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[Dennis]

i misread this as cheese.

Cheese is next.

 

[E92 M3]

He bans chess as one of the princes is sniffing coke of 3 girl's asses.

 

[JC Lately]

He bans chess as one of the princes is sniffing coke of 3 girl's asses.

Any one taking that much coke is incapable of enmity or hatred. So it's cool.

 

[cameron]

Saudi Arabia's highest cleric on a mission to make the Middle Ages look germane and civilised in comparison.

Dude has no love for the Golden Age. How does one become the highest cleric of SA?

checkers?

 

[GKSilKamina]

Dokapon Kingdom is a far greater threat than chess will ever be.

 

[shira]

Cheese is next.

But poutine?

 

[Pork]

Good call. Chess promotes enmity and hatred between blacks and whites.

 

[Kettch]

If your people have a problem gambling on chess, then I think you need to look into them having a gambling problem rather than a chess problem.

 

[zashga]

Checkmate, secularists.

 

[Yamauchi]

Is this the guy that recently said it was to be expected that the Christians and Jews would team up with Shia Iran to destroy true Islam?

Gotta love Saudi Arabia.

 

[How About No]

I'm getting the image of a high cleric waking up in the morning to see snow cover, gasping, hurriedly scrambling outside and knocking down any snowmen that may have been built

 

[hipbabboom]

The guy probably lives a really sheltered life and one can assume any ideas that make into his cocoon of ignorance has a great likelihood of being banned.

 

[Stinkles]

A wahabbiist utopia sounds so great that there's really no need for an extra paradise.

 

[Ithil]

So someone beat him in a game and he's really mad about it.

 

[ElTorro]

This is stupid, but we should be more concerned with their bans on human rights and dignity.

I think such examples of utter ridiculousness are still educational, as many human rights issues are caused by the same methodological approach that made all these clerics ban chess and snowmen. It demonstrates the complete disconnect from reality that occurs when you base all your ethical verdicts on deductions from sacred dogma.

 

[DedValve]

Most people nowadays don't give a rat's ass about these petty fatwas though. But back in the day, even a little over a decade ago, things were different.

I remember back when I was in school when they issued the fatwa banning Pokemon (everything from the cartoons to the card games), and these were the reasons:

1- Pokemon was distracting the youth from their daily prayers and wasting their time in useless activity.

2- It promoted the theory of evolution, which is a zionist scheme.

3- Pokemon names had blasphemous meanings when translated. Examples:

Pikachu meant "Become a jew"
Pokemon meant "I'm a jew"
Charmander meant "Allah is weak"

Anyone with a basic knowledge of the English language would laugh at these, but since the majority lacked that basic knowledge Pokemon quickly faded into oblivion. The cartoon stopped airing on almost all Arabic channels, the Pokemon gift items and toys were scrapped and discontinued, teachers conducted regular searches to confiscate Pokemon items in students' posession and anyone seen with anything related to Pokemon would be looked down upon.

The fatwa banning Pokemon was never recognized as an official decree however, but the intial statement was enough to scare off the public.

Those were dark times, but definitely not the darkest or the most absurd.

Ok I laughed because I was reminded of that game where its a garbled word and if you say it enough times really, really, REALLY fast it actually has a hidden meaning.

Pikachu
Pikachu
Becachu
Becomachu
BecomeaJew
Become A Jew

Pikachu definitely haram.

 

[Neo C.]

Calvin banned fun things 500 years ago. Way too late to the nonexistent party, Saudi Arabia.

 

[TheLostBigBoss]

Ok I laughed because I was reminded of that game where its a garbled word and if you say it enough times really, really, REALLY fast it actually has a hidden meaning.

Pikachu
Pikachu
Becachu
Becomachu
BecomeaJew
Become A Jew

Pikachu definitely haram.

how haram tho?

 

[gutter_trash]

Dude has no love for the Golden Age. How does one become the highest cleric of SA?

this proves that that religion has devolved backwards

 

[explodet]

you know what, the sad thing is, other then "football" and video games we guys don't really have a lot things to do for fun here, almost all parks and attractions are "family only", yes they are "guys only" areas but they more like a hung out and watch sports ;/

I was gonna say - if they're out to ban chess for spreading enmity and hatred, what do they have to say about football?

 

[Extra Sauce]

I get wanting to ban all-you-can-eat buffets and Pokemon.

I've seen both destroy lives.

 

[1044]

Sounds like my friend who is such a sore loser that he refuses to play any competitive games with us now.

 

[Square2015]

Meanwhile the stonings and beheadings shall continue.

 

[The Albatross]

Chess breeds enmity and hatred.

Now that that's out of the way...

Let's go stone some homosexuals.

 

[adj_noun]

“The game of chess is a waste of time and an opportunity to squander money. It causes enmity and hatred between people,”

Imagine if this guy found out about Magic: the Gathering.

 

[Oppo]

probably read about how Chess was invented by a Persian scholar working for the Shah

 

[The Flash]

 

[Kayo-kun]

They should ban having fun. Oh, they almost already did!

 

[Grover]

Saudi going after Russia confirmed?

 

[ZombiePlatypus]

Yea OK. Must have gotten his ass handed to him in a chess game.

 

[SolidusDave]

It causes enmity and hatred between people

I can't. This is just too much irony.

 

[Suen]

Is this the guy that recently said it was to be expected that the Christians and Jews would team up with Shia Iran to destroy true Islam?

Gotta love Saudi Arabia.

Not entirely sure, at least someone high up in the hiearchy there. It could be this guy you are thinking of:

"No wonder the Safavids are allies with Christian and Jews against Muslims, history has shown this. How can some minds still miss this?"

Safavid = Derogatory term for Shia muslims

This guy talks to million of muslims from the podium of the Grand Mosque in Mecca so he's not just a nobody; you can imagine how many minds he affects. That particular tweet itself was retweeted thousands of times in just a few hours. Comments like that are very common in Saudi Arabia and in many Sunni countries influenced by radical Sunni ideology. Many years I recall cleric saying something along the lines of:

"Shia are a Christian conspiracy against Islam created by the Jews"

This is like normal daily talk among their clerics.

It shouldn't come as a surprise when an Islamic scholar who've had significant influence on Wahhabism/Salafism (the state ideologies of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the ideologies ISIS/AQ follow and the ideologies radical Sunni Islamists in general follow) said this:

Rawafid are a Christian seed planted by the Jews in the land of Zoroastrians - Ibn Taymiya

Rafawid = Derogatory term for Shia muslims.

 

[Yamauchi]

Not entirely sure, at least someone high up in the hiearchy there. It could be this guy you are thinking of:

"No wonder the Safavids are allies with Christian and Jews against Muslims, history has shown this. How can some minds still miss this?"

Safavid = Derogatory term for Shia muslims

This guy talks to million of muslims from the podium of the Grand Mosque in Mecca so he's not just a nobody; you can imagine how many minds he affects. That particular tweet itself was retweeted thousands of times in just a few hours. Comments like that are very common in Saudi Arabia and in many Sunni countries influenced by radical Sunni ideology. Many years I recall cleric saying something along the lines of:

"Shia are a Christian conspiracy against Islam created by the Jews"

This is like normal daily talk among their clerics.

It shouldn't come as a surprise when an Islamic scholar who've had significant influence on Wahhabism/Salafism (the state ideologies of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the ideologies ISIS/AQ follow and the ideologies radical Sunni Islamists in general follow) said this:



Rafawid = Derogatory term for Shia muslims.

That's the guy. The headline said 'top Saudi cleric' -- I guess I assumed that meant he was the top Saudi cleric.

Thanks for the info.

 

[M3d10n]

how haram tho?

.

 

[HeelPower]

There are lots of music albums and concerts every month, but some foreign music is forbidden here. specially metal/hip hop/every female singer!
and TV can't show musical instruments! lol I don't know why showing musical instruments is forbidden on TV, but they are every where. from stores to street artists and concerts and ...

Is music still banned in Iran?

Then what is this video of TehranChoir performing scared,christian music of all things ? And the ensemble was composed of men and women,too ?

 

[Crosseyes]

Promotes enmity and hatred? Wonder how high up Mario Party is on their 'to ban' list.

 

[Androidsleeps]

Ok I laughed because I was reminded of that game where its a garbled word and if you say it enough times really, really, REALLY fast it actually has a hidden meaning.

Pikachu
Pikachu
Becachu
Becomachu
BecomeaJew
Become A Jew

Pikachu definitely haram.

Fun fact: this whole Pokemon is blasphemous shit was started by some atheists/agnostics for the lolz and wow did the morons eat this shit up. I was a kid when this stuff started across the ME and didn't give two shits (heathen from childhood I guess), but a friend told me recently that back then he had a big ass Pikachu stuffed doll thing that he loved and was so sad to have to throw it away due to the haram-ness Pikachu represents. Growing up in the ME without psychological traumas is hard.

 

[Vibranium]

Let's ban Saudi Arabia, I don't think many people here in Canada will miss them, with our food being so expensive, oil in the gutter and Canadian dollar in the tank.

 

[Shambalakan]

Then what is this video of TehranChoir performing scared,christian music of all things ? And the ensemble was composed of men and women,too ?

Sorry I forgot to mention that choir performance by women is legal! there are bands like Arian that half of them are women:

But a single woman can't sing in normal concerts, although they can do it only for women. there are special concerts that only women can go and they can't even have their mobiles with them!
Albeit single women singing in operas and theatres (and declamation) is another thing and its legal! but for normal (!) music, its an illegal thing in Iran.

 

[Dai101]

I can think of something else that causes enmity and hatred between people.

Yeah. It's called RISK

Monopoly causes animosity...

But Risk... Risk is where the real hate flows.

This guys knows what's up.

 

[Machina]

What's the end goal here? To make everyone fucking miserable?

If everyone is miserable, then nobody will care enough to stop the end times when they come, thereby we'll be with our virgins much sooner!

 

[Gattsu25]

So I'm assuming Spades is already banned there.

Monopoly sours moods. Risk spurs anger. Spades ends marriages and friendships.

 

[chrisPjelly]

But Hungry Hungry Hippos is still cool tho, right?

 

[Acorn]

Is monopoly banned?

 

[gulfamashraf]

Promotes enmity and hatred? Wonder how high up Mario Party is on their 'to ban' list.

Some body ban Dan rykert from giant bomb. The guy has spread enmity and hatred with Mario party filth.

 

[Mr. Giggles]

But poutine?

Lmao

 

[Trigonometrize.]

Mario Party though, have they ever banned that?

My first thought. Chess and Risk and Settlers are all amateur hour on the scale of hate-making.

 

[pgtl_10]

Wonder what would happen if somebody showed him Mario Kart and the Blue Shell.

That Fatwa would actually work.

 

[Kaako]

Saudi Arabia's highest cleric confirmed to be a dumb fuck. Hardly surprising fact though...

 

[GifGafIsTheBestGaf]

dude probably got owned hard and doing this out of spite lol