Muslims barred from traveling to Mars

[mossrose]

I have seen something like that, maybe that was it.

[rogue06]

Joining up with the alien Nazis, I suppose.....

Did you ever see the movie Iron Sky?

Source: Iron Sky

Iron Sky is a 2012 Finnish-Australian-German comic science fiction action film directed by Timo Vuorensola and written by Johanna Sinisalo and Michael Kalesniko. It tells the story of a group of Nazi Germans who, having been defeated in 1945, fled to the Moon where they built a space fleet to return in 2018 and conquer Earth.


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Check out the plot description if you don't intend on seeing it since it contains spoilers.

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WARNING: Someone says the naughty word for "poop"

[mossrose]

What is Islam hiding on Mars

Joining up with the alien Nazis, I suppose.....

[rogue06]

What is Islam hiding on Mars

That they know they aren't welcome?

[hamster]

What is Islam hiding on Mars

[klaus54]

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

Good. I wouldn't want a Muslim pig stinking up the air supply.

K54

[Cerealman]

Yeah! I can think of a way better place to go than Mars! And it's free! And we'll get to see Jesus!

New Jersey?
What's jésus doing there?









Oh wait you're Canadian you wouldn't get the joke... What's the Canadian equivalent of New Jersey?

[DesertBerean]

I guess with the pilgrimage to Mecca being required of every Muslim, Mars would be a problem anyway.

[siam]

What!!!!..Mars is out??!!???......Oh nooooooooooooo

I sooooooo wanted to go....now I'll have to roll up my magic carpet..............

[Christianbookworm]

I might want to go in the New Universe. Will it have a space program with starships???

[mossrose]

SIGH *Dejectedly goes off to return three presents bought for this Christmas*

You can not go with us, too!

[rogue06]

SYT, CP and GJ will not go together.

SIGH *Dejectedly goes off to return three presents bought for this Christmas*

[rogue06]

Yeah we know you are waiting to go to Jupiter, planet of bacon.



I bet muslims can't go there either, since it is made of pork.

I'm ready to go and have a spare seat

[Sparko]

I am not planning to go with muslims or without.

Yeah we know you are waiting to go to Jupiter, planet of bacon.



I bet muslims can't go there either, since it is made of pork.

[rogue06]

Is there a large demand for interstellar travels to Mars?

According to the articles there are over 200,000 applicants to be a civilian-astronaut on a trip to Mars.