Fatwa on former president Joseph "Erap" Ejercito Estrada, former senator Franklin Drilon and Senator Manuel Roxas issued by the Muslim legal scholars also known as ulama. The last fatwa I heard (or should I say considered blasphemous) was the one given to Salman Rushdie for his fourth novel "Satanic Verses".
The Satanic Verses controversies shook the Islam world while Rushdie received death threats, he has outlived Ayatollah Khomeni, the one who issued the fatwa.
I don't know if this will affect Erap's bid for presidency this time around. A veteran politician and showbiz personality, Joseph Estrada will find ways to counter on this. Like a quick-witted Erap joke, Erap ignored this fatwa and said
"I am a friend of Islam, and I respect Islam," Estrada told Agence France-Presse in Manila shortly after arriving from a weekend campaign in Mindanao, where over 150,000 people have been killed in the long-running insurgency.However, I will not tolerate any organization regardless of religion if they violate the law."I don't see anything wrong with Erap's intention to end this national insurgency problems and I think our thinking Muslim brothers also want peace for our country so why use the war between MILF and the Philippine Government as the reason for the fatwa?
So my dear brothers and sisters, fellow Filipinos both here and abroad, Muslims, Christians and agnostics, let peace be the reason for living!
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