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Islamists Issue Dire Facebook Warning: ‘Eating Tomatoes Is Forbidden Because They Are Christian’

Jun. 19, 2012 8:33am Billy Hallowell

News out of the Middle East never ceases to be intriguing, bizarre and unceasingly concerning. But the story you’re about to read actually crosses into a comical sphere. The Popular Egyptian Islamic Association, a Salafist (extremist Sunni Muslims who support jihad) group out of Egypt allegedly took to its Facebook page this month to urge followers not to eat tomatoes, claiming that they are a Christian vegetable (botanically it’s a fruit).

Popular Egyptian Islamic Association Warns: Tomatoes Are Christian

The image of the tomato as it appeared on the group's Facebook page (Image Credit: Facebook)

According to the Now Lebanon web site, an image of a tomato cut in half was posted on the group’s page. In the picture, the insides of the vegetable appear to show what looks like a Christian cross (see above). The web site reports that the text accompanying the picture reads:

“Eating tomatoes is forbidden because they are Christian. [The tomato] praises the cross instead of Allah and says that Allah is three (a reference to the Trinity).”

[God help us]. I implore you to spread this photo because there is a sister from Palestine who saw the prophet of Allah [Mohammad] in a vision and he was crying, warning his nation against eating them [tomatoes]. If you don’t spread this [message], know that it is the devil who stopped you.”

The image and the text spawned more than 2,700 comments and, ironically, over 400 “likes.” Now Lebanon continues, explaining what happened after the bizarre message was posted:

Predictably, Facebook users expressed outrage over the post, which prompted the group to clarify its stance on the controversy with the update, “We didn’t say you can’t eat tomatoes. We said don’t cut it in [such a way that reveals] the cross shape.”

Of course, many of the people who commented on the post simply found it hilarious. Consider this small sampling of some of the more recent statements posted on the Facebook page:

Popular Egyptian Islamic Association Warns: Tomatoes Are Christian

In covering the bizarre controversy, Jihad Watch’s Robert Spencer joked, “Your salad could be making you into an Infidel!”

(H/T: Jihad Watch)

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stloocardsfan
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:15am
Which fruit or vegetable is Allah approved?
I guess I will have to reverse my decision to convert to Islam if I can’t have tomatoes…

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- ccfonten
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:55pm
  Now watch some kids who hate spinach or broccoli start a crusade against them as against Allah!!
  Will absurdity know no bounds??
  Religion of stupidity and evil.
  
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- Hollywood
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:58pm
  How about PINEAPPLES? They do resemble grenades, which should be perfectly acceptable to Islam!
  
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- killertofu
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:04pm
  I wonder if they subscribe to the Ned Flanders fruit rule of nothing over 3 inches long… At least they wouldn’t have to worry about that one in Iran where they “don’t have any gay people”
  
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- killertofu
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:06pm
  I wonder if they subscribe to the Ned Flanders rule of no fruit more than 3′ long…at least they wouldn’t have to worry about that in Iran where they “don’t have any gays”.
  
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- Hollywood
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:40pm
  May I suggest a compromise? Why not send the Salafists a hundred cases of Pineapples. I would like to send them with instructions to PULL PIN, release lever, and wait for 15 seconds,and they will open themselves!
  
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- Acesa
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:43pm
  It’s the Peyote of course
  
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- ModerationIsBest
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 3:16pm
  Lol, huh? Tomatoes?
  
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- Thomas Paine
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 4:27pm
  No more Pizza for Hodgie
  
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- Fla Del
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 6:30pm
  Shows where anyone can be wrong. I thought there were no comedians in Islam.
  This guy is funny. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
  Book him in Vegas.
  
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- KevINtampa
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 7:57pm
  Paranoid: They could be saying this because they are aware of an imminent terrorist strike involving poisoned tomatoes.
  
  Delusional: They are right, tomatoes are Christian and Christians burn in the wrath of Allah because they eat them.
  
  Realistic: Muslims love trolling for the lulz.
  
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- dmerwin
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:10pm
  Eat them nearly every day. Apparently, Muslims can eat dates, apricots, water and wheat, makes agricultural planning pretty simple.
  
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barber2
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:15am
Wish these religious ” sages” could tie explosives to Christianity so that Muslims would have to be forbidden to use them.

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muddpuddle
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:11am
Proof that Islamists have already abandoned wisdom long before rejecting the tomato….
Proverbs 8:36, “those who hate me, love death.’

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- retiredguy1952
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 11:58am
  Death to vegetables! Allahu Akbar! LOL
  
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JohnQTaxpayer
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:09am
Makes one wonder how many of them die from stupidity every day, would guess the number is very high

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- dthomps6
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 11:43am
  Your comment reminded me of the first Gulf War. Our military would parachute drop food relief boxes in Northern Iraq and about a dozen people died because the relief boxes fell on their heads. Now that’s dying from stupidity.
  
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- Hollywood
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 2:01pm
  YES, sadly, your staement is very TRUE. Many die of ignorance of Christ Jesus, who died for THEM! We need to pray for them to receive the TRUTH.
  Maranatha
  
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Thomist5
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:03am
Tomato on a turkey sandwich…yum!

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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:10am
  Tomato + BACCON sandwich …. MMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmm! :-)
  
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- BarryHusseinOsama
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:15am
  Bacon, lettuce, tomato. BLT
  
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BlazeGlory
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:02am
You know what. Christians are baptized with water. I believe that makes water “Christian” so Islamists should stop drinking it.

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- biohazard23
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:30am
  Well, they already have a strange aversion to bathing……
  
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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:24am
  Thier new [PC] says to not eat anything that Christians eat!!! All fruits,veggies,meats,grains water, tea’s,juices…. WE don havta doo anythin’! Can you say…S T A R V A T I O N ?…good!
  
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- Link8on
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 11:08am
  Most targeting rifles have a cross on the scope site.
  
  Most commercial fabrics cross the threads.
  
  Most traffic lights and stop signs are at crossroads.
  
  Wings of every planes cross the fuselage.
  
  (: Yep , they all worship Jesus Christ :)
  
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- Red Barr 13
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:10pm
  How about a Bacon,lettuce, and tomato sandwich?
  
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- BelindaB
  Posted on June 27, 2012 at 3:54pm
  Good Point !!!!
  
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Gonzo
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:01am
Sounds logical to me.

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JACKTHETOAD
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:00am
This is the result of 1300 years of inbreeding.

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- RedDirtTexas
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:24am
  @ Troll….Liberalism allows you to have multiple man-wives. How many do you have in ****-em?
  
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- RedDirtTexas
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:35am
  sorry jack, posted on wrong reply button. Oh well, he/she might catch it anyway.
  
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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:11am
  This has been happenning way-before Christ!
  
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- JACKTHETOAD
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:59pm
  No problem, RED. Ya got me thinkin, though. Libralism = multiple man wives? Hairem – Scarem? …hmmm… :)
  
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- CrawfishFestival2
  Posted on June 20, 2012 at 4:02pm
  I agree with you, JackTheToad!
  
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Donald
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:59am
Who Knew !!!!!!!!!
Tomato

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Docrow
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:58am
Fresh tomato just picked sliced thick with a little salt and pepper. yum yum!

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- ShyMan
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 11:39am
  Only two things that money can’t buy…
  
  True Love and…
  
  Homegrown tomatoes.
  
  Amen
  
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- Solzhenitsin
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 1:30pm
  One of the best treats of summer!
  
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DetritusScreener
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:56am
Somebody tell them that water is Christian too. They should all start trying to get to heaven faster. They are wasting time.

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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:28am
  OOOh…and when they get to THEIR heven, and alll those VIRGINS…If thy “doo’ anything…they’ll have no vergins left!! SUX TA BE THEM…don-it! Hahahahahahahahahahaha… ):-)
  
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Jenny Lind
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:56am
They just crazier by the minute, don’t they? Good laught o start the morning, will immediatly put bacon on my shopping list and head for Farmers market to get the lovliest ‘maters I can find.

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kcsparky
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:54am
Dumb, blind, stupid, ignorant, dropped on their head at birth…….why it is that it seems as though Muslims are the most radical, yet, uninformed, uneducated group in the world. Hypocrites all!! Won’t allow women equal rights and consider them second class, yet will dress in women’s clothes to attack or hide and use women as bombs. Slice the tomato at a different angle and get a completely different look. Just plain untrainably ignorant!!!

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- strewth_cobber
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:48am
  You may be referring to the non-gender specific “Cloth Coffin”.
  
  I’d also like to thank the peace-loving jihadist for pointing out another miracle of God’s creation. Must have been a slow day for peace-loving terrorist to come up with that ripper of a yarn!
  
  Ps… WHERE IS SURHANSURHAN to comment and explain such ‘logic’.
  
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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:20am
  When do they have the time to learn anything…with 100%Jihad-all-the-time, and stopping everything to pray [4-times-a-day]…oh-well, back to Jihad!! Their women are wrapped-up in [body-condums/burkas] and are taught just enough to speak some language, cook, and have-and-raise kids. Their body-condum has just enough eye-slit so to follow master with his groceries/packages.
  
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NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:54am
” which prompted the group to clarify its stance on the controversy”

This is weasle-ese for “I said something that displays my true stupidity. Let me tell you how YOU got it wrong.”

The Ayatollah O’Bimbo speaks weasle-ese all the time.

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searching for the Truth
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:54am
And, we pray very heavily over food , dedicating all food to our God of Israel.

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Jenny Lind
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:52am
LOL, thanks for the giggle!

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CZGUY
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:51am
Maybe next they could forbid breathing air

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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:34am
  They already doo..”and here’s this really-nice “vest” for you togo to the market in”.
  
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cessna152
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:49am
I guess no more “stone soup” because that is Islamist…..

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- muddpuddle
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:01am
  I guess they will stop driving through intersections where the roads cross at 90 degrees…..
  
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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:08am
  Nooooooooo! Stones are used for “tenderizing”!
  
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EP46
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:47am
I bet someone will have a tomato on e-bay with Allah’s picture on the inside !

Oh, and the real translation of the writing beside the tomato pix is…. “Buy 2 get 1 free this Friday only”

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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 10:31am
  …and the guy who took that foto will get that stone-buss prommissed him in the coran.
  
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Runesinger
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:45am
I really need to eat more tomatoes. Besides being anti-carginogenic, here’s another reason they are good for you

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- cessna152
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:53am
  They are great to throw as well….
  
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SREGN
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:43am
Great. Now we can throw bacon and tomatoes at them. Maybe build a BLT bomb.

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joony
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:41am
“[The tomato] praises the cross instead of Allah and says that Allah is three (a reference to the Trinity).”

Allah is not Jehovah. Allah is Satan.

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- TROLLMONGER
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:48am
  Prove it.
  
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- poorrichard09
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:50am
  No doubt a fiendishly clever plot by the Christians! hahahahaha
  
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- JACKTHETOAD
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:58am
  @TROLLMONGER – Believe it.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:10am
  Jack: Tim alert !
  
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- TROLLMONGER
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:15am
  Jack,
  
  Prove it to me first and maybe I will take you up on that offer. I await your proof. Tick tock. Tick tock.
  
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- GoodvsEvil
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:56am
  GOD IS LOVE……
  Anyone who follows allah follows lies, perversion ,violence, murder in the name of allah, kill the infidels, man -boy sex. Anyone who follows allah treats their cattle better than their women. Anyone who follows allah mutilates their womens genitals. This is how you prove allah is satan. The father of lies and hatred. GOD IS NONE OF THESE THINGS>>>>>>>GOD IS LOVE (in response to trollmaster; this is your proof)
  
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- cwrink
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 11:57am
  Trollmonger: Disprove it.
  
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- Rayblue
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 12:18pm
  No more ketchup for Abdul.
  
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randy
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:41am
HAHA WIll Lettuce be next?

You Know, Bacon, LETTUCE and Tomatoes.

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- lukerw
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:30am
  A Trinity!
  
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lukerw
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:41am
I never thought of it… but it is a Crusader Cross… where the Kingdom of Jerusalem has 1 large one in the Center (for the Capital), 4 between the limbs (as to represent Princes of Cities)!

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chnswstr
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 8:39am
This makes a BLT so much more tasty!!

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- Brittany-Imbriaarts
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 9:08am
  Is a BLT now a holy Sandwich of Christians in the Muslims mind set now. I sure would eat more if it is true.
  
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- dont_drive_slow_in_the_left_lane_obliviot
  Posted on June 19, 2012 at 11:43am
  now i’m hungry for a holy sandwich.
  
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