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Muslim leaders issue a fatwa against anyone living on Mars
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Muslim leaders issue a fatwa against anyone living on Mars
February 20, 2014 at 6:15 pm
Quote:A Fatwa has been issued against living on Mars by clerics who say that trying to set up home there would be un-Islamic.
The fatwa – or ruling – was issued by the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowment (GAIAE) in the UAE after the Mars One organisation announced that it would try and establish a permanent human settlement on Mars.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-there.htm
If true, I am moving to mars, Islam can have this planet, its fucked anyway.
Then again, it is the daily mail.
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RE: Muslim leaders issue a fatwa against anyone living on Mars
February 20, 2014 at 6:18 pm
Can the Pope declare it un-Christian, too? If he does, I'm in. Wait, maybe not... will there be Wifi on Mars?
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RE: Muslim leaders issue a fatwa against anyone living on Mars
February 20, 2014 at 6:26 pm
Yeah I saw that the other day. Given all the scientific information supposedly in the Koran, I'm surprised they hadn't already got there.
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RE: Muslim leaders issue a fatwa against anyone living on Mars
February 20, 2014 at 6:26 pm
(February 20, 2014 at 6:18 pm)futilethewinds Wrote: Can the Pope declare it un-Christian, too? If he does, I'm in. Wait, maybe not... will there be Wifi on Mars?

Yes, as Earths internet and Mars will be connected, though laggy.
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RE: Muslim leaders issue a fatwa against anyone living on Mars
February 20, 2014 at 6:29 pm
(February 20, 2014 at 6:26 pm)Gooders1002 Wrote:
(February 20, 2014 at 6:18 pm)futilethewinds Wrote: Can the Pope declare it un-Christian, too? If he does, I'm in. Wait, maybe not... will there be Wifi on Mars?

Yes, as Earths internet and Mars will be connected, though laggy.

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RE: Muslim leaders issue a fatwa against anyone living on Mars
February 20, 2014 at 6:30 pm
(February 20, 2014 at 6:26 pm)Gooders1002 Wrote: Yes, as Earths internet and Mars will be connected, though laggy.
Great, then I'm totally in.
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RE: Muslim leaders issue a fatwa against anyone living on Mars
February 20, 2014 at 6:45 pm
Quote:The committee argued that an attempt to dwell on the planet would be so hazardous as to be suicidal and killing oneself is not permitted by Islam.

True of every trailer park in the bible belt, too.
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RE: Muslim leaders issue a fatwa against anyone living on Mars
February 20, 2014 at 10:20 pm
I don't think many of the Muslims who are interested in living on Mars give a fuck what those clerics think. It's only a matter of time before someone finds something in a holy book that can be twisted to sound like it's predicting people going to Mars anyway.
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RE: Muslim leaders issue a fatwa against anyone living on Mars
February 20, 2014 at 11:30 pm
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RE: Muslim leaders issue a fatwa against anyone living on Mars
February 22, 2014 at 4:06 pm
Ok.... they say that it is wrong for a muslim to go to mars because suicide is wrong, why does the same restriction not apply if you strap on an explosive vest and detonate it in a crowded place?
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