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teigaga on 15 July 2016
LurkerJ said:
teigaga said:

I presume you're not from the west? Most of the western population of Muslims (especially the younger generation) are moderate.

It should come as no surprise that countries where law is still dictated by faith are not exactly moderate.

I said "there is no moderate Islam".

I did NOT say "there is no moderate Muslims".

There is a big difference.

Of course there are moderate (I prefer to call them lazy) Muslims who choose to choose not to practice a lot of extreme Islamic teachings, but there are those who do, even in the west, and there lies the problem. 

Sorry, my mistake. I do agree they're different but they're also linked. What people exhibit is going to a reflection on what they're taught and what they're instructed to act on 



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AbbathTheGrim on 15 July 2016

Poor Charles Darwin :(



Nintendo is selling their IPs to Microsoft and this is true because:

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Goodnightmoon on 15 July 2016

Really some of those cultures seems like they want their people to feel as miserable as possble till the hate for their lives becomes hate for everybody else.



hershel_layton on 15 July 2016
MohammadBadir said:
Wtf

Sometimes I wonder what the hell happens in the minds of Arabs

 

 

Edit: pretty irritating how arabs like these always ruin it for the rest. I just want arabs to finally improve for the better, but it's like they're constantly stuck in the 8th century. 



 

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LipeJJ on 15 July 2016
LurkerJ said:

I am not surprised at all.

Similar fatwas were issued years ago (or decades ago?) during the initial Pokemon boom.

And if someone is gonna come in here and tell me this is extreme Wahabi teachings only, read the OP again. This is coming from Al-Azhar, an institution that is well-known for its "moderate" views among Muslims, not only that, actually a lot of Muslims criticises Al-Azhar for being "too moderate".

Moderate Islam just doesn't exist period.

Wow, if that's "moderate" Islam... I don't even want to know the extremist side of it. :o



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hershel_layton on 15 July 2016
melbye said:
"promoting zionism", these people can't not blame Jews for the smallest thing

Apparently the colorless symbol for the TCG looks like the star of David. By the logic of these 'genius' scholars, that means it's supporting zionism.

 

It's funny, because literally no one likes Saudi Arabia or egypt. Even my ancestors ran away from Saudi Arabia 😂😂

 

Nothing but a group of people who want to make their own laws. Last time I checked, anything can be abused and be an addiction.



 

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Proxy-Pie on 15 July 2016
hershel_layton said:
MohammadBadir said:
Wtf

Sometimes I wonder what the hell happens in the minds of Arabs

 

 

Edit: pretty irritating how arabs like these always ruin it for the rest. I just want arabs to finally improve for the better, but it's like they're constantly stuck in the 8th century. 

But I'm an arab mang.

I agree that the arab states are pretty shit right now. Just you wait, when the oil runs out, they'll go back to camels and donkeys because of their ill use of all the money :S



Illusion on 15 July 2016
Ka-pi96 said:

That's because they're not in a position of power... yet. But I can assure you that if they were they'd also ban it...

 

OT: If religion hates it then that just proves that Pokemon is good!

I can't really agree with that.  I consider myself a devout Catholic and I have absolutely no issues playing Pokemon and the Catholic Church has absolutely no teachings or directions against it.  

There are a few fundamentalist Christian groups out there that oppose RPG's in general because they consider it to be occult but they are a very small minority. Most Christians can understand the difference between fantasy and reality.  If you want proof, JR Tolkien was a very strong Catholic and he basically created the modern fantasy genre.



Soundwave on 15 July 2016

Religious tight-wads don't like amusement/technology. News at 11.



Culipechi on 15 July 2016

Oh god... i mean, alá!!