Posted on 04/22/2022 7:52:15 AM PDT by SJackson
On April 12, 2022, the popular Egyptian daily newspaper and website, al-Masry al-Youm (“the Egyptian Today”), published a fatwa by the Syrian cleric, Sheikh Muhammad Salih Munajjid, under the title, “What Is the Ruling on Selling Food to Infidels during the Daylight [Hours] of Ramadan?”
After offering the usual caveat—that such rulings do not apply to those who are sick, etc.—the fatwa concluded that selling food to those who might eat it during the daylight hours of Ramadan was forbidden, “and there is no difference [in this ruling] between the Muslim and the infidel.”
For supporting evidence, Munajjid quoted the popular Muslim jurist, Abu Zakaria al-Nawawi (b.1233), who wrote that “the true madhab that has been confirmed and agreed upon by the majority is that infidels are addressed by the branches of sharia, so that, what is forbidden to Muslims is forbidden to them.”
Munajjid also quoted Koran 74:42-47, which indicates that, because infidels go to hell for not believing in or following the rules of Islam, they are, therefore, clearly governed by them.
Thus, in the nation of Egypt—where more than ten million Christians, its most indigenous inhabitants, live—al-Masry al-Youm wants to make clear that they, the “infidels,” must also be prevented (by good Muslim grocers) from acquiring food in the daylight hours. (So much for the (Christian) idea that it is only for those who have faith to make sacrifices for their faith.)
While this fatwa ruling is not altogether surprising, what did shock many Egyptians is that al-Masry al-Youm —long seen as a secular, reformist daily newspaper that thrives on exposing and combatting Islamist intolerance—published it. The uproar from its readership, which includes not a few Coptic Christians, was such that hours after its publication, the Egyptian daily deleted the fatwa from its website, suspended the editor responsible for publishing it, and formally apologized. The hardcopy newspaper, however, still carries it (image below).
Despite al-Masry al-Youm’s actions and apology, many Egyptians remain skeptical. As Adel Guindy, a founding member of Coptic Solidarity, and author of the indispensable book, A Sword Over the Nile, observed:
The privately owned paper, long heralded as a flagship for “liberal” ideas (in the old, European sense of the term, not the current American sense meaning “leftist”) was recently taken over by Egypt’s “Deep State” as part of the regime’s frantic efforts to muzzle media and/or turn them into mere mouthpieces. This implies that all published news and opinion articles are carefully scrutinized prior to publishing, more so if it is for the print version. That fatwa is typical of hardline Islamists. For it to be published means that the journalist, the editor, and “censor” saw nothing wrong with it. And that’s precisely the sad part of the story: How the regime views non-Muslims as Kuffar [infidels], with all the ugly connotations that Arabic word carries.
“Infidel”
LOL, guilty as charged. I can cross that off my bucket list now.
then just make it against their law for mslim shop owners to SELL food during daylight hours...
duh
I would have no objection to that- why are they open and doing business? Let them lose money.
“then just make it against their law for mslim shop owners to SELL food during daylight hours...”
Muslims have numerous exemptions to these ‘rules’.
The infidels are expected to bend the muzz “holy” rules like the rest and binge all night and sleep all day.
I’m surprised no one has tried to explain time zones to the imams to even try to skirt around the day fasting/night binging thing.
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“The infidels are expected to bend the muzz “holy” rules like the rest and binge all night and sleep all day.”
Their country, their holiday, their rules.
“...then just make it against their law for muslim shop owners to SELL food during daylight hours...”
And the market closes at 5.
wy69
“I’m surprised no one has tried to explain time zones to the imams to even try to skirt around the day fasting/night binging thing.”
During the second week of Lent, full meals are allowed only on Wednesday and Friday.
On weekdays during Lent, meat, eggs, dairy, fish, wine, and oil are restricted.
The week before Lent, all animal products, including meat, are prohibited.
Good Friday is a day for a complete fast, during which members are encouraged to eat nothing.
That’s kind of my point...
It’s ok for them to say that as a member of the ROP you cannot SELL food, but it’s not ok for them to say that all other people (not members) can’t eat either.
Cults are infested with control freaks.
To figure out if you are in a cult, just watch what they allow and don’t allow you to do.
If it’s anything at all, then you are in a cult.
Christ set us free, and cults hate freedom in Christ.
Meanwhile, Muslims celebrating Ramadan in Hammerfest, Norway have a long fast: sunrise-3:39 am sunset-9:12 pm. Maybe Mohammad didn’t think through this fasting thing enough before it went into the Koran.
jeez louise!!
can you imagine a farcical thing like this doofus, trying to pull this junk in downtown Minneapolis, during lunch hour on a weekday??
once again, the religion of nonsense strikes!
While emotion- provoking, there is nowhere in Egypt that one can buy food during Ramadan.
No business owner in a Muslim would be stupid enough to serve or sell food then. It’s a day off.
And their store would be turned to ashes anyway.
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