DUBAI:
Saudi Arabia denied on Thursday that the kingdom’s top clerical body had renewed a 15-year-old edict declaring that the
Pokemon game was un-Islamic.
Saudi media reports said on Wednesday the General Secretariat of the Council of Senior Religious Scholars had revived a 2001 decree
against a
Pokemon card game in response to queries from Muslims, although it made ** mention of the new
Pokemon GO mobile game. Users of the game walk around their real-life neighbourhoods in search of scores of "pocket monsters", which emerge superimposed on the phone screen via its camera.
The 2001
fatwa said the card game contained elements prohibited by Islamic law such as ********. However,
Saudi authorities said the social media reports were unfounded.
"The Council of Senior Religious Scholars denied that it issued a new
fatwa about the
Pokemon game, and the media reports of that are **t accurate," said Abdulmohsen Alyas, undersecretary for international communication and media at the Ministry of Culture and Information.
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