Saudi Arabia bans ‘Zionist’ Pokemon
July 20, 2016Saudi Arabia’s top clerical body on Wednesday its 15-year-old edict that the Pokemon game franchise is un-Islamic due to the fact that it promotes “global Zionism”, Reuters reported.
The fatwa made no mention of the new Pokemon GO mobile game, in which players walk around real-life neighborhoods to hunt and catch virtual cartoon characters on their smartphone screens.
The General Secretariat of the Council of Senior Religious Scholars said it had revived a 2001 decree against a Pokemon card game in response to queries from believers.
The Council argued that the mutations of the creatures in the game, who are given specific powers, amounted to blasphemy by promoting the theory of natural evolution.
“It is shocking that the word ‘evolution’ has been much on the tongues of children,” the fatwa read, according to Reuters.
It further said the game contained other elements prohibited by Islamic law, including “polytheism against God by multiplying the number of deities, and gambling, which God has forbidden in the Quran and likened to wine and idols”.
The fatwa added that symbols used in the game promoted Japan’s Shinto religion, Christianity, Freemasonry and “global Zionism”.
The new Pokemon GO app has been a pain for Holocaust museums, as both the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, and the Auschwitz Museum in Poland have asked the application’s developers to remove their museums from the app.
In addition, the IDF has warned soldiers that the new app is not to be used on military bases, fearing soldiers might accidentally reveal sensitive information about military bases and army operations.
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