Snowmen Sinful According To Saudi Arabian Cleric [VIDEO]

A prominent Saudi Arabian cleric has issued a religious ruling forbidding the building of snowmen, describing them as anti-Islamic. Asked on a religious website if it was permissible for fathers to build snowmen for their children after a snowstorm in the country’s north, Sheikh Mohammed Saleh al-Munajjid replied: “It is not permitted to make a statue out of snow, even by way of play and fun.”

The Sheikh argued that to build a snowman was to create an image of a human being, an action considered sinful under the kingdom’s strict interpretation of Sunni Islam, the largest branch of Islam. He wrote, “God has given people space to make whatever they want which does not have a soul, including trees, ships, fruits, buildings and so on.”

First of all, are snowmen really a big problem in Saudi Arabia? Is this a thing? Second, which is worse, building a snowman or drawing a cartoon about it?

Is this really what Sunni Islam followers have to abide by? Should he issue a Fatwa on Frosty?