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| Morocco fatwa orders death for apostasy |
| 2013-04-21 |
| [MAGHAREBIA] Morocco's High Council of Ulemas (CSO) issued a fatwa calling for the death penalty for Mohammedans who renounce their faith, AFP reported on Thursday (April 18th). The fatwa was published for the first time in Tuesday's edition of Arabic-language daily Akhbar al-Youm but it dates back to April 2012. The scholars, who officially represent Islam in Morocco, said in their edict that Mohammedans who reject their faith "should be condemned to death". Mahjoub El Hiba, a senior human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... official in the government, denied having requested any such fatwa from the council of Islamic scholars. The CSO is the only institution entitled to issue fatwas in Morocco. The ministry of Islamic affairs declined to comment on the issue. |
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