In March the Grand Mufti ordered a Riyadh university to cancel a women's marathon.
Egypt's grand mufti questioned whether in the United States, for example, the inflammatory film "Innocence of Muslims" was not illegal under laws prohibiting the spread of hatred.
Kimmet might also ask his hosts in the Persian Gulf what they think of Mufti Taqi Usmani, probably the single most authoritative "scholar" on Shariah and SCF in the world.
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.
Mr Mufti, who made his complaint in 2008, blames weak management for the problems.
But if, to Mr Musharraf and to those abroad, his refusal to adopt mufti is inevitable, to many in Pakistan it is deeply depressing.
Since 2003, when Gomaa was appointed Grand Mufti, a top religious post in Egypt, he has become a highly promoted champion of moderate Islam, with his own television show and occasional columns in Al Ahram, a government daily.
New York and the country were in the throes of recession, which in those days normally was induced by excesses in inventory accumulation and plant over expansion, not financial mufti puffti.
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In the West, many prominent Muslims would agree with the mufti's scripturally-based view that leaving Islam is a matter between the believer and God, not for the state.
The creation of such a situation was exactly the intent of Haj Amin al-Husseini, the mufti of Jerusalem and foremost Arab political and religious leader in Palestine under the British mandate.
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