Sunni Endowment requests a fatwa to ban insulting Prophet’s companions and family

(IraqiNews.com) On Saturday, President of Sunni Endowment , Mahmoud Sumaidaie asked religious authorities and scholars to issue a clear fatwa to ban insulting the companions and the family of Prophet Muhammed, while called the Parliament for a legislation to criminalize it.

Sumaidaie said, in his speech during the celebration of the Sunni Endowment week on the occasion of the Prophet’s birthday followed by IraqiNews.com, “I ask esteemed scholars to issue a clear fatwa about the sanctity of insulting the companions and the family the Prophet Muhammed.”

On December 26, 2014, Sheikh of Al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb called religious leaders in Iraq and Iran to issue an explicit fatwa to ban insulting companions and mothers of believers and Sunnis icons.