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Saudi Cleric Blasts Twitter As "Source Of All Evil" As Riyal Slides To Lowest Since 2008
The last 2 days have seen enormous volatility in the Saudi Riyal exchange rate, purportedly oil-related FX hedging programs as the SAR dropped to its lowest sicne Dec 2008, but the most extreme 'moves' were left to The Kingdon's top Muslim cleric. As The BBC reports, Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, exclaimed that Twitter is "the source of all evil and devastation". As the 12th most influential Muslim in the world, it perhaps matters that he says users were using Twitter to "promote lies, backbite and gossip and to slander Islam," but citizens of Saudi Arabia, who are some of the heaviest users of Twitter, did not appreciate his remarks, summe dup by one tweet, "People need an outlet to express themselves, to start to disclose what's hidden and drop the masks, without fear or commands, or censorship from anyone."
Handsome chap...
according to Saudi Arabia's top Muslim cleric, Twitter is "the source of all evil and devastation".
Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, made the comments on his Fatwa television show earlier this week.
"If it were used correctly, it could be of real benefit, but unfortunately it's exploited for trivial matters," he said about the social networking site.
"People are rushing to it thinking, 'It's a source of credible information' but it's a source of lies and falsehood."
As the highest religious authority in the country, Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh holds a senior government position, advising on the law and social affairs.
He was also voted the 12th most influential Muslim in the world in a recent poll.
According to Gulf News, he said: "These are not the high morals that Muslims should have and I call upon all people to contemplate seriously what they write before they post their tweets."
However, citizens of Saudi Arabia, who are some of the heaviest users of Twitter, did not appreciate his remarks.
One of the reasons Saudis say they like using Twitter is because it allows them to discuss what they really feel.
The hashtag #WhydidTwittersucceedinSaudiArabia began trending in January, with users sharing their reasons they liked the site.
One user tweeted: "People need an outlet to express themselves, to start to disclose what's hidden and drop the masks, without fear or commands, or censorship from anyone."
Another posted: "The reason is that none of the newspapers are concerned with your worries nor do any officials care about you."
As the Riyal slides notably away from its peg to the USD - to the weakest since Dec 2008...
Though we are sure Twitter had nothing to do with that.
the biggest jump in long-dated USD/SAR forwards in more than three years was partly driven by increased FX hedging trades after oil prices fell, two FX and rates traders in London said.
Given Saudi Arabia’s large FX reserves, traders see no fundamental justification for these moves, and instead are seizing the opportunity to sell the forwards at elevated levels.
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Twitter is the source of all evil? So, before a few years ago, there was no evil then? I swear, these religious kooks are nuttier than squirrel turds.
Funny, I would think a religious man should know that the "Source of all evil" is one man enslaved under the yoke of another.
What's Arabic for "facepalm"?
Durka Durka Mohammed Picard.
Okay, I don't get it, do these nuts like picnics? Why the fascination with picnic tablecloths?
They should listen to that one guy with the members only jacket at least.
pods
Scared, old conservative men ranting against anything that brings change and progress appears to be a worldwide phenomenon.
This from a guy wearing a dish towel while advocating marrying 8 year old girls and stoning lesbians.
SA is a giant shithole and so is Twitter. ...hope they both reacb room temperature soon
Is he the Saudi Santa?
I think I shall inform Wenchly, that from now on, she should address me as THE GRAND MUFTI!
Wish me luck;)
a Wenchly? where can I get one?
y'all left out d'hope...
This Little Thing Called the Internet ... Makes It Much Harder to Govern
John Kerry
A staunch admission that we are not 'free'.
A government out of control is a government that can no longer control its citizens. A part of that equation results in freedom for someone, but I forget who. Ok.... now where do I go to register my firearm again?
Isn't that Eraserhead?
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It's the baby from Eraserhead, all grown up.
INBRED FUCK!
Listen up, Skeikyerbouti...
Between the House of Saud and the Wahhabi clerical scum, we're pretty close to the Source of Evil: Political Sociopaths + Religious Psychopaths
/ Can somebody PLEASE turn that place into a Sea of Glass? My Photon Torpedoes are offline -- like most things around here. Things haven't been the same since Scotty left us. /s
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ZH is fucky today, I see.
I thought the Super Devil was the source of all evil.
There is no Super Devil. Tyler Durden and ZH are the source of all evil. Twitter is just a clever distraction to focus the mouth-breathers' attention elsewhere.
d'white devil be d'source of all d'evil...jus name d'one fo' today...
"He was also voted the 12th most influential Muslim in the world in a recent poll."
12th most influential, eh? The questions boggle the mind. Was it a Twitter poll? What was the hashtag? Is the ranking based on the number of his followers?
Who knows what the guy said... MSM is known for issuing false translations.
Guess they're about to round up all the Twatterers for re-education. Took them long enough.
Why do these guys always look so fucked up? They almost always look walleyed/ Marty Feldman-esque and their teeth are always fucked up. Who the fuck listens to these fuckers?
ROFL! +1
reminds me of the parody of the old Kim Carnes single: She's got Marty Feldman Eyes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3vtk7hd2XI
He looks like the guys who steal free bagels at my old local bank branch and charles schwab.
The House of Saud (aka really House of Saul) is more evil than Twitter - which is saying a lot because Twitter is almost as evil as FaceBook.
Sheikh Sahlaami Sahlaami Bholoni al-Popeye
Kinda got that "George C. Scott" vibe kickin...
This guy looks a lot like Eli Wallach of Magnificent 7 fame....the jewish guy who played a Mexican bandito.
http://www.filmdope.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=17847
Obviously there's a translation problem. Man is the source of all evil, but Twitter certainly is a great spray nozzle for that evil.
Whereas actually the Saudi Cleric is the source of all evil, to a first order approximation. his bullshit cult needs to be wiped off the face of the planet.
He looks like such a happy-go-lucky kinda fellow!
I'll bet the grand muffy does some twitten and twatten himself!
A conduit, not source of evil.
He obviously didn't attend Oxford.
If he had attended OxBridge or Harvard/Yale then he would have known real evil.
Satan worshipers and kiddy fiddlers...
The dad from Close Encounters is a mufti now?
he must not have an Instagram acct
I could be wrong but the cleric hasn't read the Bible lately
Twitter has destroyed the lives of athletes and politicans who have posted tweets in times of anger or stupidity. It also cripples a percentage of high school students who get bullied or teased. Like many things - it has to be handled correctly.
Too many characters. Try again.
Treat Twitter like drugs. Just say no. Err, maybe not drugs. Bike shorts or fanny packs, porno stashes or nutters.
Seriously, it will help you. It will remove that inner narcissist who is always goading you to let everyone know just how awesome you really are.
pods
Oddly enough - before CCW pistols became smaller, a lot of CCW guys used fanny packs to conceal.
He says as he humps on a little boy.
When your #12 you have to try waaaay harder!
Source of all evil my white hairy ass.
I can promise you right now that this motherfucker has never had to watch a "Wiggles" video.
I was not a huge Wiggles fan at the start, but they wear on you. Never progressed to taking the youngins to a show, but the videos were somewhat favorable, except for the pirate with the feather. lol.
Barney on the other hand......................
pods
Aussie pal of mine says that they were a band "The Cockroaches" before they uhum, cough, cough "needed the money" and porned themselves out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npszb0Ehw-w
Sounds like Starland vocal band mated with The Bay City Rollers. Go see if you dare.
Wiggles?
Music doesn't fit the name 'Cockroaches'. Nice innocuous mid 60's pop like Tommy James and the Shondells ...
without the hard edge...
hehe.
Improving the image of Islam, one fatwa at a time.....
"Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh"
Why do all these dudes have names like this - I mean Sheikh al-Sheikh - must have driven all the other Sheiks crazy, don't ya think?...and why do they all seem to have only 1 working eye (or are completely blind?) Kind of fitting, eh, for these mooslims..
"If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out..."
Guess they take it literally! :>D
"Saudi Cleric Blasts Twitter As "Source Of All Evil" As Riyal Slides To Lowest Since 2008"
Translation: "Twitter blasts truth too quickly to be Winston Smithed. We can, and will make it stop. How can we be expected to steal and kill, I mean serve the minions, with the truth swirling around our heads constant;ly?!"
An American, not US subject.
"The reason is that none of the newspapers are concerned with your worries nor do any officials care about you."
I'm sure people on Twitter really care about you.
That's the wonderful thing about Twitter -- you really get everyone's full attention on there, at least for about 300ms before they move on to their favorite celebrity or start crafting their own tweet about how big their last shit was.
The part of Grand Mufti was played by Rob Schneider. Goats should be enough, twitter is for perverts. This guy proves Darwin wrong. His cousins run the FR. No more EBT. No wonder they are all trying to get away. It would be cheaper to reorganize the management through hostile takeover than sustain this exodus. Don't drone me brah
This guy looks like the warden from the shawshank redemption.
Extremely ugly man hates Twitter. News at 10.
You know what the TRUE source of evil is shaky? I'll tell you. One of your women driving a car and tweeting to all her friends about what she's doing at the same time! And BONUS POINTS if she's liquored-up!
Tweeting is bad! m’kay,
but his Fatwa Television is good? m’kay....
noone tunes into the Fatwa Vision channel any more,
especially since they dropped ‘Beheading with Stars’, ‘Mad Dictators’ and
‘The Hajing Dead’. It’s just old re-runs of , ‘Green Hectres’, ‘I dream of Djin’,
oh and for the kiddies ‘Mr Rajs’ Neighborhood’.
Hit Television Shows In Iraq
Judge Saddam
No-witness News
Husseinfeld
Mad About Everything
U.S. Military Secrets Revealed
Suddenly Sanctions
Allah McBeal
Children Are Forbidden To Say The Darndest Things
Matima Loves Chachi
The Brian Benben Bin Laden Show
Buffy The Slayer Of Yankee Imperialist Dogs
Wheel Of Misfortune
Iraq's Wackiest Public Execution Bloopers
Achmed's Creek
M*U*S*T*A*S*H*
Veronica's Closet Full Of Long, Black, Shapeless Dresses
Two Guys, A Girl, And A Mosque
When Kurds Attack
Just Shoot Me
My Two Baghdads
Diagnosis: Heresy
Everybody Loves Saddam (Or He'll Have Them Shot)
Captured Iranian Soldiers Say the Darndest Things
Two Guys, A Girl And A Fatwah
Veilwatch
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I saw another picture of him smiling, this inbred looks like he has a mouthful of corn-nuts instead of teeth. Pray to your god for some fucking pepsident and while you're at it tweet up some dentist recommendations. DAMN.
corn nuts! LOL!!!! +1
Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, exclaimed that Twitter is "the source of all evil and devastation".
Translation
ussa / twitter
is bad
and if # 12 had his way
there would be none
Wasn't he in the Big Lebowski?
http://blog.estately.com/assets/the-big-lebowski-3.jpg
I think that's Billy Crystal incognito.
ironic that he names pretty much the only major social media platform or website that isn't owned and/or managed by Jews, isn't it?
hey hey - don't shoot the messenger, I'm just sayin' - why not facebook as the source of all evil. Run by eeeevil zionist jews, they also track you across the internet almost as much as google/youtube.... also owned by the same tribe....
fucking religion. the rest of us could get along just fine if we could somehow get away from adherents to organized religion.
Wiccans are okay - they don't shave, but they put out.
Sheer cohencidence.
How about the women?
So this inbred is telling me that twitter is evil
but you can support and finance terrorists
you can marry underage girls
that you can kill people that do not worship your satanic cult
it is ok to behead people
you stone women that get raped
you treat women like shit
my message to you fucking sheik inbred enjoy your wealth of oil because you only have one more generation of oil reserves and your next generation will be back at fucking camels for a living.the west will not need or even support your country because your whole country are fucking inbreds(ps marrying your first cousin lowers the childrens iq)
"Them bitches be gettin' all uppity and shit". ~ Prince Abdule AhLakahwanna
A Jew by any other name... If you don't mind being used they are an equal opportunity employer. Goys welcome!
As long as you give the Zionist community your life and organs when they are finished with you!!!
What do Talmudic Jews and their protege Wahabists' have in common besides ISIS?...
They both worship at the temple of usury!!!
First the Saudis drop the oil price, to hit Russia perhaps but the Rouble is down against the dollar so much of the impact is negated.
Then the Saudis realize what has happened and say to themselves, why not drop our currency too.
Brilliant, now it really only impacts the 'frackers' as they are stuck with the dollar.
actually,
thought one of them owned 15-25% of Twitter via the stockmarket as it was or maybe that is FOX News
Time to censor all those who want others censored.
Boohoo, another power monger upset that people are able to communicate with each other and realize exactly how badly they are getting screwed.
Humanity has been enslaved for centuries by these @$$holes, it is our time to be free from their control!
Why is Janet Yellen wearing that funny scarf? Of course the internet in its entirity is a real threat to all of these megalomaniacs.
duplicate. oops.
Preacher says what Preacher is paid to say?
Reminds me of the Pullman sleeping cars. Pullman was brilliant. He invented the sleeping car, for the use of wealthy long-distance train passengers. Pullman's sleeping car customers pretty much rode in their own private little world, with, separate from the common passengers, their own lounge, dining room, and sleeping room - and total privacy - meaning that their wives would never know about the mistresses they took with them on their trips. To make sure of this, Pullman sent his agents as far away from his wealthy customer's homes in the Northeast and Northwest as possible, to the deepest South, and had them pay black Preachers to tell their blackest church members that God would like it very much if they went up north to work as porters on Pullman's sleeping cars, and the pay and benefits would be good, too, as they were. Preachers said what Pullman paid them to say, and everything worked out nicely.
Is that his nose or Satan's pecker? No wonder that smelly 'roid is unhappy... just take a whiff of his thong!
TRUTH: All Muzzy's suck.
He might be confusing Twitter with The New York Times.
Twitter is more like "The Source Of All Stupidity"
Normally I would agree that any type of social media is at the least a distracting, narcissistic endeavor, but the "source of all evil?" That's a good one coming from what is practically the most repressive regime in human history, the infamous House of Saud. Consider the source.
the next time the u.s govt sends material support to the isis terrorists they should include twitter accounts with the gernades and toilet paper
Quick, someone had me a tissue. In 2009, we watched this same tear jerking movie when crude went down to $35 barrel.
Gasoline prices should go down, but other than that, there is no economic good news," said John Kilduff, vice president of risk management at MF Global in New York.
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/feb/18/business/fi-gas18
Shiternet !
Kind looks spookily like an inspector clouseau in disguise. "Here; You've dropped your fake poo?" Joke seller "I don't have any fake poo"
A source of lies and falshoods?
But the state dept gets all its most reliable intel from there!
Mr. Cheerful disapproves of suicide vest selfies.
These goat herding child molestors have never actually bult anything themselves.
Their wealth is purely an accident of geography.
All they can do is buy the products and services of civilized cultures.
Bush's "I am the decider". Close ties, indeed.
mufti definition:Arabic, one who gives a decisive response [etc].
Thus Grand Mufti translates as supreme or top decider.
Jeff Goldblum?
Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh likes to fuck little boys and goats, suck dog dicks, and eat Jimmy Dean patties morning noon and night. This asshole is one of the chief motherfuckers in charge that the US is depending on to protect out "interests" in the gulf. What an incredible asshole he is, and what assholes our "experts" are in sucking his dick, nibbling his hemmorhoidal asshole whenever he says "eat me", and hoping that he will make everything OK. This "Sheikh" dishonors the word "pig".
Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh: "Oh yeah? Well may the fleas of a 1000 camels infest your armpits!"