Example sentences for: fatwa

How can you use “fatwa” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Although the NYT 's off-lead reports that any U.S.-Iran thaw is still a long way off, LAT 's front, and inside stories at all the other papers, report that Iran's president Mohammed Khatemi told reporters yesterday that the fatwa issued against Salman Rushdie for blaspheming Islam was "completely finished."

  • Specifically singling out U.S. forces for attack, the language resembled that which would appear in Bin Ladin's public fatwa in August 1996.

  • At about the time when the Taliban were making their final drive toward Jalalabad and Kabul, Bin Ladin issued his August 1996 fatwa, saying that "We . . . have been prevented from addressing the Muslims," but expressing relief that "by the grace of Allah, a safe base here is now available in the high Hindu Kush mountains in Khurasan."

  • Religious terms: fatwa, khalsa, mazhabi, minah

  • Less than a month after the publication of the fatwa, the teams that were to carry out the embassy attacks were being pulled together in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.


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