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More scary Islamophobia by choosing to use the spooky Arabic word. A "fatwa" is just a legal ruling interpreted by religious leaders. You may as well call it a verdict. You can have a fatwa towards one couple's divorce. You can issue fatwas on car traffic. On food. Elections. Fire departments. It's just scholars sitting down and saying "How should we interpret our religion regarding this issue?"
But that's not why the media uses the term. They're doing it to deliberately obfuscate what's being said and trying to make westerners associate "fatwa" with murder and assassinations. That way, when their audience encounters the term from other sources (like if they saw a post on the official Iranian Twitter account), they immediately think those dastardly brown people are plotting to kill people.
What's even more bullshit is Persians aren't Arabs. They speak Farsi, not Arabic. That doesn't stop the media from latching scary words to their story to reinforce orientalism.
Nooo you don't understand brown people are scary...
A close translation could be a decree or edict? Or does decree sound more arbitrary?
It's more like a verdict or ruling. For example, Muslims can only declare war if Muslims have been killed or if Muslim property has been destroyed. They also aren't supposed to declare war against other Muslims.
So when the Israelis fired missiles on Iran with American weapons, it becomes a question of how involved is the US? Isreal has met the criteria according to the teachings of Muhammad and the Koran. The fatwa is issued here where scholars consult the Koran and each other over whether or not declaring war on the US would violate the law. The Iranians have concluded the US does meet the criteria because the US is acting through Isreal as its proxy.
This is what's been said by their officials and why the announcement. It's similar to the US Supreme Court ruling whether or not drone strikes are constitutional and within the president's power, then making an announcement for or against.
Gotcha! It always has its source on scripture, and it is only applying it to a specific situation.
He's just doing what Trump and Bibi have been doing for years. They openly comment about killing him, now he's openly saying they can be killed back
Good, let cracKKKers be scared
do they use a different word in farsi? i've never seen someone transliterate it differently, but i don't speak it
Not sure since I don't speak Farsi. I have only two terms of Arabic I took back in college where I mostly learned how to write it.