Or, why Saladin stuck to a tomato-free salad.
These people, or people who agree with these people, will soon govern Egypt.
This makes perfect sense… because it makes no sense.
A Salafist group called the Popular Egyptian Islamic Association has come under fire after sending out a warning on Facebook urging its followers not to eat tomatoes because the vegetable (or fruit) is a Christian food.
The group posted a photo on its page of a tomato – which appears to reveal the shape of a cross after being cut in half – along with the message: “Eating tomatoes is forbidden because they are Christian. [The tomato] praises the cross instead of Allah and says that Allah is three (a reference to the Trinity).
But, if God put a cross in a tomato, isn’t He rejecting Islam? Here’s the convincing proof.
This sort of thing sounds crazy to non-Muslim ears, but I can’t say it surprises me. Years ago, when I was in college, I was in a speech class and among my fellow students were three young Muslims men, one from Jordan, one from Kuwait, and one from Saudi Arabia. They were nice enough guys, though the the Saudi was a major skirt chaser, constantly hitting on every female student in the class. One of the three, I think it was the Jordanian, used one of his class speeches to proselytize. He set out to “prove” that Islam is the correct godly faith, and as a Christian I was intrigued. His proof was the wrinkle lines in the human hand. Somehow they make the Arabic character for Allah or some such. It honestly made no sense at all, but I don’t know what grade he got for it.
So the idea that tomatoes are too Christian and might turn a pious Muslim into an infidel? Not much of a surprise.
Among other things, the Salafis have their history wrong. Tomatoes were not Christian in origin. They are Mayan.
http://www.omg-facts.com/Facts/Tomatoes-were-used-in-Mayan-recipes-abou/50541
Given that tomato/cucumber salad is pretty much *the* standard mideastern lunch, this’ll go over *real* well…
Who knew food could be so subversive? So fraught with political and religious import?
First read Bryan’s post. Now read the PJM article: Is Michael Bloomberg Secretly Muslim? (http://pjmedia.com/blog/is-michael-bloomberg-secretly-a-muslim/)
The question of the week appears to be this: Who’s your nanny?
Next target: Outhouses!!
Those infidel Satan-America repositories of human waste are mocking Islam with their taunting, insulting depictions of a crescent moon on the door!
Eschew (or, simply chew?) this evil and return to defecating in the fields as Allah intended, O Brethren of the Blessed Bedouin (pees be upon him)!!
Obtain pilot training and launch a nation-wide aerial to assuage our oft(-and-easily)-offended cultural/religious sensitivities by turning all of these American Islamophobic shrines into martyr funeral pyres!
Reject using those outhouses! Give a holy crap for your faith!
….or something like that…???
My grandparents’ friend once saw an image of the virgin Mary in a rural Louisiana lake. As a Protestant, I am appalled by this. All *true* believers of Christ must now avoid all freshwater bodies to avoid corruption of their souls! Incidentally, it will now take me an extra 3 hours each way to travel between home and work.
The brains of some (or is it all?) of these Salafists are truly addled.
And what of the banana? Does it not mock the Crescent? Does it not cause temptation among women?
Besides. How can you enjoy a good BLT without the T. And the B.
Enjoy your lettuce sandwiches you primative idiots.
It was a plot by Mossad agents, of course.
I think someone once wrote a book about how superstitious and paranoid Middle Eastern Arab Muslims are. They believe *every* weird paranoid conspiracy theory that comes their way. In a 60 Minutes (I think) special after 9/11, young Arabs explained that the 9/11 hijackers were all hypnotized by the Mossad, or that the WTC Twin Towers never existed at all–they were created by Steven Spielburg, using Hollywood-style special effects (he is Jewish, you know!). My favorite was a lengthy article some years ago in the LA Times documenting a paranoid conspiracy theory that posited that Pokemon, of all things, was devised to undermine Islam. Supposedly Pokemon means “I am Jewish” in Japanese, and the whole Pokemon craze was created, and spread everywhere else in the world first, so that when it got to Muslim countries it would be popular with children, and destroy Islam as a result. Seriously, someone printed up leaflets and passed them around in some cities in Eastern Saudi Arabia.
The problem is that we have to reason with these people. Even if they believe all of this stuff, they can still board a plane and visit our country, if they have the money, and once they’re here, they can do stuff. Somehow we have to show them how silly they look to everyone else, and educate them so that they stop this, and become semi-reasonable, like the Greeks or the Venezuelans. Otherwise we’re going to be in trouble for a long long time…