Fatwa on killing Salman Rushdie after he converted to Islam: Has it changed?
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The questioner : In English
Another questioner : In your opinion, based on what you know, is the fatwa issued by Khomeini to kill Salman Rushdie a valid fatwa? And now that he has announced his return to Islam, does such a fatwa end?
The Shaykh : The matter resembles what we have been experiencing for ten years: the fighting of the Afghans against the Russians. They did not move until jihad was declared from Iraq, and... then they moved.
The questioner : Who moved?
The Shaykh : The Iraqis.
The questioner : Here, or where else?
The Shaykh : It does not concern us whether it is here or there; we are speaking about Muslims.
The questioner : In English
The Shaykh : With some clarification, if it is true as it appears, and I retract and say that I have not read his book, but the excerpts that were published are sufficient to condemn him. Based on that, I say he is not the first apostate from his religion who must be killed. And I say, why the questioning about this man? Those who disbelieve are still disbelieving in Egypt and elsewhere, and no one asks, "Should he be killed or not?" They are apostates, but this particular case attracted special attention regarding this man's disbelief, on the one hand, and because the state is an Islamic state that has deviated from the correct Islam—the Shi'ah exploited this and said that he must be killed, as if there were no one in the world of Islam in this time who must be killed among the Muslim apostates except this man, even though, unfortunately, there are many of them who cannot be counted.
The questioner : In English.
Another questioner : In your opinion, based on what you know, is the fatwa issued by Khomeini to kill Salman Rushdie a valid fatwa? And now that he has announced his return to Islam, does such a fatwa end?
The Shaykh : The matter resembles what we have been experiencing for ten years: the fighting of the Afghans against the Russians. They did not move until jihad was declared from Iraq, and... then they moved.
The questioner : Who moved?
The Shaykh : The Iraqis.
The questioner : Here, or where else?
The Shaykh : It does not concern us whether it is here or there; we are speaking about Muslims.
The questioner : In English
The Shaykh : With some clarification, if it is true as it appears, and I retract and say that I have not read his book, but the excerpts that were published are sufficient to condemn him. Based on that, I say he is not the first apostate from his religion who must be killed. And I say, why the questioning about this man? Those who disbelieve are still disbelieving in Egypt and elsewhere, and no one asks, "Should he be killed or not?" They are apostates, but this particular case attracted special attention regarding this man's disbelief, on the one hand, and because the state is an Islamic state that has deviated from the correct Islam—the Shi'ah exploited this and said that he must be killed, as if there were no one in the world of Islam in this time who must be killed among the Muslim apostates except this man, even though, unfortunately, there are many of them who cannot be counted.
The questioner : In English.
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