A Muslim organisation has issued a fatwa over mobile phone etiquette, it has been reported.
In the north Indian city of Kanpur a panel of clerics from the Islamic group Jamia Ashraf-ul-Madaris has set new rules over using phones. The panel objected to the use of aayats (verses from the Koran) as ringtones. It argues that people answer calls midway through the aayat, leave the verse incomplete. Ghyasuddin, a senior cleric, told the Press Association: “Listening to aayats partially is anti-Islamic. This kind of action amounts to a gunah (sin).
“People should abstain from these practices. It would leave a bad impression on young children.” Mr Ghyasuddin also criticised using mobile phones in the toilet. “If the phone rings and an aayat can be heard in the toilet, it is a sin,” he said.
In Islam, a fatwa is a legal decree which is made by someone who has an extensive knowledge of the Sharia law. The panel also refused to allow people to put their phones on vibrate mode while offering prayers. “It distracts you while offering prayers. It’s disgraceful if one can’t even give a peaceful half an hour to Allah,” Mr Ghyasuddin said.
But, if a phone rings in the toilet, and no one hears it…is it still a sin?
not worthy of a blog entry McCullough
# 20 Jeff said, on April 14th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
“No, the system of religion and to a lesser extent secular laws discriminate against women and minorities…”
Since women are the majority and the ballots secret, the only ones stopping women from holding all elected positions, are women… Indisputable fact.
Paddy-O, I don’t even know where to begin. I love when people talk about indisputable facts. There is no such thing in a social science. That, however, is not really the message that I was trying to get across.
I pretty much have given up on it. My suggestion is to take a couple of college classes and get back to me when you have completed your graduate thesis.
At that point I will be more than willing to compare notes… until than, I see no point.
# 23 Jeff said, “Paddy-O, I don’t even know where to begin. I love when people talk about indisputable facts.”
Start at the beginning. Women make up the majority of voters in the U.S. Ballots are secret. Only women can prevent women from being elected.
Prove something else…
Waiting…
Idiots
#10 High 5.
#9 …and that’s different from Islam how??
Hey squidhead,
Prove to me that all those women and children who died and still dying under the name of democrazy were being held as shields…
I recommend you speak with your mouth and not the bottom…
Hopefully you will make more sense then….
Paddy-O… no, I am done with this. I could talk about endemic and institutionalized sexism or historical events as reference points but they would be lost on you.
# 28 Jeff said, “Paddy-O… no, I am done with this.”
I don’t blame you. Hint; if you want to challenge established, known, facts. Bring some of your own to the table…
#13 Sure, like you do in Israel. Perhaps if you people were men enough and not hide behind kids, that wouldn’t happen.
#14 You’re hailing muslims and critisizeing xtians about women treatment? that was rich. You almost got away with that.
#27 That’d be as you trying to prove that you actually have a brain.
#28. Jeff- Give it up, we have all learned that Paddy-O is nothing but a clueless troll who will argue the color of the sky if you’d like. His mom hasn’t let him out of the basement for years. I kind of feel sorry for him, but we just give him a pat on the head like a retarded nephew, and move on.
Religion: the worst thing that ever happened to humanity.
Islam: the worst thing that ever happened to religion.
I gave up…
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Pedro, don’t twist what I said about Islam and Christianity. Don’t just single out one of my posts.
I think I will side with SP101 on this… religion, organized religion… whatever, it’s evil. Enough said.
I never saw it reported but cell phones played a central role in the Danish cartoon controversy.
Agitators (I assume Muslims) seeded in even more highly offensive cartoons among the less offensive real ones being sent from phone to phone. That’s how most Muslims saw the cartoons, since they were not shown in any local media.
Not having access to a free media, many Muslims couldn’t tell which were the real ones or even that they were being punked. People died because of this.
So, maybe a general fatwah against media-enabled phones might be a helpful thing.
Recently while using the restroom and I did an aayat so big that I had to stand up, talk about a fatwa – I committed jihad on that toilet. I had to flush 3 times to get that bad boy down. This was after burrito night at the convent.
#33 That’s better.
“I think I will side with SP101 on this… religion, organized religion… whatever, it’s evil. Enough said.”
Pretty much what I told Baptists at my door yesterday and the Mormons on Monday.