i have to see the actual article to believe it. not sure i buy this allegation.

WTF!! LOL! That's the last thing we need after the latest previous fatwa, Erda3 el kabeer! My God those idiots

*LOL* that is just too stupid..if it true let them go to hell...

This fatwa is an old one and it was issued by different scholars. To be honest, after i have used the net for long time, Muslims or Arabs in Middle East are not ready for this service.
I will try to explain to you why they issued this fatwa. There was studying say that 80% of Arabs use internet for sexual matter. These scholars think that women are a reason for tempting man because of the difference in desires between them. However I would like to hear from these schaolars not to forbid the internet but they should warn them about the dangerous in this technology.
Guys, most of you and your family were exposed to western culture and can deal with the new developments. But in our areas, man gets married to women without seeing her. Other women do not answer phone if it is not from her husband. Do you think are these people ready to cope with new world. The answer is No.
You know it will be great idea if we  invent something called Halal internet. it will filter everything not islamic or decent, why not?

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re post: this is pathetic. I really hope its a sorry excuse for a joke, because if it were true, the state of Muslims is even worse than I thought if they follow such pathetic-excuse-for-a-scholar's "guidance".

re ahmad: you say "80% of Arabs use internet for sexual matter". As an Arab, I am well aware of our culture's shortcomings.. however, I think your statement is WRONG. First of all, I would like to know where you got this statistic, or did you simply round up a bunch of Arabs and asked them how they used the internet and simply extrapolated at that?

The truth is, most guys, no matter their culture, use the internet to look for sexual content, unless their mother and/or wife/gf has enacted a screen to filter such content or monitors web usage to ensure he doesn't look at such content. The other deterrant are morals and/or religion, which prevent a male from looking at such content.

However, the percentage of females who look at such content is very VERY low, which is why the completely ridiculous "fatwa" makes it seem even more BS.

And by the way, all the situations you quoted are stupid cultural backwardness that have nothing to do with religion. This pathetic excuse for a fatwa drags religion into the issue.

I don't see why people think they need to turn to scholars for guidance.God have you a brain and said you don't need any other thing besides your heart to reach Him. Use your brain, act fromt he heart. WHy is that so hard?? Why do people have to turn to such idiotic schoalrs to justify their idiotic actions???

STOP THIS BULLSHIT PEOPLE!!!! WHEN A CHRISTIAN LUNATIC ISSUES A DUMB FATWA NO ONE CONDEMNS CHRISTIANITY, THEY CONDEMN THE LUNATICS.

THERE ARE something like 1.5 billion Muslims and 2 billion Christians and 1 billion Hindus.  and if you think they are all sane and rational people, then you are not being realistic. If in each group there is 1% of lunatics and extremists, that's about 10 million lunatics in each religion. that's lots of lunatics who can polloute the world with their lunatic views.

SO DON'T START CONDEMNING HUNDREDS OF MILLION OF PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THE ACTS OF 1% OF THEIR FANATICS, MORONS, AND ASSHOLES.

THE FACT EVERY IDIOTIC ACT COMMITTED BY A MUSLIM GET THE SPOTLIGHT OF SCRUTINY HAS LITTLE TO DO WITH ISLAM AND MUSLIMS AND MORE TO DO WITH A PREVAILING ANTI-MUSLIM ENVIRONMENT.

This is fake, I got it by mail, as usual, fake fatwas for I don't know what purpose

source: http://www.hawahome.com/vb/t72581.html

will , yet I did not finish my blog yet,  busy busy .
3anjad, sho hal 7aki hada walhi ayam zarka2 il yamama ma kan haik .
ya3ni ili sayer ino mo bas il rijaaal 3am isakrooo il circle aktar 3ala il women also women do the same, ya3ni na2s i7otona bil 3asforyah ..

Unbelievable :s

I don't know what to say..

tinkerbella 're ahmad: you say "80% of Arabs use internet for sexual matter". As an Arab, I am well aware of our culture's shortcomings.. however, I think your statement is WRONG. First of all, I would like to know where you got this statistic, or did you simply round up a bunch of Arabs and asked them how they used the internet and simply extrapolated at that?'

This link will answer your question and justify this kind of fatwa although i think it is helping to solve the probelm.


http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2006/05/12/who-is-searching-for-sex/

http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2006/05/12/who-is-searching-for-sex/

OMG !!

I checked out the link you provided Ahmad, it only says that the city that searched for sex the most was Cairo, Egypt, it said nothing about 80% of Arabs looking for sex and only sex online (interstingly, Cairo was the only Arab city that made it into the top ten cities searching for sex online, proving my point).
Besides, just because all these people who live in Cairo (not necessarily all Arab!) were looking for sex online, doesn't mean this was the only thing they were doing online!

كذب في كذب

هذا لتشويه صورة الإسلام ..

فعلاً انتم متخلفين ..

الاسلام أعز وأشرف من انه يقال عنه هالكلام

المرأة المسلمة معززة ومكرمة ..

وتدخل النت وبكل ثقة .. ثقه متبادله بينها وبين أهل بيتها

الرقيب هو الله سبحانه وتعالى

الرجل المسلم متفهم .. وواعي ومثقف ..

والمرأة المسلمة كذلك ..

ولله الحمد والمنة على نعمة الاسلام ..

اللهم رد كيد أعدائنا في نحورهم .. وخذهم أخذ عزيز مقتدر .. واجعلهم عبرة لكل معتبر

Someone on this board did mention creating halalinternet to solve this kind of problem. what a coincidence.  i was just talking to my ex professor who mention they were working since 2002 on some kind of powerful "internet filter designed for islamic schools and Muslim parents ".
According to my friends this software is been tested and approved by many Islamic schools in Indonesia Malaysia.US,Canada and the UK. and very likely it will be available to the public by December 1, of this year.
I'm looking forward to it.