Really Truly True Believer December 2011

nozzferrahhtoo · **Joined:** Thu May 29, 2008 8:17 am **Posts:** 1140

Man I am a little behind on this! But I will get to it!

Anyway for December to start off.... Islamic Cleric bans women from touching bananas and Cucumbers because of their phallic properties.

http://bikyamasr.com/50403/islamic-cler ... semblance/

aZerogodist · **Posted:** Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:49 pm

oh dear...

GT · **Joined:** Tue May 26, 2009 6:41 pm **Posts:** 144

How about these home grown idiots from Mayo...

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A MAYO-BASED campaign which promotes “freedom of conscience” has launched a Supreme Court challenge against Ireland’s law on same-sex partnership, claiming that large sections of the act are unconstitutional.

Quote:

The group believes that the Act – passed by the Oireachtas and signed into law by President Mary McAleese last summer – violates the Constitution’s declaration that all authority is derived from God, as declared in Article 6.1 of the Constitution.

http://www.thejournal.ie/campaign-for-conscience-lodges-supreme-court-challenge-to-same-sex-partnerships-297186-Dec2011/

Feardorcha · **Joined:** Fri May 01, 2009 4:28 pm **Posts:** 1265

Don't get me wrong; I'm as anti-Islam as the next thinking person but that 'story' about the cleric banning women from handling cucumbers has no source, no references and is, unfortunately, just fiction.

GT · **Joined:** Tue May 26, 2009 6:41 pm **Posts:** 144

IRISH ARMY AIR CORPS VOODOO

Nothing like a bit of bronze age bullshit to protect a state of the art government jet or helicopter...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/irishaircorps/6478045651/in/set-72157628335984061/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/irishaircorps/sets/72157628335984061/with/6478045651/

feel free to comment here...

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Irish-Air-Corps/148942718466693

DaithiDublin · **Posted:** Fri Dec 09, 2011 12:47 pm

Feardorcha wrote:

Don't get me wrong; I'm as anti-Islam as the next thinking person but that 'story' about the cleric banning women from handling cucumbers has no source, no references and is, unfortunately, just fiction.

Un-named sheikh, empty tomb, immaculate conception, healing prayer cloth, holy water... ...some people will believe anything! :roll:

Having said that, I agree: this is just one of those spurious stories seized on by islamophobes and over-eager atheists. It's not even an 'un-named imam', for Muhammud's sake! A sheikh can refer to anyone over 40. I could even be one for all I know.
No, scratch that, I see you need to be highly regarded by your tribe, and I'm.. ..ehm.. well, let's just say that I'm, eh.. ..No, I'm not a sheikh.

Tulip1 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 09, 2011 5:16 pm

I saw that article floating around on facebook but thought it was made up.

I liked this one:

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/256335/ ... -calls.htm

Quote:

Egyptian Internet revolutionary and controversial blogger, Aliaa Magda, Elmahdy, whose self-pubilshed nude photographs shocked the country, has called on men in Egypt to wear a "Hijab" (a headscarf) and show solidarity with women.

doesn't belong in this thread though

Sieghardt · **Joined:** Tue Feb 15, 2011 1:05 pm **Posts:** 10

that story actually appears to be true: http://www.assawsana.com/portal/newsshow.aspx?id=58893

aZerogodist · **Posted:** Sat Dec 10, 2011 1:34 pm

GT wrote:

IRISH ARMY AIR CORPS VOODOO

Some of those pictures, just look idiotic, like they have nothing better to be doing, than an official ceremony of woo. I suppose,...at least 'rescue 9' where there, just in case any of the Aircraft were possessed by evil spirits.

Feardorcha · **Joined:** Fri May 01, 2009 4:28 pm **Posts:** 1265

Quote:

that story actually appears to be true: http://www.assawsana.com/portal/newsshow.aspx?id=58893

Nope. It's the same made-up yarn about an unnamed Sheikh but in Arabic.

Feardorcha · **Joined:** Fri May 01, 2009 4:28 pm **Posts:** 1265

How about this guy: Rabbi Avraham Rubin of Rehovot and his inspectors who require workers at the Burger Bar in Jerusalem to wear skull caps if they put the meat on the grill.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/ne ... t-1.400439

nozzferrahhtoo · **Joined:** Thu May 29, 2008 8:17 am **Posts:** 1140

Bill Donohue and his little "Adopt An Atheist" campaign deserves a mention.

http://www.catholicleague.org/adopt-an- ... gn-begins/

nozzferrahhtoo · **Joined:** Thu May 29, 2008 8:17 am **Posts:** 1140

Mail On Sunday devotes times, reources and space to reporting on a woman who thinks she sees angels.

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/home/you/ ... ngels.html

DaithiDublin · **Posted:** Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:44 pm

Sayyid Attiyah, the Egyptian exorcist.

That video was posted on Dec 2nd, which just sneaks him in the door for this month's RTTB. But for a little more detail (and added wacky-ness), there's this video from November in which he explains himself in a bit more detail. I especially love his explanation of the only three things needed to cure an illness. Nothing Medieval about it! :roll:

nozzferrahhtoo · **Joined:** Thu May 29, 2008 8:17 am **Posts:** 1140

Saudi Arabia executes woman convicted of 'sorcery'

http://news.yahoo.com/saudi-arabia-exec ... 59048.html

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