
A newly released religious ruling, or fatwa, handed down by the ISIL Committee of Research and Fatwas stipulates in great detail the sexual conduct of Islamic State slave owners toward their infidel female captives.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.29 Dec 2015, 5:53 AM PST0

According to a religious ruling, or fatwa, issued by Islamic State scholars, the harvesting of organs from live victims in order to save the lives of Muslims is licit, opening the question of whether ISIS is engaging in the trafficking of human body parts.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.27 Dec 2015, 9:13 AM PST0

A London resident has been convicted of planning a Lee Rigby style attack before Remembrance Sunday last year. He had listened to a “truly chilling” Islamic State fatwa calling on Muslims to kill western police officers, the court heard. Nadir Syed, 22,
by Liam Deacon15 Dec 2015, 1:10 AM PST0

Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin took to Facebook and Twitter Monday to assert her message to the Islamic State, which issued a fatwa – or religious decree – that authorizes its members to kill newborn babies with Down Syndrome, congenital deformities, and disabled children.
by Dr. Susan Berry14 Dec 2015, 6:57 PM PST0

A new Iranian film about the early life of Muhammad is doing brisk business at the box office even as its creative team faces fatwa threats and some of the Muslim world’s most prominent Sunni clerics have called for it to be banned outright.
by Daniel Nussbaum21 Sep 2015, 12:19 PM PST0

In Hindu-controlled India, over 1,000 Muslim leaders and scholars have sanctioned a religious ruling, or fatwa, against the Islamic State as contrary to the true teachings of Islam.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.5 Sep 2015, 9:58 AM PST0

Islamic State social media accounts have uploaded a fatwa to the Internet calling for the death of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, himself politically an Islamist, for collaborating with the United States on airstrikes against the jihadist terror group.
by Frances Martel2 Sep 2015, 8:10 AM PST0

Turkish Muslim televangelist Ahmet Mahmut Ünlü issued a fatwa to kill any militant associated with the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). “If you run across them, slaughter them like you fight with the people of Ad and İrem [two places destroyed by God],” he wrote. “Those who kill them will be awarded and those who are killed by them will be martyrs.”
by Mary Chastain24 Jul 2015, 11:14 AM PST0

Iranian-backed militias consisting of Shia Muslims have released a video showing an alleged Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) member alive being burnt alive in Iraq, reminiscent of a similar video in which ISIS jihadists burnt alive a Jordanian pilot. The terrorist group members identify as Sunni Muslims, who consider Shia Muslims heretics.
by Mary Chastain2 Jun 2015, 8:34 AM PST0

Breitbart’s Adelle Nazarian had the opportunity to speak with renowned Middle East expert and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Dr. Michael Rubin recently. Dr. Rubin provided his analysis on U.S.-Iran relations under the Obama Administration and provided a look into the future through the periscope of the past.
by Adelle Nazarian17 Apr 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

In Impromptus today, Jay deals with the curious case of the missing fatwa. That would, of course, be the purported fatwa (or Islamic sharia law edict) issued by Iran’s “Supreme Leader,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, which is said to prohibit Iran from developing nuclear weapons. The fatwa does not exist.
by Breitbart News16 Apr 2015, 1:44 PM PST0

It is no secret that the Iranian regime has expanded its influence in the White House, where President Barack Obama is providing talking points that sound increasingly like they are coming “straight out of Tehran.” Among these is the claim that Iran’s Supreme Leader has issued a fatwa against nuclear weapons use.
by Adelle Nazarian14 Apr 2015, 5:54 AM PST0

Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs, known as the Diyanet, issued a fatwa that allows Muslims to use toilet paper. However, the department reminded people “that water should be the primary source of cleansing.”
by Mary Chastain7 Apr 2015, 9:47 AM PST0

Felix Siauw, an Indonesian Islamic cleric with over 1.1 million Twitter followers, took to the social media site in order to declare that women who take selfies are “shameless” and “unpure.”
by Jordan Schachtel28 Jan 2015, 11:25 AM PST0

The Islamists hacked her to death in broad daylight in Bangladesh and held the horrified onlookers at bay with firearms.
by Dr. Phyllis Chesler12 Jan 2015, 9:33 PM PST0

A Saudi religious authority, Mohamed Saleh Al Minjed, issued a fatwa (religious edict) that making snowmen or snow animals is not compliant with the teachings of Islam. Supporters of the fatwa said that even if the snow creations are created out of good fun, they must be rejected, because it is what people in corrupted Western cultures do. Al Minjed said only figures without a “soul,” such as structures, food, or vehicles, can be recreated with snow.
by Jordan Schachtel12 Jan 2015, 8:41 AM PST0