HONESTLY. You’d think this was officially Mad Mullah Week!
First off this week we had a crazy a Muslim cleric – Muhammad Al-Munajid – bust a blood vessel over scantily-clad females participating in the Olympic Games.
Then along comes the cosmetically-challenged Grand Mufti Abdul-Aziz al-Shaikh, of Saudi Arabia, who this week declared that celebrating events like birthdays and anniversaries would put Muslims on par with people of other faiths including Jews and Christians.
The Grand Mufti, who looks as if he could eat an apple through a letterbox. Please put this creature in a burqua!
And what a tragedy that would be, as everyone knows Islam is so much more superior to anything in the multiverse!
According to this report, Shaikh entered the celebrations debate when a more enlightened Saudi cleric, Salman al-Awdah, told a TV audience that birthdays and anniversaries were not against Islam.
Oh yes they are, brayed Shaikh, who appears as if his mother may once have had a close encounter with a camel.
Declaring such celebrations contrary to Muslim “righteousness”, he firmly contradicted his colleague’s views.
Shaikh, who embraces the hardline Islamic doctrine of Wahhabism, said that only two occasions merit celebration in the Muslim world: Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, and Eid al-Adha, which marks the end of the annual haj pilgrimage.
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August 23rd, 2008 at 8:20 am
He looks as though his father was doing more with his camels than just herding them
August 24th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
To be fair, Saudi Arabia is in the grip of the vicious Wahabi sect, which is basically down on fun i.e. keeps it firmly behind closed doors for all those corrupt princes. I’m sure millions of ordinary Muslims like birthday parties, with cake and so on. I really, really want to believe that most Muslims are capable of having fun and don’t just dance and sing when planes hit tall buildings in New York.