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NOT THE ONION. If ever a thread title was ripe for satirical cartoons
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Found this in LBN.
Saudi Cleric Says Building Snowmen is Un-Islamic
Source: Al-Akhbar
A prominent Saudi cleric whipped up controversy by issuing a religious ruling forbidding the building of snowmen, describing them as un-Islamic.
Asked on a religious website if it was permissible for fathers to build snowmen for their children after a snowstorm in the country's north, Sheikh Mohammed Saleh al-Munajjid replied: "It is not permitted to make a statue out of snow, even by way of play and fun."
Snow has covered upland areas of Tabuk province near Saudi Arabia's border with Jordan for the third consecutive year as cold weather swept across the Middle East.
Quoting Muslim scholars, Munajjid argued that to build a snowman was to create an image of a human being, an action considered sinful under the kingdom's medieval interpretation of Sharia.
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The sheikhs comments provoked swift responses from Twitter users writing in Arabic and identifying themselves with Arab names.
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Munajjid had some supporters, however. "It (building snowmen) is imitating the infidels, it promotes lustiness and eroticism," one wrote.
Read more: http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/saudi-cleric-says-building-snowmen-un-islamic%E2%80%9D
Action_Patrol
(845 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,849 posts)sakabatou
(42,158 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)seveneyes
(4,631 posts)Stoning to death? Beheading? Chopping hands off?
How can anyone that stupid command any respect from a thinking person? Fear?
FSogol
(45,488 posts)Takket
(21,577 posts)FSogol
(45,488 posts)Takket
(21,577 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Hey sexy ice maiden!
FSogol
(45,488 posts)Paulie
(8,462 posts)edhopper
(33,587 posts)can lead to some really stupid ideas.
shraby
(21,946 posts)Why is that? Almost to the point of being a sickness, or an aberration of the norm.
Trillo
(9,154 posts)Science says humans are sexual beings.
MANative
(4,112 posts)Don't they want people to make more nutjobs to indoctrinate?
Make 'em really mad - have sex just for fun, then tell two friends about it. **rolls eyes**
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)they do not comply gives them lots of control.
branford
(4,462 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)On the on the other hand, sand dunes can be ....... interesting.
Death Valley
Rajasthan, India
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)FSogol
(45,488 posts)dawg
(10,624 posts)Takket
(21,577 posts)reorg
(3,317 posts)so I guess his fatwas are not binding in Saudi Arabia, outside of his personal followers. According to Wikipedia, he issued a few other remarkable decisions and opinions:
Haven't they learned the lesson from what Allah wreaked upon the coast of Asia, during the celebration of these forbidden? At the height of immorality, Allah took vengeance on these criminals. "Those celebrating spent what they call 'New Year's Eve' in vacation resorts, pubs, and hotels. Allah struck them with an earthquake. He finished off the Richter scale. All nine levels gone. Tens of thousands dead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Al-Munajjid
Fred Phelps and consorts agree.
FSogol
(45,488 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Saudi blogger receives first 50 lashes of sentence for 'insulting Islam'.
A Saudi blogger convicted of insulting Islam was brought after Friday prayers to a public square in the port city of Jeddah and flogged 50 times before hundreds of spectators, a witness to the lashing said.
The witness said Raif Badawis feet and hands were shackled during the flogging but his face was visible. He remained silent and did not cry out, said the witness, who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity fearing government reprisal.
Badawi was sentenced last May to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes. He had criticized Saudi Arabias powerful clerics on a liberal blog he founded. The blog has since been shut down. He was also ordered to pay a fine of 1m riyals or about $266,600.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/09/saudi-blogger-first-lashes-raif-badawi
alarimer
(16,245 posts)that might be worth exploring with a therapist.
dawg
(10,624 posts)Really isn't.
ND-Dem
(4,571 posts)worth their while?
LeftishBrit
(41,208 posts)And I would have thought it extremely difficult to get erotic with a snowman....