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Monday, 9 May 2016

Dar Al Iftaa slams Daesh for organ harvesting

Egypt’s Dar Al Iftaa decreed that not only is human organ harvesting “a violation of Shariah” but it is especially disallowed when “ripping out human organs from a live captive to transplant them in another body,” according to a Jerusalem Post pickup of an an Al Sharq Al Awsat piece published on Sunday. The fatwa is directed at Daesh, who have long argued that organ harvesting from "apostate captives" to save Muslims’ lives is A-OK, “even if doing so would lead to captives’ death.” The fatwa states: “Harvesting someone’s organs, whether he is a Muslim or not, amounts to his humiliation. Committing organ transplantation in a way that leads to the death of the body from which the organs were ripped contradicts the Sharia, even if the person killed deserves to die and even if the one who killed him is a righteous person.”

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