There was some concern in the Islamic world about selling food to Infidels during the daylight hours of Ramadan. Infidels are everyone who does not submit to the will of Allah, so almost everyone you know. The Cleric’s answer says a lot.
[T]he popular Egyptian daily newspaper and website, al-Masry al-Youm (“the Egyptian Today”), published a fatwa by the Syrian cleric, Sheikh Muhammad Salih Munajjid, under the title, “What Is the Ruling on Selling Food to Infidels during the Daylight [Hours] of Ramadan?” … the fatwa concluded that selling food to those who might eat it during the daylight hours of Ramadan was forbidden, “and there is no difference [in this ruling] between the Muslim and the infidel.”
For supporting evidence, Munajjid quoted the popular Muslim jurist, Abu Zakaria al-Nawawi (b.1233), who wrote that “the true madhab that has been confirmed and agreed upon by the majority is that infidels are addressed by the branches of sharia, so that, what is forbidden to Muslims is forbidden to them.”
Munajjid also quoted Koran 74:42-47, which indicates that, because infidels go to hell for not believing in or following the rules of Islam, they are, therefore, clearly governed by them.
You are, therefore, subject to all of Sharia. All of it. That’s the ruling. It doesn’t say Muslims must teach Infidels and encourage them to embrace the will of Allah. It says they must treat you as sinners before the eyes of God. Period.
Wait, it gets better, well, sort of,
“While this fatwa ruling is not altogether surprising, what did shock many Egyptians is that al-Masry al-Youm —long seen as a secular, reformist daily newspaper that thrives on exposing and combatting Islamist intolerance—published it. The uproar from its readership, which includes not a few Coptic Christians, was such that hours after its publication, the Egyptian daily deleted the fatwa from its website, suspended the editor responsible for publishing it, and formally apologized. The hardcopy newspaper, however, still carries it…”
Good news or not? Some say not. If the reporting is correct, the Newspaper is now owned by the Egyptian equivalent of the deep state, and content is scrutinized to ensure it supports the state’s interests.
In other words, Egypt may have supported the fatwa that forced everyone, regardless of faith, to become subject to Sharia law.
That’s an interesting turn for that nation even after the walk back. Not that long ago, extremists seized power with the help of the Obama Administration. But the so-called Arab spring benefactors were removed for being too 8th century in their thinking. More moderate leadership set itself up to right the ship of state.
What happened to them, and is this a sign that the pendulum in Egypt is swinging back the other way?
And that aside, who else insists on taking Sheikh Muhammad Salih Munajjid‘s position and not the more moderate one, and how many are in the United States?
Looking, perhaps, to set up their Islamic equivalent of the social credit system, only there’s no system. You comply or else.
