With far left progressives, you learn something new every day. As John Kerry continues to suck up to Iran to try and hammer out a bad nuclear deal, he’s now resorted to kissing more Iran/Muslim ass by praisng the Islamic fatwa.
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| Kerry: US has great respect for religious importance of fatwa |
The United States has “great respect for the religious importance of a fatwa,” Mr. Kerry told reporters during a visit to Egypt on Saturday, alluding to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s much publicized edict against the development of nuclear weapons. But negotiators, Mr. Kerry said, needed an agreement that would “guarantee that Iran’s program will be peaceful now and peaceful forever.”
Wait, we do? Since when do we respect a fatwa? Here are some examples of the wonderful religious importance of the fatwa:
In April 1974 the Muslim World League issued a fatwa stating that followers of the Ahmadiyyah movement are to be considered “non-Muslims”.[11]
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989 pronounced a death sentence on Salman Rushdie, the author of The Satanic Verses.
In 2001, religious authorities in the United Arab Emirates issued a fatwā against the children’s game Pokémon, after finding that it encouraged gambling, and was based on the theory of evolution, “a Jewish-Darwinist theory, that conflicts with the truth about humans and with Islamic principles”.
In 2001, Egypt’s Grand Mufti issued a fatwā stating that the show “Who will Win the Million?” (modelled on the British show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?) was un-Islamic.[13] The Sheikh of Cairo’s Al-Azhar University later rejected the fatwā, finding that there was no objection to such shows since they spread general knowledge.
In Syria, Grand Mufti Ahmad Badruddin Hassoun issued a fatwa prohibiting every type of smoking, including cigarettes and narghile, as well as the selling and buying of tobacco and any affiliation with tobacco distribution (see also Smoking in Syria).
Yusuf al-Qaradawi released a fatwā on April 14, 2004, stating that the boycott of American and Israeli products was an obligation for all who are able. The fatwā reads in part:
Sheik Sadeq Abdallah bin Al-Majed, leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan, issued a fatwā that prohibits vaccination of children claiming it is a conspiracy of the Jews and Freemasons.
Yea. Mad respect there dude.