Saudi cleric issues ‘catwa’ and bans taking selfies with cats

[Khan_21]

https://www.rt.com/viral/344631-saudi-ban-cat-selfies/

While cats continue to take over the internet, a Saudi cleric decided to issue a ban on taking photos with the furry felines – or with anything else in the ultraconservative kingdom.
Prominent cleric Saleh bin Fawzan al-Fawzan, a member of the powerful Saudi Council of Senior Scholars, was more like a grumpy cat himself when told that “taking pictures with cats has been spreading among people who like to be like the Westerners.”

The issue of the feline “trend” was raised by an audience member questioning the cleric’s views on the selfie phenomenon during a televised broadcast.

Initially confused about the matter, Fawzan repeatedly asked “what” to the question before outlawing taking pictures with anything.

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“Taking pictures is prohibited if not for a necessity,” the sheikh eventually snapped after much confusion over the selfie concept.

“Not with cats, not with dogs, not with wolves, not with anything,” he said.

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abdullah ‎@drhawawy
Whasup #cats #ksa #love

1:34 AM - 27 May 2015

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The television appearance, which was originally broadcasted in April, was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute.


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taslima nasreen ‎@taslimanasreen
A Saudi cleric banned people from taking selfie with cats, dogs... Religion is a stupid thing. Clerics are super stupid.

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HOW THE WEST WAS WON: Sr Saudi cleric bans taking photos of cats in bid to stop people try'g ‘to be like Westerners’

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It isn’t the first time Saudi authorities have banned things under their strict interpretation of Islam.

In January, the kingdom’s grand mufti outlawed playing chess because he said it encourages gambling, while in February women were temporarily banned from entering a Starbucks branch in Riyadh after a “gender barrier” wall collapsed in the shop.


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Manar N ‎@manarn8
#Starbucks store in Riyadh refused 2 serve me just because I'm a WOMAN & asked me 2 send a man instead@Starbucks

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Are saudi's retarted or what ? what use is you developed status when most of your leaders are this retarted?

 

[The Sandman]

Ya Allah reham first that CII and now this...

 

[BDforever]

https://www.rt.com/viral/344631-saudi-ban-cat-selfies/

While cats continue to take over the internet, a Saudi cleric decided to issue a ban on taking photos with the furry felines – or with anything else in the ultraconservative kingdom.
Prominent cleric Saleh bin Fawzan al-Fawzan, a member of the powerful Saudi Council of Senior Scholars, was more like a grumpy cat himself when told that “taking pictures with cats has been spreading among people who like to be like the Westerners.”

The issue of the feline “trend” was raised by an audience member questioning the cleric’s views on the selfie phenomenon during a televised broadcast.

Initially confused about the matter, Fawzan repeatedly asked “what” to the question before outlawing taking pictures with anything.

via GIPHY

“Taking pictures is prohibited if not for a necessity,” the sheikh eventually snapped after much confusion over the selfie concept.

“Not with cats, not with dogs, not with wolves, not with anything,” he said.

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abdullah ‎@drhawawy
Whasup #cats #ksa #love

1:34 AM - 27 May 2015

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Juliana Wagner ‎@WagnerJwagner23
@AviMayer Re:Saudi cleric & pictures w/ cats - My personal opinion

6:43 PM - 25 May 2016

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The television appearance, which was originally broadcasted in April, was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute.


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taslima nasreen ‎@taslimanasreen
A Saudi cleric banned people from taking selfie with cats, dogs... Religion is a stupid thing. Clerics are super stupid.

7:15 PM - 27 May 2016

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Sissy Willis ‎@SissyWillis
HOW THE WEST WAS WON: Sr Saudi cleric bans taking photos of cats in bid to stop people try'g ‘to be like Westerners’

2:47 PM - 27 May 2016

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It isn’t the first time Saudi authorities have banned things under their strict interpretation of Islam.

In January, the kingdom’s grand mufti outlawed playing chess because he said it encourages gambling, while in February women were temporarily banned from entering a Starbucks branch in Riyadh after a “gender barrier” wall collapsed in the shop.


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Manar N ‎@manarn8
#Starbucks store in Riyadh refused 2 serve me just because I'm a WOMAN & asked me 2 send a man instead@Starbucks

8:46 PM - 1 Feb 2016

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Are saudi's retarted or what ? what use is you developed status when most of your population is simply retarted lke this ? Just wow .

idiot at his best
then these morons will say stop eating and Sh** because westerners do it

 

[Khan_21]

Ya Allah reham first that CII and now this...

Atleast CII has some sort of sanity . This is another level

 

[The Sandman]

Atleast CII has some sort of sanity

pls write sarcasm wid it too D

 

[Khan_21]

pls write sarcasm wid it too D

With CII atleast we can take pictures with cats and not eat our wives

 

[Strigon]

Saudi clerks gotta compete with CII in terms of who can be more stupid. I seriously think there is a game being played behind the scenes, i.e. who can be more drunk before appearing in front of public. Good thing is that they are accelerating the demise of their influence on people.

 

[Dubious]

https://www.rt.com/viral/344631-saudi-ban-cat-selfies/

While cats continue to take over the internet, a Saudi cleric decided to issue a ban on taking photos with the furry felines – or with anything else in the ultraconservative kingdom.
Prominent cleric Saleh bin Fawzan al-Fawzan, a member of the powerful Saudi Council of Senior Scholars, was more like a grumpy cat himself when told that “taking pictures with cats has been spreading among people who like to be like the Westerners.”

The issue of the feline “trend” was raised by an audience member questioning the cleric’s views on the selfie phenomenon during a televised broadcast.

Initially confused about the matter, Fawzan repeatedly asked “what” to the question before outlawing taking pictures with anything.

via GIPHY

“Taking pictures is prohibited if not for a necessity,” the sheikh eventually snapped after much confusion over the selfie concept.

“Not with cats, not with dogs, not with wolves, not with anything,” he said.

View image on Twitter

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abdullah ‎@drhawawy
Whasup #cats #ksa #love

1:34 AM - 27 May 2015

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Juliana Wagner ‎@WagnerJwagner23
@AviMayer Re:Saudi cleric & pictures w/ cats - My personal opinion

6:43 PM - 25 May 2016

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The television appearance, which was originally broadcasted in April, was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute.


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taslima nasreen ‎@taslimanasreen
A Saudi cleric banned people from taking selfie with cats, dogs... Religion is a stupid thing. Clerics are super stupid.

7:15 PM - 27 May 2016

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  112112 Retweets
  
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  164164 likes

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Sissy Willis ‎@SissyWillis
HOW THE WEST WAS WON: Sr Saudi cleric bans taking photos of cats in bid to stop people try'g ‘to be like Westerners’

2:47 PM - 27 May 2016

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  1515 Retweets
  
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  99 likes

It isn’t the first time Saudi authorities have banned things under their strict interpretation of Islam.

In January, the kingdom’s grand mufti outlawed playing chess because he said it encourages gambling, while in February women were temporarily banned from entering a Starbucks branch in Riyadh after a “gender barrier” wall collapsed in the shop.


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Manar N ‎@manarn8
#Starbucks store in Riyadh refused 2 serve me just because I'm a WOMAN & asked me 2 send a man instead@Starbucks

8:46 PM - 1 Feb 2016

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Are saudi's retarted or what ? what use is you developed status when most of your leaders are this retarted?

Man that is waste of tax payers money wait Saudi has no tax no wonder any idiot can issue any BS opinion...which just so happens to translate into a very fearsome strong word in Arabic called fatwah and goes viral over the net the min West catches news of it...

Yaar anyone can issue an opinion...You dont issue it you say it until and unless its to be discussed to be written in their laws (do they even have any? though the Quran was their law so how can such stupidity seep in) I think its just scare and craziness picked up by media to make it a hyper subject and give it more air than it needs

Still mental cleric not realizing his position to say shit like that!

 

[AKD]

With CII atleast we can take pictures with cats and not eat our wives

Eat???? I

 

[Khan_21]

Eat???? I

A saudi cleric had given a fatwa that a husband can eat his wife if required .

 

[graphican]

Unless this "Aalim" proves this from Quran and Sunnah, his opinion is hi opinion.

Besides, Islam is not in people what they think and do and as a Muslim, I do not follow what a "molvi" preaches. Prophet Muhammad SAWW said stick with "Quran and Sunnah" and that is your yard-stick. Unless this molvi proves his fatwa in the light of Quran and Sunnah, his opinion is non-binding and just his opinion. And Molvi is as likely to be wrong as you and I am.

 

[T-Rex]

When despotic regimes rule, the regimes use 'their' clerics for distracting attention away from their illegitimate existence. Hence, those 'clerics' get busy issuing fatwas about selfies with cats. Talking about the real problems is too dangerous, overnight their traces will disappear into thin air. It happens regularly in BD.

 

[untitled]

Wrong heading. He meant all animals not just cats and he even named a few

 

[Dandpatta]

A saudi cleric had given a fatwa that a husband can eat his wife if required .

Hmmm.. eating a wife. Hmmm...

 

[SQ8]

Reminds me of a urdu joke regarding a man coming to a cleric asking him for advice on what to do after committing bestiality with a cat... @Armstrong , do you know this one?