Saudi Cleric: Twitter is 'evil'

Saudi Cleric: Twitter is 'evil'

A top cleric in Saudi Arabia has condemned Twitter as evil, criticising the social networking site for attacking Islam.

Speaking on his “Fatwa” television show that was broadcast late Monday, Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh cited Twitter as “the repository of scourge and evil and the source of lies and falsehoods”, claiming that it is used to “promote lies, backbite and gossip and to slander Islam”.

Al Shaikh is Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti, the highest official of religious law in the country.

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