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Ayatollah Khomeini's Book Of Etiquette
Harpers Magazine ^ | 02/10/05 | Harpers Magazine

Posted on 02/10/2005 10:39:10 AM PST by freedom44

107. The whole body of an infidel, even the hair, the nails, and its wetness, is unclean.

112. Industrial alcohol used for painting doors, tables, chairs, etc., is clean if one does not know it was made of something inebriating.

120. The sweat of a camel that eats unclean substances is unclean.

125. When a clean object touches an unclean object and one or both are wet enough to convey that wetness to the other, then the clean object becomes unclean. But if the wetness is not enough to reach the other, the clean object does not become unclean.

145. If a host, while eating, realizes that the food is unclean, he must inform his guests. But if one of the guests realizes this, it is not necessary to inform the others, unless his relations with the others are such that as a result of remaining silent he himself becomes unclean.

462. Divorcing a menstruating woman is void.

464. If a woman begins menstruating while praying, her prayer is void.

2,054. These are the major abominable dealings. First, selling real estate. Second, butchery. Third, selling shrouds. Fourth, dealing with base people. Fifth, dealing between the morning azan and the onset of sunshine. Sixth, choosing to buy and sell wheat, barley, and the like as one's occupation. Seventh, entering into a deal involving the purchase of a commodity that another person is about to buy.

2,622. Eating locusts caught with the hand or by some other means is lawful after they are dead. It is not necessary that the person who caught them be a Moslem or that he mentioned the name of God when he caught them. But if a dead locust is held by an infidel and it is not known whether it was caught alive, it is not lawful to eat it, even if the person who caught it says that he caught it alive.

2,629. It is not unlawful to swallow the food that exits from between the teeth as a result of flossing if one's nature has no aversion to it.

2,631. It is loathsome to eat the meat of a horse, a mule, or a donkey if someone has had coitus with the animal.

2,637. Several things are loathsome (abominable) when eating. First, eating while satiated. Second, excessive eating (it has been said that the God of the World dislikes a full stomach more than anything else). Third, looking at other people's faces while they are eating. Fourth, eating hot food. Fifth, blowing at what one is eating or drinking. Sixth, waiting for something else after the bread has been put on the tablecloth. Seventh, cutting bread with a knife. Eighth, putting bread under a container of food. Ninth, cleaning the meat stuck to a bone so that nothing remains on it. Tenth, peeling fruit.

2,858. The prizes that banks give to encourage borrowers, and those that institutions give to encourage buyers and customers, are lawful. The thing that sellers put inside their merchandise to attract customers and increase buyers, such as gold coins in boxes of shortening, are lawful and of no concern.

2,874. It is not unlawful to introduce a man's semen into the uterus of his wife with devices such as suction cups.

2,882. When the preservation of a Moslem's life rests on grafting an organ from a dead Moslem, severing that organ and grafting it are acceptable

This is The Ayatollah's Book Of Etiquette, originally from June 1985, published Thursday, February 10, 2005. It is part of Lifestyle, which is part of Readings, which is part of Harpers.org.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: islam; khomeini; religionofpeace; topten; trop
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To: colorcountry
"How 'bout one with PMS"

You could probably get a pass on that one.

21 posted on 02/10/2005 11:07:04 AM PST by davisfh
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To: colorcountry

You looking to get shot?


22 posted on 02/10/2005 11:08:11 AM PST by kahoutek
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To: freedom44

And we wonder why they've been ruled by dictators all these centuries? They have to be told everything.


23 posted on 02/10/2005 11:08:13 AM PST by txroadhawg (Don't believe any statistics unless you made them up yourself)
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To: Momaw Nadon

Same here. Amazing.


24 posted on 02/10/2005 11:11:40 AM PST by kinsman redeemer (the real enemy seeks to devour what is good)
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To: freedom44

You missed one:

64. Evacuation is unlawful in four places. First, in dead-end alleys. Second, on the property of a person who has not given his permission. Third, in a place assigned to a specific group of people, such as some schools. Fourth, over the graves of the faithful, if it would be considered disrespectful.


Going potty is unlawful in just 4 places, but lawful everywhere else?

Explains a lot.


25 posted on 02/10/2005 11:16:05 AM PST by HighlyOpinionated (And the LAST rule? It is more important to get along with your enemies than it is to harm them.)
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To: freedom44
2,629. It is not unlawful to swallow the food that exits from between the teeth as a result of flossing if one's nature has no aversion to it.

But is using a Water-Pick kosher?


26 posted on 02/10/2005 11:30:20 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: freedom44

islam is not a religion, in any sense of the word. Rather, it is a political system of total control over every aspect of its mindless, robotic adherents' lives. islam encourages and breeds hatred, terrorism and murder. I know of no other modern religion which does that. islam is all about women-chattelling, boy-buggering, ritual killing, beheading, rape, lying, female mutilation, martyrdom, poverty and complete submission or death. muslims are subhuman filth.


27 posted on 02/10/2005 11:31:26 AM PST by 7.62 x 51mm (• veni • vidi • vino • visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
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To: irishtenor
How would they know?????????????????

I guess you would ask. Or maybe it's nothing they hide, everybody knows who is doing what to which donkeys.

Where's that barf bag?

28 posted on 02/10/2005 11:33:38 AM PST by siunevada
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To: HighlyOpinionated
over the graves of the faithful, if it would be considered disrespectful.

Looks like a matter of interior disposition. Is it possible to do this with respect? Or have others not consider it disrespectful?

29 posted on 02/10/2005 11:38:24 AM PST by siunevada
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To: nuconvert
what's a butcher, realtor or shroud salesman supposed to do, for Pete's sake?

Sell shrubberies.

30 posted on 02/10/2005 11:47:45 AM PST by Egon (Government is a guard-dog to be fed, not a cow to be milked.)
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To: RhoTheta; Orgiveme

Ping.


31 posted on 02/10/2005 11:48:18 AM PST by Egon (Government is a guard-dog to be fed, not a cow to be milked.)
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To: freedom44

>>2,631. It is loathsome to eat the meat of a horse, a mule, or a donkey if someone has had coitus with the animal.

I should have known better than to read this wile eating a sandwich!!!!!


32 posted on 02/10/2005 11:58:28 AM PST by MarineBrat ("God is dead"- Nietzsche,1886. "Nietzsche is dead"- God,1901)
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To: freedom44
On the whole, this is just bizarre.

This is especially bizarre, and I'm trying to figure out what it references, but then again maybe I really don't want to know.

2,874. It is not unlawful to introduce a man's semen into the uterus of his wife with devices such as suction cups.

33 posted on 02/10/2005 12:02:05 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: gov_bean_ counter
'These are the birds you are to detest and not eat...the hoopoe and the bat

gol dang - there goes my plans for supper tonight

34 posted on 02/10/2005 12:04:30 PM PST by maine-iac7 (...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Lincoln)
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To: HighlyOpinionated
Deuteronomy 23:13

As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement.

Perhaps the lands occupied by Muslims wouldn't be deserts if this Jewish rule had been adopted.

35 posted on 02/10/2005 12:06:32 PM PST by bukkdems (Spawn of Orca)
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To: 7.62 x 51mm
islam is not a religion, in any sense of the word. Rather, it is a political system of total control over every aspect of its mindless, robotic adherents' lives.

exactly

and the five times per day arse in the air is to keep them programed

36 posted on 02/10/2005 12:07:06 PM PST by maine-iac7 (...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Lincoln)
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To: freedom44

Okay, we've apparently established that farming grain and dealing in real estate is out. Peeling fruit is out. Having unnatural relations with camels and donkeys is in. Defecating on graves is in.

And they want ME to convert to this nutball religion?


37 posted on 02/10/2005 12:10:41 PM PST by Gingersnap
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To: Egon

But, only if they are arranged in a path.


38 posted on 02/10/2005 12:11:41 PM PST by T.Smith
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To: freedom44

Rule 2,631 ...I'm afraid to ask.


39 posted on 02/10/2005 12:13:34 PM PST by A Ruckus of Dogs
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To: maine-iac7
...it has been said that the God of the World dislikes a full stomach more than anything else...

"God of the World???"

According to the Bible, the god of this world is Satan.

40 posted on 02/10/2005 12:13:35 PM PST by Dark Skies ("The sleeper must awaken!")
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