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Muslims barred from traveling to Mars

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  • mossrose
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    Gosh, I don't think I care one way or another.

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  • RBerman
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    Huh. In Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars Trilogy," there are quite a few Muslims on Mars.

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  • Cerebrum123
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    Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
    unless you take a certain number of infidels with you?
    Basically that's how it works. Sadly.

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  • Cow Poke
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    Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
    ...and killing oneself is not permitted by Islam...
    unless you take a certain number of infidels with you?

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  • Cerebrum123
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    If there were people to conquer there, and they had reasonable wealth, I have a feeling this would be a different story.

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  • rogue06
    started a topic Muslims barred from traveling to Mars

    Muslims barred from traveling to Mars

    A Fatwa, or official ruling, has been issued by the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowment (GAIAE), led by Dr. Farooq Hamada, in the United Arab Emirates[1] forbidding Muslims from traveling to Mars. The ruling stated:
    "Such a one-way journey poses a real risk to life, and that can never be justified in Islam. There is a possibility that an individual who travels to planet Mars may not be able to remain alive there, and is more vulnerable to death."

    They deem that such a move is so dangerous as to be essentially suicidal (or in the words of those issuing the fatwa, poses "a real risk to life" for "no righteous reason") and killing oneself is not permitted by Islam and those who take such a trip would therefore be liable to a "punishment similar to that of suicide in the Hereafter."

    Apparently this isn't the only fatwa issued against Muslims going to Mars. Last year Sheikh Ali al Hemki, a member of Saudi Arabia's board of religious scholars issued a similar ruling stating that such a move does not conform to "responsible Muslim" practices and "will lead to the destruction of those who try."








    1. located on the southeast end of the Arabian Peninsula on the Persian Gulf



    Further Reading:

    Muslims 'warned in Fatwa not to live on Mars'

    Muslim leaders issue a fatwa against anyone living on MARS as there is 'no righteous reason' to be there

    Fatwa forbids Muslims from traveling to Mars
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