Green Options » fatwa http://greenoptions.com/tag/fatwa Posts tagged 'fatwa' Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:54:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Sheik Says Biofuels Are Prohibited by Islam http://cleantechnica.com/2009/02/20/sheik-says-biofuels-are-prohibited-by-islam/ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/02/20/sheik-says-biofuels-are-prohibited-by-islam/#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:54:53 +0000 Ariel Schwartz http://cleantechnica.com/2009/02/20/sheik-says-biofuels-are-prohibited-by-islam/

Biofuels may have hit an unexpected roadblock with a pronouncement by Sheik Mohamed al-Najimi of the Saudi Islamic Jurisprudence Academy that the fuel may be prohibited by Islam. According to al-Najimi, the prophet Muhammad prohibited the buying, selling, transporting, drinking, and manufacturing of alcohol - including the ethyl alcohol present in ethanol.

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On January 28, 2009, the Indonesian Ulemas Council issued a fatwa, a religious edict, forbidding all Muslims from practicing yoga
that includes meditation and chanting.

The council is not a government entity, but it receives funding from the Ministry of Religion. The fatwa is an attempt to influence morality in Indonesia, but yoga class attendance has not been affected by the fatwa. There is a formal ban on yoga in neighboring Malaysia.

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