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Haram?
Deobandi authorities have declared television sinful. But other Muslim authorities are unhappy with the ruling.
From the Telegraph (Calcutta), with thanks to Twostellas:
Lucknow, Dec. 19: Television is “haram (sinful)” and even watching religious programmes is not acceptable, an Islamic seminary said in a fatwa that has been trashed by scholars and community leaders.The fatwa was issued by the Dar-ul Uloom in Deoband, near Muzaffarnagar, in response to a madarsa teacher’s plea to clarify whether watching Islamic channels and televised debates on religious issues was right.
The edict is being seen as regressive. “If watching TV is anti-Islamic, why do we watch Haj on TV?” asked Khalid Rashid Firangi Mahali of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board.
Khalid questioned how the clerics at Deoband, who are no strangers to television and often come on camera during debates, could take such a stand.
“These matters (watching Islamic channels) are related to religion, so you should see from whom you are taking your religion. You should learn from authentic and pious people,” the fatwa, issued on December 8, said.
The Deoband clerics argued that while television “is a tool of entertainment and enjoyment”, it was mostly used for “unlawful and prohibited things”.
A Dar-ul Uloom spokesperson tried to fend off the criticism, saying its muftis had always said fatwas were only an “interpretation” of Islamic law and not something that was being “pushed down the throats of people”.
“It is not compulsory for Muslims to follow it,” he said.
Rest easy, Uncle Miltie.
Posted by Robert at December 20, 2007 9:17 AM
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Good... no more Farfur, the jihadist mickey mouse, for Arab youths :)
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at December 20, 2007 9:30 AM
Got say I'm with the Deobandi on this one. Islam SHOULD make TV illegal/haram/a beheading offence to its adherents on the grounds that creating images of living creatures is proscribed by the teachings of their schizo-lunatic 'prophet'
Just think how much further back into the stone age this little gem would set them and their archaic dogma. Not to mention the clamps it would put on them broadcasting their hate.
;o)
Posted by: Joshua at December 20, 2007 9:31 AM
When will breathing be prohibited by these lunatics? They're quickly running out of things to prohibit at this rate.
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at December 20, 2007 9:56 AM
TV is sinful if the human image is forbidden in the hadith.
I'm all for TV being banned in all Islamic countries. And the internet.
That might solve many problems for the rest of us.
Osama Bin Laden making videos of himself is sinful according to the hadith and both he and Zawahiri should have fatwas ruled against them by the Dar-ul Uloom in Deoband.
I might even consider flapping about on a mat if it would bring about the desired result.
Posted by: Stephen Gash SIOE England at December 20, 2007 10:14 AM
TV is sinful if the human image is forbidden in the hadith.
I'm all for TV being banned in all Islamic countries. And the internet.
That might solve many problems for the rest of us.
Osama Bin Laden making videos of himself is sinful according to the hadith and both he and Zawahiri should have fatwas ruled against them by the Dar-ul Uloom in Deoband.
I might even consider flapping about on a mat if it would bring about the desired result.
Posted by: Stephen Gash SIOE England at December 20, 2007 10:32 AM
This just in: Fatwa against living, breathing.
In testimony to the hatred inherent in islam, nothing is allowed to live. All life must cease immediately.
at December 20, 2007 11:14 AM
Would re-runs of "The Goldbergs" -- a traditional, hard-working family, with nary a britney-spears navel, nor a cocaine trafficker in sight so as to offend those upright "conservative" Muslims whose manners and mores Dinesh D'Souza so admires -- be alright?
Posted by: Hugh at December 20, 2007 11:18 AM
Maybe this isn't such a bad idea after all. We all might live better lives if we stopped watching TV, instead of ingesting the trash and being lazy and self indulgent.
Posted by: Dumbo at December 20, 2007 12:38 PM
At least the Deobands are being intellectually honest.
If you're going to insist on living in the 7th Century, you shouldn't take advantage of the technology that has been produced since then.
No cars for you. Oh, guns and explosives are forbidden too.
Posted by: tanstaafl at December 20, 2007 1:45 PM
Has anyone else ever wondered why Toyota pick-up trucks and AK-47 assault rifles are never deemed to be haram?
at December 20, 2007 4:42 PM
We should ban TV in America. It has destroyed our political rhetoric, commercialized our best instincts and turned our brains to goo.
Posted by: sceptico at December 20, 2007 4:46 PM
sceptico, had you ever considered issuing your very own fatwa?
Posted by: alexon at December 20, 2007 4:53 PM
I would like to issue a fatwa against making fatwas.
I wonder if islamic "scholars" (what a misnomer) would approve.
Posted by: alexon at December 20, 2007 5:38 PM
http://www.globalincidentmap.com/home.php
View Terrorism as it happens.
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Posted by: ElizaDoolittle at December 20, 2007 9:17 PM
No TV for YOU, muslims!
Posted by: Voltaire at December 21, 2007 2:14 AM
The formidable Deoband seminary has promulgated another fatwa declaring as "haram" (forbidden) artificial insemination for childless couples, as "Allah does not want the couple to have children, so they have no business going against Allah's Will".
Now pious muslims everywhere should look carefully at all the other devilish medical and technological advances designed to frustrate Allah's Will, and reject their use forthwith. No more vaccinations, medicines, surgeries.
No more flying, for " If Allah wanted men to fly, he would have given them wings"!!... it's a long list...
Posted by: Dunk at December 21, 2007 3:29 AM
"The edict is being seen as regressive"...
...regressive as in "opposing progress"...hmmmm, most Islamic edicts/fatwas are indeed "regressive"...
at December 21, 2007 6:22 AM
Now, if Dar-ul Uloom would just ban watching any non tv islamic religious programs, the world would be a better place.
Posted by: David England at December 21, 2007 6:23 AM
Now issue a Fatwa against houses, cars, and electricity as being un-Mohammedan. Then they can go back to tents and camels, the perfect Mohammedan cesspool.
Posted by: senor doeboy at December 21, 2007 7:01 AM
Good post Dunk. So true, so true.
Posted by: alexon at December 21, 2007 4:52 PM
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