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  • noun Alternative spelling of fatwa.
  • verb Alternative spelling of fatwa.

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  • noun (Islam) a legal opinion or ruling issued by an Islamic scholar

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Examples

  • In my most recent link farm post, I posted a link to a story about Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani calling a fatwah against homosexuals.

    Iraq: Maybe Sistani didn’t call for homosexuals to be killed, after all 2006

  • Paper tiger. while we're no religious scholars we know the fatwah is a muslim edict of sorts.

    LOSTCasts 19: Even More Theories 2006

  • In my most recent link farm post, I posted a link to a story about Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani calling a fatwah against homosexuals.

    Link Farm and Open Thread #14 2006

  • But, there's been a specific threat issued by Osama Bin Laden some months ago when he issued a fatwah, which is a religious sort of document committing, you know, his Islamic followers, or extremist Islamic followers to carry out attacks against the great Satan, i.e., the United States.

    CNN Transcript - Breaking News: Boat Rams USS Cole In Yemen Port; 4 Sailors Killed; Fmr. CIA Officials Discusses Possible Terrorist Attack - October 12, 2000 2000

  • In May, as you know, the bin Laden group issued a so-called fatwah against the United States, indicating that they had targeted the United States for a systematic campaign of terror.

    Press Briefing By Albright And Berger ITY National Archives 1998

  • These theives act exactly as mafia, pay us or we'll call a fatwah on our base of terrorist republican evangelical terrorist thugs in their terrorist cells, and boycott your product, and disrupt your business, up to and including murder for profit.

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  • These theives act exactly as mafia, pay us or we'll call a fatwah on our base of terrorist republican evangelical terrorist thugs in their terrorist cells, and boycott your product, and disrupt your business, up to and including murder for profit.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • These theives act exactly as mafia, pay us or we'll call a fatwah on our base of terrorist republican evangelical terrorist thugs in their terrorist cells, and boycott your product, and disrupt your business, up to and including murder for profit.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • The terrorist Mullah O'Reily sat in his throne on the terrorist news channel faux and called his fatwah for years, knowing full well there were repuglican terrorist cells planning to murder Tiller.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • These theives act exactly as mafia, pay us or we'll call a fatwah on our base of terrorist republican evangelical terrorist thugs in their terrorist cells, and boycott your product, and disrupt your business, up to and including murder for profit.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

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