{"id":447,"date":"2014-10-22T20:55:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T20:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=447"},"modified":"2014-10-22T20:55:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T20:55:34","slug":"saudi-cleric-blasts-twitter-as-source-of-all-evil-as-riyal-slides-to-lowest-since-2008-zero-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Cleric Blasts Twitter As &#8220;Source Of All Evil&#8221; As Riyal Slides To Lowest Since 2008 | Zero Hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2014-10-22\/saudi-cleric-blasts-twitter-source-all-evil-riyal-slides-lowest-2008\">Saudi Cleric Blasts Twitter As &#8220;Source Of All Evil&#8221; As Riyal Slides To Lowest Since 2008 | Zero Hedge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\">The last 2 days have seen\u00a0<strong>enormous volatility in the Saudi Riyal exchange rate<\/strong>, purportedly oil-related FX hedging programs as the SAR dropped to its lowest sicne Dec 2008, but the most extreme &#8216;moves&#8217; were left to The Kingdon&#8217;s top Muslim cleric. As\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #1e439a;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsbeat\/29722810\">The BBC reports<\/a>,\u00a0<strong>Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, exclaimed that Twitter is &#8220;the source of all evil and devastation&#8221;<\/strong>. As the 12th most influential Muslim in the world, it perhaps matters that he says users were using Twitter to &#8220;promote lies, backbite and gossip and to slander Islam,&#8221; but citizens of Saudi Arabia, who are some of the heaviest users of Twitter, did not appreciate his remarks, summe dup by one tweet,\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;People need an outlet to express themselves, to start to disclose what&#8217;s hidden and drop the masks, without fear or commands, or censorship from anyone.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\">Handsome chap&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #1e439a;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2014\/10-overflow\/20141022_saudi1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2014\/10-overflow\/20141022_saudi1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"422\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #1e439a;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsbeat\/29722810\"><em>As The BBC reports,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; display: block;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Cleric Blasts Twitter As &#8220;Source Of All Evil&#8221; As Riyal Slides To Lowest Since 2008 | Zero Hedge. The last 2 days have seen\u00a0enormous volatility in the Saudi Riyal exchange rate, purportedly oil-related FX hedging programs as the SAR dropped to its lowest sicne Dec 2008, but the most extreme &#8216;moves&#8217; were left to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,701,819],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}