After a fierce winter storm blanketed much of the Middle East—including
northern Saudi Arabia—with snow last week, a prominent Saudi cleric
issued a ruling banning people from making snowmen, calling them
"un-Islamic." Sheikh Mohammed Saleh al-Munajjid said it is not
"permitted to make a statue out of snow, even by way of play and fun"
because creating an image of a human being is sinful, Reuters
reports. "God has given people space to make whatever they want which
does not have a soul, including trees, ships, fruits, buildings, and so
on," the cleric said.
The ruling sparked a heated debate in social media, Gulf News
reports. One possibly tongue-in-cheek commentator agreed with the
cleric, saying building snowmen is imitating "infidels, it promotes
lustiness and eroticism." Others thought the ruling was too strict even
by Saudi standards. "We have snow for fleeting days, maybe even hours,
and there is always someone who wants to rob us of the joy and the fun,"
one blogger posted. "It seems that the only thing left for us is to sit
down and drink coffee." (Last month, two Saudi women who defied the
kingdom's driving ban had their cases referred to an anti-terror court.)
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