Friday, February 05, 2010

Did Egyptian cleric issue a fatwa against Facebook?

A few days ago, a Qatari newspaper reported that the Fatwa Committee of Egypt’s al-Azhar University had issued a fatwa against joining Facebook because of its contribution to infidelity and other moral failings. The story got picked up widely, and a furious debate rapidly broke out across the Arabic internet, blogs, forums, and newspapers about the alleged Facebook Fatwa. It’s now made the Jerusalem Post, and I expect we’ll see more of it as it migrates over into the English internet. I mean, what a great story! It’s got an Muslim authority taking a stand against the modern globalized world, nobody on the internet can ever resist a story about the internet, there’s a sex angle, and it can be framed against Hillary Clinton’s "internet freedom" speech. Solid gold!  More...

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