Muslim cleric issues fatwa forbidding travel to Mars

you cannot make this CHIT up (is good news though  mars won't be polluted with the insane followers of islam)

From Jihadwatch

Muslim cleric issues fatwa forbidding travel to Mars

 

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/10/muslim-cleric-issues-fatwa-forbidding-travel-to-mars.html

"To call me an Islamophobe is not logical"

Still no fatwa against the idea that Muslims should wage war against and subjugate unbelievers.
Anyway, NASA chief Charlie Bolden said a few years ago that Obama wanted him "to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with predominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering." Just don't take them to Mars, Charlie.
"Saudi sheikh Ali al Hemki declares fatwa against manned missions to Mars," from News.com.au, October 31 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):

A SAUDI sheikh has issued a fatwa against anyone wanting to travel to Mars. A member Saudi Arabia's board of religious scholars Sheikh Ali al Hemki has criticised the Mars One project which is attempting to organise a commercial mission to the red planet and has drawn expressions of interest from more than 200 thousand people worldwide.
The Ah Hayat newspaper quotes him as saying the mission does not conform to "responsible Muslim" practices.
"These experiments will lead to the destruction of those who try," and so should be done with animals, not people," he said.
"Believers should not should throw themselves into their own hands into perdition. "

"Be not cast by your own hands into perdition" -- Qur'an 2:195

While 477 Saudi citizens have applied for the mission, only six have so far been accepted....

Posted by Robert on October 31, 2013 8:06 AM | 23 Comments