Muslim Brotherhood fatwa forbids wishing “Happy Easter”

The fatwa, a legal opinion or ruling issued by an Islamic scholar, is authored by Brotherhood leader Abdel Rahman al-Barr.

Barr quotes extensively from the Qur’an to argue that Muslims should only greet Christians on their holidays “so long as this greeting does not come at the expense of our [Islamic] religion.”

Muslims cannot wish Christians a “Happy Easter,” because “our belief as Muslims, which makes ambiguity impossible, is that [Jesus] wasn’t killed or crucified,” according to Barr.