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  • Saudi Cleric Decries World Cup Soccer Enthusia

    06/23/2006 7:47:41 AM PDT · by kromike · 37 replies · 853+ views
    CNS News.com ^ | June 23, 2006 | By Kate Monaghan
    CNSNews.com) - Millions of soccer fans around the world are zeroed in on the World Cup tournament, but a Saudi cleric claims that public enthusiasm over sports turns people into fools and encourages nakedness. "Some of the fans paint their faces with strange colors," Sheik Muhammad Al-Munajid complained in a June 1 interview broadcast by a United Arab Emirates-based television channel, which serves Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries. "Some of them look like demons ... The devil has turned these people into fools and made them change the way God created them, with all the things they are...