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To: livius

There’s no such thing. Sounds like a Westernized recent addition. I can assure all that any Muslim trying to flash a “hand sign” in a Muslim country would get a stern dressing down by a cleric or their family.


19 posted on 10/18/2012 9:22:08 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Found it. It's ancient. Due to it's links to superstition, I can see no way it would be freely used in public in the Middle East. In the six years I lived in Saudi Arabia, I never saw it used or mentioned.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamsa

23 posted on 10/18/2012 9:33:42 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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