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2007-10-10 Britain

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-10-10 12:11|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Perfect storm: sham ZamZam meets fudamentalist Islam meets the UK NHS.

Posted by lotp 2007-10-10 12:28|| 2007-10-10 12:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Indeed. Would you like some of this popcorn? It's fresh and hot!

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-10-10 12:32|| 2007-10-10 12:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Hmmm. Better stick with the Zam Zam Cola instead.

Posted by Iblis">Iblis 2007-10-10 12:44|| 2007-10-10 12:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Each year, after the haji, french sanitary authorites confiscate "zam zam water" brought by pilgrims (not sure if this is systematical or only from those "unfortunate" enough to be controlled)... because said water in not suitable for drinking, often due to feces contamination. So, I guess this profiteering racket of selling fake zam zam to the gullible is alive and well in France too (and the halal meat market is also ripe with fraud). Who said you can't be both pious and an entrepreneur?

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-10-10 12:45|| 2007-10-10 12:45|| Front Page Top

#5 regular consumption of arsenic in water is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths a year in south east Asia. Diluted arsenic has been associated with disorders of the nervous system, loss of sensation in the limbs and hearing impairment.

Add that to serious genetic problems caused by inbreeding, and we see Darwinian selection at work. One assumes the poor Saudis don't add this problem to the others they've imposed on themselves, as they can get the real thing whenever they want.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-10-10 12:55|| 2007-10-10 12:55|| Front Page Top

#6 because said water in not suitable for drinking, often due to feces contamination.

Polluted Mecca water? Excessive amounts of E. holi, no doubt.

Posted by SteveS 2007-10-10 13:00|| 2007-10-10 13:00|| Front Page Top

#7 They have found that much of the water smuggled into the UK illegally and labelled as if it has come from the holy spring, which is visited by millions of Muslims every year as part of the Hajj pilgrimage, contains high levels of arsenic and nitrates that can be fatal if regularly consumed over time.

I foresee this market self-correcting at some point in the future.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-10 15:11|| 2007-10-10 15:11|| Front Page Top

#8 According to the Koran, the Prophet Ibrahim, his wife Hagar and their baby son, Ishmael, found water hard to come by after settling in what is now Saudi Arabia. When Hagar thought Ishmael was dying, she searched for water with no success.

Ah yes, the "prophet" Abraham and his story. Completely turned upside-down on its head, some 2,000+ years later by big Mo and his KO-ran. This single event actually explains the whole conflict between the muzzies and the Judeo-Christian sects from day one. The Jews and Christians say that God's "chosen" lineage came from Sarai (Abraham's TRUE wife) and Isaac. The muzzies change the story 2,000 years later to be Hagar (Sarai's maid, and thus, basically a surrogate mother to Abraham's other child, Ishmael). The Torah and Old Testament of the Bible both explain that the first is the true lineage of God's chosen, and thus, the whole split is a clash between stepbrothers (Isaac vs. Ishmael, who is described as a "beast of man" who would "continuously war against" his step-brothers' descendents). Sound familiar anyone?

Oh, and you can darn-tootin' bet that I'd NEVER drink water from a well only 14' deep, especially from Soodi.

Posted by BA 2007-10-10 15:48|| 2007-10-10 15:48|| Front Page Top

#9 Maybe they can bottle that Rosie Water in the Danube and sell that has Holy!

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-10-10 17:04|| 2007-10-10 17:04|| Front Page Top

#10 ...because said water in not suitable for drinking, often due to feces contamination.

So buy mine instead. All I do is piss in it...

Posted by tu3031 2007-10-10 19:26|| 2007-10-10 19:26|| Front Page Top

#11 Apparently fudging on inspection, maintenance, andor quality testing sheets is not limited only to immoral decadent infidel Judeo-Xtian Westerners.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-10-10 19:48|| 2007-10-10 19:48|| Front Page Top

#12 "can be fatal if regularly consumed over time"

So its just like the Qu'ran and Islam.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-10-10 19:59|| 2007-10-10 19:59|| Front Page Top

#13 That's a fine bit of snark, 'Spook.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-10 21:08|| 2007-10-10 21:08|| Front Page Top

#14 There was only ever one true Zam Zam Water... and that was served up by Bruno, at the Zam Zam Room in SF. Rot gut gin, turned to a fantastic martini...all the while sending the leather clad Ashbury types down the road. "Tables are closed!"

Posted by Rex Mundi 2007-10-10 21:31|| 2007-10-10 21:31|| Front Page Top

#15 So what gave it away? Was it the "Made in China" sticker?

Posted by DMFD 2007-10-10 21:33|| 2007-10-10 21:33|| Front Page Top

#16 does it taste like months-old footbath water? It's probably real Zam-Zam

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-10-10 21:46|| 2007-10-10 21:46|| Front Page Top

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