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| India-Pakistan |
| Pak military seeks fatwa on martyrs |
| 2007-02-20 |
| In an apparent bid to blunt the campaign by militants, the Pakistan military has sought a religious edict whether soldiers laying down their lives in the war on terror or fighting against sectarian terror could be called martyrs or not. The General Headquarters (GHQ) has approached the constitutional panel, the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) to issue a decree, or fatwa, stating whether a soldier killed in Pakistan while fighting terrorists or pre-empting sectarianism is a martyr. Militants fighting Pakistan Army in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan used clerics to issue the edict (fatwa) that a soldier supporting American crusade in the name of war on terror was committing an un-Islamic act and his death could not be called martyrdom. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #6 do super sunnas count Al Aska Paul? ;-) |
| Posted by: RD 2007-02-20 21:38 |
| #5 Back off, infidels! You be in my 'hood. I issue the fatwas 'round here, me and my converted buddy A. Kalashnikov. |
| Posted by: Al Aska Paul, Resident Imam 2007-02-20 19:57 |
| #4 I'll see your fatwa and raise you a hudna. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2007-02-20 19:40 |
| #3 I've got three fatwas showing and I'll raise you one. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-02-20 19:20 |
| #2 Pak army soldiers have been refused islamic burial rites by mullahs, claiming that they died fighting mujahideen and were not muslim. |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-02-20 07:20 |
| #1 fat chance getting a fatwa on martyrs. allan needs blood sacrifice. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2007-02-20 02:05 |