# Osama bin Liner's Fatwa

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-liners-fatwa/88133>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 18, 2001, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-liners-fatwa/88133 "2001-10-18T02:30:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Adil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@Adil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adil)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/osama-bin-liners-fatwa/88133/1 "2001-10-18T02:30:25Z")

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You must have seen it by now. Goodness yeah, it’s a nasty piece of work. For those who haven’t glimpsed it as yet, here it is in all its glory at [http://www.ict.org.il/articles/fatwah.htm](http://www.ict.org.il/articles/fatwah.htm).

Since some of my muslim friends seem to have been rather… umm… anti-american foreign policy(?) lately, even on the issue of this fatwah, so I thought I would ask somebody who actually sounds as if they know what they are talking about, like a proper and sane Islamic scholar. After a few hits on some search engines, I bumped into this pakistani academic guy. And this was his [response](http://www.understanding-islam.com/related/questions.jsp?point=3&id=1007) on that fatwah.

Make of it what you will. Just thought I’d pass it on. 🙂