Posted on 07/21/2016 7:48:45 AM PDT by JoeProBono
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, - A cleric in Saudi Arabia has extended a 15-year-old edict banning Pokemon to include the new smartphone game Pokemon Go.
The law known as fatwa no. 21,758 which established a ban on Pokemon in 2001 was reaffirmed by the General Secretariat of the Council of Senior Religious Scholars, according to USA Today. Advertisement
Although Pokemon Go has not been officially released in the region, Sheikh Saleh Al-Fozan said the Augmented Reality smartphone game is the same as the other games in the franchise.
According to the Times of Israel the law states that the Pokemon games promote gambling as well as belief in Darwinism and belief in practices such as the Shinto religion of Japan, Christianity, Freemasonry and "global Zionism."
"The symbols and logos of devious religions and organizations are used [including] the six-pointed star: You rarely find a card that does not contain such a star. It is associated with Judaism, the logo and sign of the State of Israel, and the first symbol of the Masonry organizations in the world," the fatwa states.
Other countries including Egypt have also banned the game claiming it makes "people look like drunkards in the streets" and can is being used as a form of espionage.
Not a surprise. Many communities in this country would like to either ban or restrict Pokemon Go, partly due to the traffic accidents many players are getting into.
Some areas should be off limits systematically; hospitals, prisons, police stations, cemeteries and others.
So Saudi Arabia is now a pokemon preserve ?
Dude is just mad because he hasn’t been able to land a Charizard.
Islamic “scholars” LOL!
“No fun, get it? Just think about Mad Mo and your jihad. Anything else is a distraction.”
No wonder so many religious Muslims are ready to blow.
Extend that to complete use of iphones and he's got a point.
Pokemon Go must die!
this is going to back fire because now no one will be catching Pokémon’s in the country. Saudi Arabia will be over run with the things.
Hey, if it's all that bad mebbe it'll take down the regime! We don' need no steenkin nukes! Send their youth Iphones preloaded with Pokemon Go and watch their enlistment numbers plummet!
I wonder what the penalty would be if the hancho imam got caught with Pokemon Go up his nightgown?
If we can't turn their Mecca to glass.
then onward Christian soldier!
We'll Pokemon their azz!! d;^D
Pokemon Go is basically virtual cock-fighting. You train a small creature to fight other small creatures in a ring. How about virtual bear baiting next?
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