UAE Clerics' Fatwa Forbids Muslims From Traveling To Mars

Posted by timothy on Friday February 21, 2014 @07:37PM from the limited-jurisdiction dept.

PolygamousRanchKid writes "The Khaleej Times of Dubai reports that a fatwa committee has forbidden Muslims from taking a one-way trip to the Red Planet. At the moment, there is no technology available that would allow for a return trip from Mars, so it is truly a one-way ticket for the colonists, who may also become reality TV stars in the process. The committee of the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowment in the United Arab Emirates that issued the fatwa against such a journey doesn't have anything against space exploration, Elon Musk's Mars visions, or anything like that. Rather, the religious leaders argue that making the trip would be tantamount to committing suicide, which all religions tend to frown upon."

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Well for once I agree with religious crazies by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · 2014-02-21 19:42 · Score: 5, Insightful

You don't want to go to Mars? Please by all means, keep your bullshit on Earth and let us evolved human beings make a fresh new life on a fresh new planet without you!

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1. Re: Well for once I agree with religious crazies by JustOK · 2014-02-21 21:45 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Life is a suicide mission
  
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Let it begin! by MPAB · 2014-02-21 19:44 · Score: 5, Insightful

Cue witty jokes about blowing oneself up not counting as suicide.
But they should also forbid being born, as everyone that does will die eventually.
@Al Kai Da - RTFF - Read the fucking .. by burni2 · 2014-02-21 20:01 · Score: 5, Insightful

.. Fatwa
Stop blasting yourself into pieces, it's forbidden,
and no your chance to survive is below the mars mission.