Posted on 08/13/2008 8:33:28 AM PDT by SJackson
Saudi Cleric Muhammad Al-Munajid Slams Beijing Olympics: Nothing Makes Satan Happier Than The 'Bikini' Olympics
Sheikh Muhammad Al-Munajid is a well-known Saudi Islamic lecturer and author. He frequently appears on Saudi TV channels and is known for issuing controversial fatwas. He previously worked in Washington, D.C. at the Saudi Embassy Islamic Affairs Department but was stripped of his diplomatic credentials. [1]
In an August 10, 2008 interview with Al-Majd TV, Al-Munajid was highly critical of the Beijing Olympics, which he called the "bikini Olympics," referring to them as "satanic."
Al-Munajid is known for his criticism of other sporting events. In a January 2005 interview, he said that soccer games "reveal nakedness," adding that women must not exercise in public because they wear "tight fitting, short" outfits to do so, and also that women are forbidden from participating in the Olympics. [2] Al-Munajid also discussed, in a July 2007 interview, how Western "beasts" use public toilets and wear colored underwear "to conceal all that filth." [3]
Following the December 2004 Southeast Asia earthquake and tsunami, in January 2005 Al-Munajid called the disaster "punishment" for sex tourism on New Year's Eve and for drunkenness on Christmas, [4] and said that Allah had "finished off the Richter scale" in vengeance against the infidel criminals. [5]
Before that, in April 2004, Al-Munajid discussed jihad, the U.S., and Iraq, calling America "Heretica" and assuring viewers that "the big explosion will come." [6]
To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1832.htm.
To visit the MEMRI TV page for Saudi cleric Muhammad Al-Munajid, go to http://www.memritv.org/subject/en/517.htm.
Muhammad Al-Munajid: "How come modern sports - especially women's sports - involve the exposure of private parts? It is well known that the Olympics - both in the past and the upcoming games... the world's worst display of women's clothing is the women's Olympics. No exposure of women's private parts on a global scale could make Satan happier than Olympic games that include women's sports."
Interviewer: "And in a scandalous manner..."
Muhammad Al-Munajid: "Yes. It is an enormous Satanic issue.
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"One of these criminals compared a soccer team that made it to the top in Asia and traveled to Spain to the conquest of Andalusia! Allah be praised! The conquest of lands, the bringing of monotheism to these lands, where the name of Allah is uttered, where Islamic learning and scholars emerge, and where the banners of Islam are raised high - all these you compare to people chasing an inflated piece of leather?!
[...]
"Many people nowadays watch sports rather than participate in them."
Interviewer: "And this is a problem..."
Muhammad Al-Munajid: "If only they would run or move their bodies a little... All they do is sit and watch the sports channels. Some fathers come to me and ask if it is permitted to hook up just to the sports channels. It is for the kids, they say. There is pressure. Football leads to temptation. It is not an innocent sport. Take boxing, for example, or some types of so-called free[style] wrestling, which involve hitting the face, breaking bones, inflicting injuries and pain. They involve obvious bodily harm. The Prophet Muhammad said: If you beat someone, avoid the face. The Islamic jurisprudence authority banned boxing, because it involves beating in the face, which can lead to blindness, brain damage, broken bones, and even death. The beater is not held responsible, because they both consented to this, and the spectators are happy. When someone is beaten in the face and knocked down, they jump for joy.
[...]
"Wrestling involves the exposure of women's private parts. Even the promotion of the competitions is done by scantily clad women. This is done at the beginning of the match, in the middle, and at the end, or so I hear... the matches are promoted by half-naked women.
[...]
"The sport of yoga was originally a Hindu game used for divine worship. For them, practicing yoga is a means of divine worship. Whoever practices yoga today is emulating their form of worship.
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"Beijing or not... I call it Bikini, anyway... because they are likely to display women in the worst possible way in these 'Bikini' Olympic games.
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"What women wear in the Olympic games are among the worst clothes possible. The inventions of Satan, with regard to the exposure of the body in gymnastics, in swimming, in whatever, in tennis... Women have never gotten naked for sports like they do in the Olympics. It is aired to billions of people worldwide. The problem is not just with the spectators who are present. The whole thing is aired on TV..."
Interviewer: "And maybe the men's clothing is more modest than the women's..."
Muhammad Al-Munajid: "There's no 'maybe' about it. It is definite."
[1] For more on the activities of the Saudi Islamic Affairs Department, see MEMRI Special Report 23 http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sr&ID=SR2303.
[2] http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/559.htm
[3] http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1520.htm
[4] http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/469.htm
[5] http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/452.htm
[6] http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/36.htm
Thanks for posting this article.
It might deserve mention that the original Olympics were performed in the nude.
So, any clothing at all is a step up from that.
For God said: Proverbs 8:36 “But whoever fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
Does mean that it’s become patriotic for women to sport skimpy beach wear?
The Prophet Muhammad said: If you beat someone, avoid the face.
no retort here, just LOL
I often wonder how women can support this insane murder cult called Islam. I mean, it sets womens rights back to a period that never existed as I cannot think of a time when women were subjected to men to such a great extent.
Mollesting pigs, goats, sheep, and camels is ok. Murdering your own children for dishonouring the family is ok. Blowing up busses filled with innocent people is ok. Crashing airplanes into buildings and killing thousands of innocent people is ok. Hacking a reporters head off on world wide television is ok. Beating your wife and children is ok. But, meeting on an international level and playing games that promote peace and harmony dressed in accepted legal athletic garb is Satanic? Anyone that suppots this sick, perverted, backwards excuse for a religion is truly messed up. This religion is like so many other cult religions in the world, if you were not raised as one you would never join in your right mind.
He must be the saudi version of Rev Al Sharpton
“I often wonder how women can support this insane murder cult called Islam. I mean, it sets women’s rights back to a period that never existed as I cannot think of a time when women were subjected to men to such a great extent.”
That’s why the subjugating of Islamic women from birth is so important. If women knew there was a different way of life or a way out of their subjugation I don’t think they’d put up with it.
LOL, we all know he’s been glued to the TV during Beach volleyball. :)
Allmendream has the right idea.
Rules...
Islamic law is obsessive-compulsive disorder codified.
Maybe.
I’ve been Saudi more times than I care to remember (oil biz). Lately splurged for the 1st class -— lots of very beautiful, well dressed, ladies. Lots of hot pink and clinging silk. Think “Jasmine” from Disney -— if you have a young daughter, you know what I mean.
Anyway, hout before landing, one by one they get up, go the the lav, and come back wearing complete head-to-Jimmy Choo spikes black Cousin It outfits.
Minders show up at the gate for them.
Very bi-modal lives.
Happened on the last 4 flights.
There’s no understanding those women if they choose that kind of treatment.
Maybe it’s because their kids are being held hostage to ensure their return.
I think some it is that the truly rich have such cushy lives, so it’s not that big of a deal to be kept in one’s home — when the home is a palace and you can escape to Europe/America at your whim.
The lower class (er, lower money) muzzies are more abused, I think.
Hypocrisy by the ruling class/elites of society. Where else have we seen that?
Hey, they don’t HAVE to look!
Will someone please tell this goon to go fatwa himself?
Add to your list: Dressing young boys up as girls, making them dance and then sodomizing them is OK.
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