The Mother of all Fatwas. The Shaykh of Al-Azhar, Sayyid Tantawi--a man who has not been together for the last 20 years and who once threw an ashtray at a journalist because she dared ask him a question that he did not like--came out with a top fatwawawawa. He decreed that journalists who spread "false" rumors on Husni Mubarak's health should be punished with 80 lashes.