Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 22:51:07 +0300
Subject: Re: Pokemon and the Jews?


you may have already done this, but if you go to
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/03/26/saudi.pokemon/index.html
you'll get some info on topic. www.islam.com and www.arabia.com have some
links you might find useful

best,

> 
> This is the last paragraph of an article about an Islamic scholar who is
> getting death threats from fundamentalists:
> 
> Mr. Abu Zant, a former member of the Jordanian parliament, was jailed in
> 1999 for denouncing his government's decision to close the Amman office of
> the militant Islamic movement Hamas. Last year he issued a religious threat
> against a Jordanian poet and he has joined other clerics in denouncing
> Pokemon as a Jewish plot against Islam.
> 
> --does anyone know anything about this? I am just curious about the details
> of Zant's & other clerics arguments about Pokemon & Jewish plots? I have
> heard more about the denouncement of the Poet. Its more the argument against
> pop culture anime that I am interested in.
> 
> shosho
> 
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