Top Saudi God Cop: God doesn't approve of Twitter

[limpyhobbler]

The head of Saudi Arabia's religious police has warned citizens against using Twitter, which is rising in popularity among Saudis.

Sheikh Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh said anyone using social media sites - and especially Twitter - "has lost this world and his afterlife".

Twitter was the platform for those who did not have any platform, he said.

His remarks reflect Riyadh's concern that Saudis use Twitter to discuss sensitive political and other issues.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22543252

[Scootaloo]

1. Religion as a truncheon

Nothing new - and certainly not unique to the Saudis - but they seem especially crude with it. Maybe it helps that the entire country has a population the size of Baltimore.

[JI7]

2. does it say that in the quran ?

[snooper2]

3. The head of Saudi Arabia's religious police-

Is a fucking idiot..

Snooper2, Plano TX

[Skittles]

4. they're worried about keeping people fooled

[LAGC]

9. ...

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Makes perfect sense.

(Arab spring)

It's all context

[BainsBane]

6. I know someone who agrees

Weiner's wiener

[MADem]

7. The internet is changing the middle east in ways that the dictators cannot fathom.

There are two separate societies in these authoritarian countries--one society happens online.

It's a very odd situation.

[Apophis]

8. That is fucked up.

[Quantess]

10. A convenient angle with the goal of censorship.

A fear tactic, a threat. It's like religious blackmail that discourages freedom of expression.

[Roland99]

11. As has been the case with religious institutions since the Old Testament (and before)

[jessie04]

12. I don't agree

But who am I to judge ?

I don't like to judge which culture or religion is better or worse.

[YeahSureRight]

13. God is On Twitter - My Proof

"I’m your dope-ass divinity, trollin’ with My trinity, tossin’ top tweets in your immediate vicinity, flingin’ fly phrases from the fringes of infinity."


God@TheTweetOfGod

https://twitter.com/TheTweetOfGod

[Cirque du So-What]

14. I would expect

better revelatory rhetoric from the almighty Bronze-Age sky daddy. So God can rhyme...now make with the wisdom!

[YeahSureRight]

15. Some of his wisdom

God ?@TheTweetOfGod 12h

There is no past. There is no future. There is only this moment. And you're using it to read this?!?


God ?@TheTweetOfGod 17 May

The problem with government of the people, by the people and for the people is the people.

God ?@TheTweetOfGod 16 May

Someone just asked Me, "Can I have a Ferrari and a huge cock?" No one's got both, My friend.

[Cirque du So-What]

16. That's more like it!

Still, it'll take a lot more than the word of God to get me interested in Twitter & all the others.