July 20, 2007 at 10:01 PM
Well.
Funny.
Interesting.
I have not heard the Liberals/Democrats or any other Jihadist sympathizer talk about how educational it is to highlight fatwas as an way of understanding the Muslims.
Yet they keep telling us we need to “reason” with them and try to “understand” them.
Maybe Obama and Ellison could be debated on this and give us some more “insight” into the Muslims “inner life”.
There should really be three (3) Muslims to debate this, but, oh well, Obama has to two pie holes.. so that will do.
Mcguyver on July 20, 2007 at 10:30 PM
AP
Which fatwas do you think are not dumb?
infidelpride on July 21, 2007 at 12:28 AM
Sometime you think you’ve seen it all. Then you see something…
PowWow on July 21, 2007 at 12:31 AM
Cool! That was fun…now just for chits n giggles let’s see the “Top 5 Smartest Fatwas”!
Anyone got 5?
Going once, going twice…
OK, then how about the “Top 3 Really Sensible Fatwas”?
Anyone? …hello?
OK then, how about “The Top Fatwa that is NOT Complete and Utter Nonsense!” (or TTFtiNCaUN for short)
Help me out here…anyone?
Im_no_dhimmi on July 21, 2007 at 1:06 AM
There was no ‘Jewish-Cretaceous’ period. Two words, ‘circumsize’ and ‘T-rex’. I rest my case.
trigon on July 21, 2007 at 1:29 AM
I was just wondering, is the breast feeding of co-workers part of the new employee orientation process?
I think I need to speak to Human Resources…
…just saying.
atadOFF on July 21, 2007 at 8:53 AM
Any ‘religion’ that is so out of control, intellectually and morally, will come to no good.
ASAP.
profitsbeard on July 21, 2007 at 10:09 AM
What? No Rosie Fatwas? Awww, C’MON!
robblefarian on July 21, 2007 at 1:21 PM
Jerry Falwell already covered that.
It seems Fatwa’s are an equal opportunity form of religious stupidity.
Kini on July 21, 2007 at 2:16 PM