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World Cup Fatwa

Posted: 17th June 2010 by Mathilde Aarseth in Sport and recreation

Editor’s note: Today’s guest post is by Mathilde Aarseth, a summer intern at FFI. In case you hadn’t noticed, the soccer World Cup is on. To mark the occasion Minbar al-Tawhid wa’l-Jihad prominently displays a fatwa tackling the issue of the legality of watching the World Cup. Like every religious edict, it is introduced by [...]