Showing posts with label fatwa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fatwa. Show all posts

14.8.12

Leading Muslim Cleric Issued Fatwa, Condemning Turks for Killing Armenians

Harut Sassounian
 
I recently came across an extremely significant Islamic document that severely criticizes Turks for using religion as a cover to killing Armenian Christians.
This rarely seen document is a Fatwa or religious decree issued in May 1909 by Grand Sheikh Salim al-Bishri of Egypt, condemning Turkish Muslims for massacring 30,000 Armenians in Adana, a major city in the Ottoman Empire.