Egypt's Latest Fatwas from Salafis and Brotherhood
by Raymond Ibrahim
Gatestone Institute
November 27, 2013
Gatestone Institute
November 27, 2013
As the full ramification of the Muslim Brotherhood's year in
power continues to be exposed, a new study by Al Azhar's Fatwa Committee
dedicated to exploring the fatwas, or Islamic decrees, issued by the
Brotherhood and Salafis -- the Islamists -- was recently published.
According to the report, "fatwas issued by both groups
[Brotherhood and Salafis] regard women as strange creatures created solely for
sex. They considered the voices of women, their looks and presence outside the
walls of their homes an 'offence.' Some went as far as to consider women as a
whole 'offensive.'"
The Egyptian newspaper Al Masry Al Youm summarized some of the Al Azhar study's main
findings and assertions on November 15 in an article entitled (in translation),
"Muslim Brotherhood fatwas: A woman swimming is an 'adulteress' and
touching bananas is 'forbidden.'"
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