Posted on 01/13/2015 7:21:20 AM PST by billorites
A prominent Saudi Arabian cleric has whipped up controversy by issuing a religious edict forbidding the building of snowmen, describing them as anti-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.”
Quoting Muslim scholars, Munajjid argued that to build a snowman was to create an image of a human, an action considered sinful under the kingdom’s strict interpretation of Sunni Islam.
“God has given people space to make whatever they want which does not have a soul, including trees, ships, fruits, buildings and so on,” he wrote in his ruling.
That provoked swift responses from Twitter users writing in Arabic and identifying themselves with Arab names.
“They are afraid for their faith of everything ... sick minds,” one Twitter user wrote.
Another posted a photo of a man in formal Arab garb holding the arm of a “snow bride” wearing a bra and lipstick. “The reason for the ban is fear of sedition,” he wrote.
A third said the country was plagued by two types of people: “A people looking for a fatwa for everything in their lives, and a cleric who wants to interfere in everything in the lives of others through a fatwa.”
Munajjid had some supporters however. “It (building snowmen) is imitating the infidels, it promotes lustiness and eroticism,” one wrote. “May God preserve the scholars, for they enjoy sharp vision and recognise matters that even Satan does not think about.”
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.
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Do You wanna build a snowman?
I KEEL YOU!
You didn't build that!
Wonderful, snowman is now on the list with bacon. We have a WINNER. Fatwah on Snowman
That’s right, there will be no more snowmen allowed in the desert!
He said snowmen, not snow-goats.
Wait until they start banning snowmen in Scandinavia! Thnk its not possible? Never underestimate the cowardice of the Quislings!
Islam is a serious mental illness.
If snowmen are forbidden, snowblowers are RIGHT OUT.
Is there anything that they don't want to have sex with?
Snow angels too.
Someone should carve an ice sculpture of Mohammed on his honeymoon with Aisha.
I like that. And they should create a mold of it, which you can fill with water to create your own ice sculpture. Sell them cheap, at stores everywhere!
Even Mohammed knew that the lie about his immortality wouldn’t fly after he was dead. Even snowmen have more credibility than a dead Mohammed. In actuality, it was the barely literate Imams who wrote the Quran a couple of centuries after Mohammed was already dead. They already found out that a snowman had more credibility than a dead Mohammed did.
Nice ramadan carol, but needs more blood.
snort, guffaw...
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