Cases and Fatwās Roundup

  • An Islamic cleric and three village elders in Bangladesh were arrested after the police found that the village elders had stoned a woman accused of having an extra-martial affair to death based on the cleric’s fatwā. For more content and context on harsh interpretations and applications of Islamic criminal law, consult our Editor-in-Chief, Professor Intisar Rabb’s “Resource Roundup: Islamic Criminal Law.” For more news blurbs relating to harsh applications of Islamic criminal law, consult our “Islamic Criminal Law in the News Roundup.”
  • “A Malaysian state has issued a fatwa banning Muslims from entering churches and other non-Muslim places of worship.”

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