{"id":391,"date":"2004-09-16T16:42:43","date_gmt":"2004-09-16T21:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=391"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:20","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:20","slug":"comparing_fatwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/16\/comparing_fatwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing fatwas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Kuwaiti information minister said on the 9\/11 anniversary that Muslims should condemn terrorist Osama bin Laden with the same energy they expended on <a href=\"http:\/\/worldnetdaily.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40407\">the fatwa against Salman Rushdie<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Tefla said much damage has been caused to Muslims because the world is contrasting Muslims&#8217; tepid approach to bin Laden to their overwhelming response in the 1980s to British author Salman Rushdie and his controversial book &#8220;The Satanic Verses.&#8221;\n<br><br>\nAgainst Rushdie, Tefla wrote, &#8220;We rattled and sharpened all of our rhetorical sabers, our religious legal rulings [fatwa], [alerted] our guards, our ports, our airports and our border crossings in order to prevent his entering [our countries] and the distribution of his book, since it does damage to Islam.&#8221;&#8230;\n<br><br>\n&#8220;Have we earmarked a reward for anyone who kills bin Laden as we did for anyone who kills Rushdie on account of his book?\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Kuwaiti information minister said on the 9\/11 anniversary that Muslims should condemn terrorist Osama bin Laden with the same energy they expended on the fatwa against Salman Rushdie: Tefla said much damage has been caused to Muslims because &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/16\/comparing_fatwa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}