Posted on 06/23/2006 7:47:41 AM PDT by kromike
CNSNews.com) - Millions of soccer fans around the world are zeroed in on the World Cup tournament, but a Saudi cleric claims that public enthusiasm over sports turns people into fools and encourages nakedness.
"Some of the fans paint their faces with strange colors," Sheik Muhammad Al-Munajid complained in a June 1 interview broadcast by a United Arab Emirates-based television channel, which serves Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries.
"Some of them look like demons ... The devil has turned these people into fools and made them change the way God created them, with all the things they are doing," Al-Munajid said.
The broadcast of Al-Munajid's interview was intercepted by the Washington, D.C.-based Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) and posted on the group's website.
Al-Munajid also said the appearance of many women at the World Cup was inappropriate since they are usually not completely dressed. "The cameras at the soccer fields will zoom in on many things, including women," said Al-Munajid, "who will not be wearing veils, of course and will be half naked in many cases."
Al-Munajid was formerly employed by the Islamic Affairs Department, which is associated with the Royal Saudi Embassy in Washington, D.C. However, MEMRI Executive Director Steven Stalinsky told Cybercast News Service that Al-Munajid was among the Saudi diplomats who did not get their diplomatic credentials renewed by the U.S. State Department in late 2003.
Stalinksy said his organization has clips of "at least a half a dozen TV appearances over the last two years of [Al-Munajid] on TV making outrageous statements."
On Jan. 6, 2005, Al-Munajid blamed the public enthusiasm over sports for some marital breakups. "[T]he fans' support for teams reaches blows, both within the field and outside it, in schools, and other places, and this is a reason for divorce and various social tragedies," he said
While acknowledging that "participating in sports activities is important" for women, Al-Munajid said he did not approve of public participation for women. "Some want women to participate in the Olympics!" Al-Munajid said in the interview from 2005. "Women are not allowed to participate in the Olympics in full view because this means exposing her nakedness."
Al-Munajid's past remarks, Stalinsky said, have also targeted religions other than Islam. "He has a website that's known to be very anti-Christian and anti-Semitic," Stalinsky said.
He added that it is "really notable" that Al-Munajid worked at the Islamic Affairs Department and the Saudi Embassy in Washington, D.C. "That shows who was there, the mentality. [I]t was a good thing he didn't get his credentials renewed so [that] he had to leave."
He says that as if that was a bad thing.
yes! yes! yes!
I suppose I'll never make a good Muslim.
And a billion nutcases around the world follow the ravings of a pedophile murdering thief who alleges God spoke to him and these are his words.
And a billion nutcases around the world follow the ravings of a pedophile murdering thief who alleges God spoke to him and these are his words.
Strange colors!!! Really.
Guees this guy never saw anything beyond the basic 8 pack of Crayola crayons when he was growing up.
Better to paint your face with familiar colors.
Pass the burnt umber, please?
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The funny hat thing has its own fatwah coming. They're typing it now . . . |
He has a point. This is disgusting. Next thing they will be hijacking planes and flying them into tall buildings, killing thousands of people.
Yep...got to watch out for those sports.
Good point--he is the ultimate Fun Nazi.
No fun for you today!
Quick, which channel is this?
LOL! Women in Germany not wearing veils? Female fans enjoying the few days with sunshine and no rain in Germany?
"We sensible fold walk around with blankets on our heads and fly to other countries to party with whores--in between prayers to Big Al, of course."
I adore the sport just for the sheer pleasure of watching Islamofascists go nuts! Long live football!
A suicide bomb changes the way God created a person too.
Ladies, Mr. Al-Munajid is very unhappy with your attire. Please report to the stadium manager to retrieve your burqas. Put them on and go home to beg Allah's forgiveness.
Yowza! Booking trip to Rio now.....
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