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2010-02-05 Africa North
Egyptian cleric bans Facebook
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Posted by Fred 2010-02-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 banning the use of Facebook, on the grounds that it encourages adultery.

So does the edicts against women in the Koran (ie, OK to Bitch-slap your woman and look elsewhere).
Posted by Jack Salami 2010-02-05 09:21||   2010-02-05 09:21|| Front Page Top

#2 He called the site a destructive tool that helps form "forbidden relations."

Hmmmmmm? I wonder what I'm doing wrong then...
Posted by tu3031 2010-02-05 09:47||   2010-02-05 09:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Are you using your real photo?
Posted by ed 2010-02-05 10:06||   2010-02-05 10:06|| Front Page Top

#4 My guess is that his concern about relationships is decidedly uni-directional. It's fine for men to develop them but Allah Forbid that a woman might.
Posted by AlanC 2010-02-05 10:29||   2010-02-05 10:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Sheikh Abd Al-Hamid Al-Atrash, former head of the fatwa council at the influential Al-Azhar Institution, based his ruling on a sociological study linking the use of Facebook and other forms of new media with moral corruption.


His name is trash, and he is worried about moral corruption. You can't make this up.
Posted by BigEd 2010-02-05 17:41||   2010-02-05 17:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Does Facebook ban Egyptian clerics?
Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-02-05 20:03||   2010-02-05 20:03|| Front Page Top

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