Build a snowman, lose your head? - American Thinker: Reaction to Saudi cleric: Building snowmen 'un-Islamic' - 'Sheikh Mohammed Saleh al-Munajjid: "It is not permitted to make a statue out of snow, even by way of play and fun.'

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Reaction to Saudi cleric: Building snowmen 'un-Islamic'

One Saudi Twitter user responded to the fatwa issued by a cleric (see Carol Brown's blog) that said building snowmen was un-Islamic by saying there were two types of people in the Kingdom:

"A people looking for a fatwa (religious ruling) for everything in their lives, and a cleric who wants to interfere in everything in the lives of others through a fatwa," the user wrote.

Snow blanketed the norther provinces of Saudi Arabia last week, giving citizens a rare opportunity for fun.
We've seen fatwas issued for a lot of crazy stuff, but this one, put out by prominent Islamic scholar, Sheikh Mohammed Saleh al-Munajjid, may top the list of bizarre no-nos for Muslims.

Reuters:

Asked on a religious website if it was permissible for fathers to build snowmen for their children after a snowstorm in the country's north, Sheikh Mohammed Saleh al-Munajjid replied: "It is not permitted to make a statue out of snow, even by way of play and fun."
Quoting from Muslim scholars, Sheikh Munajjid argued that to build a snowman was to create an image of a human being, an action considered sinful under the kingdom's strict interpretation of Sunni Islam.

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     Actually, others believing this is fine with me and is a perfect example of why in the past people of extremely different cultures mostly lived in separate nations. --tma

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/01/saudi_cleric_building_snowmen_unislamic.html