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Tuesday, March 3, 2009

And in Saudi Arabia: Saudi Scholar Nixes Biofuels as Un-Islamic…

In an amusingly self-serving ruling, Muhammad an-Najimi, a Saudi member of the prestigious Islamic Fiqh Academy of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, issued a tentative personal opinion (less binding than a fatwa ) to Muslims that filling the gas tank with biofuels is sinful: "I warn Saudis... Sign in to see full entry.

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