Driving exposes women to ‘evil’ & ‘churches must be destroyed’ – Top Saudi cleric’s worldview

Saudi Arabia’s top religious cleric Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin-Abdullah Al-Sheikh has some rather forthright views, which are hard to comprehend in the West, such as girls being able to marry at 10, and the game of chess causing “hatred between people.”

Driving ‘exposes women to evil’

Saudi Arabia’s top Mufti defended the country’s ban on female drivers saying it’s “a dangerous matter that exposes women to evil.”

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All churches must be destroyed

In 2012, he incurred the wrath of Christians throughout the Middle East by saying that all churches on the Arabian Peninsula must be destroyed.

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Checkmate: Chess ‘causes hatred’

The Sunni cleric does not think much of chess, even issuing a fatwa saying the game should be “forbidden.” He added that chess is “a waste of time."

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Twitter: a ‘source of all evil & devastation’

In October 2014, he described the Twitter as being "the source of all evil and devastation," and also being “a source of lies and falsehood."

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‘10yo girls can marry’ due to ‘good upbringing’

He believes it's fine for girls to get married at the age of 10: "Our mothers and grandmothers got married when they were 12."

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https://www.rt.com/news/339288-cleric-saudi-laws-islam/