No fatwa on belligerent infidel term used in Utusan, says minister

Jamil Khir pronounced that any statements job non-Muslims as kafir harbi or kafir zimmi have been merely personal opinions. File pic

KUALA LUMPUR, November 6 The National Fatwa Council has never released any fatwa (religious orders) to impute to non-Muslims as kafir harbi or belligerent infidels, apportion Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom pronounced today, referring to a label a little regressive Muslims had used to report a physical DAP opposition celebration earlier this year.

The apportion in charge of Islamic affairs additionally pronounced that any statements job non-Muslims as kafir harbi or kafir zimmi have been merely personal opinions.

His statement comes usually months after Umno-owned Malay every day Utusan Malaysia reported several Islamic eremite scholars as saying that it is haram or forbidden for Muslim voters to await a DAP, that they have described as a belligerent infidel party.

Until now, there is no fatwa or legal opinions related to a in front of of non-Muslims in Malaysia as Kafir Harbi or Kafir Zimmi released by a State Fatwa Committee or MKI, Jamil Khir pronounced in a created reply to PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang.

Fatwa and legal opinions in this nation can usually be released by a authorities.

Therefore, any perspective or institutions detached from a two entities cannot be deliberate as fatwa, but usually personal conviction, he said.

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