Put keywords in like America (he justifies beheading Americans in one response). Here is what you get when you enter Thanksgiving:
We have studied the background of Thanksgiving day- to express gratitude to the favours of the natives of the 16th century. IN principal to express gratefulness and gratitude for favours rendered is encouraged. However,
Thanksgiving being a national holiday express its salient position in the American culture, which has many unislamic values and principles.
Celebrating Thanksgiving purposefully or subordinately is an expression of accepting the general American Culture. It is not celebrated independent of the American Culture. In view of the above it is not permissible to
celebrate Thanksgiving Day.
and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best
Mufti Ebrahim Desai
FATWA DEPT.
When they grabbed the Lackawanna 6 in my backyard it scared the h*ll out of me. Makes one wonder how many actually live here that hate our guts.
What this fatwa you quote shows me is that American Muslims are celebrating Thanksgiving and this retro-Imam doesn't like it.
After all, why bother to issue the fatwa if there is no problem?
In the Middle East, some Imams are always criticizing all the traditional and folk holidays except a couple of really important Muslim days. People have a lot of fun traditions over there, too, that these guys are against.
You know the Puritans in early America didn't want people to celebrate Christmas much either. But even the Puritans were party-people compared to some of these radical Imams.
Basically, these fanatics are mean-spirited grinches. There are a lot of local customs in Islamic countries that they try to stamp out, too. They especially hate Valentine's Day which seems to be celebrated. Of course, this is Western, but young people like it.
In New York I saw one of these converts raving against Thanksgiving as anti-Islam by telling black people it was a white man's holiday. Everyone was telling him to put a sock in it.