August 18th, 2005
Joe Loconte has the line of the day on the subject of recent anti-terrorist fatwas:
Others complain that the rulings don’t come from the centers of gravity of the Islamic world–from authorities in Mecca or legal scholars at al-Azhar University in Cairo. Mamoun Fandy, a fellow at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, puts it dryly: “A fatwa from Brooklyn or the National Press Club–that’s not where Muslims go to get their fatwas.”
I imagine a sign over a mosque in The Simpsons proclaiming “Where Muslims go to get their fatwas.”
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