He probably doesn’t like chess because it originated in Persia, LOL.
Chess fans should move to the Czech Republic.
Free Republic to be banned next. Lolz
How about if both sides’ Chess pieces are the same color, black.
Then playing Chess would be like Sunni vs Shiites.
The only thing they seem to like is humping goats and raping women
No doubt that the grand muff thought he could play chess, but got beat 5 games in a row. By an amateur.
So the solution? BAN IT!
Mecca, Asia Minor setting
The Mufti play a game of kafir blood letting...
Is it because the game has a “queen?”
Chess encourages logical thinking - dangerous to Islam.
The Queen is too powerful a piece, I guess.
Yes, chess is a waste of time for a Muslim, who could be doing Islamic things like raping a woman or beheading someone.
Chess is a game requiring reason. Imams for the last 10 centuries have been working to drum reasoning out of their people, which is why the cannot think clearly and coherently.
That actually happened to me in high school. I got a bunch of people playing chess during lunch. It was an informal chess club. After a few weeks, people ranging from the nerds (I was one of those) to the jocks and even cheerleaders were playing. (Aside: one of the best players was our varsity starting quarterback — he’s now a Lt. Colonel in the Air Force — and another was one of the cheerleaders.)
Our idiotic principal then told us we could not play chess during lunch because that could lead to checkers which could lead to gambling.
Needless to say, my father read him the riot act. Pretty sure he wasn’t the only parent to do so. The idiot backed down. FAST.
Note: Chess develops strategic and tactical thinking including planning and understanding your opponent. It’s basically brain exercise with direct applicability to military planning and execution. For that reason alone, I applaud this moron ruling that chess is haram.
Chess is forbidden, but any version of checkers is acceptable, because any game where one player is jumped by the other conforms to the islamic way!
‘He said chess was “included under gambling” and was “a waste of time and money and a cause for hatred and enmity between players”.
None of those objections actually apply to chess, but they do all seem to apply to soccer, which Muslims are fanatical about. Let’s see an imam try to issue a fatwa against soccer!
Just one more black mark in the book of Islam.
He didn’t have to use Bobby Fisher as an example of what Chess can do to a man...
Good idea. I’ve never won any money in a high stakes chess match.
Chess is forbidden, but slicing Jewish necks is OK.
Bacha Bazi boys raped. No problem.
Sex with 9 year olds. No problem.
Blowing up civilians with children clad in suicide vests. no problem.
Lighting enemies on fire. No problem
Beheading Christians for Youtube. No problem
Chess. BIG problem.