Saudi muslim scholar calls ethanol fuel use a sin
February 27, 2009 by German Car Magazine
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In the Koran the Prophet Mohammed set out clear rules for Muslim interaction with alcohol, forbidding the use, purchase, sale, service, transportation or even manufacture of the substance. And that’s the basis a Saudi Muslim scholar is using to call ethanol use by Muslims a sin.
Setting aside the obvious motivation to preserve oil use and production, the religious case against ethanol is a strong one. Fuel ethanol is, by chemical definition, nearly pure alcohol. And it is the same type of alcohol used recreationally the world over.
A scholar at the Saudi Islamic Jurisprudence Academy, Sheikh Mohamed Al-Najimi, is the source of the warning - he’s been careful not to call it a fatwa - about the use or involvement with ethanol fuel, reports MarketWatch.
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