A popular Indonesian Muslim cleric Felix Siauw has declared selfies sinful and its anti-Islamic. He posted a series of tweets explaining why selfies should be avoided – but reserved most of his exasperation for women, who he said were being ‘shameless’ and ‘unpure’.
Siauw, who has over a million Twitter followers, wrote: ‘These days many Muslim women take selfies without shame. There are usually nine frames in one photo with facial poses that are just – My Goodness – where’s the purity in women?’
He also said that because selfie-takers are desperate for social media views, they’re being ostentatious, and because taking a selfie makes people feel ‘cooler’, we’ve ‘fallen into the worst sin of all – arrogance’.
However, there was a huge Twitter backlash against his messages by Indonesians. Hundreds have posted selfies on the social media site using the hashtag # Selfie4Siauw, Quartz reported.
One Twitter users wrote'They are afraid for their faith of everything ... sick minds,' one Twitter user wrote.
General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowment (GAIAE) has issued around two million Fatwas through its Official Fatwa Centre since its inception in 2008.
To ensure Muslims can keep pace with the rules, an 'e-fatwa' site has been started the Globalpost reports.
Malaysian activist Zainah Anwar, recently wrote that Muslims are 'sick and tired of being told, yet again, of more categories of Muslims and practices to be denounced, hated and declare deviant'.
The list of fatwas now includes, Halloween, which is said to be too Christian and black metal because it is 'powerful enough to force a Muslim to forsake his faith', Valentines Day, Botox is banned, but can be used if medically necessary.Fatwas banning everything from yoga to in a bid to stop the influence of Western culture.
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