The Way of Islam by R. da - Costa Vaughan - HTML preview

“ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST”

SOME SEE PURE IRRATIONALITY IN SOME RELIGIONS

AND SOME SAY THERE MAY BE METHOD IN MADNESS

January 2015: Snow has covered upland areas of Tabuk province near Saudi Arabia's border with Jordan for the third consecutive year as cold weather swept across the Middle East.

"Asked on a religious website if it was permissible for fathers to build snowmen for their children after a snowstorm in the country's north, Sheikh Mohammed Saleh al-Munajjid replied: "It is not permitted to make a statue out of snow, even by way of play and fun." Quoting from Muslim scholars, Sheikh Munajjid argued that to build a snowman was to create an image of a human being, an action considered sinful under the kingdom's strict interpretation of Sunni Islam."