{"id":217152,"date":"2019-02-13T17:22:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T12:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=217152"},"modified":"2019-02-13T18:49:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T13:49:07","slug":"fact-check-photo-of-pakistani-cleric-declaring-pubg-haram-is-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/fact-check-photo-of-pakistani-cleric-declaring-pubg-haram-is-fake\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check: Photo of &#8216;Pakistani&#8217; Cleric Declaring PUBG Haram is Fake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us have recently come across this viral news on social media that an Islamic scholar Dr. Ahmed Karimah gave a fatwa that playing the viral mobile video game, PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds (PUBG) is &#8216;haram.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the viral photo in question:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-217157 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-02-13-at-1.34.26-PM-884x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"662\" height=\"767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-02-13-at-1.34.26-PM-884x1024.jpeg 884w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-02-13-at-1.34.26-PM-259x300.jpeg 259w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-02-13-at-1.34.26-PM-768x890.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-02-13-at-1.34.26-PM-561x650.jpeg 561w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-02-13-at-1.34.26-PM-862x999.jpeg 862w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-02-13-at-1.34.26-PM-364x422.jpeg 364w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-02-13-at-1.34.26-PM-758x878.jpeg 758w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-02-13-at-1.34.26-PM-608x704.jpeg 608w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-02-13-at-1.34.26-PM-41x48.jpeg 41w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-02-13-at-1.34.26-PM-83x96.jpeg 83w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-02-13-at-1.34.26-PM.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The photo was endlessly shared over social media in no time, with some news outlets also picking it up as a recent development.<\/p>\n<h3>Its an Old News<\/h3>\n<p>What many media outlets didn&#8217;t do was to take out time to confirm that this was old news, from last year in fact. The news was first reported by British media outlet\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6315385\/Islamic-leaders-declare-fatwa-against-online-video-game-PUBG-waste-time.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><em>The Daily Mail<\/em> <\/a>back in October, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Besides The Daily Mail, some other media outlets carried the news too.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing that some Pakistani <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urdupoint.com\/daily\/livenews\/2019-02-13\/news-1834688.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">outlets<\/a> did was to mention that this fatwa was passed by a Islamic scholar in Pakistan. As it turns out, this part of the news was blatantly false.<\/p>\n<h3>Fact Check<\/h3>\n<p>The fatwa was passed last year by Dr. Ahmed Karimah, an Islamic Sharia\u00a0professor in Al-Azhar University, Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2018, the\u00a0scholar deemed the game sinful because it&#8217;s popular.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAs long as something leads to something haram, then it\u2019s haram.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He said that because the game is addictive, it\u00a0is haram. Following his statement, Irfan Rasheed, a Head of the Fatwa Committee in Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah, banned the game. The game was also accused of being a recruitment tool for the terrorist organization Islamic State (Daesh).<\/p>\n<h3><strong>About PUBG<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>PUBG is a competitive online multiplayer game. It popularized the Battle Royale gameplay genre, leading to hit games like Fortnite and Apex Legends. Millions of players log on to these games every day.<\/p>\n\n<div data-mode=\"normal\" data-oembed=\"1\" data-provider=\"youtube\" id=\"arve-youtube-txrnhht0l1a\" style=\"max-width:662px;\" class=\"arve\">\n\t<div class=\"arve-inner\">\n\t\t<div style=\"aspect-ratio:331\/186\" class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"arve-ar\" style=\"padding-top:56.193353%\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<iframe allow=\"accelerometer &#039;none&#039;;autoplay &#039;none&#039;;bluetooth &#039;none&#039;;browsing-topics &#039;none&#039;;camera &#039;none&#039;;clipboard-read &#039;none&#039;;clipboard-write;display-capture &#039;none&#039;;encrypted-media &#039;none&#039;;gamepad &#039;none&#039;;geolocation &#039;none&#039;;gyroscope &#039;none&#039;;hid &#039;none&#039;;identity-credentials-get &#039;none&#039;;idle-detection &#039;none&#039;;keyboard-map &#039;none&#039;;local-fonts;magnetometer &#039;none&#039;;microphone &#039;none&#039;;midi &#039;none&#039;;otp-credentials &#039;none&#039;;payment &#039;none&#039;;picture-in-picture;publickey-credentials-create &#039;none&#039;;publickey-credentials-get &#039;none&#039;;screen-wake-lock &#039;none&#039;;serial &#039;none&#039;;summarizer &#039;none&#039;;sync-xhr;usb &#039;none&#039;;web-share;window-management &#039;none&#039;;xr-spatial-tracking &#039;none&#039;;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" credentialless data-arve=\"arve-youtube-txrnhht0l1a\" data-lenis-prevent=\"\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/tXrNhHt0l1A?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"372\" loading=\"lazy\" name=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/tXrNhHt0l1A?feature=oembed&#038;iv_load_policy=3&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autoplay=0\" title=\"\" width=\"662\"><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The players are parachuted onto an island where they must fight for survival. Players\u00a0scavenge weapons and then fight till death. Weapons range from makeshift\u00a0items like frying pans to assault weapons like AK-47s.<\/p>\n<h3>Banned in Iraq and Syria<\/h3>\n<p>Following the popularity of the game in the Kurdistan region, particularly the city of Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq,\u00a0Irfan Rasheed banned the game.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that Dr. Karimah&#8217;s statement influenced the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2017, there\u00a0was an incident that involved a 16-year-old who murdered his teacher over PUBG. This too also contributed to its ban.<\/p>\n<p>Besides that, there were conspiracies that PUBG was organized by Daesh (ISIS) to poison the minds of\u00a0young people. Violent tendencies would make it easier to recruit these youngsters.<\/p>\n<h3>Competitive\u00a0Games is a Competitive Sport<\/h3>\n<p>While <em>Battlegrounds<\/em> may have been big back in 2018, this new year is all about <em>Fortnite<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Besides that, another game <em>Last Day on Earth<\/em> follows a similar theme to PUBG. It is still in the beta testing phase.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Respawn&#8217;s free-to-play game <em>Apex Legends\u00a0<\/em>is the new kid on the Battle Royale block. The game has proven to be a massive success, with over 25 million players in 3 days and counting.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; letter-spacing: 5px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0;\">ALSO READ<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; font-family: Rajdhani,Poppins,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/pakistani-woman-turns-arranged-marriage-into-board-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This Pakistani Woman Has Turned Arranged Marriage into a Board Game!<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us have recently come across this viral news on social media that an Islamic scholar Dr. Ahmed Karimah gave a fatwa that playing the viral mobile video game, PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds (PUBG) is &#8216;haram.&#8217; Here is the viral photo in question: The photo was endlessly shared over social media in no time, with some news outlets also picking it [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/fact-check-photo-of-pakistani-cleric-declaring-pubg-haram-is-fake\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":217164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1298,2199,1297],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-217152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"category-featured","9":"category-tv-movies-music"},"wps_subtitle":"It doesn't hurt to double check.","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/PUBG-1-haram-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/PUBG-1-haram-758x426.jpg",758,426,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/PUBG-1-haram.jpg",1000,562,false]},"author_name":"Ummara Sheraz","categories_name":["Culture","Featured","TV &amp; Film"],"title_text":"Fact Check: Photo of \u2018Pakistani\u2019 Cleric Declaring PUBG Haram is Fake","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=1298,2199,1297&exclude=217152","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217152"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=217152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}