How is pokemon supposed to be a threat to Islam?
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3906(WORLDS STUPIDEST FATWAS)
Pok?mon
Who: Saudi Arabia?s Higher Committee for Scientific Research and Islamic Law
What: Denouncing the lovable Japanese cartoon characters as having ?possessed the minds? of Saudi youngsters, Saudi Arabia?s highest religious authority banned Pok?mon video games and cards in the spring of 2001. Not only do Saudi scholars believe that Pok?mon encourages gambling, which is forbidden in Islam, but it is apparently a front for Israel as well. The fatwa?s authors claimed that Pok?mon games include, ?the Star of David, which everyone knows is connected to international Zionism and is Israel?s national emblem.? Religious authorities in the United Arab Emirates joined in, condemning the games for promoting evolution, ?a Jewish-Darwinist theory that conflicts with the truth about humans and with Islamic principles,? but didn?t ban them outright. Even the Catholic Church in Mexico got into the act, calling Pok?mon video games ?demonic.?
Those Salafis are sick in the head. Apparantly it also distracts people from prayer, but what doesn't???