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To: Tribune7
Yes, muslims will be exempt from ObamaCare mandates.

The fatwas are already out on it:

"Praise be to Allaah.

Firstly:

Health insurance is haraam like other types of commercial insurance, because it is based on ambiguity, gambling and riba (usury). This is what is stated in fatwas by the senior scholars. See the answer to question no. 39474 and 4210.

In Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah (15/277) there is a quotation of a statement of the Council of Senior Scholars concerning the prohibition on insurance and why it is haraam:

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Secondly:

The fact that the state makes insurance compulsory does not make it permissible; rather the burden of sin is waived from the person or company who is obliged to do that. As for the broker company which is doing this work by choice, it is guilty of sin."

http://www.islam-qa.com/en/ref/113924/insurance

19 posted on 03/25/2010 6:36:59 PM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

What the “h..l happened to the separation of church and state these liberals are ALWAYS preaching about? I guess the only ones to be separated are Christians and Jews.


23 posted on 03/25/2010 6:47:49 PM PDT by outinyellowdogcountry
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