Azerbaijan: Mosque declares Wi-Fi “haram”
An announcement was hang on the wall of a Baku mosque stating that connecting to the Wi-Fi network of the mosque by people other than the mosque staff is haram, Azerbaijani news website Oxu.az reports.
According to the report, the Mullah of the mosque said that Wi-Fi is “halal” in itself. “But is it forbidden to access the Internet via Wi-Fi and spread abusive language and gossip,” Mullah said, as cited by Oxu.az.
Earlier, the head of fatwa Department of CMO Haji Miraziz Seyidzade confessed that former drivers, accountants and people of other professions learn a surah from the Quran and want to become Mollahs aiming to get profit. There were also media reports about practically all the Mullahs in Azerbaijan gaining huge sums of money with witchcraft despite Islam ban on fortune-telling and sorcery. There was also a case, when a Mullah reportedly read the funeral prayer from an iPhone.