How to Use fatwa in a Sentence

fatwa

noun

• Morten Storm is a marked man, the subject of a fatwa, a call for his death.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 12 Sep. 2019
• This was the second episode in a row that ignored the fatwa.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Nov. 2017
• Then there is Morten Storm, a marked man, the subject of a fatwa (a call for his death).
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 23 Sep. 2019
• Maybe the supreme leader's fatwa against the bomb is for real.
  — chicagotribune.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• The fatwa is the epitome of this — the world actively wants to kill him.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2017
• The fatwa fell out of favor with Iran’s rulers in the late 1990s, and Rushdie ended his exile.
  — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 July 2017
• Many leading authors took part in protests against the fatwa.
  — Aryeh Neier, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2022
• But this was a low-budget movie and the fatwa that Salman was living under was still in place.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• So, three-quarters of my life as a writer has happened since the fatwa.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• Less than a year after the original fatwa, Rushdie tried to get some of the heat off himself.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2022
• But some in Iran have never forgotten the fatwa against him.
  — Jon Gambrell, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2022
• The declaration, known as a fatwa, raised grave concerns over the right to freedom of expression in much of the world.
  — Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
• This was much like the fatwa issued by Iran’s ayatollah on Salman Rushdie.
  — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• The first time, in the 1990s, the fatwa was still very much in force, so I was led to a safe house in Los Angeles, which turned out to be the home of a mutual acquaintance of Rushdie’s and mine.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2022
• Shortly before the attack struck, the clerics had issued a fatwa against suicide bombings and urged peace talks to end the Afghan war.
  — Rahim Faiez and Amir Shah, Fox News, 4 June 2018
• Advertisement Less than a year after the original fatwa, Rushdie tried to get some of the heat off himself.
  — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• Four months after the Rushdie fatwa, Khomeini abruptly died of heart failure, at eight-six.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2022
• Rushdie has faced a fatwa calling for his death from Ayatollah Khomeini, the late ruler of Iran, since 1989.
  — Paul Best, Fox News, 16 Aug. 2022
• In 1998, the Iranian government sought to distance itself from the fatwa by pledging not to seek to carry it out.
  — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 16 Aug. 2022
• Many imams have issued fatwas against the practice and Christian leaders like Pope Francis have denounced it.
  — Kristina Arriaga, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2017
• The fatwa also said that killing people by any means, including with bombs and suicide attacks, are sins in Islam.
  — Washington Post, 26 June 2018
• Rap-rocker Shahin Najafi flees Iran for Germany after a fatwa is issued for his death because of a song critical of the regime.
  — Cary Darling, Houston Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
• His 2014 fatwa calling on able-bodied men to fight the Islamic State group massively swelled the ranks of Shiite militias.
  — Star Tribune, 3 Mar. 2021
• Iran’s commitment to the fatwa has waxed and waned, with various leaders pledging not to proceed with the order, while others renewed their vows to act on it.
  — The Editors, National Review, 16 Aug. 2022
• Iran’s current supreme leader, Khamenei, never issued a fatwa of his own withdrawing the edict, though Iran in recent years hasn’t focused on the writer.
  — Carolyn Thompson and Hillel Italie, al, 13 Aug. 2022
• Just five days before the attack on Rushdie, an Iranian news outlet republished the fatwa.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2022
• In response to the fatwa, London cut off diplomatic relations with Tehran.
  — Reza Pahlavi, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2022
• But the fatwa was never lifted, and as recently as six years ago, the regime increased its financial award for anyone who carried it out.
  — The Editors, National Review, 16 Aug. 2022
• The stabbing marked the latest violent attack on people who were targeted around the world with direct and indirect links to the fatwa.
  — Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2022
• Iran’s hard-line clerics have, however, never disavowed the Rushdie fatwa.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024