Popular Muslim TV preacher: “People who play chess are cursed”

https://www.jihadwatch.org ^ | 01/03/2017 | Christine Williams

[PapaBear3625]

From my experience, backgammon is very popular in the ME. What's the diff?

The dice create a big psychological difference. The backgammon loser can rationalize that he had bad luck with the dice. The chess loser has lost because the winner is a better chess player. See my prior post about humiliation and Islamic culture.

[Albion Wilde]

He's just sad because his agent is losing:

[Old Yeller]

People who worship Allah are cursed.

[metmom]

HA! A muslim complaining about LYING?!?!?!?!

THAT’S rich.

[jiggyboy]

“Checkmate” is our rough pronunciation of “shah mat”, which means “the shah is dead”. (Trivia question at the bar last week. :-) ) So yeah they have had some familiarity with the game already.

[Larry Lucido]

I’ve try to play chess. He may have a point.

[Ancesthntr]

Attacking chess...prepare to be nuked by the Russians, chess is in their national soul.

[bravo whiskey]

Rasuli, Lord of the rift (Sean Connery THE WIND AND THE LION) is not amused

[beethovenfan]

I thought lying was a virtue in Islam.

[Organic Panic]

With everything that is offensive to Muslims it’s just easier to give us a book of what DOESN’T offend Muslims.

[Bratch]

I loved that movie.

[xp38]

KxB

[hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998]

Moron: Chess was introduced to Persia from India and became a part of the princely or courtly education of Persian nobility.[8] In Sassanid Persia around 600 the name became chatrang, which subsequently evolved to shatranj, due to Arab Muslims' lack of ch and ng native sounds,[9] and the rules were developed further. Players started calling "Shāh!" (Persian for "King!") when attacking the opponent's king, and "Shāh Māt!" (Persian for "the king is helpless" – see checkmate) when the king was attacked and could not escape from attack. These exclamations persisted in chess as it traveled to other lands. The game was taken up by the Muslim world after the Islamic conquest of Persia, with the pieces largely keeping their Persian names. The Moors of North Africa rendered Persian "shatranj" as shaṭerej, which gave rise to the Spanish acedrex, axedrez and ajedrez; in Portuguese it became xadrez, and in Greek zatrikion, but in the rest of Europe it was replaced by versions of the Persian shāh ("king"). Thus, the game came to be called ludus scacchorum or scacc(h)i in Latin, scacchi in Italian, escacs in Catalan, échecs in French (Old French eschecs); schaken in Dutch, Schach in German, szachy in Polish, šahs in Latvian, skak in Danish, sjakk in Norwegian, schack in Swedish, šakki in Finnish, šah in South Slavic languages, sakk in Hungarian and şah in Romanian; there are two theories about why this change happened: From the exclamation "check" or "checkmate" as it was pronounced in various languages. From the first chessmen known of in Western Europe (except Iberia and Greece) being ornamental chess kings brought in as curios by Muslim traders.

[Jack Hammer]

He may be right. I always curse like a sailor when I play.

[RegulatorCountry]

It’s amusing to look back on the left’s disdain for southern evangelicals and their teetotaling ways. Now look who they’ve hitched their wagons to. The cognitive dissonance should be deafening, but no.

[reed13k]

Correct the version we’re familiar with in the West is from that Persian variant - but there are other versions which all originated from that Indian base.

Chinese Chess for example allows the use of cannon to “shoot over” your own lines. It also uses lances in a rook fashion but without retreat or horizontal movement.

Shogi is the Japanese variant which allows for some level of subversion by converting enemy pieces to your own use and dropping them into the lineup to your advantage.

There are other variants as well. I figure I’m a lower fair player, but I love to study the other versions to see how it impacts the game play. It’s fascinating to me, in that it is similar to technology impacts on the battlefield. To me Shogi is an example of paratroopers being used before planes were thought feasible. (- Davinci of course)

[heterosupremacist]

hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998

Moron:

Er, ‘scuse me?

[reg45]

Ditto

[YogicCowboy]

That’s easy:

Lying, stealing, raping, killing.

(The bit about lying only bothers them if an infidel does it.)

[trebb]

Chess scares low IQ individuals. If you don’t understand something, some people mock it.

Yep - kind of hard to be telling lies when all your moves are in the open....my Dad taught me the game when I was 9. Was part of a group that played at the lunch table for a number of years.