5 Feet of Fury

Dial-A-Fatwa is so 2003

From today’s Globe & Mail — So this is Muslim “moderation”, huh?

He is still distressed by his last caller, a married woman whose alcoholic husband had turned violent, hitting her and forcing her to have sex.

Should she seek a divorce, the woman asked?

“I said ‘No. It is better for him to find help. Maybe he will be good by you.’ A woman living alone with children could face too many problems,” the mufti recounted, before taking another call.

I wrote about a smaller but similar enterprise five years ago:

And there it is, on the links page: 1-800-95-FATWA. The same page links to combative conspiracy theorists whatreallyhappened.com; Radio Islam (which features articles like “How the Jews Rule the World” and photos of anti-war protesters); and science4islam.com (where the author of “Intermingling Between the Two Sexes” explains “Ex president of America, George Kenedy [sic] has stated in 1962 that the future of America is in danger, because its youth are degenerated, liquid and sunk deep in reckless animal desires.”)