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Fatwa Against Catching Fish That Eat Dead Mercenaries in Rivers
From Jihad UnspunA number of Clerics from Anbar Governorate, in western Iraq, have issued a "Fatwa" (legal opinion) prohibiting the practice of fishing in the Euphrates river where it passes the cities of Fallujah, Ramadi, Hait, and Al-Qaim. The Fatwa was distributed in a form of a statement to several Mosques in Anbar province. According to the statement, the reason for the Fatwa was the dumping of dead mercenary soldiers in the river by the Americans. The practice of dumping dead bodies has been going on for a while but when the fish size became larger than normal, it became clear that fish in the areas of dumping were feeding on the flesh of the dead bodies which prompted the clerics to rule that these fish should not be consumed by Muslims. Islam memo's correspondent indicated that a committee was formed in Ramadi to educated citizens about the health hazards of the river as a result of dumping of dead soldiers. In the mean time, fishermen told Islam memo correspondent that they are angry because by dumping these dead bodies, the Americans are negatively impacting the fishermen's only source of income. Fishermen said that Americans dumped 40 bodies from an Apache helicopter in one day alone. JUS [Jihad Unspun] has long been reporting the dumping of the bodies of American soldiers and hired mercenaries into rivers and bury them in mass graves in the desert. We have made an open call to humanitarian agencies to investigate, which has so far gone unanswered. ..... Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2005-01-08 |
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