India's Cash-for-Fatwa Scandal

Muslims in the country are outraged by revelations, uncovered by a TV sting, that clerics take money for their religious rulings

Last week, many Muslims in India, like their counterparts around the world, gathered on the streets to burn effigies of the Pope and shout slogans denouncing him for his remarks on Islam and violence. Even before that fully died out, however, a new controversy erupted — one that has turned Muslim ire against some of their own local clerics.