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Nationalists need not worry…the Muslim world is being absorbed by Western culture. They’re seeing God in food! In no time at all there’s gonna be falafel-eating contests and Judge Alakhesh on TV, mark my words.
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Nationalists need not worry…the Muslim world is being absorbed by Western culture. They’re seeing God in food! In no time at all there’s gonna be falafel-eating contests and Judge Alakhesh on TV, mark my words.
July 13th, 2006 12:55
But they are still requiring it be honest-to-Allah random phenomenae, rather than something that could be duplicated with suffiecient dedication and a soldering iron.
July 13th, 2006 14:10
Wouldn’t they be required to destroy any food in which an image of Muhammad appeared? Would eating such food be blasphemous?
July 13th, 2006 14:50
I think they’d just be required not to point out any image of Muhammed that appeared in their food. And destroy the evidence by eating it.
You try to have an aniconic religion, and this is what you get…
July 13th, 2006 15:17
It wasn’t an image of Muhammad (that’s not their God, pay attention here). It was “Allah” written in Arabic on a friut.
Anyone know what that looks like? Arabic looks like random squiggles to me anyway; it wouldn’t surprise me to see it in fruit, really.
July 14th, 2006 14:17
Given that there is no convention on what Muhammed looks like (what with it being blasphemy and all), there’s really no way to accidentally create an image of him. If the spitting image of the actual ancient prophet appeared on a grilled pita, I think the reaction would be: “Huh. Looks like some guy’s face.” Unless said pita included writing describing the image as being of Muhammed, no body would ever peg it as such.
July 14th, 2006 16:33
I thought the article said it was written on an egg.
July 16th, 2006 21:13
Don’t the Muslims have an Allah-writing freakout every few years? I remember some tomato that got Allah’d, as well as old Nike Air shoes who’s text resembled “Allah” too much.
I think this means that people tend to see what they want to see in veiny scribbles.