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Shariah On The Soccer Field

(In The Name of God the Merciful and Benevolent)

"Recently, Al Watan, a semiofficial Saudi daily newspaper, reported that a young athlete had joined the jihad in Iraq under the influence of a fatwa forbidding playing soccer by regular rules. The newspaper also republished the fatwa, said to have originally appeared on an Islamic Web site." Portions of the fatwa, which I translated from the Arabic, follow:....."

Geoff D Porter

International Herald Tribune

Full Article Here.

These are the few rules which i found rather eye catching, to say the least.

4. Do not follow the heretics, the Jews, the Christians and especially evil America regarding the number of players. Do not play with 11 people. Instead, add to this number or decrease it.

5. Play in your regular clothes or pajamas or something like that, but not colored shorts and numbered T-shirts, because shorts and T-shirts are not Muslim clothing. Rather they are heretical and Western clothing, so beware of imitating their fashion.

Ahh. I'd Love catching a glimpse of pyjama-clad footballers!

7. Do not set the time of play at 45 minutes, which is the official time of the Jews, Christians and all the heretical and atheist countries. This is the time used by teams that have strayed from the righteous path.

So what's the official time of the Muslims? Lol. And so the muslim footballers who're plying their trade across Europe. They're no longer Islam? Lol.

9. If neither of you beats the other, or "wins" as it is called, and neither puts the leather between the posts, do not add extra time or penalties until someone wins. No, instead leave the field, because winning with overtime and penalty kicks is the pinnacle of imitating heretics.

Hmm, so im assuming 'injury time' is evil then?

10. If you play soccer, do not appoint someone to follow you called a "referee," since there is no need for him after doing away with international rules like "foul," "penalty," "corner" and others. His presence would be in imitation of the heretics, Jews and Christians and would follow international rules.

Well at least they got something right. Especially with today's refereeing standards. Come on! Its about time we got ourselves Video Referees.

13. You should spit in the face of whoever puts the ball between the posts or uprights and then runs in order to get his friends to follow him and hug him like players in America or France do, and you should punish and reprimand him, for what is the relationship between celebrating, hugging and kissing and the sports that you are practicing?

Heh. Im gonna have to agree with this one as well. We dont need Gayboys in football, now do we?

These are some conditions and precepts so that morally aware youth do not inadvertently imitate heretics and polytheists when playing soccer. ... Hell awaits those who die playing soccer according to rules established by heretical countries, at the head of which is America.

Just When i was Beginning to think they couldn't get any more mental.

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