Ahlul Bayt News Agency ; RIYADH: Islam Today website, run by Saudi Wahhabi cleric Salman al-Awdah, has closed a section that contains thousands of extremist Islamic religious rulings, or fatwas.
Several extremist Wahhabi websites offering fatwas have recently been blocked, following a decree by King Abdullah.
The decree was seen as an attempt to reduce controversial fatwas issued by minor or ultra-conservative clerics.
Some of these have been a serious embarrassment to the Saudi authorities.
The Arab News said Islam Today had closed its fatwa pages in order to avoid tensions between differnt sects which may lead to war and killing innocent people. The decree restricts the right to issue fatwas to members of an officially approved council of Islamic scholars.
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