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Copy That Floppy? Go To Jahannum (Hell)

Posted by chrisd on from the as-salaam-alinux-wa-rahmatullah-wa-barakatuhu dept.

andrewdm writes "The Business Software Alliance has a new partner: the grand muftis at Al Azhar in Cairo. The New York Law Journal has an article explaining the new holy(?) alliance between the BSA and the highest religious authorities in the Egyptian Sunni Islam sect. The clerics issued a fatwa (holy edict) against piracy, saying it is "the worst type of theft and prohibited by Islam." What's next? The Pope denouncing mp3's as mortal sins?" The worst type of theft, indeed.

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  1. The Bitch had it comming by thales · · Score: 2, Redundant

    'Terrorists' would not exist if it wasn't for crappy foreign policy that pisses people off.

    That sound's just like the wifebeater's claim that the "bitch" deserved a good beating.

    So did the Blacks "piss off" the Klan and cause lynchings? Did the Jews "piss off" the Nazis and get what they deserved?

    It's the same dumbass argument.

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