Posted on 08/31/2013 9:31:02 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
A Salafi group called the "Popular Egyptian Islamic Association" has warned Muslims against eating tomatoes on the grounds that the fruit is a "Christian food," NowLebanon.com has reported.
The group based its claim on the fact that a shape resembling a cross is revealed when one cuts a tomato in half.
The association published the warning on its Facebook page with a photo of a tomato cut in half, revealing a cross-shaped interior.
A message posted on the page read, "Eating tomatoes is forbidden because they are Christian. [The tomato] praises the cross instead of Allah and says that Allah is three [in reference to the Holy Trinity]."
The message went on to say, "I implore you to spread this photo because there is a sister from Palestine who saw the Prophet of Allah in a vision and he was crying, warning his nation against eating [tomatoes]. If you don’t spread this [message], know that it is the devil who stopped you.”
The message caused outrage among Facebook users, which prompted the group to clarify their warning, saying they did not tell people not to eat tomatoes. "We said don’t cut it in [such a way that it reveals] the cross shape.”
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Can there be dumber people in the world? Really.
Great. More for me less for thee. Stupid 7th centuries loons that our current WH resident wants us to respect and support (and bow to)
You keep posting that. What about it proves anything? I’m perfectly happy to believe that the chem attacks were done by the rebels. But I don’t see anything in that video that convinces me that’s what I am seeing.
INFIDELS!
I don’t think they are supposed eat cucumbers or bananas either, something about looking like pen is
My grand kids have taken to calling ribs “steaks on sticks”
We should support this opinion wholeheartedly. Without tomatoes - the richest source of lycopene, the potent cancer-preventing antioxidant - in their diets, prostate cancer rates will surely increase among Egyptian Muslims.
Nobody put the facepalm pictures up yet?
I’ll take those tomatoes, I like them a lot.
Well, that leaves more tomatoes for me and my BLT’s. How can a society shun both tomatoes and bacon? You either like bacon, or you are wrong
best post I have read all day.
Of course we should stay out of it. But we won’t. And that video doesn’t prove anything one way or the other.
Of course we should stay out of it. But we won’t. And that video doesn’t prove anything one way or the other.
Just wait until the public schools start banning tomatoes from kids’ lunches because they are offensive to the muzzie kids.
All food is Christian. Allah hates any Muslim who eats food.
Good! That means that there are more for me.
LOLOOLOL!
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