Iranian clerics call for slaying of Koran burners | Herald Sun: "TWO top Iranian clerics said anyone desecrating the Koran must be killed as hundreds of people protested on yesterady outside the Swiss embassy in Tehran.
'From the point of view of Islamic jurisprudence, strong objection to such thoughts is mandatory and necessary and killing the people who have committed this act is compulsory,' Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani was quoted as saying by Fars news agency.
His view was echoed by Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi who added that such a response must be taken after consulting a 'religious judge.'
'The blood of the person who burns the Koran can undoubtedly be shed. But in this issue, no action should be taken without the permission of a religious judge,' Makarem Shirazi said."
With all due respect to these scholars, is this really an Islamic fatwa/edict? or an emotional one?
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