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• “This fatwa is an absolute condemnation of terrorism.”

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• “According to Khan, a fatwa is a response given in writing to a specific question, and can only be given by a qualified scholar, or 'mufti.”

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• “In February 1998, the 40-year-old Saudi exile Usama Bin Ladin and a fugitive Egyptian physician, Ayman al Zawahiri, arranged from their Afghan headquarters for an Arabic newspaper in London to publish what they termed a fatwa issued in the name of a "World Islamic Front.”

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• “I think the use of the expression "fatwa" is insensitive, rude and unnecessary.”

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• “A "fatwa" is simply a considered opinion of a Muslim jurisconsult.”

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• “Sheik Omar Bakri Muhammad, judge of the Shari'ah Court of the UK said The fatwa is to express the Islamic point of view that those who are insulting to Allah and the messengers of God, they must understand it is a crime.”

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• “In Sunni Islam any fatwa is non-binding, whereas in Shia Islam it could be, depending on the status of the scholar.”

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• “This was the first time that most people outside the Muslim world had heard the word fatwa, or religious edict.”

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• “For instance, a 2004 fatwa from the imprisoned head of al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia declared that targeting oil pipelines and refineries was a legitimate form of economic jihad — and that economic jihad “is one of the most powerful ways in which we can take revenge on the infidels during this present stage.””

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• “Following the Salman Rushdie affair, the word fatwa became commonplace in our vernacular - it, lamentably, became associated with death, killing, and censorship.”

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