It is open war against Pokemon Go. The Turkish imam and center Al Azhar University in Cairo, the most important of the Sunni world, took to the field by launching anathemas against the use and abuse of the video game, asking to ban it because “blasphemous” and ‘against Islam. ” For reasons quite different also, the Israeli army did hear today his voice and forbade the military, because the app “is likely to be a spy.” Play is deplorable as drinking alcohol, practice prohibited by Islam, thundered Shouman Abbas, Deputy Chief and Assistant Imam of Al Azhar, according to which the video game “affects the mind in a negative way and it hurts the player and to the other without that there is awareness. “
According to the religious, the technology must be used only when it allows a man to save time and effort, but not for pleasure. If your smartphone then becomes an “obsession”, people may end up neglecting their work and prayer. Pokemon Go is not available at the time in Egypt, but many young people have been able to download the same. The game is literally depopulating in the world, to the point that in Turkey these days thousands of people took to the streets in search of virtual figures, ‘encroaching in several cases in the mosques. A collective mania that has sparked the fury of the union local imam, Diyanet-Sen: “This undermines the importance and significance of the mosques, which are the most beautiful places of prayer in Islam. Want it to be banned in Turkey, “said its leader, Mehmet Bayaraktutar, quoted by Haberturk newspaper. An unwise use of the app seems to worry even the turkish government. The Health Ministry has invited citizens not to play around the cities during the hottest hours, even by appealing to ‘watch the road and not the mobile phone screen, especially when you cross. “
other sites, other motivations. The Israeli army’s decision to ban it exhaustively to the military that are found in the beds is linked to the risk that the images taken from their mobile devices to be relaunched and achieve prying eyes. Namely that behind the cute little animals Pokemon are visible secret installations in Israel. “That game – strictly warns the army – can be used to collect information” useful for intelligence. The controversy also reached Germany, where the app can be downloaded from yesterday. The spokesman for the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, Sarah Friedrich, has appealed to citizens and visitors not to play right in the area dedicated to the memory of the extermination of the Jews in the Third Reich.
“Keep an attitude appropriate and dignified with this place – said Friedrich to Tagesspiegel – Pokemon Go here is inadequate. ” In the US, however some people have thought to use the game even in politics: in San Francisco two Senate candidates will compete with the app. It remains to be seen how will the challenge because the game currently does not support the torque mode, but only solo. Meanwhile the app, which is preparing to officially landed in Europe, is doing booming from an economic point of view: not only are splashed on the stock exchange the shares of Nintendo, but Unity Technology, the company that developed the software behind Pokemon Go, according to the NYT, the latest round of investment has collected 181 million dollars. Yet Hollywood has laid eyes on him: Legendary Pictures, Interstellar producer, is considering the purchase of the rights for a film about Pokemon Go.
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