45 Replies to “This Is My Brother Mohammed, And This Is My Other Brother Mohammed”

  2. Oh brother. Like it’s different for muslim women. My ex was insane just before her period too. Then during and after….

  5. Ignorance raises its ugly head, but nobody has a monopoly on it. You’ll see similar stuff everywhere. My sister, who’s a family doctor in QC, has a storehouse of stories like this one, which occurred not 100 years ago, but in the last couple of years:
    MD: You’re pregnant.
    Patient: That’s impossible! I didn’t sleep with a man! (in Quebec we use the word ‘coucher’ which can mean either having s*x in a bed or go sleep).
    MD: Well, you must have. Those things don’t happen by magic. You must have had intercourse.
    Patient: No! We didn’t! We did it standing up! I thought I had to sleep with a man to get pregnant!

  8. This is what happens in non-scientific traditional cultures, where beliefs evolve about situations, both biological and historical, that are pure fiction.
    It’s called superstition – and is found everywhere. Science and reason fight it but emotions are more basic to the biological species than reason – and easily dominate.
    So, a Chinese newborn will have a safety pin on its hat..to ward off evil spirits. The number ‘4’ is as evil as the number ’13’ in western traditions. And so on. These superstitions aren’t relegated to the past; they are brought into the west with immigration.
    It’s a major problem, dragging masses of people out of the security of their unexamined beliefs and into scientific analysis. Literacy is a key and so is freedom of the press, the availability of the Internet and a political openness to questions and dissent.
    The Arab world, embedded as in concrete by Islam, with Islam’s rejection of individual freedom of thought, rejection of questions, of reason, of science, is firmer and less mutable to change than frozen ice and concrete. The literacy rate in many of the Arab countries is less than 50%; the number of scientific books, and research published is scant.
    Don’t think that superstition is confined to any religion, ethnic group, population. It is everywhere, it’s in all religions; all groups; even the most educated will still shudder at a ladder or split salt or come up with the most unreal correlations.
    Emotions are more enticing and easier to accept than the results of reason. That’s why, for example, we have Obama as President of the USA. Emotions rather than reason. It can be rather disastrous, eh?

  9. Mark, yes they did.
    http://phantomsoapbox.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-york-liberals-over-reaching.html
    In fairness, we can’t really blame Muslims for that. No, the people to blame for a 29/1 vote of approval for a mosque at the World Trade Center site are -liberals-.
    Same liberals who approved the “circle of embrace” aka red crescent and star pointing at Mecca for the Flight 93 memorial site.
    Just so we all know who the real enemy is, eh? Retarded barbarians can’t destroy the West. But liberals might.

  10. “… rather it is the result of intercourse in menses. It causes madness to women.”
    oops! wish I had known that earlier. I may have inadvertently caused a couple women to go insane. :O

  13. I’ll pass this “information” to my wife. (It explains a lot.) ;p

  14. The female angler fish never has to put up with this kind of BS. We have much to learn from the angler fish.

  15. Reminds me of the old, old joke about the old days:
    It’s the 1930’s, and some bright young doctor newly out of medical school goes out to the wilds of the West to practice amongst the immigrant farmers.
    One day, just as he’s getting nicely settled in, in comes a young Ukrainian farmer. He speaks rather poor English, but he makes himself understood well enough: he’s worried that he and his wife, after more than a year of marriage, are still not about to have children. The young doctor chats with him a while, and the problem becomes all too clear: this poor fellow has absolutely no understanding of the mechanics of reproduction.
    The doctor is a bit embarassed at this – well, it’s the 1930’s and all – and he isn’t sure how to explain this in terms that the poor Ukrainian will understand. So he makes an attempt, man-to-man 1930’s style.
    “Look” (nod, wink, knowing look) “you know what your pride and joy is, don’t you?”
    The Ukrainian thinks a moment and then smiles broadly and knowingly “Oh, yes!”
    “Well, now, ahem, you know what your wife uses to go to the bathroom with?”
    “Oh, yes!”, the Ukrainian is grinning lewdly and sniggering at this.
    “So, to make babies, what you have to do is: take your pride and joy, and put it into what your wife uses to go to the bathroom with.”
    “Oh, thank you, doctor!” shouts the Ukrainian. And he goes home and drives his tractor into the outhouse.

  16. Think I’ll stay away from the Hezbollah Homeopaths, if it’s all the same to you….

  18. Phantom
    OT
    “Same liberals who approved the “circle of embrace” aka red crescent and star pointing at Mecca for the Flight 93 memorial site.”
    I had overheard one of the girls on my daughters softball team saying she “hated USSR time in class”. I enquired what USSR(Uninterrupted Sustained Silent Reading) time was, and was told its the acronym they use for quite mandatory reading time in class.
    I’d like to say I’m shocked, but i’m not. Not at the overt political message from the teacher; or, the parents “I’m oblivious to what my kids are learning at school” attitude. That said, the moms have no issue complaining about the homework load.

  19. Many superstitions have some basis in fact. Quite a few have gone off on a religious tangent, but their original intent was practical(for their time). Chinese superstitions are sort of funny, but I don’t take them lightly. They’ve been doing this for a long time, and they have a strong effect on the Chinese mindset.
    This person giving advice is no more ridiculous than people like Dr. Phil, Sue Johanson, or Dr. Laura. Have you ever listened to these space cadets? Sue Johanson won the order of Canada, for embarassing the crap out of everyone who listens to her.
    The Chinese have one cure for all sexual ailments; deer penis. How can you argue with a culture that’s produced almost 2 billion people?

  20. The female angler fish never has to put up with this kind of BS.

    You have to admit: the female angler fish _is_ kinda hot.

  21. ET at 01:38PM, you’re so right. A dozen beliefs of the masses here in NA come to mind. We just believe in GW. We believe that it’s all about Bush, Cheney, Haliberton, and war for oil. We must save every tree and so kill off an industry. We believe that recycling will fix our garbage problem. I could go on and on.

  22. “The number ‘4’ is as evil as the number ’13’ in western traditions.” Posted by: ET at May 26, 2010 1:38 PM
    Whoa whoa whoa big fella. Don’t think so. Bobby Orr aint no diabolic apparition. Don’t ever say that again.

  23. Mark, yes they did.
    http://phantomsoapbox.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-york-liberals-over-reaching.html
    In fairness, we can’t really blame Muslims for that. No, the people to blame for a 29/1 vote of approval for a mosque at the World Trade Center site are -liberals-.
    Same liberals who approved the “circle of embrace” aka red crescent and star pointing at Mecca for the Flight 93 memorial site.
    Just so we all know who the real enemy is, eh? Retarded barbarians can’t destroy the West. But liberals might.

  26. “she used to tell me that she is scared sometime,but i ignored and used to tell her that dont fear u have to make a habit and all that stuff as she have to stay alone in the house the whole day wile i am in office as we dont have any relatives here,in these 5 month…she got mentally disturbed and eventually i left her to hert home in india ”
    Well, Duh. The woman was looking for a way to out of Dubai and conveniently became possessed by an evil spirit forcing her husband to take her home to India.
    Woman – 1(won?)
    Husband – 0 (big, big zero)

  27. Cabin fever.
    She’s used to the larger extended Arab family around her and now she has none but her husband.
    She’s alone in Dubai and, under Sharia, can’t leave the house without her husband as an escort.

  28. Oz – “Cabin fever”? Perhaps. (Tent fever, maybe?)
    In which case I can only hope that she goes the full:
    “All Sharia and no play makes A’isha a dull girl.”
    If you know what I mean.

  29. How old is she?
    A child bride? A teen bride?
    An arranged marriage?
    If she has to pretend to be crazy to get out of this marriage, I say: Go for it, girl!

  30. Arabs are very in-tents people…
    Oh yes but then where else would they do it?
    from Monte Python……..

  31. Sasquatch, actually the gag went, “Arabs are very intense lovers. Of course, they do everything in tents.”
    And it came from the movie, “Carry on Camping.” Years before the Python crew. But the Pythons may have reprised it.

  35. From ‘Carry on Camping’ at the alleged Nudist Camp.
    Sign at the gate says ‘All asses must be shown’
    Guests ask for the manager – guy on ladder at sign says “He’s gone for a P”
    Ba dum

  36. ‘there was youg couple from Aberystwyth
    who coupled the parts that they kissed with
    but as they grew older and a little bit bolder
    they coupled the parts that they pissed with’
    a somewhat oblique ref to a couple of earlier posts but apropos of nothing really…nothing but my own little whirld with it’s beautifully wrought connective tissue..

  37. “This person giving advice is no more ridiculous than people like Dr. Phil, Sue Johanson, or Dr. Laura. Have you ever listened to these space cadets?”
    I have always suspected “dp” stood for “dumb p$%#k” thanks for removing any and all doubts!

  38. Regarding the efficacy of superstitions’ roots. The Roman Civil Engineer Vitruvius in 1st C BC ( I do not know if this is the cognomen of the esteemed and sagacious contributor to these pages) wrote on the siting of new colonies and specifically urged the slaughter and then examination of the entrails a sampling of local large mammals in order to discover any patterns of disease or malformations and by doing so establish the healthfulness of a prospective site in terms of local water/soil/flora etc. This practice of hepatoscopy was to done by trained professionals ie priests and it was those diviners interpretation of the auguries that was the last word in permitting the establishment of a new colony ( or even encampment). Vitruvius also mentions other medical spinoffs of divinations.
    “… That the salubrity of a tract of land is discovered by the pastures of food which it furnishes is sufficiently clear, from certain qualities of the lands in Crete situate in the vicinity of the river Pothereus, which lie between the two states of Knossos and Gortyna. There are pasturages on each side of this river: the cattle, however, pastured on the Knossian side, when opened are found with their spleens perfect; whilst those on the opposite side, nearer to Gortryna, retain no appearance of a spleen. Physicians, in their endeavors to account for this singular circumstance, discovered a species of herb eaten by the cattle, whose property was that of diminishing the spleen. Hence arose the use of the herb which the Cretans call asplenos ( spleenwort?), as a cure for those affected with enlarged spleen.” (Netherworld, Robert Temple 2002 paperback pg. 264). By the way, this book had what I considered a fascinating tidbit of insight into the mind of those ancient seers and that is that a freshly extracted liver possesses an almost perfectly reflective mirror-like surface for the first 15-20 minutes of exposure until it oxidizes, it can almost seem to emit its own glow and that this may be why for so long it was considered the souls’ corporeal abode.
    Slange var

  39. Hey Begley, work on this one …
    There was a young man from Vancouver
    who liked to do more than just Hoover,

  40. “The number ‘4’ is as evil as the number ’13’ in western traditions.” Posted by: ET at May 26, 2010 1:38 PM
    “Whoa whoa whoa big fella. Don’t think so. Bobby Orr aint no diabolic apparition. Don’t ever say that again.” Posted by: Smitherenzes at May 26, 2010 3:20 PM
    Have you asked the goalies from the opposing teams? They might disagree. 😉

  41. ebt at May 26, 2010 2:34 PM
    Um, just so you know: bad joke. One thing you’d NEVER have to explain to a farmer is the facts of life.

  42. Wendy, I have to confess: I actually knew that was a bad joke before I told it. You’re not wrong, but I’m afraid this is what you’re up against. I’m trying to reform, but at my age…

  44. Way too much ignorance on this site. When you learn to use water in the bathroom to clean yourselves, then enlighten the rest of the world.

  45. J; “When you learn to use water in the bathroom to clean yourselves…”
    As opposed to flushing the toilet?!
    Now don’t be judgmental, ‘J’; not everyone here in Canada has indoor plumbing you know. 😉

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