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Arabia
Saudi clerics warn media over horoscopes
2006-10-09
RIYADH: Clerics in Saudi Arabia have warned Arab media against publishing "forbidden" horoscopes, which are hugely popular despite a clerical ban.
“This is astrology, which is forbidden and is considered as a form of magic...”
"This is astrology, which is forbidden and is considered as a form of magic," a committee of senior Saudi clerics said in a statement published on state news agency SPA late on Saturday.

“Saudi-owned newspapers based in London such as Asharq al-Awsat and al-Hayat have started publishing horoscopes in recent years and fortune tellers appear on Saudi-owned television stations based outside the kingdom.”
"The committee reminds Muslims and journalists in particular that it is their obligation to take advice from God, His Prophet and the clergy," it said, adding that all schools of Islamic law forbid such practices. "Believing that a certain star can be the cause of happiness or misfortune is a superstition from the pre-Islamic age," the prominent clerics said. Saudi-owned newspapers based in London such as Asharq al-Awsat and al-Hayat have started publishing horoscopes in recent years and fortune tellers appear on Saudi-owned television stations based outside the kingdom.

"Many Saudis don't know their birth date on the Christian calendar so they don't care about horoscopes, but the new generation is obsessed by them," the editor of a popular Saudi daily told Reuters. He did not want to be identified. "It's blatantly un-Islamic, we won't do it," he added.
Posted by:Fred

#10  No point, #9 jim. They'd all read, "The kufr are out to get you."
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2006-10-09 19:41  

#9  I wonder if they can have fortune cookies!
Posted by: jim   2006-10-09 19:07  

#8  #5 "Believing that a certain star can be the cause of happiness or misfortune is a superstition from the pre-Islamic age,"

I do so look forward to the supersitions of the post-islamic age.
Posted by: kelly   2006-10-09 18:53  

#7  Hey yo...And that's called the SOLAR calendar. You know. Like basic scientific fact. Nuthin' Christian about it. Even the Mayans were aware that the soalr year had 365 days.


Duh...
Posted by: Hupailing Ebbuns2352   2006-10-09 17:40  

#6  Hey yo...And that's called the SOLAR calendar. You know. Like basic scientific fact. Nuthin' Christian about it. Even the Mayans were aware that the soalr year had 365 days.


Duh...
Posted by: Hupailing Ebbuns2352   2006-10-09 17:39  

#5  "Believing that a certain star can be the cause of happiness or misfortune is a superstition from the pre-Islamic age,"

Damn. Does time go that far back?
Posted by: tu3031   2006-10-09 15:14  

#4  A crack has been detected in the Islamic wall of gloom and doom.
If you were born on this date, you will begin questioning the existence of Alla
bama.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-10-09 15:11  

#3  Well, looky here . Seems like the moon god dont like the stars hogging the limelight.
Posted by: Classer   2006-10-09 02:18  

#2  Get that, Church-goers Confession-goers and Bible/Faith-readers of America = Amerika, YOU ARE NOW THE [MINORITY][PRO-VIOLENCE]RADICALS, ANARCHISTS, CRIMINALS, TERRORISTS, + THUGS, ETC. OF AMERICA.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-10-09 01:08  

#1  Meanwhile, here in Hated Fascist = Well-Meaning but Errorful Limited Communist, Clintonian America = Amerika, why it was only this AM that we have Babe-perts on TV criticizing GOP-Right/Conservatives as untrustworthy extremists -radicals for believing in God + the "fairy tales/mythologies" of organized religion. SIMPLE "SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE" FROM 11970's HAS NOW BECOME, ONCE AGAIN, "GOD, ETAL. IS A FAKE" AND SIMILAR in 2006.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-10-09 01:02  

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