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Lebanon cleric advises 'modern Shiites'

Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah's liberal fatwas,
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 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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