A Salafist group called the Popular Egyptian Islamic Association has come under fire after sending out a warning on Facebook urging its followers not to eat tomatoes because the vegetable (or fruit) is a Christian food.
The group posted a photo on its page of a tomato – which appears to reveal the shape of a cross after being cut in half – along with the message: “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.”
Parody? Apparently not…
RandyB · June 25, 2012 at 12:52 am
Jesus must have introduced them to the Native Americans at Nephi and Bountiful.
John · June 25, 2012 at 5:24 am
Now that I see the cross, I didn’t realize that tomatoes were German.
Jet · June 25, 2012 at 9:04 am
Actually it is parody, as are the rest of the posts by this “group”.
Polichinello · June 25, 2012 at 1:22 pm
Good luck making tabouli w/o tomatoes.
Susan · June 25, 2012 at 1:53 pm
There goes the cuisine of Morocco.
Wade Nichols · June 25, 2012 at 2:16 pm
Now I understand why George W. Bush was always referring to Islam as a “religion of peas”!
24 Carrot comedy gold!
CJColucci · June 25, 2012 at 2:46 pm
Silly, of course, but no skin off my nose and more tomatoes for me.
Cephus · June 28, 2012 at 10:28 pm
This is one of those stories where I don’t know if I should be ashamed, once again, that humanity can be so stupid, or to be relieved because it’s obviously a joke.