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Monday, July 31, 2006

Quit Talking or you’ll go to Hell

Filed under: World Scene by Chad at 10:02 am CDT

LEADING Islamic clerics in Indonesia yesterday agreed to ban Muslims from watching, making or broadcasting television gossip shows.

“The Koran strongly forbids any gossip-related activities and [gossiping] people could end up in hell,” said one.

Thanks for clearing that one up chief.

UPDATE: Did The Scotsman jump the gun?

Senior clerics in Indonesia gathered in the city of Surabaya for the national congress of the 40 million-strong Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) have decided to delay issuing an edict prohibiting Muslims from watching or producing television gossip shows. After lengthy discussions, the clerics agreed to leave a decision on the issue to the organization’s central board.

“The central board will have two weeks to discuss the issue,” a member of the board, Maruf Amin, said after the close of the three-day congress on Sunday.

I don’t like gossip shows and I could care less about Hollywood gossip in particular, but is it really such an afront to God that there would have to be a fatwa against gossip?

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I read the headline of this Post and I immediately thought you were addressing the commenter named “Egyptian.”

Comment by Jimmy the Dhimmi — Monday, July 31, 2006 @ 12:01 pm CDT
Who knew the Koran spoks against gossip? But the Bible certainly has many scriptures against gossip of all types.

http://www.biblebb.com/files/tniv/GOSSIP.TXT

Wonder if Ahmadinejad’s ‘language police’ will get involved? (the word pizza is now ‘elastic loaves’) He’s changing all ‘Western’ words to more Persian/Arabic words.

I hate gossip shows, reality shows, Hollywood who’s doing what to whom’ shows. That’s time you will never get back that could be spent blogging, or with your honey.

Comment by Debbie — Monday, July 31, 2006 @ 2:40 pm CDT