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2005-08-21 Arabia

Moved by Simplicity of Royal Funeral, Priest Embraces Islam

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Posted by Fred 2005-08-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Well, you know how worked up we Catholics get when someone chooses to leave the faith. We hunt 'em down, gut 'em like a deer, ululate & have random gunfire in the air.

Really. It's a sacrament or something. We get 72 communion wafers in the afterlife if we get a heretic to the faith.....

Well, the guys do. All I would qualify for is the chance to bake the wafers in the afterlife.

But it's almost as good. Honest.

Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-08-21 00:24|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2005-08-21 00:24|| Front Page Top

#2 I just noticed (I've been slower than usual, lately) that the guys in the hoods are holding their Holy Korans in their left, that is bottom-wiping, hands. Come to think of it, how do they turn the pages without dirtying it?

Posted by trailing wife 2005-08-21 00:35|| 2005-08-21 00:35|| Front Page Top

#3 No worries, trailing wife - Koran itself is dirty enough...

Posted by Matt K. 2005-08-21 00:38|| 2005-08-21 00:38|| Front Page Top

#4 You're assuming they wipe in the first place (those dudes with the hoods)

Posted by Rafael 2005-08-21 00:40|| 2005-08-21 00:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe the picture was mirror imaged somewhere on its journey to us.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-08-21 00:48|| 2005-08-21 00:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Some commentators have been talking about how leftists are turning to Islam because it gives them yet another platform from which to assail the West. I can see some priests who are liberation theologians (i.e. Marxists) turning to Islam.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-08-21 01:06|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-08-21 01:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Well, where the Arab society has us beaten, hands down, no contest, is in Urban Legend production. They have vast libraries of them. I think we have an Urban Legend Gap. Better page Gen.'Buck' Turgidson right away.

Posted by .com 2005-08-21 01:29|| 2005-08-21 01:29|| Front Page Top

#8 I told you never to call me here! Don't you know where I am?

Posted by Buck">Buck 2005-08-21 02:08|| 2005-08-21 02:08|| Front Page Top

#9 Robert Byrd?

Posted by Captain America 2005-08-21 02:11|| 2005-08-21 02:11|| Front Page Top

#10 Nothin' on Snopes yet.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-08-21 02:16|| 2005-08-21 02:16|| Front Page Top

#11 Father No Name

Posted by Mona Gorilla 2005-08-21 03:13|| 2005-08-21 03:13|| Front Page Top

#12 You're assuming they wipe in the first place

Of course they wipe! With a pebble, in the left hand, as Mohammed proscribed.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-08-21 11:39|| 2005-08-21 11:39|| Front Page Top

#13 an infinitely-sided pebble

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-08-21 11:42|| 2005-08-21 11:42|| Front Page Top

#14 "The stereotypic image of the Muslim holy warrior with a sword in one hand and the Koran in the other would only be plausible if he was left handed, since no devout Muslim should or would touch a Koran with his left hand which is reserved for dirty chores."
http://www.secularislam.org/research/origins.htm

Posted by Darrell 2005-08-21 14:56|| 2005-08-21 14:56|| Front Page Top

#15 no devout Muslim should or would touch a Koran with his left hand which is reserved for dirty chores

like signing Welfare checks, ya lazy Mofos?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-08-21 15:12|| 2005-08-21 15:12|| Front Page Top

#16 I think, from comparing these two photos, we can conclude that even fanatical Muslims will hold the Koran in their left hand. Note the emblem on the child's shirt in the second photo for reference.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/images/suicide_bomber_mommy.jpg
http://www.ananova.com/images/web/82244.jpg

Posted by Darrell 2005-08-21 15:27|| 2005-08-21 15:27|| Front Page Top

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