News: Muslims Must Not Wear Manchester Utd Shirts!

Muslims in Malaysia must not wear Manchester United's kit because it badge features a devil, senior clerics in the country said today.

Manchester United and the rest of the Premier League are massively popular in the south-east Asian country but conservative religious scholars said the kit is "un-Islamic".

Nooh Gadot, a top Islamic cleric from the southern Johor state, said: "This is very dangerous. As a Muslim, we should not worship the symbols of other religions or the devils."

"It will erode our belief in Islam. There is no reason why we as Muslims should wear such jerseys, either for sports or fashion reasons."

And he added: "Even if it (the jersey) is a gift, we should decline it. It is even more sinful when people realise this is wrong and still buy these jerseys to wear."

Nooh said there was no "fatwa", or religious edict, against the shirts but that one was not needed when it was clearly wrong for Muslims to don such a garment.

He said: "These Muslims should repent, repent immediately."

Another leading cleric, Harussani Zakaria, from northern Perak state, agreed that devils should be shunned, not celebrated.

He said: "Yes of course in Islam we don't allow people to wear this sort of thing.

"Devils are our enemies, why would you put their picture on you and wear it?

"You are only promoting the devil."

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