Monterey Bay Forum

Fatwa against eating frogs including the northern leopard frog

Muslim Brotherhood’s Muhammad Morsi just won the presidency in Egypt.

The first legal action taken, the  very first fatwa to appear by Egypt’s highest fatwa council,  addresses—not social, political, or economic issues in Egypt—but rather frogs.

Specifically, the fatwa  bans Muslims from hunting and killing frogs to sell to those nations that dine on the amphibians.

As the fatwa explains, according to Islam’s prophet Muhammad as recorded in a hadith, a frog’s “croaking is praise [to Allah].”

Accordingly, “a number of jurists [fuqaha] have relied on this [hadith] to forbid the eating of frogs, under the notion that ‘that which is banned from being killed, is forbidden from being eaten.’”

written by Raymond Ibrahim of the PJ Tatler   http://www.pjmedia.com/tatler

_______________

Now if only we could find a fatwa banning Christian killing. JAJ48@aol.com

For more Firenze Sage go to Smashwords.com and find Shoveling Smoke or English Only Spoken Here, Obama.
Send email to: jaj48@aol.com
Go PJ Tatler for more info on the Muslim Brotherhood’s first fatwa after victory.

 

Tags: egype, fatwa, frogs, Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, top fatwa

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 at 9:08 pm and is filed under Crime, Faith, Government, Law, Politics, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.