Libya's Minister for Information Mahmoud Shammam said the NTC was following a fatwa, or religious ruling.
In 1998, Tehran promised the British Government that Iran would do nothing to implement the fatwa.
Later he dutifully provided the ruling family with a fatwa endorsing the Middle East peace process.
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most influential Shia cleric, has issued a fatwa compelling the faithful to cast their ballots.
But Jalili said that Iran's leadership has issued a fatwa that prevents the production and use of weapons of mass destruction.
Mr Fitzgerald said Mr al-Fawwaz publicly disassociated himself from Bin Laden after the al-Qaeda leader issued a fatwa against Americans in 1996.
George Osborne unleashed a fatwa to make teachers and nurses, coppers and soldiers, the low paid and jobless pay for his Treasury catastrophe.
Since there is no religious edict, or fatwa, banning laughing and whistling, the group has to acknowledge that the activity is perfectly legal.
What's also interesting is that none of these words was invoked to describe an actual mullah, an actual fatwa, or an actual suicide bomber.
EU, seemed to be recognising that the Iranian government could not risk upsetting Iran's religious hardliners by denouncing the fatwa or cancelling the reward.
It was in 1989 that the late Ayatollah Khomeini issued his Fatwa - or spiritual opinion - that effectively condemned Salman Rushdie to death.
But the owner and main presenter of the channel, Atef Abdel Rasheed, denied that a fatwa had been issued and said the scholar's words were taken out of context.
That's the same Fiqh Council that on February 9, 2010 issued a legal opinion-- a fatwa - against the use of full body scanners in airports for Muslims.
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Part of Mr Sistani's attraction for Iraq's Shia politicians stems from his fatwa that allows followers not only to raise donations and tithes in his name but to spend them too.
More than 60 influential Sunni clerics issued a fatwa calling on young Sunnis to join the Iraqi security forces, "for the sake of preserving the souls, property and honor" of the Iraqi people.
And when Shia authorities in Iraq issued a fatwa last year urging Muslims to defend the country against aggressors, scholars in exile were quick to dismiss the ruling as having been forced under duress.
Three weeks ago the government managed to soothe Britain about its intentions towards Salman Rushdie, the British novelist who in 1989 was sentenced to death in a fatwa issued by the late Ayatollah Khomeini.
King Abdullah has said nothing about the fatwa.
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Iranian leaders have maintained that their regime is prohibited by Islamic law from acquiring a nuclear weapon, and proscribed from doing so by a fatwa that was issued years ago by current Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
First comes Giovanni Punto, an 18th-century Bohemian who became the subject of an aristocratic fatwa requiring the removal of his front teeth when he had the temerity to leave his boss Count Joseph von Thun's employment without permission.
In Saudi Arabia, where the government has been trying to tame its radical clerics, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah Aal al-Sheikh, the Grand Mufti, issued a fatwa in October, 2007, forbidding Saudi youth to join the jihad outside the country.
Although this year's winner in fact came from Saudi Arabia, the mobile carriers cite a religious fatwa that condemned the show as immoral as their rationale here, and Reuters is reporting that Saudi chatroom users have actually been praising the bans.
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But a lawyer for the US authorities, James Lewis QC, told the court there was evidence that Mr al-Fawwaz had drafted the fatwa, and that faxes were found on him claiming responsibility for the embassy bombings "two-and-a-half hours before the bombs went off".
What makes this story the more appalling is that such a man and his colleagues at the European Council for Fatwa and Research have been engaged by prominent commercial institutions to serve as "Shariah advisors" in connection with the latters' "Shariah-Compliant Finance" operations.
Dar al-Fatwa, Lebanon's top Sunni authority, and the Higher Shi'a Islamic Council both said that they opposed the draft on the basis that Sharia law protected the status of women, and should remain the basis for governing legal issues related to Muslim families.
Montazeri, for example, took a public stand against nuclear weapons in October, issuing a fatwa, or religious edict, declaring them to be "un-Islamic" and instructing Muslims to take the lead in banning them, said Nazenin Ansari, diplomatic editor of the weekly newspaper Kayhan in London.
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