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…
Jesus must have introduced them to the Native Americans at Nephi and Bountiful.
Now that I see the cross, I didn’t realize that tomatoes were German.
Actually it is parody, as are the rest of the posts by this “group”.
Good luck making tabouli w/o tomatoes.
There goes the cuisine of Morocco.
Now I understand why George W. Bush was always referring to Islam as a “religion of peas”!
24 Carrot comedy gold!
Silly, of course, but no skin off my nose and more tomatoes for me.
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.