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SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Fayyaz answered a questions about downloading from inteet without permission. Question: Is downloading film, music or game from the inteet with assumption that the owners do not agree with it, considered to be the right of people? Does it matter if the owner is Muslim or not? The Grand Ayatollah Fayyaz: Taking possession of people’s rights which is against the law, is not allowed. Source: PERSIAN SHAFAQNA SHARE Facebook Twitter Previous articleA Fatwa by the Grand Ayatollah Shobairi about cursing the person who commits sins openly Let's block ads! بخوانید...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Shahroodi answered questions about the sale and the use of genetically modified (GM) foods. Question: What is the ruling about using GM foods which are directly or indirectly from genetically modified plants or animals (including from Halal meat or Haram meat)? Is the producer or the seller liable for the production and the sale of GM products even when they are not aware of the negative effects of them on people (in another words, is the seller liable for the health and safety of the product)? Is the producer liable for damages when does not aounce or hide that the product is genetically modified, and the consumer gets ill by using that product? The Grand Ay...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi answered a question about trustworthiness when news is summarized by reporters. Question: Many speeches, declarations, interviews and similar cases have long texts; and the reporter is forced to summarize them. By summarizing, there is a possibility that the gap from the main text may happen and maybe a different impression is implied. Is this considered to be the breach of the trust? The Grand Ayatollah Makarem: Changing the content is considered as accusation and lie; but there is no problem in summarizing or to quote from the content. Source: PERSIAN SHAFAQNA SHARE Facebook Twitter Previous articleObtaining a qualification whi...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi hasvowed punitive legal action against television networksthat disseminate erroneous and misleading reports in support of the Daesh terror group. Addressing the nation in a live broadcastlate on Saturday, Abadi offered afierce criticism ofsatellite television chaels promotingDaesh and evokingsympathy for the Takfiri terrorists. He said Iraq wouldseek harsh punishment against them at an inteational court of law. Abadi said some dormant “propaganda” cells have started propping up Daesh ever since the operation to liberate the weste city of Fallujah got underway on May 23. These satellite chaels, some of thembased in Iraq, support Daesh, the premier said, wa...

SHAFAQNA –In the same period more than 700 Muslims in the region also reported being threatened or unfair treatment because of their religion, according to a study by umbrella organization SPIOR, ANP reported. For this study, people in the Rotterdam-Rijnmond region could report discrimination to SPIOR. The organization also launched an online and offline campaign to encourage people to report incidents and conducted a survey at mosques, Islamic schools and other Islamic organizations and institutions. The study found that 84 percent of discrimination victims were obviously Muslim, identified by their clothing for example, when the incident occurred. 72 percent of discrimination reports came...

© Robert Galbraith © Robert Galbraith / ReutersSHAFAQNA-Email addresses and passwords for over 100 million LinkedIn members have been put up for sale on the Darknet by the same hacker who stole the data from the site in 2012. LinkedInhas admitted that the 2012 hack was significantly worse than previously thought since the new data dump emerged. Hackers gained access to the site in 2012 and posted 6.5 million encrypted passwords on a Russian hacker forum, but email addresses were not included in that dump. The passwords from both releases were encrypted with “no salt,” making them easier to crack. A salt is a random number that is needed to access encrypted data, along with a password. The h...

SHAFAQNA-Two more arrests were made in coection with a Molotov cocktail thrown at a mosque in Enschede, the Netherlands, in February.Two men aged 24 and 36 were arrested in Enschede on Tuesday, on suspicion of conspiracy and preparation for arson with terrorist intent, according to RTV Oost.The Molotov cocktail was thrown at the mosque on Tweede Emmastraat on February 27th. It caused a small fire, which was quickly extinguished by people in the mosque. The men arrested on Tuesday are the 3rd and 4th suspects arrested in this case. A 33 year old man from Enschede was arrested shortly after the incident. The Prosecutor considers him the prime suspect and he is facing charges of attempted arson...

SHAFAQNA –A third of the mosques in the Netherlands have experienced at least one incident of vandalism, threatening letters, attempted arson, the placement of a pig’s head, or other aggressive actions in the past 10 years, according to research by Ineke van der Valk, an author and researcher at the University of Amsterdam. On February 27, in the Dutch city of Enschede, a 33-year-old man threw a petrol bomb at a mosque as adults and children worshipped inside. The perpetrator was caught by non-Muslims living near the mosque and has since been charged with arson with terrorist intent. Two days before this attack, Azzedine Karrat, the imam at the Essalaam mosque in Rotterdam, received a lette...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Sistani answered questions about the duty of the husband and the father regarding inteet coections (communications). Questions: With advances in science and technology and the spread of inteet and social media, new problems have been created for families which need to be considered. Is it allowed for the woman and the daughter to exchange letters without the husband and the father’s knowledge, as well as boys and girls who are not Mahram to each other? When the man asks his wife or daughter or son or sister about their activities on the inteet and with whom, sometimes they reply: It has nothing to do with you, or you should not interfere in our private affair...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Shobairi Zanjani answered a question regarding creating pages on the inteet (social networks) in the name of other people. Question: Some individuals create pages on the inteet (social network) in the name of other people using their names and identification without having their permission which causes suffering and problems; is such an act allowed? The Grand Ayatollah Shobairi: If the intention is to cause suffering or result in relating untrue expressions to them, is not allowed. Source: PERSIAN SHAFAQNA SHARE Facebook Twitter Previous articleIslamophobic Graffiti Attack on Car in Australia Next articleWrong ways of attaining power This ...