First let me contextualize, a few days ago i was walking back from class with my classmate when she complained that she was hungry and wanted to eat McDonald's, I thinking nothing of it went and mockingly said "Eeeeh Cannot, McDonald's is Haram" and guess what she believed me and started panicking... This is what I mean by fear the simple labelling of the word Haram on something that has been the norm for quite some time. The fact that once someone educated says something is Haram, people will believe it, furthermore people coming out with factsheets explaining why something is Haram, here I will refer to the posts in the social media a few months back that Coca-Cola had Alcohol in it, and the problem is that even well educated individuals end up believing it too because it's what society believes.
Starbucks is Haram because people claimed that by buying a latte mochachino frappe you are giving money to the "Yahudi" to continue their "oppression" of Palestine, and this is what a large majority believed, Yoga is Haram because by doing yoga we are apparently praising Hindu deities and becoming apostates. These are all misconceptions that are strewn about willy-nilly and in a way it becomes a form of control for these people who have the authority to declare something Haram and come out with a Fatwa on it.
Fatwa's are being issued so fervently and frequently that its so easy to question the reason's why, however due to the fear of supposed "Divine Punishment" people don't question and further narrow their minds and regress back into the stone age if i may be so bold.
Basically people are so scared of supposed "religious authority" that they forgo the natural phenomena call logic and reasoning
I belive that is all i have to say on this topic
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