MUSLIMS in Egypt have been warned not to use Koranic verses and the call to prayer as ringtones.
'Jesus Christ! Is that a Koranic ringtone I hear before me?'
Egypt’s highest religious legal authority, Mufti Ali Gomaa, said today that anyone answering a phone armed with such a ringtone would effectively be interrupting Allah.
The numpty declared:
Putting the Holy Koran or the call to prayer as a mobile phone ringtone trivialises the sanctity of the verses, which are for prayer, invocation and recitation and not to be taken out of their legitimate use.
Gomaa added that, when answering a cellphone, the user interrupts the holy words of God, which could confuse their meaning and misdirect the listener.
Verses from the Koran have become popular as ringtones in Egypt, and websites and television channels advertise them for downloading.
Gomaa’s pronouncement came just days after Gambia unveiled a Muslim phone which instructs it owners precisely when to pray.
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January 20th, 2010 at 10:49 pm
Crazy Frog it is then!
January 21st, 2010 at 7:14 am
How’s about soundtrack exerpts from suicide bomber videos?
January 21st, 2010 at 7:33 am
Or the Danish national anthem?
Or maybe apologies from a guy unable to spell “excerpt”.
January 21st, 2010 at 9:28 am
Answer the phone it’s the wives!
January 21st, 2010 at 10:17 am
The best laid schemes etc……….. You have to laugh. There are all these men – must be men – putting dotty verses on their phones and thinking, “What a great idea.” Then the mullah nutter says, “All change. Remove them.”
Is there anything these guys don’t want to control? Answers on the back of a postage stamp – you will have lots of room to spare.
January 21st, 2010 at 11:12 am
Funny,isn’t it, that first they’re in trouble for trivialising it yet when they interrupt it they’re risking confusing something important. Two sins for the price of one, what a bargain!
January 21st, 2010 at 1:02 pm
off topic:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wor.....471943.stm
Nigerian authorities have relaxed the 24-hour curfew in the central city of Jos, where fighting between Muslims and Christians has left hundreds dead.
…It is unclear what the trigger was for the latest bout of violence, but there have been reports it started after football match.
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Violence in the street: the best way to sort out whose god is best
January 21st, 2010 at 6:39 pm
Surely the solution is to let the phone ring, then you won’t be interrupting “God”. You can always ring back the person who rang you, assuming they haven’t got a “Koranic ring-tone” and can’t pick up either…
February 1st, 2010 at 2:57 am
A phone that instructs you when to pray? What happened to just setting a reminder that repeats? I think this god ringtone turmoil will blow over, it’s just a fad and something for people to moan about.