Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti Warns Against TV and Online Dream Interpreters

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Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti has warned citizens to stop listening to people on satellite channels and the Internet who claim to know how to interpret dreams. He says they are fakes and out to make money off of people’s gullibility. Marco Werman speaks with Dalia el Sheikh of the BBC Arabic Service about how the interpretation of dreams goes way back in Middle Eastern history.

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