Thursday, March 15, 2012
"Burning Defaced Korans: Islam-Approved"
After reading this, one almost has to think that this issue was blown way out of proportion...
At PJmedia.com, Timothy Furnish makes some interesting points, beginning with this:
"In reality, it is not against Islamic law to burn Korans, as two of the following three points make clear.
First, and most importantly: authoritative fatwas exist legitimizing the burning of Korans in situations such as prevailed at Parwan. Exhibit number one is this Saudi fatwa, which spells out the conditions for disposing of Korans by either burying them or consigning them to the flames, 'thus imitating Uthmaan,' the third caliph:
If it has torn pages;
If it has pages or suras (chapters) out of order;
If the printed text is somehow amiss with errors or typos;
If any of the pages are missing.
The 'Online Islamic Academy' SunniPath adds: 'One should not write within the Koran nor highlight it.' Taken together, these Sunni sources clearly declare that writing in a Koran is tantamount to 'corrupting' the Islamic holy book and that disposal of the corrupted book by burning is perfectly acceptable."
