Monday, August 29, 2005

Well DUH, They DO Play With A Pigskin...

From lgf: outside the haughty hegemonic box of imperial thought, I clicked to this: Daily Times - Site Edition

Saudi clerics declare football un-Islamic

Daily Times MonitorLAHORE: Ulema in Saudia Arabia have issued a fatwa (religious decree) declaring football an un-Islamic sport, and have urged the youth to quit it immediately, BBC radio reported on Saturday.According to the report, the clerics urged the youth to indulge in jihad and other constructive activities that could help the Muslim ummah, the radio reported. The ulema argued that football wastes a lot of time and the participants wear shorts, which they said was an un-Islamic dress, the radio reported.Following the decree, some players of the famous Taif Football Club have quit the game, the report added.

And that's that. Always DID feel that a good old fashioned jihad was more constructive than waiting to see which fat guys could knock down the other fat guys on a regular enough basis to make it to the Super Fat Guys Bowl, and with that in mind I wouldn't care all that much if representatives of the NFL didn't participate in capturing, detaining, and killing militant moslems the word over. That's my idea of jihad, ya see; ridding the world of cult-killers who'd never be capable of playing football anyways so there's no downside to it at all.

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