Al-Azhar scholar: Too much Pokemon could be dangerous

A leading Egyptian Sunni scholar has warned against the dangers of playing too much of application Pokemon Go.
Abbas Shumman, the deputy sheikh of Egypt’s Al-Azhar institute, said that the game “makes people busy with it, ignoring their main work and it might also put them in danger,” but says there is no problem with people playing it in moderation if they are at home or in a safe place.
He added: “If someone is busy reading the Qur’an while he is walking in the street, this might make him have an accident so we would tell him not to read it this way.” There are no borders in the world of Pokemon Go. 
Two young fans of the hit smartphone game were so preoccupied with catching cartoon monsters that they wandered across the US-Canada border in real life.
US Border Patrol agents spotted the pair illegally walking from Canada into the US, the agency’s office in Sweetgrass, Montana said. Both juveniles were so captivated by their Pokemon Go games that they lost track of where they were. They crossed the international border inadvertently, but agents were able to reunite them with their mother, it said.

Source : Arab News