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Monday
26 March 2001 |
Shaykh 'Abdul-'Azeez
Aal ash-Shaykh says "NO" to
"Pokeman" games...
Fatwa-Online has been informed
that: "Saudi Arabia’s
highest religious authority has banned the
popular children’s game
Pokemon.
In a fatwa, the Permanent Committee for
Islaamic Research and Fataawa, headed
by Shaykh
'Abdul-'Azeez Aal ash-Shaykh,
the grand mufti, urged “all Muslims to
beware of this game and prevent their
children from playing
it.”
The
Permanent Committee charged that Pokemon
“resembles gambling because of the
competition, which at times involves sums
of money being exchanged between collectors
of the cards,” the committee
said.
The
Permanent Committee said the concept of the
characters in the game appeared to be based
on Charles Darwin’s theory of
evolution. Most of the cards “figure
six-pointed stars, a symbol of
international Zionism and the state of
Israel,” the Permanent Committee
said."
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