Facebook Fatwas: Saudi Clerics On Social Media

“Perhaps the modern technology, satellite TV and new media, are appropriate environment for the (marginalized),” tweeted Salman Al-Oudah on Tuesday.

That’s quite an ironic tweet, given that Mr. Al-Oudah is hardly a marginalized member of the social media community. Indeed, Forbes magazine ranked the Saudi cleric as the fourth most influential Arab Twitterati in the world, and in addition to his one million Twitter followers in two languages - English and Arabic - he has garnered no less than 63,000 Facebook ‘likes’ at last count. READ MORE HERE

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