Express Tribune: Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti issued a religious edict prohibiting contact and cooperation with the foreign media seeking to “spread chaos and strife in the Muslim world”.
Addressing a Friday sermon at a mosque in Riyadh, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh said that people should not divulge their country’s secrets to foreign media outlets as these media groups are only concerned with creating a divide among the people.
The kingdom’s grand mufti warned against shielding or giving refuge to criminals. “A believer has to help in keeping security, that of his nation and community, and protecting his religion,” the Saudi newspaper Okaz quoted him as saying.
poor guy has a lack of self-confidence. Islam is beautiful. Read The Muslim Times and you will find out.
I think this has happened many times that these so called ‘Grand Mufties’ in Arab world have issued very funny Fatwas. I wonder why?
Amtul sahiba, perhaps they are afraid of what other’s will find in their ‘closets’ and publicize it to the whole world.
So, they are using Islam (as usual), to further their own ends. By giving misinformation to the semi-literate masses of the Muslim world and thereby keeping them under their thumb!
Calling them Grand Mufties make them an iconic figure of Islam in the eyes of non Muslims and such Fatwas are then quoted as Islamic Teachings.