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Lebanon cleric advises 'modern Shiites'
Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah's liberal fatwas,=20
or edicts, have shocked conservative Muslims around the world.
By Borzou Daragahi
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

February 6, 2008

BEIRUT - The ayatollah has a simple piece of advice for any Muslim woman
being abused by her husband: Hit him back.

"A woman can respond to physical violence inflicted on her by a man with
counter- violence as a self-defense measure," Grand Ayatollah Mohammed
Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanon's senior-most Shiite cleric, wrote in a fatwa
late last year that shocked conservative Muslims around the world.

Fadlallah long has been considered a leader of the most radical faction of
Shiite Muslims in Lebanon. He endorsed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's Islami=
c
Revolution in Iran and was accused of ordering, or at least encouraging,=20
the 1983 bombings of the U.S. Marine barracks here, a charge he and his
supporters have denied. He issued fatwas, or religious edicts, calling on
the faithful to resist the United States, and urged Muslims to boycott
American products.

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