Pikachu is an Islamophobe

[Lucifer Alpha]

An official for the top Islamic authority in Egypt told dpa on Thursday that the mobile phone reality game Pokemon Go is "prohibited" by Islam.

Playing the game is as illicit as drinking alcohol, which is forbidden by Islam, according to Abbas Shouman, the deputy chief of al-Azhar, the world's foremost seat of Sunni Islamic learning.

"It negatively influences the mind and harms the player or others without being aware of that," Shouman said.

In 2001, Nasr Fareed, Egypt’s then grand mufti, the country’s highest Islamist official, banned the Pokemon franchise, saying it is un-Islamic allegedly for promoting Charles Darwin’s controversial theory of evolution.

The game has also provoked condemnation in Saudi Arabia where the Higher Committee for Scientific Research and Islamic Law issued a fatwa against the game, describing it as "possessing the minds" of children while promoting Zionism and gambling.

Pokemon Go is "prohibited" by Islam, Egyptian religious body says

 

[spin]

And?

 

[dissolved]

An official for the top Islamic authority in Egypt told dpa on Thursday that the mobile phone reality game Pokemon Go is "prohibited" by Islam.

Playing the game is as illicit as drinking alcohol, which is forbidden by Islam, according to Abbas Shouman, the deputy chief of al-Azhar, the world's foremost seat of Sunni Islamic learning.

"It negatively influences the mind and harms the player or others without being aware of that," Shouman said.

In 2001, Nasr Fareed, Egypt’s then grand mufti, the country’s highest Islamist official, banned the Pokemon franchise, saying it is un-Islamic allegedly for promoting Charles Darwin’s controversial theory of evolution.

The game has also provoked condemnation in Saudi Arabia where the Higher Committee for Scientific Research and Islamic Law issued a fatwa against the game, describing it as "possessing the minds" of children while promoting Zionism and gambling.

Pokemon Go is "prohibited" by Islam, Egyptian religious body says

That paragraph is rather golden.

 

[Bacco]

Good, train an army of Quokkas to fuck em up

 

[in the]

 

[LucasWithLidOff]

A broken clock is right once a day. That game is demonic,

 

[Rod1]

So basically a televangelist.

 

[ripskater]

That would scare the crap out of me.

 

[redwire]

That paragraph is rather golden.

I'm assuming that the 'Higher Committee for Scientific Research and Islamic Law' is closing in on the cure for all disease by studying fly wings. I expect a breakthrough announcement is imminent.

 

[Madmick]

Did they also prohibit Ingress....since, you know, Pokemon Go is just a skinned version of this game which has been out for 2 1/2 fucking years?

 

[wlu29]

Stupid

 

[ShinkanPo]

What the fuck is pikachu? And all these Pokumon nonsense anyway?

 

[gigantalor]

 

[Wadtucket]

Pikachu Akbar

 

[Thurisaz]

An official for the top Islamic authority in Egypt told dpa on Thursday that the mobile phone reality game Pokemon Go is "prohibited" by Islam.

You got it backwards. Islam is Pikachuphobic. Allah is scared of cartoons, this is nothing new.

 

[RetiredSlave]

Islam cant afford to concede that much of the childrens' mental real estate so I understand. Still though scared of an videogame? Thats both lol and disturbingly telling. Only we can dominate their minds, we must not allow Nintendo to gain a foothold with their electronic falsehoods. Only the truth can set them free. You little motherfucker, were chopping off your hands for this blasphemy, how ya like us now?

 

[Gregolian]

Hey look... my .22 EVOLVED!:

Is it also an Islama... oh, wait....

 

[Thai Domi]

Are they ok with ISIS' pr0n addiction?

 

[BAM]

That would scare the crap out of me.

they're pretty creepy where I live. They come out at night, run across your rooftops, hissing and cackling, fighting other possums, killing each other, tumbling around in the night. You go out of your house to collect some hanging laundry and you'll see them on a tree, looking at you with their eyes shining in the darkness.

the Australian possums are a little different, but they're huge and their claws can fuck you up:

about the size of an adult cat

 

[ripskater]

they're pretty creepy where I live. They come out at night, run across your rooftops, hissing and cackling, fighting other possums, killing each other, tumbling around in the night. You go out of your house to collect some hanging laundry and you'll see them on a tree, looking at you with their eyes shining in the darkness.

the Australian possums are a little different, but they're huge and their claws can fuck you up:

about the size of an adult cat

HIde your kids! Hide your wife!