This influential, popular imam and Turkish Islamic TV preacher condemns chess and scientific space advancements, classing them with other things he considers sins, such as gambling and oral sex. It’s likely because intellectual pursuits will challenge his backward and supremacist ideology.

This is the same imam whom Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife visited two and a half years ago to get his blessing before the presidential elections.

“Playing chess is more sinful than gambling: Muslim televangelist,” Hürriyet Daily News, January 2, 2017: