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The head of Saudi Arabia’s religious police has warned citizens
against using Twitter, which is rising in popularity among Saudis.
Sheikh Abdul
Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh said anyone using social media sites – and
especially Twitter – “has lost this world and his afterlife”.
Twitter was the platform for those who did not have any platform, he said.
His remarks reflect Riyadh’s concern that Saudis use Twitter to discuss sensitive political and other issues.
The conservative kingdom is believed to have seen the world’s
fastest increase in the uptake of Twitter, says the BBC’s Sebastian
Usher.
The sheikh’s comments echo those of
the imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca in April who used his sermon –
seen by millions on TV – to warn that Twitter was a threat to national
unity, our correspondent says.
Earlier, Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti, the kingdom’s most senior Muslim cleric, had dismissed Twitter users as “fools”.
These rhetorical attacks are part of a concerted offensive by the
Saudi establishment on the social network site, our correspondent says.
From BBC via
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-20/saudi-religious-police-warn-anyone-using-twitter-will-go-hell
Immam rape and killed his own daughter is good with islam.
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