Saudi Arabia’s top clerics renewed a religious edict that warns against playing Pokemon this time as the wildly popular mobile phone application "Pokemon Go"
The game is popular in the Middle East
Dubai: Saudi Arabia’s top clerics renewed a religious edict that warns against playing Pokemon this time as the wildly popular mobile phone application "Pokemon Go".
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First issued in 2001, the decree says Pokemon violates Islamic prohibitions against gambling, uses devious Masonic-like symbols and promotes "forbidden images". Crosses in the game are a symbol of Christianity, says the edict.
Al-Azhar’s Abbas Shumman said a "manic attachment to technology" can make people forgetful towards worship and prayer.
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