A recent Egyptian TV program showed how Islamic Sharia law’s many prescriptions do not merely clash with modern-day concepts like free speech and religious freedom, but even with medicine and science.
On September 16, popular TV persona Wael El-Ibrashi hosted Dr. Zaghlul al-Naggar, a prominent Islamic thinker and Chairman of Egypt’s Committee of Scientific Notions in the Quran, on the topic of medical science and Islam. Inevitably the idea of drinking camel urine as a form of therapy—first proposed in the 7th century by Muslim prophet Muhammad—came up.
Not only did Dr. Naggar promote this practice, but he made the staggering announcement that right now in Egypt a medical center in Marsa Matrouh actually specializes in treating people with camel urine, all in accord with the prophet’s advice.
Other Egyptian thinkers joined the show via satellite, including Khaled Montaser (who earlier exposed the Islamic world’s “inferiority complex“). At one point, while delineating how science and medicine work, Montaser reminded that urine is where all the body’s toxins are carried out, asking “so, shall we drink it for health?” Naggar simply responded with arrogance: “I am older than you and more learned than you: you are not going to teach me; I will teach generations of people like you.”
Staunch secularist Sayyid al-Qemany—whose strong support for rationalistic thinking and the separation of religion and state caused Egypt’s Islamic establishment to pronounce him an apostate infidel—also joined the show via phone, deploring the very idea that drinking camel urine could heal people.
Referring to Naggar’s announcement that there is a clinic specializing in treating people with camel urine as a “catastrophe” that only indicates how far Egypt has sunk, Qemany called on Egyptian health officials to verify if such a medical center truly exists, saying this is a serious issue involving the health of Egypt’s citizenry.
Naggar tried to defend the “salutary benefits” of camel urine by arguing that European pharmacies produce a medicine that contains female urine (possibly a reference to HCG). Qemany replied that such medicines are not based on drinking crude urine but are synthetic, exclaiming, “does this mean I should go drink my wife’s urine?!”…. Continue reading for more.
I view this as a benefit to us infidels. People drinking camel (or any other critter) urine can’t possibly do anything but increase the death rate of followers of mohammed. Win win as far as I’m concerned.
I’m just wondering how one goes about getting a camel to piss in a cup.
I wonder if this “sharia” medical quackery even survived during the Islamic Golden Age when Arab medicine was the best in the world.
Please stop insulting their prophet as we should encourage as many moslems as possible to drink as much camel urine as possible.
After all, if drinking it while sick will improve a moslem’s health, imagine the benefits a sound body could effect by doing the same while healthy – making themselves even better suicide bombers!
If they become sick, then they should drink still more camel urine!!!!
And if they die, then their portions of camel urine should be equally divided amongst the rest. If they don’t like it, tough! Hold ‘em down, hold their noses, and pour it down their throats!
Allah commands it!!!!!
(Much of this and the whole middle eastern problem will solve itself in no time….rolfmfao!)
I am now attempting to turn off the italics, but the problem is in the byline at the bottom of Ibrahim’s post.
they’re always so angry. I would be too if someone made me drink camel piss to cure my ulcers. I’d be really hopping mad if he told me it’s my religious duty; and if that same guy also told me he was older and therefore knew more, and I would be an apostate if I didn’t listen and obey, and risk the death penalty. Guess what: I’d be really, really, angry, ready to suicide-bomb. Him. My God, these people are stupid! But call themselves “thinkers”. Really? LOL. Do we want any more of them HERE? Keep them in Egypt! No more foreign aid, either. May they drink camelpiss forever!