Here is yet another indication that the benign, happy-face version of Sharia that Islamic supremacists and the mainstream media are purveying in the U.S. today is not quite like the real thing.
There Is No Fun In Islam* Alert: “Birthday bashes against sharia: Darul Uloom Deoband,” from the PTI, November 7 (thanks to Slothy):
MUZAFFARNAGAR: Darul Uloom Deoband has advised Muslims against celebrating birthdays, contending in a fatwa that Islam does not permit such a practice which is a “tradition of western countries”.
Responding to a query of an AMU student, Darul Uloom said that Islam does not permit such celebrations as they are against the Shariat law.
The query was made in reference to the birthday celebration of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, the founder of the Aligarh Muslim University.
“Muslims should not follow the tradition of western culture of celebrating birthdays as it against the Shariat law,” vice-chancellor of Darul Uloom Deoband, Maulana Abul Kasim Naumani said on Sunday. Naumani added that even the Islamic seminary does not celebrate the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammed.
* The Ayatollah Khomeini said that.