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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But glory be, Mr. Sistani disagrees.

http://islamopediaonline.org/fatwa/ayatollah-al-sistani-prohibits-enslavement-and-rape-women-during-military-campaign-and-forbids?page=7

I always thought there was something more enlightened about the Shia. The whole pick your marjah business is quite alluring.[/quote]

Thanks, PP, for all the info. I, for one, don't interpret these posts as trying to convert Muslima to atheism, or something. Nor do I see these posts as part of a campaign to disparage Islam--because the only way to interpret that particular charge is to conclude that Islam has something to hide and nobody should be telling others what goes on outside of Muslima's little world. No, I'm grateful to you for explaining to me, a reader, these nuances and in particular the point about Shiism.[/quote]
The thing about Shiism is that in the Sunni world, consensus is king. At some point the Sunnis decided (mind you, not everyone agreed) that the gates of "ijtihad", the independent religious thinking based on interpreting and applying scripture, have closed. From that point on, the thinking went, there is no need for any more thinking, anything that had to be thought was already thought, now the business of the day was to apply the consensus.  Mind you again, not everyone agrees with this version of events, but they did take place.

The Shia, now, have never followed that, and their principle was always pick the scholar (marjah) you like best and follow him.

This is why, for instance, Sunni Islam does not allow IVF with third-party donation and the Shia scholars figured out a way to make it OK.  (Thanks, Mr. Sistani).[/quote]

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