Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia on social media

" The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia has warned against misusing social media to “call for chaos, protests and disobedience to leaders”.  In a statement published in Saudi Arabic newspaper Al Madina earlier this week, Grand Mufti Shaikh Abdul Aziz Bin Abdullah described recent technological gadgets and social media as a “double-edged sword”, and said “actually they are used more for evil than for good”,  “Social media sites are used to spread corruption, distort thoughts, demoralisation, create confusion, circulate lies and to call for chaos, protests and disobedience to leaders.”  Shaikh Abdullah was quoted as warning “every Muslim from taking his or her information from these sites”." (thanks Sultan)