How do Nigerian Muslims React to this cos I know many are in love with La liga and EPL clubs. heck they habitually were Jerseys as fashionable casual clothing


http://www.ttrweekly.com/site/2010/07/clerics-target-football-shirts/

Clerics target football shirts

July 22, 2010 by AFP
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KUALA LUMPUR, July 22, 2010 – Manchester United’s fans in Malaysia erupted in astonishment and anger on social media, Thursday, after clerics warned Muslims against wearing the team’s famous jersey with its “devil” emblem.

Manchester United and the rest of the English Premier League are hugely popular in Muslim-majority Malaysia, where conservative religious leaders said the jersey was un-Islamic and should be banned.

Social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook were flooded with comments from fans in the Southeast Asian nation.

“Maybe the religious leaders are just fans of Liverpool?” quipped one supporter on Twitter.

“Why this become an issue after Manchester United has won the title for 11 times? They haven’t been watching the matches all this while?” said Sharifah Shahidah, a die-hard Manchester United fan of two-decades standing.

“What am I gonna do with all my Man Utd jerseys? And my sons’ jerseys?” Sharifah, a Muslim mother of two and an IT programmer, asked on her Twitter account. “Should I cover the emblem with a picture of flower?”

Malaysian clerics said Wednesday that Muslims must not wear the iconic red jersey because devils should be shunned, not celebrated, and urged those who had worn the garment to “repent immediately”.

Also off-limits are the shirts of teams including Brazil, Portugal, Barcelona and Serbia, all of which carry an image of the Christian crucifix in their team emblems.

“This is very dangerous. As a Muslim, we should not worship the symbols of other religions or the devils,” said Nooh Gadot, a top Islamic leader from southern Johor state.

Manchester United Fan Club Malaysia, which has about 7,000 members, declined to comment, but the fan club’s chief, Lawrence How, noted there was no official ban on the jerseys.

The clerics agreed there was no “fatwa”, or religious edict, but that one was not needed when it was clearly wrong for Muslims to wear such a garment.

Malaysia is a generally moderate Islamic country, but conservative clerics have issued controversial edicts in the past, including a ban on the ancient practice of yoga, which is criticised for including Hindu elements.

Lol. . . .these clerics sef. Who made them an authority to declare what allah wants or not?

this is exactly the reason why i said that islam belongs to the dark ages and have nothing to offer us in this modern times.

any tom, dick and harry can wake up tomorrow and said that all moslems should stop wearing sandals as it is now the will of allah and all of them will obey.

what a shame.

this is exactly the reason why i said that islam belongs to the dark ages and have nothing to offer us in this modern times.

any tom, manliness and harry can wake up tomorrow and said that all moslems should stop wearing sandals as it is now the will of allah and all of them will obey.

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words of an Anti ISLAMIC EXtremist-----------> benAtheist

@ vedaxcool

thanks for the lovely name you gave me. it really made me laugh.

but it does not remove the fact that i have stated.

no right free thinking human will remain in such an archaic religion like islam. a religion that have refused to change with the changing times.

can you show just one positive impact that islam has had on the world today.

enatheist you are now satan worshipper-----Muslims will continue to reject him in any form he comes.

@Tudor; The man who made himself to a woman, and @benodic: If Islam says it does not deal with Satan, is that not enough to validate it as a true religion, firm in resolve, position it takes, from over 1400 plus years ago?

Is what is true required to change with time, even if the time is polluted with bad things appearing to be good, and good things appearing to be bad? Truth is unchanging. Why glorify satanic things, even on clothing when Islam is anti Satanic?

lol....religion is a big problem in society today.

Red devils is just a nickname.

Al Alhy SC is aqn Egyptian club with mnay muslim players and fans- they are also nicknamed the red devils

Islam is too steeped into formalism. They have made themselves slaves. To islam the only purpose of man is to be a slave. Besides what's the use of the worship if there wasn't a willing mind?