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From: "PRIVACY Forum mailing list" <privacy@vortex.com> To: privacy-list@vortex.com Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2014 11:34:16 PM Subject: [ PRIVACY Forum ] An Iranian Grand Ayatollah Issues Fatwa Stating High Speed Internet is against Sharia An Iranian Grand Ayatollah Issues Fatwa Stating High Speed Internet is against Sharia
(Iran Human Rights): http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2014/08/makarem-internet/
A Grand Ayatollah in Iran has determined that access to high-speed and 3G Internet is "against Sharia" and "against moral standards." In answer to a question published on his website, Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi, one of the country's highest clerical authorities, issued a fatwa, stating "All third generation [3G] and high-speed internet services, prior to realization of the required conditions for the National Information Network [Iran's government-controlled and censored Internet which is under development], is against Sharia [and] against moral and human standards."
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Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, Time Warner Cable, and other dominant ISPs are now in a bidding war to hire him as a consultant and board member.
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