The Ruling on Prohibiting Going to Houses That Have Satellite Dishes

Question:
What is your opinion, Honorable Shaykh, about a man preventing his father from going to houses that have a satellite dish which brings in foreign channels? Please inform us. May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
This is an obligatory matter. It is obligatory for the husband to prevent his wife and his household from going to a house that has a dish, which is what is called the satellite dishes that receive the television broadcast from abroad, because of the great dangers it poses to morals, to religion, and to creed.
By the way, I advise my Muslim brothers to avoid these dishes, to prevent them from being in their houses, and to advise those who buy them, manufacture them, or import them. Their price is forbidden, and their use is forbidden. They are the ruin of homes, the destruction of morals, and the corruption of creeds; because what is broadcast from abroad includes disbelief, atheism, licentiousness, and many evils.
Our Shaykh, Shaykh 'Abd al-'Aziz ibn Baz (may Allah preserve him and magnify his reward), wrote a general advice to Muslims on this topic. So seek it out and read it to your families and to others, and spread it among your Muslim brothers, so that perhaps Allah may benefit people with it, or at least the argument is established against those who do not comply. And the conscience is cleared by that, if Allah wills. Yes.