Comments on: Getting Fatwa at Parties: Birthday Parties Declared as UnIslamic by Leading Saudi Cleric http://jonathanturley.org/2008/09/05/getting-fatwa-at-parties-birthday-parties-declared-as-unislamic-by-leading-saudi-cleric/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Mon, 28 May 2012 11:26:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: palindrome http://jonathanturley.org/2008/09/05/getting-fatwa-at-parties-birthday-parties-declared-as-unislamic-by-leading-saudi-cleric/#comment-23518 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:10:40 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=3835#comment-23518 I’m not a fan of Monday. I hereby declare fatwa on Monday!

]]> By: Jill http://jonathanturley.org/2008/09/05/getting-fatwa-at-parties-birthday-parties-declared-as-unislamic-by-leading-saudi-cleric/#comment-23504 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:46:17 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=3835#comment-23504 Gyges,

Ozzy Osborn was invited to a clandestine birthday party for a chicken.

I’m deciding to pick a “declare your own fatwa” day! It can be any day, except Tues. as I’ve declared fatwa on Tuesday.

]]> By: Bob, Esq. http://jonathanturley.org/2008/09/05/getting-fatwa-at-parties-birthday-parties-declared-as-unislamic-by-leading-saudi-cleric/#comment-23477 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:49:24 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=3835#comment-23477 I’m not sure this is news worthy; since Muslims as a simple matter of tradition don’t celebrate birthdays. Accordingly, making said birthdays fatwa material smells of rabid fundamentalism; like Kansas incorporating creationism into its education curriculum.

Muslims also don’t cage birds either; where’s the fatwa for that?

]]> By: Gyges http://jonathanturley.org/2008/09/05/getting-fatwa-at-parties-birthday-parties-declared-as-unislamic-by-leading-saudi-cleric/#comment-23475 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:27:58 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=3835#comment-23475 But do they ban the celebration of Mike the Headless Chicken Day?

]]> By: Jill http://jonathanturley.org/2008/09/05/getting-fatwa-at-parties-birthday-parties-declared-as-unislamic-by-leading-saudi-cleric/#comment-23474 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:26:18 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=3835#comment-23474 I believe catheter balloons are kosher as they will never be associated with fun. At the end of his speech the g.m. was heard to growl…”Fire Bad”.

]]> By: palindrome http://jonathanturley.org/2008/09/05/getting-fatwa-at-parties-birthday-parties-declared-as-unislamic-by-leading-saudi-cleric/#comment-23472 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:21:39 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=3835#comment-23472 Maybe they remind him of birthday balloons…

]]> By: jonathanturley http://jonathanturley.org/2008/09/05/getting-fatwa-at-parties-birthday-parties-declared-as-unislamic-by-leading-saudi-cleric/#comment-23471 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:42:44 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=3835#comment-23471 Jill:

Let’s be fair. The grand mufti only prohibits medical devices like catheter balloons, which are a bit too festive.

JT

]]> By: Jill http://jonathanturley.org/2008/09/05/getting-fatwa-at-parties-birthday-parties-declared-as-unislamic-by-leading-saudi-cleric/#comment-23468 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:26:01 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=3835#comment-23468 I bet he uses medical innovations. Ban them, they are a plot from the west.

]]> By: palindrome http://jonathanturley.org/2008/09/05/getting-fatwa-at-parties-birthday-parties-declared-as-unislamic-by-leading-saudi-cleric/#comment-23465 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:07:11 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=3835#comment-23465 Oops, just one benefit :)

]]> By: palindrome http://jonathanturley.org/2008/09/05/getting-fatwa-at-parties-birthday-parties-declared-as-unislamic-by-leading-saudi-cleric/#comment-23464 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:06:37 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=3835#comment-23464 Maybe he just hates wrapping presents. We could send him some of those cool gift bags. But good question maji6, I have three children and seven grandchildren so I’d see a serious financial benefit benefit from banning them; but the fun-o-meter would be in the toilet…..

]]> By: maji6 http://jonathanturley.org/2008/09/05/getting-fatwa-at-parties-birthday-parties-declared-as-unislamic-by-leading-saudi-cleric/#comment-23460 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:50:21 +0000 http://jonathanturley.wordpress.com/?p=3835#comment-23460 I guess we have to think of it in terms of how much emotioanl or economic benefit benefit or harm gives a nation by hving such celebrations.

What is the Overall benefit in celebrating everyones birthday?
What is the harm in treating a birthday as any other day in a calendar?

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