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From banning music, co-education to barring female employees to join work, the Taliban is back to imposing restrictions on women

OpIndia Staff - 22 August, 2021

After promising rights of women in media interviews, the Taliban has started imposing restrictions on women in Afghanistan

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Bareilly Muslim organization issues diktat to boycott weddings where women ‘mingle with unknown men’ and ‘don’t wear full hijab’

OpIndia Staff - 12 March, 2021

Muslim fundamentalist organisations have issued many more such bizarre fatwas in the past as well

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“Sooar ki charbi haram hai”: Islamic organisations issue fatwa against coronavirus vaccines from China

OpIndia Staff - 24 December, 2020

Muslim scholars have called Covid-19 vaccine haram as it may have pork gelatin

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‘Muslims entering Al-Aqsa mosque through gates of Israel are traitor, they will only get spit of people’: Grand Mufti of Palestine issues Fatwa

OpIndia Staff - 22 August, 2020

The Palestine Authority has said that Muslims are not allowed to visit Al-Aqsa mosque through Israel using the recent Saudi-Israel peace deal

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West Bengal: Murshidabad village Fatwa bans music, lottery, watching TV, liquor, punishment includes fine and sit-ups

OpIndia Staff - 19 August, 2020

Fatwa against music, carom, lottery, watching TV and liquor issued in West Bengal village.

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‘New places of worship for other religions in Islamic country not allowed’: Fatwa issued against under-construction Hindu temple in Pakistan

OpIndia Staff - 1 July, 2020

Fatwa issued in Pakistan says that govt fund can't be used to construct places of worship of religions other than Islam

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Jharkhand: Masjid Imam issues fatwa against 75-year-old man denying burial for being ‘unIslamic’, being friendly with Hindus and visiting temples

OpIndia Staff - 12 January, 2020

A 75-year-old man Kariman Mian in Jharkhand was denied burial in the graveyard as the Iman of Makri Masjid, Zakir Ansari, issued a fatwa against him for his 'unIslamic' lifestyle.

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Deoband: Maulana Abdul Waqeel Qasmi issues fatwa: Bursting firecrackers ‘un-Islamic’, profit earned from firecracker business ‘haram’

OpIndia Staff - 22 October, 2019

Maulana Abdul Waqeel Qasmi has issued a fatwa saying bursting firecrackers in un-Islamic and any profit earned from the business of firecrackers is 'haram'.

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‘I represent an inclusive India’, MP Nusrat Jahan reacts to fatwa against her issued by Deoband clerics

OpIndia Staff - 30 June, 2019

She says that she still remains a Muslim and no one should be commenting on what she chooses to wear

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Fatwa issued against Nusrat Jahan for wearing Sindoor and Mangalsutra, Deoband cleric says “A Muslim can only marry a Muslim”

OpIndia Staff - 29 June, 2019

Nusrat Jahan Ruhi recently had married a Hindu Jain man. She was seen taking her oath as a parliamentarian wearing the traditional adornments of a Hindu married woman.

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