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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 =E2=80=94 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 Islamic Revolution in Iran and was accused of ordering, or
at least encouraging, 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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