http://gulfnews.com/news/mena/egypt/al-azhar-condemns-pokemon-mania-1.1862458
>Al Azhar, Egypt’s top Islamic institution, on Thursday condemned the craze about Pokemon Go as “harmful mania”, in the first comment by authorities in the mostly Muslim country on the top-rated mobile phone game.
>“This game makes people look like drunkards in the streets and on the roads while their eyes are glued to the mobile screens leading them to the location of the imaginary Pokemon in the hope of catching it,” said Abbas Shuman, deputy head of Al Azhar.
>“If such a game can deceive youngsters, I do not know where have gone the minds of adults, who can be hit by a car while being busy searching for Pokemon,” the cleric added in press remarks.
Based Muslims standing up against mobileshit.
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_controversy#Islam
Some outspoken, fundamentalist Muslims claimed that Pokémon is a Jewish conspiracy that is intended to brainwash Muslim children to make them renounce their faith. These same groups claimed that the word "Pokémon" is a phrase that means "I am Jewish", with the claimers and their followers generally unaware of the franchise's Japanese origin. The "Evolution vs. Creationism" conflict was also commonly brought up.
In 2001, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, who is the highest religious authority in the kingdom, issued a fatwā banning the Pokémon franchise. It claimed that the franchise promoted Zionism by displaying a six-pointed star that resembles the Star of David as well as other religious symbols such as crosses they associated with Christianity and triangles they associated with Freemasonry in the TCG and encouraged gambling in the games due to the inclusion of gambling elements, which is in violation of Muslim doctrine.[4][5]
High Muslim authorities in Qatar and Egypt then joined the ban. As this happened during the second Intifada, a Jordanian newspaper printed a caricature of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sitting in a tank and laughing at an Arab man chasing a Pokémon. This is meant to convey that Arabs are distracted from their conflict with the Israelis by popular franchises, with Pokémon as an example of such "distractions."[6][7]
Despite the initial banning, which quickly wiped away Pokémon merchandise, especially the card game, from markets in Saudi Arabia, Pokémon video games quickly returned to be sold normally, but under much less demand from local consumers. Some Pokémon merchandise, such as the Expedition Base Set reappeared in certain stores a few years later, but newer sets were never brought. Games from Generation III on seem completely unaffected by the ban.
>>345015763
>triangles
Is there anything Muslims aren't absolutely fucking terrified of?
>muslims
>based
>jewish conspiracy.
If only, then there would be a real reason to hate it.
>>345015929
Triforce
>>345015962
beat me to it
Why didn't I hear them complaining about Pokemon 20 years ago?
Were the Christians that much louder?
>>345016618
YUGIOH also got a lot of flak everywhere too.
Now nobody gives a fuck but Konami still censor the cards.
Do they even have Go over there?
>>345015554
>/v/ contrarian hipsters are so desperate to shitpost about Pokemon GO that they side with muslims
You are trying a little bit way too hard there m8
