{"id":4484,"date":"2018-11-17T10:28:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T10:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/playerunknowns-battlegrounds-imams-divided-over-video-game-fatwa\/"},"modified":"2018-11-17T10:28:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T10:28:44","slug":"playerunknowns-battlegrounds-imams-divided-over-video-game-fatwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/playerunknowns-battlegrounds-imams-divided-over-video-game-fatwa\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds: Imams divided over video game fatwa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>The Kurdish Union of Islamic Scholars has officially declared a fatwa against playing the hugely popular video game, PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds.<\/p>\n<p>Officially, the group is responsible for issuing fatwas \u2013 which are rulings by Islamic authorities \u2013 in Iraqi Kurdistan. However, other imams have come out against the ban.<\/p>\n<p>BBC Monitoring looks at the controversy surrounding the game in the region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-46214184\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kurdish Union of Islamic Scholars has officially declared a fatwa against playing the hugely popular video game, PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds. Officially, the group is responsible for issuing fatwas \u2013 which are rulings by Islamic authorities \u2013 in Iraqi Kurdistan. However, other imams have come out against the ban. BBC Monitoring looks at the controversy surrounding &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}