Saudi Grand Mufti Disapproves of Animations Featuring Quranic Stories
Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia has said making animation movies based on Quranic stories is not right.
Speaking in a satellite TV program, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah Al Sheikh said it is not appropriate to narrate Quranic stories for children via animation movies, the newnevvs.com website reported.
He did not mention any reason or logic for his strange view and just said children will get nothing good from such movies.
Al Sheikh, who heads Saudi Arabia’s council of senior scholars, is known for his reactionary and strict views.
Last year, the top Saudi Sheikh reportedly issued a fatwa issued allowing men to eat their wife if they are starving.
Men in Saudi Arabia “can eat their wives if they are suffering severe hunger” under a bizarre new fatwa reportedly announced by a religious leader in the country.
Saudi Arabian grand mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah previously issued the guidelines to allow a husband to eat his wife’s body parts in extreme circumstances.
The cleric is reported to have said the ruling represents the “sacrifice of women and obedience to her husband” – but campaigners are understandably outraged.
The announcement has sparked major concerns about the already well-documented poor treatment of women in the country.
A statement reportedly from the cleric’s office said: “A fatwa attributed to the Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, which allows a man to eat his wife or parts of her body if the husband was afflicted with a severe hunger, raised concern and debate over social media.
“The fatwa is interpreted as evidence of the sacrifice of women and obedience to her husband and her desire for the two to become one.”
He, after forcing by Media and international scandal, denied issuing such a fatwa, describing the reports as “Attempts by enemies to distract society from their main cause at the moment.”
