Is a sports coach's posting a picture of a singer in unacceptable attire, with his comment, "I want one reason why people humiliate themselves in this way," considered mockery, backbiting, cursing, or slander that incurs sin, and is it better to avoid that in pursuit of correctness? And does the coach bear the sin of his followers' offensive comments that he may have incited, and is this post permissible and commendable because it is an enjoining of good and forbidding of evil?
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When a person openly commits an evil act, it is permissible to mention him by that act without mentioning his other faults, and this is not considered forbidden backbiting (gheebah). The intention of the one publicizing the act should be considered: if his intention is good, such as offering advice or clarifying an error, then he is correct and will be rewarded. The same ruling applies to commentators, publishers, and those who transmit information. The original writer is only responsible for the burden of what he himself wrote on his own page.
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